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Chris Fleming
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According to four Harvard School of Public Health national surveys, 44 percent of all college students binge drink, and nearly 600,000 suffered injuries in 2001, many of them associated with alcohol-induced blackouts. A new study, released today as a Web First by Health Affairs, calculates that at a university with 40,000 or more students, blackout-associated... Read the rest of this entry »
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Chris Fleming
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Not surprisingly, the Affordable Care Act figures prominently in the list of the ten most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for August. The list includes posts on efforts to implement the Act, as well as essays on the legal fight over its constitutionality. Heading up the list is a post announcing a summer edition of the... Read the rest of this entry »
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Chris Fleming
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Provisions of the Affordable Care Act and other recent legislative changes will transform public substance abuse treatment in the United States, substantially increasing the funding, expanding access to care, and better integrating it with other health services. That’s the conclusion of an article by Jeffrey Buck, senior advisor for behavioral health in the Center for... Read the rest of this entry »
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Chris Fleming
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The rising availability through the Internet of commonly abused prescription drugs has raised public health concerns. A new study released today as a Web First article by Health Affairs shows that a 10 percent increase in the availability of high-speed Internet service in a state was associated with an approximately 1 percent increase in admissions... Read the rest of this entry »
