The Woman Who Ate Cutlery

The Woman Who Ate Cutlery
The consequences are felt in our communities, where the undertreated mentally ill are vulnerable to drug use, criminal recidivism (with additional court and incarceration costs), victimization and suicide. The costs of M's repeated hospitalizations are …
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When death is better than a nursing home
“She was having a series of small and accumulating strokes” in the left side of her brain, Dr. Richard Tindall testified, “leading to progressive weakness and inability to use her right side.” “This was one stroke on top of another, on top of another …
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New insight into how brain 'learns' cocaine addiction
The study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (grant numbers DA011742 and DA010309), the National Institute of Mental Health (grant numbers MH084020 and MH51106), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (grant …
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