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...everything to me. I became not just an addict, but a stone-cold junkie." But last year he found a new love - a woman named Gladys, who inspired him to enter rehab. In 2006, Olmo was one of an estimated 22 million Americans with a substance abuse or dependency problem; today, he's one of just 2.5 million of those addicts to enter a hospital or clinic for treatment, according to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA...
...inherent drawback of self-reporting is the tendency for respondents to simply lie about their illicit drug use, for obvious reasons. To address this problem, SAMHSA introduced hand-held computer modules in 1999, eliminating the need for a government mediator to administer the survey face-to-face. To encourage better response rates, the agency began offering a $30 cash incentive. More recently, a new challenge has arisen: as the number of Spanish-speaking Americans continues to grow, officials face problems in translation. Certain Spanish words mean different things to Puerto Ricans than they do to Cubans or Mexicans, according...
...hours will allow teaching fellows to reach more students, any resulting loss of personal interaction could make the class more challenging. “I remember from freshman year when I took CS 50 that...the personalized attention was crucial for me to get through some of the tougher problem sets,” he said. Alexandre L. G. Hugon ’11, who may take the course this fall, said that he was looking forward to the opportunity to use the new technology. “I think this is a great idea,” he said...
...House’s pre-medical advisory committee before becoming interim master, insists that real safety issues justify the changes.“Having been here for such a long time, we obviously had a long institutional memory,” Khoshbin said. “The problem with institutional memories is of course you remember all the wonderful things but you also remember all the things that were scary. We are an urban campus. We are not a closed campus.”Still, many Currierites have not taken kindly to the new security protocol, which now requires...
...more than a decade after the failure of that disastrous attempt - which nearly ran Bill Clinton's presidency aground in his first term, and saw people literally burning his wife in effigy - politicians of both parties were gun-shy about approaching the health care issue. But the problem itself continued to grow. Nearly 50 million people now lack health coverage, compared with around 36 million in 1993. And costs have risen dramatically: Figures released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation showed premium costs have risen 78% in the last six years, to an annual cost...