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July 20, 2006

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Teacher sentenced for having sex with students asks for pardon
Boston Globe - United States... Marquis wrote in his pardon request he had wanted to use a bipolar disorder diagnosis as a defense, but his lawyer, Michael Craig, prevented him from doing so. ...

Bipolar Man Misses His Meds, Threatens Suicide
Click10.com - Miami,FL,USA
According to Miami-Dade police, the man's mother called authorities and said that her bipolar son was off his medication and threatening to kill himself. ...

AstraZeneca Seeks Added Seroquel Approval
AP via Yahoo! Finance
AstraZeneca Plc. said Tuesday it filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a sustained-release version of its schizophrenia treatment, Seroquel.

A Windfall From Shifts to Medicare
New York Times
The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people.

Teacher sentenced for having sex with students asks for pardon
Boston Globe
A former Milford Middle School teacher who was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for having sex with two of his students is asking Gov. John Lynch and the Executive Council for a pardon.

Read more on how the war in the Middle East is affecting families here in the Forest City
London Free Press
A London drop-in support centre for homeless women that opened two years ago has been swamped by three times the number of women they had expected. "I'm stunned, just stunned," said Susan Macphail, program director for Women's Mental Health Services.

Staging a mental challenge
Kansas City Star
Is mental illness the last taboo? In the current golden age of tabloid confession, you can talk about your sex life, drug problems, even money woes, but mention that you might have gone a little crazy and people shrink away, even in a world as off-kilter as show business.

Main Head
Portsmouth Herald
CONCORD (AP) -- A former Milford Middle School teacher who was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for having sex with two of his students is asking Gov. John Lynch and the Executive Counc

Woman in fraud case waives bid for release
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
MARLBORO - Laura J. Ryan, who is serving her third prison sentence for fraud, yesterday abruptly withdrew her motion to be allowed to finish her sentence on a bracelet-monitoring program at home.

Addiction Is a Disease
Psychiatric Times
By John H. Halpern, M.D. (Please see Point article by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D.) The practice of medicine obligates physicians to accept the responsibility of promoting the overall health of their patients.

Woman wants province to pay for brother's burial
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News
A New Brunswick woman says taxpayers should cover the $3,500 cost of her brother's funeral, instead of his 10 siblings, because he lived on welfare all his life and had no savings.

Stephen Fry tells of suicide bid
Daily Telegraph Thu, 20 Jul 2006 5:39 AM PDT
Actor and comedian Stephen Fry has told for the first time how he attempted suicide more than a decade ago.

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Overeating and substance abuse are similar disorders
Los Angeles Times
People with bipolar disorder have higher-than-average rates of obesity and substance abuse. But McIntyre found that the obesity rate in bipolar patients was ...

Club stoush bowls out member
The Advertiser
A MAN suffering from bipolar disorder and depression has been barred from membership at a Sydney bowling club after a clash over club bylaws.

Mom abandons 18-year-old under Nebraska safe-haven law
Richmond Times-Dispatch
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Police say a woman has abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital, saying she can't control the girl, in what may be the latest use of Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. The woman told officials at BryanLGH Medical Center West that her daughter, who was adopted, is bipolar and has a learning disability, Assistant Police Chief Jim Peschong said today.

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"Romancing your spouse?" Ok, I can already hear you yelling at me! I know, it's a strange concept, but hear me out. Some of the longest-running marriages have lasted because of this very concept.

You may be thinking that this has nothing to do with Bipolar Disorder, but it does. Even the best of marriages has some strain on it - the pressures of day-to-day living, at the very least. However, Bipolar Disorder puts additional pressure on your marriage because of the issues you have to face in dealing with the disorder, whether you are the survivor or the supporter.

No matter how long you've been married, the suggestions in this article can put some "spark" into your marriage. And if you've only been married a short time, putting these suggestions into place now can help ensure a long, happy, healthy marriage (of course, you will still have to do some hard work yourself to make that happen as well!).

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