Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March, Andre L. Williams '89 and Craig A. Cochrane '91 were ordered off a University Shuttle bus and searched by police officers seeking a suspect in a nearby shoplifting. The students filed a complaint over their treatment after they learned that the police were looking for a tall white male and were twice given a description that does not match either student before removing the two from the vehicle...
...Cambridge police respond quickly to a head-on automobile accident near Harvard Square at Garden St. Victims at the site show bumps and bruises, but all refuse medical treatment. Police question one driver, who appeared to have crossed the center line into the on-coming lane...
...individual biographies are well drawn depictions of these talented writers' descent into an ethyl hell, but they are not convincing pieces on the artistic merits of sobriety. Perhaps the world is still ignorant enough about the processes of art and addiction that a fair treatment of either--let alone the blending of the two--is impossible...
...fact that is not in dispute is the desperate lack of medical facilities to help pregnant women with drug problems. In California, for example, there are only five full-time drug-treatment programs that accept pregnant women, and waiting lists are up to six months long. Some doctors are concerned that by threatening to prosecute pregnant drug users, officials will end up driving away even those women who could be assisted. "This sends a clear message to the women most in need of prenatal health, that it is dangerous for them to get help," says Dr. Ira Chasnoff, president...
...derived from wartime practice, for giving medical attention to the most likely survivors. This goes against the American grain. According to a 1987 Harris poll, more than 90% agreed with the statement that "everybody should have the right to get the best possible health care -- as good as the treatment a millionaire gets." But another survey, by the Public Agenda Foundation, found that only one person in ten would accept a $125 tax increase to support a national insurance program for catastrophic illness. As medical costs rise at an annual rate of more than 15%, public health facilities...