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Local teen beats suicidal thoughts with controversial treatment
It's a nation-wide problem affecting local families. A shortage of psychiatrists means adults, teens and kids who desperately need help aren't getting it. The reason for the shortage? Med students are choosing other specialties. Our Fact Finder team...
Tags: Psychiatrists, Culture, Social Sciences, Suicide, Depression
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Mental health board won't discipline its CEO
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A board overseeing a mental health organization that serves several counties in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula has decided not to discipline its top official after a finding from the state that profoundly disabled...Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Health, Mental Health
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Program targets children's mental health services
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Officials with Indiana's Department of Child Services say they're pleased with a pilot program that's designed to provide mental health services for children in need. The Times in Munster reports (http://bit.ly/14MjOJv ) the state...Tags: Health, Mental Health
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Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day. The man...
Tags: Trials, Charles Poland, Jr., Social Sciences, Bob Johnson, FBI
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Snyder eyes mental health makeover, GOP skeptical
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder may have to convince lawmakers across the political spectrum that expanding Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Health Care Act will allow Michigan to also plug a gap in its increasingly underfunded...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Government Health Care, Government, Politics, Mental Health
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Obama unveiling gun violence measures (WSBT airing)
JULIE PACE,Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's broad effort to reduce gun violence will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing...Tags: Parties and Movements, Weaponry, Laws, Harry Reid, National Rifle Association of America
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After shootings, states rethink mental health cuts
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, driven by the recession's toll on revenue and, in some cases, a new zeal to shrink government. But that trend may be heading for a U-...
Tags: Sean Murphy, Chris Christie, Parties and Movements, Kathleen Sebelius, Government
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Biden meets with gun safety, victims groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday heard personal stories of gun violence from representatives of victims groups and gun-safety organizations as he drafts the Obama administration's response to the shooting at a Connecticut...
Tags: Kathleen Sebelius, National Rifle Association of America, Mental Health, U.S. Department of Justice, Mitch McConnell
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Ind. bill would require Alzheimer's lessons for police
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana lawmaker dismayed by a police officer's decision to use a stun gun on a nursing home patient is pushing for police to get training on how to interact with people with Alzheimer's disease. Republican state Rep. Bill...
Tags: Nursing, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization
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CDC: 1 in 8 U.S. women binge drink 3 times a month
CBS NewsThe dangerous activity of binge drinking -- defined as consuming four or more alcoholic drinks at one time -- can take a toll on anyone's health. And, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals in a new report, it's an under-recognized...Tags: Breast Cancer, Health and Safety at School, Social Sciences, Consumer Goods Industries, Heart Disease
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Sandy Hook group launches anti-violence initiative
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Parents of children slain in the Connecticut school massacre held photos of their sons and daughters, cried, hugged and spoke in quavering voices as they called for a national dialogue to help prevent similar tragedies. "I do...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Weaponry, Johns Hopkins University, Chicago Mayor, Government
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Judge: Ind. 'indifferent' to mentally ill inmates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has been "deliberately indifferent" to the plight of mentally ill inmates in its state prisons, who amount to nearly a quarter of the system's population, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton...
Tags: Judges, Pharmaceuticals, Justice System, Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union
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