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WKU Public Radio
Simpson County Physician Convicted of Illegal Prescribing Habits
WKU Public Radio
The patients had histories of mental illness, doctor-shopping, and other risk factors for abuse and addiction. "Kentucky families rely on our doctors to 'do no harm,' however, in this case, a Western Kentucky doctor was no more than a drug dealer in a ...

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LA Magazine (blog)
The Story of This Drug Rehab-Turned-Violent Cult Is Wild, Wild Country-Caliber Bizarre
LA Magazine (blog)
He faces another trial for 46 counts of insurance fraud. When I first wrote about Bathum in 2015 for L.A. Weekly, I considered him an outlier, a bad actor in an otherwise decent industry that has helped countless people, including me: I spent 30 days ...

Bustle
California's Conversion Therapy Bill, If Passed, Would Make It The First State To Ban This Practice
Bustle
"To advertise that you can change someone's orientation is simply that — fraudulent." The bill lists a number of mental health and medical associations, including the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the ...
CA State Assembly Votes to Strengthen Protections for LGBTQ People Against “Conversion Therapy”Human Rights Campaign (blog)
These States Are Working To Ban Gay Conversion Therapy, Because Yes, That's Still A ThingElite Daily
California Progressives Launch (Another) Attack on Free SpeechNational Review
AP News -California Legislative Information - State of California -Williams Institute - UCLA.edu
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Reason
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
Reason
A man identifying himself as psychiatrist Julian Lopez Garcia purports to treat patients for various mental illnesses at a Chicago medical clinic for several months. Plot twist! The good doctor is neither a doctor nor, in fact, Julian Lopez Garcia. (He ...

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Renting: Who brought the bedbugs? And who pays to get rid of them?
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The problem for landlords is the occurrence of fraud regarding tenants' emotional support animals. Under the Fair Housing Act, a landlord has the right to ask for proper documentation from tenants to prove they are in need of their emotional support ...

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Human Rights Campaign (blog)
CA State Assembly Votes to Strengthen Protections for LGBTQ People Against “Conversion Therapy”
Human Rights Campaign (blog)
To the contrary, research has clearly shown that these practices pose devastating health risks for LGBTQ people such as depression, decreased self-esteem, substance abuse, homelessness, and even suicidal behavior. Individuals who engage in conversion ...
These States Are Working To Ban Gay Conversion Therapy, Because Yes, That's Still A ThingElite Daily

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WHIO
Scientists accidentally discover enzyme that could 'eat' plastic pollution
WHIO
What's most important, Sherika Hill — adjunct faculty associate at Duke University School of Medicine and lead author of the study — told Medical News Today, is that 27 percent of persistent users reported anxiety disorders as children and 23 percent ...

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Record number of states banning conversion therapy
WFMYNews2.com
“Being LGBTQ is not an illness,” said Xavier Persad, legislative counsel for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ rights advocacy group. “It is false that being LGBTQ is wrong and a disorder.” Momentum has been building in legislative sessions this ...

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'Being LGBTQ is not an illness': Record number of states banning conversion therapy
WFMYNews2.com
“Being LGBTQ is not an illness,” said Xavier Persad, legislative counsel for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ rights advocacy group. “It is false that being LGBTQ is wrong and a disorder.” Momentum has been building in legislative sessions this ...

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New York Times
This Week's Wedding Announcements
New York Times
Mr. Bradylyons, also 34, is a prosecutor for the fraud section of the criminal division of the United States Department of Justice in Miami, where he works primarily with cases involving health care fraud. He graduated from Georgetown. He received a ...

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Digital Journal
CCHR Exhibit: Experts Expose Psychiatric Abuse in Rome
Digital Journal
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death traveling exhibit is an educational multimedia presentation and self-guided tour on the dangers of psychiatry. It examines the history of psychiatry and exposes fraud and human rights abuse including the overmedication ...

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ABC Online
The fake doctors who get away with medical fraud
ABC Online
Melbourne man Raffaele Di Paolo pleaded guilty last week to a number of charges related to practising as a medical specialist when he wasn't qualified to do so. Di Paolo is in jail awaiting his sentence after being found guilty of fraud, indecent ...

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nwitimes.com
UPDATE: Former federal prison warden takes over Lake County Jail
nwitimes.com
The most significant problems remaining center around staff vacancies in the jail's mental health treatment program. Federal monitors who regularly visit the jail said in their most recent report inadequate psychiatric staffing was “alarming and ...

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News24
Life Esidimeni post-mortem reports still outstanding
News24
At least 144 psychiatric patients died after the Gauteng department of health moved 1 700 mentally ill people from Life Esidimeni homes into ill-equipped NGOs and state facilities in 2016. In the release of his arbitration report last month, retired ...

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Channel NewsAsia
Police see mental illness behind deadly German van attack
Channel NewsAsia
MUNSTER, Germany: German authorities investigating a deadly van ramming attack focused on Sunday (Apr 8) on mental health problems of the driver, as the city of Muenster mourned for the two people killed on a sunny afternoon at an open-air restaurant ...
German police see mental illness behind Muenster van attackFRANCE 24
Mental illness likely behind deadly German van attackGulf Times

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FRANCE 24
German police see mental illness behind Muenster van attack
FRANCE 24
German authorities investigating a deadly van ramming attack focused Sunday on mental health problems of the driver, as the city of Muenster mourned for the two people killed on a sunny afternoon at an open-air restaurant. "There are strong indications ...

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Firstpost
Muenster attack: German authorities say accused driver had previously faced charges of property damage, fraud
Firstpost
AFP: German authorities investigating a deadly van ramming attack focused on Sunday on mental health problems of the driver, as the city of Muenster mourned for the two people killed on a sunny afternoon at an open-air restaurant. "There are strong ...

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LANews By Abhishek Budholiya (press release) (blog)
Telepsychiatry Market to Register Substantial Expansion by 2026
LANews By Abhishek Budholiya (press release) (blog)
Hence, even if they possess serious mental health issues, they might be ignored or even suppressed. The third factor is cost reduction. Telepsychiatry ensures that neither the psychiatrist nor their patient needs to travel. All that they require is an ...

Metro Weekly
California considering bill to declare conversion therapy a “fraudulent practice”
Metro Weekly
But proponents of the bill cite a 2009 report from the American Psychological Association, which found that conversion therapy “poses critical health risks” and contributes to anti-LGBTQ stigma by characterizing homosexuality as a mental illness. The ...
Bisexual Maryland delegate opposes conversion therapy on minors ...Washington Post

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