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...She said hospitals and rehabilitation centres desperately needed to update their protocols for care to help patients with xylazine withdrawal. “It was the worst detox I ever had — the most painful....
...A cadre of US health care groups are studying a potential treatment for people suffering from “Covid brain fog.”...
...So, long Covid is a novel post-viral syndrome,” says David Putrino, a rehabilitation expert working with the Center for Post-Covid Care at New York hospital Mount Sinai....
...According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 47,600 people died in 2018 after overdosing on opioids including heroin and painkillers such as fentanyl....
...Verily will split the cost of care with local health system partners Premier Health and Kettering Health Network....
...In China, internet and gaming addicts have been sent to “boot camps” for rehabilitation....
...Whereas the cost of smoking was largely limited to medical bills, drug addiction is putting pressure on an array of public services, from children’s care to prisons and policing....
...In 1996 it was merged with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)....
...“We will see types like Ayman Zawahiri or even worse models after this ends,” warns Basma Zahran, a lawyer for El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, a rights group....
...“This is not the cure for brain injury,” said Dr Brent Masel, medical director of the Transitional Learning Center in Galveston, Texas, a brain injury rehabilitation centre....
...At the South Florida Reception Center, a state prison in Miami, James Jiler encourages incarcerated men to garden....
...“The quarterly pressure of profits makes companies have to respond to short-term gain,” says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity....
...State rehabilitation centres are few and far between and after-care, to address the psychological and cultural roots of alcoholism, is rarely available. However, there are some signs of enlightenment....
...Ramzi Yousef tried to blow up the World Trade Center – he was convicted in our courts, and is serving a life sentence in U.S. prison....
...Bernstein of the Bazelon Center is not optimistic others will rise to the challenge....
...Some of those “other issues” include youth development, education and after-school programmes, foster care, and public health. One area where there is considerable overlap is mental health....
...The cases take a long time for several reasons, but chief among them is that the state takes considerable care in reviewing death sentences....
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