Punjab Cabinet Approves New Excise & Taxation Policy for 2013-14

Published March 7, 2013

Punjab Cabinet approves new Excise & Taxation policy for 2013-14

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Cabinet also gave approval for introducing “Punjab State Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infra Structure Fund Bill 2013” in the coming Budget session of the state assembly. This bill aims at creating a special fund for creation of infrastructure …
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Dead Man Spurs Methadone Probe at Bain's CRC Clinic in Baltimore

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… and spot-checks, in which patients are called back to clinics to account for their take- home bottles, he said. Most methadone overdose deaths stem from physicians' prescribing the drug as a painkiller, not from its use in addiction treatment, he said.
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Five win Sloan Research Fellowships

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For Assistant Professor of Psychology Joshua Buckholtz, the Sloan Research Fellowship will allow him to exploit new tools to discover brain circuit-level mechanisms governing impulsive decision-making, and to develop novel circuit-based treatments for …
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