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		<title>Court Finds CA Health Insurance Providers Must Cover Anorexia Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th U.S. District Circuit Court of Appeals in August determined that Blue Shield of California is required to cover a policyholder’s inpatient treatment of her severe diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. The court made the decision based on the fact that California insurance providers are obligated under the state’s mental health parity law to cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico Legalizes Possessing Small Amounts of Drugs; Encourages Treatment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico enacted a controversial law today that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for addiction free of charge. The Associated Press reports that the law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Oppose Pro-Marijuana Ads, Detailing Dangers of the Drug</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a pro-marijuana group is launching an ad to encourage California legislators to legalize and tax the drug as a means of revenue, opponents want to remind the public that people under 18 who have used the drug are more likely to move on to harder-hitting drugs, putting 51 percent of California’s young people at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcoholism: Its Ties to Domestic Violence and the Disruption of Families</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Catherine H. Knott, Ph.D. Sue and Tom* were married less than a year before Tom&#8217;s alcoholism began to have a negative effect on their marriage. Tom was eight years older than Sue, a graduate student at a prestigious university; she was an at-home mom for their first child, but would shortly start graduate school [...]]]></description>
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