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School physicians will fill prescriptions for three different drugs: birth control pills, which are taken daily; Depo Provera, an injection providing three months of birth control; and Norplant, an implant that provides birth control for five years...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Rindge to Dispense The Pill | 1/4/1995 | See Source »

...proposal would give students direct access to birth control pills as well as Depo-Provera, a three-month birth-control injection, and Norplant, a contraceptive surgical implant which lasts about five years...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Panel Discusses The Pill at Rindge | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

...proposal would give students direct access to daily birth control pills; Depo Provera, a three-month injection; and Norplant, an implant which lasts for about five years...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: School Board Debates Offering Pill at Rindge and Latin | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad's 20-year-old daughter Nadia also has two children, and she too says she wants no more. In fact, the only difference in their family-planning strategies is the method of contraception: injections of the drug Depo-Provera for the mother and an IUD for the daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Power to Women, Fewer Mouths to Feed | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...America for pedophiliac priests: St. Luke Institute in Maryland and the facility operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. At St. Luke the regimen involves breaking down denial and incorporates 12-step programs to control sexual addictions. It also provides drug therapy involving Depo-Provera, a synthetic compound, similar to the female hormone progesterone that lowers the sex drive. In its nine years St. Luke has treated 137 priests for pedophilia and ephebophilia, the sexual obsession with postpubescent children. The center operated by the Servants of the Paraclete has treated about 400 clergymen for "psychosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Fall | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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