Treating Humans Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary …

Treating Humans Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary …
A corrections officer was arrested last week and charged with violating the civil rights of Jason Echevarria, a mentally ill Rikers prisoner who died after eating a packet of detergent given to him when his cell was flooded with sewage. It was the …
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Getting kids to eat: CHOC team shares techniques
Between 25 percent and 45 percent of normally developing children have some kind of feeding disorder, and that proportion jumps to 80 percent if a child has had a developmental disorder, according to the CHOC's Multidisciplinary Feeding Program. The …
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Marijuana rally pushes for legalization, reform
Rosenzweig said his father, Louis Rosenzweig, suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a chronic pain disorder that is not alleviated through a nerve block, opiate-based drugs or other inpatient treatments. Rosenzweig would like his father to be able …
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Anorexic woman saved by strangers at YMCA
Three years ago, she was a 23-year-old woman who had moved to a new place where no one knew that she had battled her eating disorder since the age of 10 or that she had been hospitalized more than a dozen times. Lax didn't realize how sick she was and …
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Eating Disorder Vlog – Advice for Inpatient Treatment — Being admitted as inpatient to any unit can be a daunting experience, but it needn’t be too scary if you make good use of the support of staff, patients, fri…