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Predicting stubborn alcohol addiction: mood, motive may hold keys
It doesn't take stacks of research to demonstrate that medicating painful feelings with alcohol or drugs is a dangerous and ultimately futile strategy (although those studies do exist). But the relationship between emotional difficulties and alcohol...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Alcohol Addiction, Depression, Medical Research, Medical Specialization
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Army sergeant pleads guilty, describes killing 5 fellow servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of five fellow service members and the attempted murder of another in Iraq in 2009 after the government agreed not to...
Tags: Mental Health, Health, Psychiatrists, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice
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Did the system fail a soldier?
SHERMAN, Texas — Sgt. John Russell designed his new house here so there would be room for everyone: for him and his wife, Mandy, his wife's parents and his own. There was a doggie door for Louie and Queenie — "the little ones," he called...
Tags: Lawyers, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Punishment, University of Pennsylvania, Prosecution
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Four years after Camp Liberty killings, families losing patience
SEATTLE — On the day Sgt. John Russell allegedly walked into the mental health clinic at Camp Liberty in Baghdad and shot five U.S. service members to death, Pfc. Jacob Barton was just signing in at the front desk. It was the day after Mother’...
Tags: U.S. Army, Baghdad (Iraq), Psychiatrists, Murder, Health and Medical Professionals
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How long it takes to get insurance OK to admit psychiatric patients
Psychiatrists spent an estimated 1 million hours on the phone getting insurance authorizations to admit people to hospitals – time the lead author of a study on the matter says could be better spent helping patients. And perhaps time the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Medical Specialization, Boston
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At Army base, an aggressive campaign against suicide
FT. BLISS, Texas — Army Pvt. John Jeffery stumbled into Kyle Boswell's barracks room at Ft. Bliss before dawn one day in February, his eyes glassy. "I've done something," Jeffery mumbled to his buddy. "I can't tell anyone. It's going to happen."...
Tags: Mental Health, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Medical Procedures and Tests, Suicide
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Justice vs. vengeance in Aurora
Prosecutors have rebuffed an offer by James E. Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., last year, to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. In deciding instead to seek the death penalty, the...
Tags: Lawyers, Punishment, Prosecution, Mental Illness, Psychiatrists
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Method for making brain transparent may open scientific frontier
Scientists have created a way to make a human brain transparent, enabling them to take deep three-dimensional tours through the mysterious organ and trace its circuitry down to the molecular level. The recipe for transforming cadaver brains into see-...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Science, Autism, Long Island, Medical Research
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Jana Winter: Facing jail time for doing her job
Jana Winter, an investigative reporter for Fox News, faces the prospect of serious jail time for being a good journalist. Seriously. Most of the accounts you may read won't describe her predicament quite that way. But make no mistake: A state judge...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Laws, Freedom of the Press, James Holmes, Psychiatrists
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School denies it barred Holmes because of threat
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The University of Colorado-Denver stood firm Friday in saying it never barred James E. Holmes from campus, despite newly released court documents that indicate the suspect in the Aurora movie massacre had his student ID card...
Tags: Mental Health, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, James Holmes, Health, Psychiatrists
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California prisons haven't improved mental healthcare enough, court says
SACRAMENTO — A federal judge Friday rejected Gov. Jerry Brown's claim that California has improved its mental healthcare for inmates enough to end 17 years of court oversight, a victory for prisoners' lawyers who say they will use it to seek further...Tags: Lawyers, Mental Health, Suicide, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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James Holmes' psychiatrist warned he may pose threat
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — About a month before the Aurora movie theater rampage left 12 dead and at least 70 injured in July, James E. Holmes told a psychiatrist he was having homicidal thoughts and she concluded he could pose a danger to the public,...Tags: Punishment, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Prosecution, Clonazepam (drug), Psychiatrists
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