Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain Costs Debated
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Connecticut lawmakers are considering a proposal to give people with chronic pain faster access to higher-cost prescription drugs.
Help For Medicaid Smokers In Gov’s Budget
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Smokers on Medicaid would get help quitting under Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed budget.
Mirroring Nation, CT Medicaid Admissions Up
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Connecticut’s hospitals, like the nation, are seeing more beds filled with Medicaid patients, placing “financial stress’’ on facilities.
CT Gets A “C” On Containing Foodborne Illness
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A national advocacy organization gives Connecticut a “C” rating in its efforts to contain foodborne illness.
Disparities
Refugees Face Trauma Treatment Gap
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The soldiers dragged out a pregnant woman and slit open her belly. A witness who was personally tortured for his political activism in Congo is more haunted by that image than his own pain.
State Earns Failing Grades On Tobacco Control
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An American Lung Association report card on states’ tobacco policies shows Connecticut to be a struggling student.
At Last, Tobacco Funds May Help Medicaid Smokers Quit
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Connecticut is one of four states that do not pay for smoking cessation help under Medicaid, though the state has received more than $1 billion in tobacco settlement funds designed to build an anti-smoking war chest.
I-Team In-Depth
Use Of Student Restraints, Seclusions Tops 18,000
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Six-year-old Anthony Wickham weighed about 48 pounds when five adults forcibly restrained him at Plainfield’s Shepherd Elementary School. Anthony, a student in the school’s Clinical Day Treatment program, was regularly locked in a windowless room that measured four by six feet, a court document says.The allegations sound highly unusual, but Connecticut schools reported using emergency restraint and seclusion more than 18,000 times last year.