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Interviewing Dan Cross, CEO of Advanced Recovery, an opioid treatment program in Oklahoma City, also known as a methadone clinic. Advanced Recovery is at 4901 S Pennsylvania Ave. Their phone 405-605-4005 and their website is http://advancedrecovery.co 1. How bad is the problem? Quantitatively and qualitatively? a. Quantitatively – 245,000 use opioids for non-medical reasons, not counting heroin. b. Qualitatively – Most powerful addiction and why. Photo of man falling from window in hospital gown in PowerPoint example, slide 5. 2. Why are current approaches not working well? a. Current approaches are almost exclusively “supply-side” , slide 7. b. Current treatment...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A powerful House committee chairman with a central role in President Barack Obama's global warming and health care legislation has been hospitalized. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., was not feeling well Tuesday and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for "routine testing," spokeswoman Karen Lightfoot said Wednesday.

WATERVILLE -- When Douglas Handy heard an elderly woman at Wal-Mart yell that someone stole her purse, he didn't think twice about chasing and tackling the thief. Being legally blind, he didn't even know the culprit was a woman until he had her down on the floor. "She was really big and I had to wrap both my arms around her," Handy, 42, recalled. "She was screaming, 'Let me go, let me go!' She wanted me to get up. I said, 'I'm not getting up till the security guards get here.'" This was at 12:53 p.m. Tuesday. When police arrived...