Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months, ex-Mafia Attorney Lawrence A. Burns has been talking with Michigan authorities and newsmen about his dealings with gangsters and cops in Detroit. He claimed that Ellenburg had been receiving bribes for years from mobsters to protect the numbers racket and from Burns himself to protect an abortion clinic. Burns also fingered Thomas Cochill, another former Detroit lawman whom Ellenburg had brought to Cleveland as his personal aide...
...problem is of staggering proportions. Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, founder and psychiatric director of New York's Odyssey House, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts, calls it an epidemic. The first young heroin users began appearing at her clinic only last June, she says. Today the traffic is more than Odyssey House can handle-four to six junior junkies every day. To accommodate the overflow, Dr. Densen-Gerber has opened two branches solely for youthful addicts. One of her first applicants: a nine-year...
Enmeshed in Tape. Through 1969, Wyoming was the only state offering nothing beyond minimum benefits and only to welfare families. Forty states had operating plans offering additional services such as dental care, prescription drugs, home health care, eyeglasses, clinic services and a variety of diagnostic services. No two states had all the same benefits for the same type of people. In 22 states coverage had been extended beyond the welfare population to the stratum classed as the "medically needy" -those who can subsist only if they have no doctors' or hospital bills...