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Health and Medicine : Mental Health and Behavior
Reducing Suicide:A National Imperative

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Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop

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Risk Factors for Suicide: Summary of a Workshop

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Educating Children with Autism

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Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us

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Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World

Brain disorders—neurological, psychiatric, and developmental—now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet public and private health systems in developing countries have paid relatively little attention ...

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Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy

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Pathological Gambling:A Critical Review

As states have moved from merely tolerating gambling to running their own games, as communities have increasingly turned to gambling for an economic boost, important questions arise. Has the new age of gambling increased the proportion of pathological or problem ...

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Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy

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The Role of Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Illness in Violence: Workshop Summary

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