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It’s a neighborhood known for trouble, but the Bowdoin-Geneva area of Boston is much more than that. A Boston Globe team spent a year there, listening and asking why violence persists where love and loyalty also run so strong.
Doctors say it will be virtually impossible to keep low-income patients with significant problems healthy and out of hospitals -- part of new government mandates under health reform and a linchpin for reducing medical spending -- without timely access to a specialist.
Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, NARA, offers inpatient and outpatient drug treatment and a 70-bed residential program in Portland, Oregon.
Scott Rapson is among other school administrators in Montana who are taking a stand against teen suicide in their state and implementing the "Signs of Suicide" kits to help reduce the number of deaths.
Miles City High School students know that the suicide epidemic among youth in Montana is staggering, which is why they created a one of a kind production to inform their peers of the choices they all have, and how to find help when they need it.
Montana youth, Michael Woods attempted suicide in February 2007, instead he became a survivor and is now an advocate for Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow Inc.
For at least 35 years, Montana has had one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, and a disturbing number of those self-imposed death sentences have been young people. Guns are the most common means of committing suicide in Montana, which ranks third in the nation for per capita gun possession.
More than a million California children who currently lack health insurance will qualify for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. But children’s advocates are concerned that some kids won’t get the best coverage.
High cancer mortality rates in Portsmouth, Va., might be linked to a variety of factors related to race, socioeconomics, culture and possibly even biology.
