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Lawyer: Banning ‘ex-gay’ therapy like requiring patients to embrace alcoholism
Mat Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, said Wednesday that California’s ban on so-called “ex-gay” or “reparative” therapy was akin to telling patients to embrace their alcoholism. “Leave it to California to come up with some bizarre law,” he said on the Faith and Freedom radio program. “This…
Survey: Czech teens’ alcohol abuse spiraling out of control
Shaken awake by police on a park bench, a 12-year-old boy from Prague was so drunk he could neither walk nor talk — grim evidence of an unparalleled alcohol scourge affecting underage Czechs. The boy was one of seven whom police found falling-down drunk in the Czech capital on the…
Alcoholism not uncommon among surgeons
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 15 percent of surgeons have alcohol abuse or dependency problems, a rate that is somewhat higher than the rest of the population, according to a new survey. The researchers also found that surgeons who showed signs of alcoholism were 45 percent more likely to…
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