The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released preliminary national numbers for 2021, but did not release updated state data that would show Georgia’s ranking. Delma Gomez Adisa, director of the Midtown Health Care Center for AID Atlanta, said she began noticing a sharp increase in STD cases in the middle of last year. …
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It’s no secret that we in the public sector use a lot of abbreviations: CSB, which stands for Community Service Board, a Georgia public safety net behavioral health service provider, such as Highland Rivers Behavioral Health ; DBHDD, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, which is Georgia’s statewide behavioral health agency; and SAMHSA, …
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Georgian voters will vote for a second election cycle in the race for a back-to-back U.S. Senate seat. Here’s where the leading contenders stand on some of the issues. Abortion Warnock The outgoing US senator is a strong proponent of abortion rights and has called for the Supreme Court’s decision to be overturned Roe vs. …
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Mira Ugwuadu felt anxious and depressed when she returned to her high school in Cobb County, Georgia last fall after months of distance learning, so she reached out for help. But her school counselor kept rescheduling their meetings because she had so many students to see. “I felt helpless and alone,” the 12th grader later …
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