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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. I was shocked.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. However, in 2004, the New York attorney general filed a consumer fraud action and collected $2.5 Recently, in browsing the internet on healthcare blogs, I came across one on the very timely topic of the increasing suicide rate. million in fines from GSK. with drugs and 30.9%

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%. Without health insurance, known locally as medical aid, people living in South Africa are only guaranteed care for serious mental illness.