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...This is a major contribution," says Dr. Peter Cohen, a Georgetown University law professor and physician who heads up the District of Columbia Medical Society's physician health committee, which works to rehabilitate drug-addicted doctors. "Addiction is a medical problem that needs to be treated as a medical problem...
...many of the 22 million drug abusers and addicts in the U.S. Although it's difficult to put a price tag on the total impact of drug abuse, NIDA estimates it costs the U.S. $484 billion a year in health care costs, lost earnings, crime and accidents. Complicating the problem, addicts tend to abuse more than one substance at a time - two-thirds of cocaine addicts also use alcohol, for example - a potentially lethal combination that may be increasing in popularity. A 2006 University of Florida study found that deaths from cocaine overdose, which often involved alcohol, increased in Florida...
...fact that this needs stating, or that we must intermittently re-emphasize history's relevance to understanding ourselves, points to a problem that has hounded the discipline in recent years - its tendency toward clubby academic isolation. A fine antidote to this trend is John Burrow's A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century, an ambitious and accessible account of the historian's craft over the last 2,500 years. In the tradition of Ford Madox Ford's The March of Literature and Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy...
...Observers inside the Republican campaign say that Romney is finally campaigning as the candidate he really is: the problem-solver and turnaround artist that governed Massachusetts with an almost scientific approach to bipartisanship. He's added to that message the anxiety-producing thought of Barack Obama gaining the Democratic nomination. "I can post up against Barack Obama," he told the group in Salem. "I can make sure the message of change works for Republicans as well as Democrats...
...current team of British investigators does not have "the necessary transparency." In perhaps his most composed moment, he answered a question about how the United States should conduct its policy toward Pakistan, saying "Dictatorships feed extremism and once the United States stops supporting dictators we can tackle the extremism problem...