MusiCares: The Reality of Addiction & Recovery
MusiCares: The Reality of Addiction & Recovery – www.musicares.org John Hardy talk to MusiCares about his struggle with addiction and road to recovery with the help of MusiCares. Brett and Lavinia Hudson talk about battling cancer and medical bills and getting help. Addiction affects more than 22 million Americans. Only 4 million receive the treatment they need. 1 in 4 Americans has a family member who is struggling with addiction. Approximately 60% of individuals in recovery relapse within the first six years. Since 2000, insurance costs have risen 69% while wages have increased just 12%. 50 million Americans had no health insurance in 2010; 1 in 7 were children. 25 million additional Americans remain under-insured. Since 1991, MusiCares has provided more than million in assistance to music people in need. More than million was distributed in the past five years alone, all thanks to the generous contributions of people like you.
Body-Builder Accused of Playing 'Doctor'
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These include not only the infamous “pill mills” that sell addictive drugs to addicts and pushers, but clinics that tout anti-aging hormone treatments, questionable diet drugs, steroid injections, and so on. A feature of many such clinics is the …
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Aboriginal culture thriving in north
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Sharing moose meat with your neighbours and relatives, teaching, and coaching local teams are all informal, grassroots ways that community members engage in a local, family-to-family political culture. In full, 79.4 … Helping with these sorts of …
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Social/Society
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He has enlarged the family business of a pair of beehives from its humble 2003 start to more than 50 hives today, and last year his busy little workers produced about 1 ton (1000 kg) of their precious substance for him. What initially … The event was …
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