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Wisconsin's new BadgerCare Plus Core health insurance plan — designed to provide health coverage to 50,000 low-income adults — violates state and federal addiction and mental-health parity laws, according to critics.
Products and devices designed to fool drug tests could be banned in Missouri, the Associated Press reported Dec. 5. State Rep. Jeff Roorda has introduced a bill that would make it a felony to possess chemical kits, devices like the…
Residents in Peoria, Ill., recently got the chance to confront alleged drug dealers about how they are negatively impacting the community, the Peoria Journal Star reported Nov. 4. As part of the Drug Market Intervention program, police and prosecutors reviewed…
The U.S. military's Tricare program is coming under fire for not providing reimbursement for methadone maintenance and buprenorphine treatment — two leading pharmacological interventions for opioid addiction.
A bill introduced in the Wisconsin legislature would close a major loophole and require more health plans to include parity coverage of addiction and mental health.
A Virginia company plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for permission to market its smokeless-tobacco products as “modified risk,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Sept. 23. Star Scientific Inc. aims to be the first company to seek…
Health plans in the small group and non-group market would be required to adhere to the addiction and mental health parity provisions of last years' Wellstone/Domenici law under a amendment to the Senate's leading healthcare-reform bill approved this week.
A new poll finds strong public support for including addiction coverage in national healthcare reform, and advocates are calling on the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to incorporate the core provisions of the Wellstone addiction and mental health parity legislation into health reform legislation so that they apply to all health plans in the U.S.
Adolescent rats that consume large amounts of alcohol were more likely to make poor decisions as adults, suggesting that youthful drinking could set the stage for more bad decisionmaking later in life, according to researchers. WebMD reported Sept. 21 that…
Smoking, overeating, and having high blood pressure and cholesterol can shave up to 15 years off the lifespan of middle-aged men, according to researchers at the U.K.’s Care Quality Commission. The Times of London reported Sept. 18 that the study…
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