The clinical course of alcoholism in Trinidad and Tobago.
DESPITE THE LONG HISTORY of recognition of alcoholism as a disease, there are still many questions concerning whether it has a distinct and definable clinical course (Schuckit, 1995). Jellinek (1946) first published a description of the course of alcoholism and suggested that alcohol-related problems progressed in an orderly sequence...

Do patients with alcohol dependence respond to placebo? Results from the COMBINE study.
THE USE OF PLACEBOS in medication studies is common (Temple and Ellenberg, 2000), although controversial (Rothman and Michels, 1994). The purpose of placebo is to ensure that the superiority of an active treatment to that of no treatment can be attributed to the medication itself rather than the nonspecific...

Veterans From All Eras Put Stake in Ground Against Homelessness at Jericho Project Home for Heroes.
Goldman Sachs Grant of $250,000 to Support First Dedicated NYC Veterans Housing Program in 15 Years NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Veterans from different eras and life circumstances will stand shoulder to shoulder on the eve of Veterans Day, November 10, at 11:00 am, to put...

Pilot Programs Reduce Emergency Room Use, Promote Better Health.
Initiative Releases Evaluation of Project Targeting Frequent Users OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A report issued today, A Dollars and Sense Strategy to Reducing Frequent Use of Hospital Services, provides evaluation data from six California counties demonstrating that programs that provide services to "frequent users" of...

Bailout sweet-tart: mental health parity.
Health insurers will be barred from placing more restrictive conditions on mental health coverage than for medical and surgical coverage under provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act signed by President Bush last month. Brindled as a "sweetener" with the legislation that created a $700 billion federal...

Building bridges; Program aims to help ex-prisoners stay clean, sober and employed.
Byline: Brian Lee Sitting in the living room of Dismas House's Almost Home program in Worcester recently, A. Luis Rosa insisted his days as a gang member and drug dealer are past. That was on Oct. 28, four days after his release from the Worcester...

Cop-watcher lauds officers' work to keep peace on Halloween.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Carol Berg-Caldwell On Halloween night, something remarkable occurred - remarkable, at any rate, for this longtime cop critic and volunteer member of Eugene CopWatch. I'll never forget it. I'd gone to the University of Oregon campus in the early evening of...

Courthouse records.
COLUMN: Courthouse records Worcester Superior Court Judge James R. Lemire Samuel Pipkin, 19, of 42 Orton St., Worcester, was sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction after pleading guilty to carrying a firearm without a license. He was placed on two...

COURTHOUSE RECORDS.
COLUMN: COURTHOUSE RECORDS Worcester Superior Court Judge James R. Lemire Manfred Franz, 47, of 84 Patriots Road, Templeton, sentenced to 2-1/2 years in the House of Correction, with 90 days to be served, after pleading guilty to making a bomb or hijack threat....