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Mitzi Dawn was on staff at Nashville Recovery Center and left after the center was acquired by BRC Recovery and her popular ???Sing and Share??? event was canceled. She says she worried about her colleagues, since most are in recovery as she is. ???You have a perfect breeding ground to be able to take advantage of a lot of really good-hearted, well-intentioned people,??? she says.

Some addiction treatment centers turn big profits by scaling back care

Mitzi Dawn was on staff at Nashville Recovery Center and left after the center was acquired by BRC Recovery and her popular ???Sing and Share??? event was canceled. She says she worried about her colleagues, since most are in recovery as she is. ???You have a perfect breeding ground to be able to take advantage of a lot of really good-hearted, well-intentioned people,??? she says.

February 19, 2023, 7:04am Health

Near the end of his scheduled three-month stay at a rehab center outside Austin, Texas, Daniel McKegney was forced to tell his father in North Carolina that he needed more time and more money, he recently recalled. Read story

At Chosen Tabernacle Ministries pantry in Chicago, Johanna Lezama, left, chooses food with the help of Angela Bailey-Lane on Feb.

Americans are losing key food subsidy as prices get higher and higher

At Chosen Tabernacle Ministries pantry in Chicago, Johanna Lezama, left, chooses food with the help of Angela Bailey-Lane on Feb.

February 18, 2023, 7:45am Health

As the cost of living in the U.S. has gone up, government subsidies to help people pay for basics have disappeared one-by-one. Up next on the chopping block: Emergency allotments of a food-assistance program that supports 30 million Americans living in 32 states. Read story

In this Sept. 11, 2017 photo, Judi Dench, a cast member in the film “Victoria and Abdul,” poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.

Judi Dench says degenerative eye condition is making it ‘impossible’ to act: ‘I have a photographic memory’

In this Sept. 11, 2017 photo, Judi Dench, a cast member in the film “Victoria and Abdul,” poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.

February 17, 2023, 1:33pm Entertainment

Dame Judi Dench made an appearance Friday on the “The Graham Norton Show” and revealed that her degenerative eye condition is making it increasingly difficult to act. Read story

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez’s lupus meds make her gain water weight — and she’s OK with that

Selena Gomez

February 17, 2023, 1:31pm Entertainment

Taking medicine to manage her lupus makes Selena Gomez retain water, folks. Get over it. Read story

New Kaiser policy requiring mail-order prescription refills stings rural Washington pharmacies

February 17, 2023, 10:39am Health

A new policy by a major health insurer requiring patients to refill their prescriptions through the mail threatens independent pharmacies and presents a hardship for rural residents. Read story

FILE - Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks to a motorcade vehicle after stepping off Air Force One behind President Joe Biden, Feb. 3, 2023, at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. On Thursday, Feb.

Fetterman draws praise for getting help for depression

FILE - Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks to a motorcade vehicle after stepping off Air Force One behind President Joe Biden, Feb. 3, 2023, at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. On Thursday, Feb.

February 17, 2023, 10:20am Health

When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional work periods. And he refused mental health treatment recommended by his doctors, worried he would be recognized in that wing of the hospital. Read story

Bruce Willis attends a movie premiere in New York in 2019. A brain disorder that leads to problems with speaking, reading and writing has sidelined Willis and drawn attention to aphasia, a little-known condition that has many possible causes.

Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, condition worsens

Bruce Willis attends a movie premiere in New York in 2019. A brain disorder that leads to problems with speaking, reading and writing has sidelined Willis and drawn attention to aphasia, a little-known condition that has many possible causes.

February 17, 2023, 10:18am Entertainment

Nearly a year after Bruce Willis’ family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his “condition has progressed.” Read story

John Fetterman has been hospitalized with depression. Here is what to know about the common but serious disorder

February 17, 2023, 10:12am Health

Sen. John Fetterman’s longtime struggle with depression became more “severe” in recent weeks and prompted him to seek hospital care, his chief of staff said in a statement Thursday. The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday night to receive treatment. Read story

Members of the Faith and Family advocacy group, listen to speakers during a rally in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday refused to allow abortions to resume in the state, rejecting a request to halt a near total ban of the procedure. (AP Photo/Timothy D.

Kentucky high court lets near-total abortion ban continue

Members of the Faith and Family advocacy group, listen to speakers during a rally in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday refused to allow abortions to resume in the state, rejecting a request to halt a near total ban of the procedure. (AP Photo/Timothy D.

February 16, 2023, 11:43am Health

Abortion access in Kentucky remained virtually shut off Thursday after the state’s highest court refused to halt a near-total ban that has largely been in place since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Read story

FILE - Insulin is displayed at Pucci's Pharmacy in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2022. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. said this week that Democrats planned to add language to the economic package focused on climate and health care that will be aimed at reducing patients' costs of insulin, the diabetes drug that can cost hundreds of dollars monthly.

Washington Legislature aims to lower insulin costs, amid federal inaction

FILE - Insulin is displayed at Pucci's Pharmacy in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2022. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. said this week that Democrats planned to add language to the economic package focused on climate and health care that will be aimed at reducing patients' costs of insulin, the diabetes drug that can cost hundreds of dollars monthly.

February 16, 2023, 10:31am Health

It was a year ago this month when Haven Hepner, 10, was flown by medevac from her home in East Wenatchee to Seattle Children’s hospital. Read story