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How Can We Get Stricter Death Penalty Laws?

Question by ballzinurmom: How can we get stricter death penalty laws?
Why should we waste our hard earned money keeping these loser scum bags in prison? You commit a felony, you get the chair. Saves money, time, space and resources. All the morons in prison are useless to society and should be offed.

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Answer by rob_harwell
That’s a very harsh position. The problem I see is that a certain percentage, however low, are innocent. That means your policy amounts to murder. As we have it, the biggest law our government is breaking is false imprisonment.

Podcast 13: Process Improvement in Healthcare Programs to Support Addiction Treatment

Podcast 13: Process Improvement in Healthcare Programs to Support Addiction Treatment — Podcast 13, Process Improvement in Healthcare Programs to Support Addiction Treatment, identifies the five principles of business process improvement and how…


Treating Insomnia and Depression
The study also puts the therapeutic role of antidepressant medication in perspective: the depressed participants who received behavioral therapy did equally well whether or not they were taking the drugs. I hope that these results will encourage the …
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Ventura County, CA Addiction Treatment Center Expands Services

Ventura County, CA Addiction Treatment Center Expands Services
Known to be one of Southern California's most affordable yet highly regarded luxury drug rehab facilities for both men and women, the organization has long aspired to create a unique platform of substance abuse treatment protocols that essentially …
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Studies Explore Origins of Addiction, Treaments
"Non-drug interventions would be an enormous step forward in drug abuse treatment, which currently relies on replacing one drug with another and has an extremely high rate of relapse," said press conference moderator Barry Everitt of the University of …
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2014 SXSW Music Festival Announces Second Billing

2014 SXSW Music Festival Announces Second Billing
Jonny Two Bags (Orange County CA) JoyCut (Bologna ITALY) Jungles from Red Bacteria Vacuum (Tokyo …. This New York DJ and EDM production duo's fun mashups and energetic DJ sets are helping them rapidly make inroads into the dance music community …
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Joel W. Hay: Keep your health plan?
And today I'm offering an idea that will help do it. … Nevertheless, many who are losing their individual plans are less happy paying higher premiums for plans with required preventive services, maternity services, prescription drugs, substance abuse …
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White House to Require Insurers to Cover Mental Health

White House To Require Insurers To Cover Mental Health
From NPR and WBUR Boston, I'm Jeremy Hobson. MEGHNA … I should add, under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, all health insurance policies must include mental health care and substance abuse treatment as a basic service. Now, the rules do not …
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Where Have All the Sopranos Gone?
“Adrian,” Schulze said smiling with relief. “He was 15.” Puberty … The problem is with the sopranos. At St. Thomas, as in all boys choirs, the oldest of those singers with unbroken voices are the most prized. Like flowers that are most beautiful just …
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Kennedy Nephew to Speak From Experience on Drug Abuse, Recovery

Kennedy nephew to speak from experience on drug abuse, recovery
He is now an advocate for recovery and mental-health programs and has worked with the White House Office on Drug Control Policy and the World Health Organization. … It's time we begin to acknowledge that and make a commitment toward treatment.
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Mary's House, a safe house for women, has grand opening
Mary's House offers nonjudgmental help to any woman struggling with addiction issues. The goal is to help them avoid dangerous situations. Help getting off drugs will be offered, but is not a requirement to receive aid. Women who are well into recovery …
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