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Harford fifth-, sixth-graders 'kick butt' with anti-smoking pledge
It's lights out for smoking in Harford County, or so the county's health department is hoping with a new program pushing fifth- and sixth-grade students not to smoke. The county was one of the most active jurisdictions in Maryland for this year's...Tags: Students, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Health and Safety at School, Woodbridge, Teaching and Learning
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Harford fifth-graders pledge never to try smoking
Thousands of fifth-graders around Harford County have pledged never to try tobacco by signing their names on banners that will be exhibited on National Kick Butts Day March 20. Harford County Health Department's Cigarette Restitution Fund Tobacco Program...Tags: Students, Health and Safety at School, Woodbridge, Tobacco Products, Teaching and Learning
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Cancer risk of eating meat wildly overstated
It is irresponsible to claim, as the letter writer from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) does, that eating meat is equivalent to smoking cigarettes ("Unhealthful foods kill more Americans every year than tobacco," May 13). In...Tags: Lung Cancer, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Cancer, Abusive Behavior
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Don't be fooled: Smokeless tobacco is dangerous
I was dismayed by the letter written by Brad Rodu minimizing the devastating health consequences caused by using smokeless tobacco products ("All tobacco is not equally harmful," Jan. 24). Dr. Rodu is a dentist and scientist at the James Graham Brown...Tags: Tobacco Products, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Cancer, Google Inc., American Lung Association
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Cigar tax increase would reduce teen use
In a recent Baltimore Sun article about our proposed tax increase for cigars and smokeless tobacco designed to reduce teen use of these products ("Group pushing tobacco tax says it's a popular idea," Dec. 20), Bill Spann of the cigar industry makes the...Tags: Tobacco Products
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Hooked on treatment: Marylanders pay clinic millions, but diagnoses questionable
Kevin Brown knew he was hooked on crack cocaine. That was obvious each time he set off on another smoking binge. But Brown says he never imagined that he also suffered from a mental illness until he walked into Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc.
A day or...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Companies and Corporations, Bipolar Disorder, Drug Use, State Budgets
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Top 10 Tuesday -- the civility list
Dining@LargePlease contribute anecdotes and examples of a restaurant's having gone an extra step, either by anticipating a need or concern or by responding nimbly to one. This could be anything from the first time you were offered a large-type menu,......Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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'Real Housewife' Michaele Salahi joins, then leaves 'Celebrity Rehab'
Reality CheckI don't cover a lot of 'Real Housewives' news here because, well, frankly, one iteration of the show or another seems to be on 24 hours a day.But this news item about Michaele Salahi getting kicked out of "Celebrity......Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Multiple Sclerosis, Diseases and Illnesses, Celebrities and Health Issues, Michaele Salahi
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Family finds that helping others pays handsomely
Morris and Sandra Hill sit atop a corporate ladder fashioned from their own family tree.
The couple has helped build Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. into a $17 million enterprise. Two of Sandra Hill's children have jobs paying six-figure salaries, and...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Health and Medical Professionals, Coppin State University, State Budgets, Inner Harbor
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Addicts put in charge, drug use common in BBH housing
Second of two parts; read the first part
For much of his adult life he'd been a slave to cocaine, marijuana, prescription pills and alcohol. Twice he had gone through weeks of intensive psychiatric and drug treatment at Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc.,...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Companies and Corporations, Heroin, Middletown, Drug Use
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State health chief pledges to safeguard public mental health dollars
Maryland's top health official said Monday that his agency would do all it can to ensure that scarce mental health resources are spent properly after a Baltimore Sun investigation into Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. uncovered the nonprofit clinic's...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Health and Medical Professionals, Health Insurance, Behavioral Conditions, Substance Abuse
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Md. lawmakers to examine Baltimore mental health clinic
Maryland lawmakers plan to examine the operations of a Baltimore mental health clinic in the wake of an investigation by The Baltimore Sun that revealed high Medicaid billings, and a state regulator said six family members on the nonprofit's board must...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Government Health Care, Condos and Houses, Internists
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