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Chicagoan ordered to get help after 396 arrests
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times in the past 35 years has been ordered to get mental health and substance abuse treatment in a deal with prosecutors. Fifty-one-year-old Shermain Miles, who's been in the Logan...Tags: Trials, Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Behavioral Conditions
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Pence approves Indiana school safety grants
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill Tuesday that will help Indiana schools hire more resource officers to improve safety as lawmakers continue discussions about whether school staff and volunteers should one day be armed. Pence...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Crime, Law and Justice, Mitch Daniels
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Shocking numbers: CDC says Indiana middle-aged suicide rate grew 54 percent
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The federal government says Indiana's suicide rate among its middle-aged population surged nearly 54 percent from 1999 to 2010, giving the state one of the nation's biggest such increases. Thursday's report from the Centers for...
Tags: Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Suicide
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Michigan law enforcement call for Medicaid expansion
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Law enforcement officials plan to call on state lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage to more than 300,000 Michigan residents. The group Fight Crime: Invest in Kids and Republican Rep. Matt Lori of Constantine plan to hold an...Tags: Health Insurance, Medicaid, Crime, Law and Justice, Government Health Care
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Indiana child deaths surge in 1st year of hotline
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The number of children who died because of abuse or neglect in Indiana surged in the first year of a statewide hotline, and the Department of Child Services said it didn't get involved with about 90 percent of those cases until...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Abusive Behavior
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Report: Partners often at fault in child deaths
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An annual report on deaths of Indiana children from abuse and neglect shows that many of those killed in 2011 died at the hands of a parent's boyfriend or girlfriend. The report released Monday by the Department of Child...Tags: Abusive Behavior
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Mich. lawmakers back changes to welfare benefits
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some low-income Michigan families would have to pass drug tests and make sure their children don't miss too many days of school in order to qualify for welfare benefits, under legislation being considered by the state...
Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Politics, Pension and Welfare
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Health overhaul may grow Ind. addiction services
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The possibility of thousands of Indiana residents becoming eligible for addiction treatment under the federal health overhaul has state officials and providers preparing for an expansion. About 60,000 Indiana residents per year...
Tags: Addiction, Health Insurance, Medicaid, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions
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Michigan addicts newly eligible for treatment
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan health officials say the state's substance abuse care system will be able to handle the surge of people who will become eligible for alcohol and drug addiction treatment under the federal Affordable Health Care Act....Tags: Addiction, Behavioral Conditions
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Man gets 16 years for OWI fatality
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentLAPORTE — A Michigan City who was driving impaired received a 16-year sentence Thursday afternoon for killing a woman and seriously injuring two children in a motor vehicle crash. John Mikle, 36, was ordered to spend 12 years of the sentence in...Tags: PCP, Trials, Prisons, Accidental Death, Punishment
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NW Ind. mental health center settles worker claim
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A northwestern Indiana mental health center that operates more than a dozen emergency mental health services and substance abuse treatment facilities will pay a former employee $200,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit. The...Tags: Breast Cancer, Employees, Mental Health, Health, Behavioral Conditions
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Bill to drug test Ind. welfare recipients advances
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A legislative committee is backing a proposal to require drug testing for some Indiana welfare recipients despite complaints that it's unfair to the state's neediest residents. The state Senate Health Committee voted 9-3...
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