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y husband is getting all the praise for staying sober after rehab – meanwhile, I'm shattered and seethingIt's my husband's birthday and we're celebrating with ginger beer. I would prefer alcohol, and I know he would too, but he's been almost four months sober and it's painful counting at times. I[...]
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5 hours ago
Just when you think Congress can't get any dumber, it crafts a $1tn farm bill that harms the poor and promotes unhealthy foodThe US Congress, its approval rating still near all-time lows, is reinforcing its own record of stupefyingly short-sighted lawmaking with what may be the most harmful piece of[...]
7 hours ago
Citizens Advice survey says firms are still failing to treat customers fairlyPayday lenders have broken a series of promises to reform their industry, including pledges to check that their loans are affordable and to freeze charges when people struggle to repay, according to new research that raises[...]
7 hours ago
No, they can be bigoted, as the gay marriage debate has shown, but be kind – their views are from another timeNot for the first time, the late Marxist historian Professor Miliband has featured in one of his son's political speeches. Addressing the Google Big Tent event last week, Miliband junior a[...]
7 hours ago
Margot James endured a rough time as fellow MPs rebelled in parliament last week. But she bears no grudgesIf a career in diplomacy had attracted Margot James, it would no doubt have been a successful one. A gay member of parliament, she had to sit for two days amid the heckling and caterwauling of t[...]
7 hours ago
Nationalists who would deny prisoners a vote in the independence referendum are being craven and dishonestThe social responsibility contract that many leftwing unionists would like to conclude with the Scottish nationalists is as yet unwritten. Several of the details and clauses are still taking sha[...]
7 hours ago
Jeremy Hunt should have engaged politically with the problemsAneurin Bevan, the architect of the National Health Service, would have been alarmed at the escalating blame game played out between the secretary of state for health and general practitioners last week. Bevan was no stranger to doing batt[...]
7 hours ago
Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groupsLand conflicts between farmers and plantation owners, mining companies and developers have raged across Indonesia as local and multinational companies have been encouraged to se[...]
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Hi-tech film analysis suggests Emily Davison's motives when she collided with the king's horse in 1913 were misunderstoodAs an emblem of women's emancipation Emily Wilding Davison has always been controversial. The suffragette who was fatally injured at the Epsom racecourse during the Derby 100 year[...]
7 hours ago
A pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell – or at least record – often harrowing stories of daily life in the countryBeatrice Lamwaka was not yet a teenager when her 13-year-old brother, Richard, was abducted as a child soldier. The family lived in[...]
7 hours ago
Damien Echols spent 18 years facing execution after being wrongly convicted of a triple child killing. Then Lorri Davis, a woman he'd never met, began a campaign that would set him free. Emma John talks to him and introduces chilling extracts from his prison diaryIn 1993, three eight-year-old boys [...]
10 hours ago
Last week, the Alamance County Board of Commissioners voted 3-1, with Commissioner Linda Massey absent — to adopt one of three proposals for how the county boards of health and social services would be controlled in the future. Now, Commissioner ...
Burlington Times News via Google News 13 hours ago
Exposure to explicit sexual violence doesn't mean teenagers will be prone to copying it in the bedroomDid watching The Truman Show aged eight leave me a paranoid, arrogant, obsessive maniac? Of course it did. For about a week, until A Bug's Life came out and I decided I wanted to be an ant instead o[...]
17 hours ago
Documentary film-maker Eugene Jarecki speaks to John Mulholland about his attempts to reform drug laws in the USJohn MulhollandCameron Robertson
18 hours ago
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., has introduced legislation (H.R. 2064) to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to "provide social service agencies with the resources to provide services to meet the urgent needs of Holocaust survivors to age in place ...
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19 hours ago
Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., has introduced legislation (S. 997) to "establish the Social Work Reinvestment Commission to provide independent counsel to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy issues associated with recruitment, ...
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20 hours ago
ut after two months in Vietnam, he stopped writing home — he stopped writing anything — "because the words seemed inadequate, even useless." In college he couldn't write, changing his major from journalism to social work, "where I tried to ...
20 hours ago
ach opened to a swatch and its backstory — the fabric type, the infant's arrival at Foundling. Artist William Hogarth's depictions of the clothes, embroidery and fabrics worn during that period also are part of the exhibition. The infants ...
22 hours ago
Theatres are increasingly catering for children on the autistic spectrum with 'relaxed performances' where they can feel more comfortableFor most five-year-old boys, a trip to the cinema is a treat. But for Charlie Webb, who has Asperger's syndrome, it's a sensory overload – and not in a good way.[...]
23 hours ago
Aged 16, Duncan Gall returned from holiday to find an eviction notice on the front door. There was no sign of his single-parent father and the schoolboy ended up in a bedsit, fending for himself. Years later, a wedding invitation arrived …After sitting his GCSEs, Duncan Gall went to Tenerife with [...]
23 hours ago
Your May 15 news story (“Supervisors discuss improvement projects”) about the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors struggling to prioritize needed capital improvements caught my attention when you quoted Supervisor Butch Church concerning the ...
Roanoke Times via Google News 23 hours ago
My husband is getting all the praise for staying sober after rehab – meanwhile, I'm shattered and seethingIt's my husband's birthday and we're celebrating with ginger beer. I would prefer alcohol, and I know he would too, but he's been almost four months sober and it's painful counting at times. I[...]
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The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is pleased to recognize our nation’s Service Members and Veterans this Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. While we encourage all social workers to recognize the efforts of these brave Americans on a daily basis, this is a special time to honor those who h[...]
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By Rena Malai, News staff A group of MSW students from the University of Southern California School of Social Work visited the NASW national office in March to learn more about the social work profession. The students are enrolled in Child Development and Social Policy at USC, and spent a week in Wa[...]
5 days ago
By Paul R. Pace, News staff Four social workers are among the members of a newly formed Institute of Medicine committee that will examine the state of end-of-life care in the U.S. The Committee on Transforming End-of-Life Care is charged with developing a consensus study and technical report on the [...]
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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP), of which NASW is a member, recently released the 3rd edition of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. These interdisciplinary guidelines can be used to develop, guide, and enhance palliative care programs acros[...]
1 week ago
Because HIV, HCV, and HBV are all blood-borne infections transmitted through similar patterns of behavior, co-infection is an important emerging public health issue. About 3 million adults in the United States are infected with Hepatitis C, most of which are baby boomers. However, between 65-75% o[...]
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New Edition of National Consensus Project Palliative Care Guidelines Released NASW Participates in Revision Task Force The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP), of which NASW is a member, recently released the 3rd edition of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Pallia[...]
1 week ago
By Rena Malai, News staff North Koreans used solitary confinement as a way to break down U.S. prisoners of war during the Korean War, broadcast journalist Ted Koppel said recently on “Rock Center with Brian Williams.” Koppel’s report highlighted 17-year-old James Stewart, an incarcerated juven[...]
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