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...majority of the parolees entered prison in their early 20s or late teens. Most never finished school or held a job, and they lack the skills to do so. In Wisconsin 70% of prisoners struggle with drug or alcohol addiction. "If we don't want to see them again and again, we've got to offer them more than the clothes on their backs, a Greyhound ticket and $15 in their pocket," says Dolan, referring to aid cons receive when they leave prison. Even those who participated in substance-abuse counseling and the few education and job-training programs available...
Doctors who monitor drug tests often have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry—but most of them don’t think this poses a conflict of interest, according to a study led by a Harvard Medical School professor...
...many HIV-positive children in the developing world actually get treatment for their disease. It's not a surprising statistic, given the state of health care in many developing nations, but it's one that the Clinton Foundation wants to change. The foundation - in collaboration with generic India-based drug makers Cipla, Ranbaxy and others - announced on Thursday that it had negotiated lower prices for 19 different pediatric AIDS drugs, slashing the price tag for these medications by 45% from their current minimum market price for the developing world. The foundation even went one step further - they announced that Cipla...
...Before these new medications get into the mouths of the babes who need them, however, they need to become part of the national formularies of developing countries. The Clinton Foundation will receive $35 million from the European international drug-buying facility UNITAID to purchase the lower-priced drugs from manufacturers in the next year, and two of the largest drug purchasers for the developing world - the U.S.'s PEPFAR program and the Global Fund - will follow suit. And merely funneling drugs to the youngest patients won't stem the growing tide of children infected with HIV - the most common source...
...persuade and cajole to gently make what we think is the right choice into the patient's choice. ("The girls in therapy really seem to get a kick out of you. Are you sure you don't want to go anymore?") The government equivalent of this is called "drug education" and it's fine. But when you try to change certain things by force, things close to the core about what folks love and hate, about their personalities, you just run into trouble. It doesn't work. You might knock down but you will never build up. This...