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Crisis describes North Carolina’s mental health system. It is harder to access mental health care here than most other states, and that affects everyone — particularly the most vulnerable. Like inmates who are too sick to stand trial. They often wait months in custody for the treatment they need just to be well enough to go to court.
State prisons say they can’t afford to cure everyone with hepatitis C. But several systems have figured out the math.
More than 1,000 incarcerated people died from hepatitis C-related complications in the six years after a cure hit the market.
The American Medical Association has added its voice in support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed on December 30. The AMA has urged the Supreme Court to reject recent challenges and preserve the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 vaccination and testing for large
Copy In 2006, Randy Lavespere, a Louisiana doctor, was convicted of buying $8,000 of methamphetamine in a Home Depot parking lot with intent to distribute. He served two years in prison, and his medical license was revoked. But even though he had been convicted of a felony and barred from practicing medicine in most circumstances, he was allowed to treat patients in at least one setting: Louisiana state prisons. In November 2009, just one month after the Louisiana State Medical Board reinstated his medical license and put him on indefinite probation, Lavespere was hired as a physician at ...