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In 1999, US Lacrosse assembled a group of national- and world-renowned experts to comprise its Sports Science and Safety Committee. The committee's goal is to utilize existing sports medicine literature, grow the body of lacrosse safety knowledge, and advise US Lacrosse and the lacrosse community on factors that may enhance the safety and quality of experience in the sport of lacrosse at all levels.
Led by this group, US Lacrosse has invested more than $500,000 in safety research and initiatives. Here's a closer look at their credentials.
Margot Putukian, MD, FACSM (Chair)Internal MedicinePrinceton (N.J.) University
Dr. Putukian is the director of athletic medicine and head team physician at Princeton. She's a charter member and past president of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, also serves on the NFL's Head, Neck & Spine Committee and works as a team physician for US Soccer and the U.S. men's national lacrosse team.
Jackie Berning, Ph.D, RDNutritionUniversity of Colorado at Colorado Springs
A full professor in the Department of Biology at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Dr. Berning is a nutrition consultant for the Colorado Rockies baseball team, and has served in the same role previously with the Cleveland Indians, the NFL's Denver Broncos, the University of Colorado's athletics department and USA Swimming.
Shane Caswell, ATC, Ph.DGeorge Mason University
Dr. Caswell works primarily as a researcher at George Mason, where he is an associate professor of Athletic Training and Director of Sports Medicine Assessment, Research & Testing (SMART) Laboratory where he conducts injury prevention research aiming to improve youth and scholastic sport safety.
Trey Crisco, Ph.D.Bio-Mechanical EngineeringBrown Med. School/Rhode Island Hospital
Dr. Crisco is a professor of Orthopedic Research at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. He has coached youth girls' lacrosse for the past 12 years and played lacrosse at the high school and college level.
Eugene Hong, MDSports MedicineDrexel University College of Medicine
Dr. Hong is Chairman of the Department of Family, Community & Preventive Medicine and Chief of the Division of Sports Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is also the director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Ruben Echemendia, Ph.DNeuropsychologyNational Academy of Neuropsychology (Pa.)
Dr. Echemendia is the director of the National Hockey League's Neuropsychological Testing Program and chair of the NHL's Concussion Working Group. He is also chair of Major League Soccer's concussion program and is the consulting clinical neuropsychologist to the US Soccer Federation and the U.S. Soccer National Teams.
Richard D. Ginsburg, Ph.DSport PsychologyMGH Sport Psychology (Mass.)
Dr. Ginsburg is the co-director of the MGH PACES Institute of Sport Psychology, director of the MGH Child and Adolescent Group Psychotherapy program, director of psychological services at the MGH Youth Concussion Clinic, and assistant clinical professor of the Harvard Medical School.
Richard Hinton, MD, MPHOrthopedicsGreater Chesapeake (Md.) Orthopedic
Dr. Hinton serves as director of the MedStar Sports Medicine Fellowship in Baltimore. He serves as the head team physician for the U.S. women's national lacrosse team, as well as the head team physician for the Towson University men's and women's lacrosse teams.
Andy Lincoln, Sc.D, MSHealth Policy/Public HealthMedStar (Md.) Research Institute
Dr. Lincoln is the director of the Sports Medicine Research Center for the MedStar Health Research Institute and research coordinator of the MedStar Sports Medicine Concussion Program. He specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of sports-related injuries and coordinates research activity for both the US Lacrosse Sports Science & Safety Committee and the NFL Cardiovascular Health Subcommittee.
Jeffrey S. Mandak, MD, FACCCardiologyMoffitt, Pease, Lim Cardiology Assoc. (Pa.)
Dr. Mandak is a cardiologist with the Fulton County Medical Center in Central Pennsylvania and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Prevention of cardiovascular disease has been a major focus of his clinical practice.
Douglas McKeag, MD. MS, FACSMFamily MedicineIU Center for Sports Medicine (Ind.)
Dr. McKeag serves as OneAmerica Professor Emeritus of Family And Preventive Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Like Putukian, McKeag is a past president and founder of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. He has served as a professional consultant to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee, New York Giants and the Indianapolis Colts, and was a team physician for the 2012 U.S. U19 men's team that won gold in Turku, Finland.
Laura Darby McNally, ATCCertified Athletic TrainerNATA and Middlesex (Mass.) School
An athletic trainer at Middlesex (Mass.) School, McNally has previously served as head trainer of the both the U.S. men's and women's rowing teams as they competed in world championships in Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Tasmania, and Austria. She was also a U.S. Olympic Committee trainer in the 1984 Olympics. the 1989 Olympicfest, and the 1987 and 1995 Pan Am Games.
Walker has primary clinical responsibilities with the men's lacrosse and men's and women's cross country/distance teams. She also serves as a clinical instructor for the UNC graduate and undergraduate athletic training programs, and was co-founder of the Lacrosse Athletic Trainers Society (LATS).
Paige D'A. Perriello, MD, FAAPPediatricsPediatric Associates of Charlottesville (Va.)
Dr. Perriello lives in her native Charlottesville. She graduated from Princeton, where she played field hockey and lacrosse. She is interested in general pediatric and adolescent medicine, with special interests in sports medicine/concussion management and newborn/breastfeeding issues.
Karen Sutton, MDOrthopedicsYale New Haven Hospital
Dr. Sutton serves as the orthopedic physician for the U.S. women's national lacrosse team. A former player at Duke University, she currently works as an attending physician at Yale New Haven Hospital and serves as an assistant professor at the Yale University School of Medicine.
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Child Found Floating in City Swimming Pool Sunday Recovering at Vanderbilt Hospital
A three year old child, found floating in the city swimming pool Sunday afternoon, is recovering today (Monday) at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville.
Kadee Griffith, daughter of Chris and Jennifer Griffith, has been taken off the respirator and is alert and responsive, according to her father.
Chris Griffith told WJLE by telephone Monday morning from the hospital that he, Kadee, and his seven year old daughter were at the Smithville Municipal Pool Sunday afternoon attending a friend's birthday pool party when the incident occurred around 4:38 p.m.
Griffith says he doesn't know what happened. One minute Kadee was standing near the pool, and moments later he looked around and saw her floating face down in the water. Griffith says he picked Kadee up out of the pool. She wasn't breathing.
Kim France, an RN, who was there began performing CPR on the child. Others also rendered assistance until DeKalb EMS arrived. In addition, Smithville Police Officer Scott Davis and members of the Smithville Volunteer Fire Department were on the scene. A Life Force helicopter ambulance was summoned and landed at the golf course. Kadee was then airlifted and flown to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, where she remains hospitalized.
Griffith says Kadee has shown signs of improvement this morning (Monday). She has been talking and giving her parents hugs. No word yet on when she will get to come home.
Meanwhile, in his weekly update on crime news, Sheriff Patrick Ray reports that
21 year old Homer Anthony Petty II of Banks Pisgah Road was arrested on Monday, June 8th for driving on a suspended license. Petty's license was revoked for failure to satisfy a citation in Smith County on August 18th, 2008. Having knowledge that Petty's license was suspended, a deputy, while on patrol, stopped Petty's vehicle after spotting it on Short Mountain Highway. Petty's bond is $1,000 and he will appear in court on June 24th.
24 year old Joshua Rhyn Cripps of Hodges Road Smithville was arrested Wednesday, June 10th for possession of a schedule VI drug (marijuana) and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond for Cripps was set at $3,000. A deputy, while on patrol in the northern part of the county, spotted a vehicle setting on the side of the roadway on Cookeville Highway. While the officer was talking to the driver, he spotted a bag of marijuana lying in the passenger side seat. A box was also found in the driver's side door pocket which contained a set of scales that is believed to have been used to weigh the marijuana.
53 year old Gary Wayne Stockton of Austin Bottom Road, Baxter was arrested Friday, June 12th and charged with driving under the influence and evading arrest. He was also issued citations for violation of the implied consent law and no tail lights. Bond for Stockton was set at $2,500 and he will appear in court June 25th. While on patrol in the eastern part of the county, deputies stopped a vehicle for a light law violation on Highway 70 at Johnson Chapel Road. Upon speaking with the driver, the deputy noticed that he had slurred speech and he was unsteady on his feet. After the man failed field sobriety tasks, officers asked him to submit to a blood alcohol test but he refused and then took off running. The man, Stockton, was caught a short distance down the road.
On Saturday, June 13th, deputies stopped a vehicle for a traffic offense on Highway 56 South and Old Blue Springs Road. The driver, 25 year old Claudie Dewayne Odom of Ash Avenue,. Cookeville was found to be driving on a suspended license. Odom's license was suspended for failure to file insurance after an accident he had in Putnam County on March 10th, 2008. Odom's bond was set at $1,000 and he will appear in court on July 23rd
On Sunday, June 14th deputies investigated a complaint about a theft where 45 year old Denise Ann Jauregui of Morgan Drive, Smithville went into a house on Short Mountain Highway, entered a bed room, and took $3,900 in cash from a wallet. Officers located Jauregui and she admitted to them that she had taken the money. Jauregui was arrested and charged with theft of property over $1,000. Her bond was set at $10,000 and she will appear in court on July 2nd. Deputies were able to recover $2,728 in cash from Jauregui.

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Police officers inspect the graves of two Cyprus Archbishops at a cemetery in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, March 21, 2010, after grave robbers are thought to have plundered the graves of the two Archbishops. Grave robbers stole the remains of two Cyprus Archbishops who led the island's Greek Orthodox church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police said. Police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said the Archbishops' coffins were found missing after officers responded to a pre-dawn fire at a downtown Nicosia graveyard where the tombs of Sofronios III and Kyrillos II are located.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)


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Maybe I'm just not coming up with the right search terms for this issue, 'cause I can't believe I'm the only one dealing with it. Apologies for redundancy, forthwith.
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In the United States, 10 million inmates are released every year, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevalence is several-fold greater in criminal justice populations than in the community. Few effective linkage-to-the-community programs are currently available for prisoners infected with HIV. As a result, combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is seldom continued after release, and virological and immunological outcomes worsen. Poor HIV treatment outcomes result from a myriad of obstacles that released prisoners face upon reentering the community, including homelessness, lack of medical insurance, relapse to drug and alcohol use, and mental illness. This article will focus on 5 distinct factors that contribute significantly to treatment outcomes for released prisoners infected with HIV and have profound individual and public health implications: (1) adaptation of case management services to facilitate linkage to care; (2) continuity of cART; (3) treatment of substance use disorders; (4) continuity of mental illness treatment; and (5) reducing HIV-associated risk-taking behaviors as part of secondary prevention.
Systematic identification and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection remains the best way to reduce the 56000 incident infections annually in the United States [1]. To achieve this goal, a substantial number of infected individuals need to initiate and adhere to combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) [2, 3]. The sheer magnitude of the incarcerated population and the disproportionate prevalence of HIV infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) within the criminal justice system (CJS) [4] results in 16.9% of all HIV-infected individuals in the US being within the CJS annually [5]. Interventions that facilitate initiation of and adherence to cART among HIV-infected prisoners upon release thus play an important role in stemming the HIV epidemic in the United States.
Improved HIV care provided within prisons has markedly reduced mortality, such that, by 2008, the HIV-associated mortality among prisoners had achieved near parity with that among the community [4]. Despite these achievements, released prisoners infected with HIV not only continue to experience increased HIV-related mortality [6] but have worsened HIV treatment outcomes, represented by increases in HIV type 1 (HIV-1) RNA levels and decreases in CD4+ lymphocyte counts [7]. The rate of re-incarceration among released prisoners infected with HIV remains high, with nearly one third being re-incarcerated within 3 months of their release [8]. When HIV is effectively treated in correctional settings, continuity of care and cART not only benefit the individual but has the potential to decrease the possibility of HIV transmission to others after release. Secondary HIV prevention, particularly by maintaining viral suppression [3], is crucial to reducing HIV infection incidence given the known high prevalence of HIV-associated risk behaviors reported by newly released inmates infected with HIV [9]. Although prisons house the majority of incarcerated persons, jails interface with a significantly larger number of individuals with or at risk for HIV infection. Prisons and jails differ significantly, however, with regard to HIV management, and these differences are depicted in Table 1.
Multiple reasons contribute to poor postrelease HIV treatment outcomes, including lack of access to medications or medical entitlements, abrupt medication discontinuation, and poor adherence to cART [10]. Antiretroviral therapy nonpersistance or nonadherence independently contributes to poor HIV treatment outcomes [11]. Either of these may result from a lack of interest (especially in the setting of undertreated mental illness), competing needs (eg, needs associated with active alcohol or drug use as well as basic needs, such as housing, food, employment, child care, and basic safety), or a combination of these factors. Effective linkages that sustain clinical benefit after release remain urgently needed. Figure 1 depicts common comorbidities and effective treatment modalities; Table 2 describes existing prison-release programs for prisoners infected with HIV. The transitional process from highly structured prison settings to community settings is seemingly insurmountable, including high levels of homelessness and poor social support [23].
In the following sections, we discuss the current state of knowledge on prison- and jail-release programs and provide insight into future program development. We describe 5 distinct programmatic themes (Figure 2) for transitioning prisoners infected with HIV: (1) adaptation of case management (CM) services, (2) adherence approaches to ensure continuity of cART to preserve the benefit of treatment after the confines of incarceration, (3) initiation and/or continuity of evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs), (4) linkages with appropriate treatment for mental illness, and (5) reducing HIV risk-taking behaviors as part of secondary prevention.
A systematic search strategy was undertaken using PubMed, OvidSP, and MEDLINE with the following key words: "HIV," "AIDS," "prison," "jail," "incarceration," "transition," "case management," "antiretroviral therapy," "adherence interventions," "substance abuse," "opioids," "alcohol," "mental illness," "HIV risk behaviors," and "secondary prevention." Studies were included if they enrolled individuals with or at risk for HIV infection and had demographic characteristics associated with involvement with the criminal justice system, especially prison or jail. Selected conference abstracts were also reviewed. Five content areas that dealt with transitional care interventions were decided a priori. In some of these 5 domains, there was a dearth of published literature involving incarcerated subjects infected with HIV; in these instances, relevant material was sought that involved similar subjects who represented persons at high risk for criminal justice involvement (eg, HIV-uninfected prisoners or HIV-infected community cohorts with risk profiles similar to those of prisoners). This allowed for limited extrapolation to the population of interest. Clinical findings from each of the interventional studies and meta-analyses of randomized trials are summarized in Supplementary Table 1.
Case management involves the coordination of medical and psychosocial care for individuals with complex medical needs and involves different levels of interaction and assistance among different groups of people, such soon-to-be-released prisoners infected with HIV [23]. Supplementary Table 1 summarizes 8 examples of CM programs. Community linkages are different and sometimes only involve passive referrals (eg, providing a list of agencies that help with benefits, health care, or acquiring a job or shelter). Effective discharge planning may ultimately result in community-based decreased HIV transmission by effectively engaging HIV-infected persons in care and maintaining virological suppression with continuous cART [3].
CM services are currently the mainstay of prisoner-release programs for inmates infected with HIV, with the goal of providing a seamless system of care and reducing recidivism, maintaining overall health, and averting drug use. Despite advocacy for costly intensive CM interventions [19], a randomized controlled trial comparing prerelease discharge planning was as effective at linking subjects to HIV care as was intensive CM provided before and after prison release [14]; however, CD4+ count and viral suppression outcomes were not reported. Depending on the intensity of the discharge planning and the amount of available services that link people to the community, CM may serve some role for criminal justice populations, yet randomized controlled trials of these interventions have yet to confirm their benefit. A 10-site, national demonstration project that focuses on linking HIV-infected jail detainees to community care will have clinical outcomes and is currently underway [60].
Most prisoners lose medical and social entitlements upon incarceration and are ineligible to reapply until released, often leaving a considerable gap in the provision of care until entitlements are restored. More recently, several states have moved towards temporarily suspending instead of terminating medical insurance upon incarceration, thereby suggesting a possible shift through introducing structural interventions that might promote continuity of care by policy makers [61]. Changing the eligibility requirements to allow prereleased inmates to plan reintegration into the community effectively may improve health outcomes and reduce recidivism; however, such structural interventions have not yet been assessed.
Fifteen cART adherence support programs relevant to transitioning prisoners infected with HIV are summarized in Supplementary Table 1. Prisoners face many obstacles to maintaining adherence to cART after release, including (1) insufficiently treated SUDs and/or psychiatric disorders that result in decreased motivation to adhere to treatment recommendations [62], (2) homelessness that results in decreased adherence as a result of migration and social destabilization [63], (3) unemployment that results in the inability to meet basic needs [64], (4) sometimes complicated antiretroviral regimens, and (5) multiple other comorbidities, including viral hepatitis and tuberculosis, that often complicate selection of antiretroviral regimens [65]. Irrespective of the individual's reasons for not continuing or poorly adhering to therapy, it is critical to establish effective ways to overcome problematic adherence.
Excellent cART adherence and persistence suppresses HIV-1 RNA levels and increases CD4+ cell count, thereby keeping persons infected with HIV healthy and free from AIDS-associated opportunistic infections [11]. Interventions aimed at improving adherence to medical therapies form an important component of any strategy to improve health outcomes and depend upon factors relating to the patient, the characteristics of the medications or intervention, the interpersonal aspects of the patient-provider relationship, and the general system in which care is provided [66]. Some examples of adherence support that have been demonstrated to be effective in other community settings include the use of reminders, adherence counseling support, contingency management, and directly administered antiretroviral therapy (DAART). These approaches are likely to be useful; however, they have not been fully tested for released prisoners.
Cues and reminders may be useful for patients for whom a major reason for missed doses is "forgetting," either because of their lifestyles, comorbid mental illness, or HIV-associated cognitive impairment [67]. Drug users may also link medication with dosing of illicit drugs [68]. In terms of absolute cost, many of these adherence reminders are quite inexpensive. Their simplicity and affordability facilitate their integration with other adherence interventions, yet their impact on adherence is modest.
Adherence counseling strategies have been shown to change patients' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about medical treatment and to improve their adherence to at-times-complicated medication regimens [69]. In terms of both cost-effectiveness and scalability, it will be important to determine who may best deliver the counseling. Peer-driven interventions can be affordable and acceptable; however, interventions by professionally trained counselors might, despite their added cost, be more effective and replicable, especially if such interventions are validated and provided in a manualized format.
Contingency management has its roots in the mental health treatment community, where it has been used to manage SUDs [70]. Participants are rewarded for positive health behaviors (eg, excellent adherence), and a series of sanctions are imposed for negative health behaviors. Such interventions may take the form of direct financial compensation; token economy systems, such as vouchers [41]; positive and negative reinforcing medications (eg, methadone dosing or disulfiram) [41], and material incentives (eg, bus tokens and electronic items like paid telephones and reminders). Preliminary data support the use of contingency management for HIV treatment adherence [71], yet randomized controlled trials have not been conducted. Although, in some instances, contingency management has proven to be cost-effective, the absolute costs involved in bringing it to scale may be prohibitive, although contingency management is not as costly as the antiretroviral medications themselves and, as such, would represent an incremental cost to provision of cART.
A meta-analysis of DAART suggests that such programs are not beneficial overall [72]; however, individuals who were at particular risk for nonadherence (eg, drug users or prisoners) were not differentially examined. A subsequent meta-analysis did, however, support the use of DAART among individuals at high risk for nonadherence, especially drug users [73]. DAART offers a highly monitored and structured setting for released prisoners and does not promote genotypic resistance [26]. A recent randomized controlled trial of DAART among released prisoners confirms its benefit on HIV treatment outcomes for the target population, yet the cost-effectiveness of this strategy has yet to be explored [42].
Supplementary Table 1 describes 14 treatment programs for SUDs relevant to prisoners infected with HIV. Relapse prevention is among the most pressing needs facing released prisoners, because relapse to substance misuse often results in reincarceration. Furthermore, drug overdose is the leading cause of death among released prisoners, and usually occurs within 2 weeks of release [74]. Over 80% of prisoners infected with HIV have SUDs prior to incarceration, and untreated SUDs are associated with decreased adherence to cART [75]. Evidence-based substance abuse treatment options, especially for opioid and alcohol dependence, involve medication-assisted therapy (MAT); however, behavioral interventions may also be beneficial [65].
Although not tested in subjects infected with HIV, behavioral interventions are most effective for incarcerated persons when delivered over a sustained period as therapeutic communities (TCs). They must be continued after release, however, and are therefore labor intensive and costly [76]. TCs address polysubstance drug use, reduce recidivism, and facilitate re-entry, but they must be tailored to individual goals and behaviors and require support systems within the community. Although head-to-head comparisons of TCs with MAT are not available, MAT is the most effective treatment for opioid and alcohol dependence [65, 77], is relatively less costly, and can be implemented without prolonged periods of incarceration [78]. Table 3 describes currently available US Food and Drug Administration–approved pharmacotherapies. Therapeutic communities and opioid substitution therapy using methadone and buprenorphine [78] and treatment of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in correctional settings have been reviewed [79], and details about their implementation are beyond the scope of this article. Methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone, along with relevant pharmacokinetic drug interactions, have also been reviewed in the treatment of SUDs in community settings [65]. Methadone, when initiated before community reentry, is more effective than is postrelease methadone or referrals at improving drug treatment outcomes and relapse prevention treatment among prisoners infected with HIV [45]. Buprenorphine, with its excellent safety profile and relative lack of federally legislated constraints, provides new possibilities for the treatment of released prisoners with opioid dependence [78], has recently been adopted in several jail settings, and is safe and effective for released HIV-infected prisoners in sustaining HIV treatment outcomes [46]. Although US correctional settings have yet to actualize the benefits of buprenorphine treatment, its use among French prisoners has proven effective since 1996 [80]. Several studies have demonstrated the efficacy and acceptance of buprenorphine in released prisoners (Supplementary Table 1). Applying these models of treatment to correctional and prison-release programs should be carefully considered for those with HIV infection to reduce recidivism rates, reduce HIV-related risk behaviors, and enhance adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
AUDs contribute greatly to ongoing HIV transmission and to poor access to and adherence with antiretroviral therapy [81]. In 2002, almost 50% of jail inmates reported pre-incarceration symptoms of alcohol abuse or dependence [82], and almost 60% of state and federal prisoners reported drinking alcohol at the time of their offense [83]. AUDs have been associated with increased HIV-related risk-taking behaviors [84] and poor adherence to cART [85], resulting in reduced likelihood of achieving HIV virological suppression. Moreover, 30% of patients infected with HIV are co-infected with hepatic C virus (HCV), and this number approaches 60% in the Northeast, where injection drug use contributes significantly to HIV transmission [86]. AUDs and chronic HCV infection are the 2 most common causes of end-stage liver disease (ESLD), and concomitant alcohol use is associated with hepatic steatosis [87] and accelerated progression to ESLD among individuals infected with HCV [88]. Thus, there is an urgent need to effectively treat AUDs among prisoners infected with HIV. Although extended-release naltrexone has been demonstrated to be effective for treating AUDs, its efficacy and safety among subjects infected with HIV has not been critically evaluated [79].
Because many HIV-infected drug users who interface with correctional settings often use several mind-altering substances, multiple intervention modalities may be needed, including MAT and behavioral and cue-based therapies. Integrating these components into prison-release programs may not only reduce the harm from recurrent substance abuse but also secondarily benefit other needs, such as adherence to cART and engagement in care.
Supplementary Table 1 describes the 2 published psychiatric treatment programs for HIV-infected released prisoners. An estimated 56% of state prisoners, 45% of federal prisoners, and 64% of local jail inmates self-report having mental illness [89], yet as few as 26%–39% of those with documented psychiatric conditions were receiving psychiatric medications at the time of arrest. After incarceration, only 46%–69% were eventually treated [89]. Increasing financial constraints and inconsistent screening practices in prisons and jails are common reasons for undiagnosed or untreated mental illness in criminal justice settings.
Mental illness, especially major depressive disorder, is associated with decreased cART adherence and decreased retention in medical care and with increased HIV-associated risk-taking behaviors [90] and reincarceration [62]. Therefore, comprehensive postrelease plans should incorporate diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and transition to community mental health treatment programs.
Mental health diversion programs provide mental illness treatment as an alternative to criminal sanctions for persons with serious psychiatric disease within the CJS. Within jail diversion programs, interventions occur before and after an individual is charged with a crime. Prearrest programs (1) use trained police officers to serve as liaisons to the mental health system, (2) utilize mental health professionals to provide consultations to police officers in the field, and (3) coordinate efforts between police and mental health workers. Postarrest programs divert those with serious mental illness to community-based programs at the time of arraignment by using specialty court-based diversion programs. Community-based programs may also try to integrate medical treatment, case management, and educational programs for released offenders with chronic medical and psychiatric conditions and can assist with creating linkages to the community [17]. Although there is no gold standard for continuity of psychiatric care for HIV-infected correctional populations, comprehensive reentry programs should incorporate mental health treatment.
Four programs designed to change HIV risk behaviors among HIV-infected or high-risk prisoners are presented in Supplementary Table 1. Enhanced HIV testing is greatly needed within correctional settings. There is significant heterogeneity in terms of screening and testing for HIV infection, including no screening, screening based solely on symptoms or self-reported risk, voluntary testing, routine testing, and mandatory testing [91]. Irrespective of strategy, identifying HIV infection results in decreased HIV-associated risk-taking behaviors [92]. Once diagnosed, HIV infection can be effectively treated, and when viral replication is sufficiently suppressed, HIV transmission is impressively reduced, even in the setting of high-risk behavior [93]. As such, current guidelines recommend routine HIV testing in a number of settings, including prisons and jails [94]. Documented successful demonstrations of routine HIV testing strategies have been documented in jail settings. Routine testing has not been achieved, however, because of logistical, financial, and legal constraints. Some of these constraints have been addressed by using rapid HIV diagnostic tests [95] and testing within the first 24 hours after incarceration [96, 97].
Subjects in jails report significant sexual risk-taking prior to their incarceration, and in certain cases, albeit with markedly reduced prevalence, during their incarceration [9]. Prisoners often have other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in addition to HIV infection upon entrance to correctional facilities. Without diagnosis and treatment of STIs, individuals may experience associated medical complications along with an increased risk of HIV transmission upon release, especially in the setting of concomitant ulcerative genital disease, such as syphilis [98]. Screening for STIs, particularly in jail settings, where turnover is rapid, can provide significant HIV infection preventive services to this high-risk population [99] and have a significant effect upon reducing community rates of STIs [100]. Unfortunately, most prevention efforts have been limited to HIV counseling and testing, and few STI treatment programs have been systematically evaluated with respect to HIV infection prevention.
Increased detection and treatment of HIV infection and other STIs are part of the landscape of HIV prevention efforts. Behavioral interventions that facilitate HIV risk reduction and adherence to cART are effective and essential [101]. Recent data that support the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis using oral tenofovir among men who have sex with men [102] and a tenofovir-containing microbocide vaginal gel for women [103] provide initial support for the use of biological agents in the primary prevention of HIV infection. They have not yet established a role in HIV-infected prisoners, however, with the exception of treating their serodiscordant partners. Little is known about using these approaches as secondary prevention for HIV-infected individuals who have been released from prison.
Our literature search was limited to published manuscripts in English and French and described interventions for transitioning care for prisoners infected with HIV or related populations. Although our literature search was designed to be comprehensive, some articles may have been missed. In some domains, there was little literature available specific to incarcerated HIV-infected populations, so comparisons were drawn to similar populations. These conclusions may need to be refined once further studies are conducted that focus on criminal justice populations infected with HIV.
Released prisoners infected with HIV face many challenges upon reentry to the community. Case management services alone appear to be insufficient, because they are often unable to effectively address the multiple complex needs that are often required. Although uniform structural approaches may overcome some barriers, effective programs will require integrated approaches and individualized treatment plans. Existing community resources are insufficient to address these complex needs. Innovative solutions are urgently needed that involve partnerships between all existing stakeholders, including individual inmates, the CJS, and communities to overcome existing impediments.impediments.
Financial support.This work was supported by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (R21 DA019843, R01 DA025943, and R01 DA017059 to F. L. A; R01 DA030762 to F. L. A. and S. A. S; K24 DA017072 to F. L. A.; and K23 DA019381 to S. A. S.); the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01 AA018944 to F. L. A. and S. A. S.); the National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH020031 to J. P. M.); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (UR6PS000391 to F. L. A.); the Health Resources and Services Agency (H97 HA 08541 to F. L. A. and U90HA07632 to A. C. S.); and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (H79TI019806 to F. L. A.).
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Skip to comments.Why Asian-Americans Have Turned Their Backs on the Republican Party
Posted on 02/27/2013 5:16:17 AM PST by yinandyang
Since 2000, Asian-Americans have consistently voted Democratic. In 2008, Asian-Americans gave 62 percent of their vote to Barack Obama. Last November that number jumped to 73 percent even as the presidents margin of victory in the popular vote was cut in half as he garnered a Dukakis-like 41 percent of white voters and slid by more than 13 points among Jewish-Americans.
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So it's because Asians are atheists?
Both parties depend on promises to burn heretics to keep their bases in line. Democrats get away with it because their "heretics" are nominally the powerful in society. To Asian immigrants, who primarily come from dictatorships - however benevolent - the Democrats thus seem (absurdly) the party more likely to leave them in peace.
Same reason everyone is turning their backs-they are democrat lite and McCain/Graham/Christie/GOProud is now the face of the party.
Article was boring. It didn't answer the question in the headline.
"These days, the GOP strikes Asian-Americans, along with many other Americans, as hostile to science and modernity."
This is in huge type in the middle of the article. It's not backed up and I find it unconvincing, to put it mildly.
That's most certainly NOT the reason.
Sadly, it's precisely the opposite. Minorities do not tend to believe in limited government. A generation ago, a majority of Asians supported the GOP because of their anti-communism stand. Now that the cold war is over, even Asians feel free to join nearly every other minority group and vote for ever bigger government. These people are simply not educated and steeped in the ideas of limited government. If you really believe just being more conservative is enough to win these groups you're nuts.
Correct. We are finished.
Asians in general are collectivists, as are Hispanics. End of story and Country.
Why did Reagan win by landslides, and why has the GOP spent the past 20+ years purging Reaganism from the party.
Like most articles that pretend to analyze why Dims receive more support from specific minorities than Republicans, this one also leaves out what I think is the most important reason: How long individual immigrants and families have been in the US.
These 'studies' or polls never tell us how new citizens are voting, and how minority voters from multi-generation, citizen families are voting. I think we'd see some real differences in the voting choices of well established and recent arrival minority voters of all ethnicities.
Of course, I doubt most news agencies want to report that the Dims are winning big among new citizens. And for Asian-Americans, the fact that so many live in uber-liberal California and NY is probably also a factor, even among more established Asian-Americans.
I believe how long specific minority voters' families have been in the US, and how established they are financially,
is the most important determining factor in how they vote.
The GOP is hostile to JUNK science. Obviously THE ASIANS ARE IGNORANT of the fact that the RATs (who truly are hostile to science) control America's "education" system.
Americans of Japanese extraction, of all people, should be called on this stupidity.
And also, the number of legal immigrants has increased from a few hundred thousand to more than a million annually in past 25 or so years, not to mention illegal aliens who eventually became citizens.
We are importing Dim voters and the Dims well know it while the Repbublican elite are in long term denial. Republicans had won the national political debate in the '80s, but the importation of Dim voters has changed that, particularly since a large increase in legal immigration under GHWB.
It's politics by fantasy.
Not atheists, necessarily, but other than some Koreans not particularly religious, often not Christian, and certainly not evangelical Christians.
With exceptions that prove the rule, you are right.
As long as the democrats & media can continually highlight race and ethinicity, minorities will feel embattled and look to government to empower them.
Its as simple as that. I don't know how the GOP can overcome this media-reinforced ignorance.
All this means is Asian-Americans are as susceptible to Dem lies as any other ethnic group. The libs have succeeded in portraying conservative Republicans as anti-science/anti-technology troglodytes. The Dems are the party of congressman Hank Johnson who thinks too many people will tip over a Pacific island. And Sheila Jackson Lee who thought astronauts landed on Mars. Now who is the stupid party?
Information from this article and a Google tells me that Reagan, GHWB and Dole all won the Asian-American vote. So, whatever is happening has happened since the '80s. I believe it's the additional of millions of new immigrant Asian-American voters that has moved things from modest Republican wins among AAs to 75% to 25% losses.
Why don't we see studies that tell us how new citizen minorities vote as opposed to those whose families have been in the US for several generations?
So, because 'Pubbies are less that complete "supporters of fundamental liberty" they go and vote for smiley-face Fascists? Go ahead, pull the other one.
Truth is, we have hit the tipping point. More and more folks are going to be voting for "security," "free stuff" and racial spoils. The nation as a whole is basically back where were during the 1930s when Democrats took over promised to rob the "evil rich" and spend it on the "poor" and ran the country until the late 50s.
Asians seem to be low information voters and apt to toe a party line pushed by their bosses.
I think your post #7 is right on target.
Ultimately, there is no such thing as an Asian, in terms of policies that can be tailored to win Asian votes. In political terms, the adjective Asian is merely an umbrella term used to cover a heterogeneous bunch of people. From a religious standpoint, for instance, every major religion under the sun is a majority in some country in Asia. Sri Lanka is majority Buddhist, India is majority Hindu, Pakistan is majority Muslim, China is majority pagan, Japan is majority Shinto, the Philippines is majority Christian, and so on.
This article showcases the success of the communists in our education system.
I visited northern Virginia right after Christmas and visited several malls and public places.
I was surprised at the numbers of young Asian people.
One fact was obvious........ the young women were wearing boots. Young Asians are fad conscious.
Even the Asians benefit from affirmative action and equal opportunity laws, they go the front of the line for jobs, scholarships, and other benefits.
I actually saw a couple of young asian women in SUVs with Romney bumperstickers. NoVa is not getting an influx of Koreans fleeing the Demokratic Republik of Maryland.
But they don't. Obama got 61% of the Asian vote. Subtract the 8% that is Muslim and the 14% that is Indian, and Obama ends up with 39% of the remaining Asian vote. Ultimately, Obama is winning the Muslim and the Indian votes, and short of either converting to Islam or Hinduism, there is little it can do to appeal to either community. The historical grudges run deep.
Number of factors: Obama is a minority and voting for a minority is like voting for a non-White.
Asian Hindu Indians are hostile to the GOP because they saw Bush being favorable to Pakistan and the rest of the GOP hostile to H1-Visas and increased immigration.
Asian Muslims see the GOP hostile because Bush decided to fight back against Muslim terrorists.
Other factors...anti-American/anti-White and anti-Israel feelings among many segments of Asians.
The hindus in the USA are pretty good at using propaganda to make the Democrat big dogs think they are far more important than their true numbers would suggest.
They've been pushing the 'asian as Democrat' notion for most of the last two decades, but more recently they've been misrepresenting poorly structured and nearly meaningless polls to try to prove their point.
Does not work. East Asians, other than those clustered in Hawaii ~ where being a Japanese American means you OWN the Democrat party ~ are no longer clustered in communities where they can even be surveyed in a meaningful manner.
Frankly, no one has performed a large enough poll to capture enough east asian origin people to figure out how, as a group, they bother voting, or even if they vote.
That's false. Jobs- and college-admissions-wise, Asians are systematically underrepresented, relative to their test scores and their credentials, although they are overrepresented relative to their proportion of the population. The only protected minorities in the country subject to quota preferences are Hispanics and black. While blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented relative to their numbers in the population, they are overrepresented relative to their test scores and credentials.
Toning down the Christian overtones might help appeal to South Asians, who do tend to be sensitive to that sort of thing.
I suspect this will start to change when their children begin losing out on coveted slots at prestigious universities to Blacks and Hispanics with half their SAT scores.
The hindus and moslems are the holdouts ~ they are used to insults anyway ~ you have to be to get along where they come from ~ so screw'em! They'll whine a lot ~ they are all good at that ~ but they'll understand and not take it personally.
Asians are as anti white as blacks and latinos. It';s all about race. The Democrat Party has dropped all pretense and is now the anti colonial party. Democrat arrogance stems from the belief that they have acheived a permanent racial majority.
America will be South Africa in 10 years.
I wasn't referring to Koreans, but mostly to Indians.
BTW, east asian girls are all about the 'marry an American guy' thing though. Slowly but surely they are being absorbed into the basic white infrastructure.
Chain migration and discomfort with Christianity.
What percentage of Japanese-Americans, most of whom are probably at least fourth-generation and don't have a lot of relatives in Japan they want to bring over, voted for Obama? They also have very high average income, so high taxes hurt and don't help them.
Yes, but those things won't get media attention - at least not the media minorities watch.
The problem we face is traditional, conservatives have completely lost the culture at every level. The left now controls nearly 100% of the education, media and entertainment establishments. Making the Republicans more conservative is a fine idea, but it isn't likely to win over minorities. In fact, it may make minorities more hostile to the GOP in the short run since almost all polling shows these groups believe in an even bigger government. We are, quite literally, importing masses of people who reject the very ideas of conservative, limited government.
This is being aided by the fact that on average, Asians need higher test scores than every other ethnic/racial group to get into the college of their choice. The result is that the product of mixed white-Asian marriages inevitably classify themselves as white.
There's a myriad of cultures, languages, traditions and races between Istanbul and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, so trying to cater to the "Asian vote" is an exercise in futility.
Actually the number of interracial children is increasing so dramatically that in a generation, two tops, the Dems are going to have an intractable jumbled mess on their hands.
So nature and natural selection may eventually solve what politics can't (or won't)
Of course I won't be around to see it fail.
or both, or neither, or maybe whatever will get you into the best graduate program with the least effort ~ at which school. There are plenty of discussion materials on the net to guide the clever student!
What we are left with is a propaganda program by indian american politicians to make themselves look more important.
I have found that CBA's tend to vote against old guys though.
Agreed. So the GOP has a choice. Either start pandering like the Dem's do (promising all sorts of free things), or stop being competitive in national races. It's an ugly choice, to be sure.
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Is this one title that would have made all 360 owners wet?
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©2010 Ben Cadwallader
Heavy Rain is Quantic Dream's latest idea of turning an A Grade movie styled experience into an interactive, chair gripping adventure. While this is not a direct sequel to their 2005 cult classic Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain further develops, refines and reinvents the game play formula building on Fahrenheit for the better.
Due the strong story in Heavy Rain this review will be as spoiler free as possible. To put the story summary into one sentence would be: To find and stop the Origami Serial Killer. There you go, that's more spoiler free than the back of the box.
• Heavy Rain – Suspenseful – Intense – Intriguing.
• NB: Heavy Rain "Glitch vid" at end of 'review'
The game's story centres around 4 main characters that all generally get alternated as playable characters with each chapter in the game. The brilliance of doing this is it keeps you viewing the story from many different perspectives just as you often would in the movies. And in the later portions of the game, it really does increase the tension when you know your characters are about to walk into something that you already know about.
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• Ethan Mars • Madison Page • Norman Jayden • Scott Shelby
Unlike Fahrenheit's amazing introductory sequence, Heavy Rain starts off slow; actually awfully slow. The first hour or two of the game is there to just spend time learning the unique control scheme and developing relationships between characters (although these relationships are fairly obvious).
Yep, you will spend time completing quick time events to make coffee, shave, drink beer, and many other mundane tasks. There's only so much excitement these mundane tasks can bring even when pressing buttons! And it does get quite frustrating for a beginning of a game, especially while you are still deciding if you like the game.
It's safe to say though, that once the lengthy intro is over, the plot lines start to become much clearer and interesting. So my message is to have faith. The game picks up and becomes something truly memorable. Like a movie with a slow beginning that often ends up being among the most memorable movies of all, Heavy Rain builds to become special.
It's also worth mentioning that this story does not become anywhere near as insanely ridiculous as Fahrenheit's story.
One giant quick time event?
Essentially the only time you won't be performing a quick time event is when you're walking across a room to your next quick time event. Heavy Rain tries to utilise the PS3 controller to emulate human movements as best it can, with a joystick, buttons or the sixaxis motion control.
• "The Shower Scene & Madison combating villains.
But Heavy Rain does something no other quick time event game has done before: failure is not an option, because no matter what you do, you cannot fail. Some of the more small tasks such as cooking etc. may require you to repeat a very small sequence but you will never see a game over screen. If you're in a fight scene and miss a few buttons you might trip over and fall, but you'll get back up and keep on going or maybe the assailant gets away when you're on the floor. It's all about consequences.
• Many thanks to Sony Entertainment PS3 Aust for the high rez images
One small peeve is that occasionally when your character is under stress the button prompts will appear to shake and therefore be much harder to see, making some of the subtle indicators of how you are supposed to press the button (tap or hold or mash) much harder to distinguish leading to some errors that could have been avoided easily enough.
But either way, the choice/moral system is where the beauty of Heavy Rain lies. It's a surreal moment when you know you completely fail a sequence, you start mashing the X button while you wait for the game over screen to arise but nothing happens, and the game just keeps playing and the next chapter appears on the screen. Everything you do is recorded, and affects the game.
Did I mention how awesome the action sequences were? The fact you cannot fail makes these sequences so completely fun to play. They are choreographed really well and play out just as you would see in the movies, although occasionally a little more over the top!
Outside of quick time moments, dialogue is handled a bit differently. Dialogue plays out very similar to the Mass Effect 2 dialogue wheel, different responses are assigned to the four face buttons, with each selection relating to a different emotion or action. And it works fairly well – nice and simple.
And outside of talking and quick time events, you get to walk! Walking is handled quite awkwardly and it will take awhile to get used to. Hold R2 to walk in whatever direction the character is facing, and tap a direction on the joystick to get them to turn. It's not the most graceful movement system in the world; you will get stuck on objects, walk into walls etc.. Still, considering you only move at walking speed in small areas it's not the worst thing in the world.
The presentation of Heavy Rain is not exactly as good as it was hyped up to be over the last year or two. Most character models look great, and animate well. However, there are a few animations that just don't work very well: a notable one is a kissing scene that sees characters usually kissing the air in front of the other person's face. These are all fairly forgivable of course, and don't really detract from the main story at all.
The actual 'rain' looks great as it runs down characters' faces but doesn't translate as well onto clothing. There are not really any noticeable changes to characters' clothing during the transition from outdoors (raining) to indoor areas. I wouldn't normally nitpick on this stuff, but considering the game is called Heavy Rain I thought it was worth mentioning.
Some environments look great, others look very average. Through your travels you will come across quite a lot of low resolution textures, hard to read-pixely writing and a few other graphical errors such as pop in and screen tearing.
Music is nice and subtle only coming to play usually at important moments in the game and really does enhance the atmosphere of what is occurring within the game. Oddly though on occasions the music will crackle for some reason.
Voice acting on the other hand, is good but there are some issues. It's not that there was bad voice acting in the game; it was more that occasionally whatever the main characters said just didn't sound right. It is hard to put it any other way. Once again it's quite a forgivable flaw.
The game's length comes in at about 8 hours for my first play through, although it's worth mentioning that this game boasts 22 different endings, let alone all the differences that can occur during each chapter of the game. This is a game made for replaying multiple times.
The game has a familiar feeling to the age-old point and click adventure genre of gaming, and I found it to be a very enthralling and engaging experience. What makes Heavy Rain magical is the simple fact that whatever choices you make, the game will just continue on. What this does is make you truly feel like your choices matter.
So, if you haven't been to the movies recently but feel like a good entertaining ride with a lot more user input pick this game up right now. Heavy Rain sets the bar for the moral/choice system and I hope this game proves to be an inspirational to other developers to think outside the box and try something fresh and new.
• Oh, there are "glitches" – this one's doing the rounds now.
If you are a 360 console owner, I'm sorry but this is one game that you should be very jealous about.


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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. --
When Doug Levien played against Manny Ramirez in high school baseball, he knew Ramirez would be something great.
He was right. Ramirez went on to be a two-time World Series champion during his 18-year Major League Baseball career. Levien took a much different route, but he has had glimpses of what it's like to play in the big leagues.
In his first season with the Seattle Barons of the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League, Levien will play center field in a charity game, "A Day at the Show IV," at Safeco Field Sept. 4 at 3:30 p.m.
The PSSBL is a nonprofit baseball organization for adults that features 65 teams in eight age and skill divisions with more than 1,000 players.
Sunday won't be the first time Levien will play in a professional stadium. He played at Yankee Stadium twice and once at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Soon he can add Safeco to his list.
"It's a great opportunity any time you play in a professional park," Levien said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime dream."
Only 68 PSSBL players will have the opportunity to play at Safeco Sunday. Levien and the Barons will play an exhibition-style charity game. There will be a professional announcer speaking over the stadium's sound system. Admission is free and parking in the Mariners' parking garage is $5. The home plate gate will open at 11:30 a.m.
"I have played in the PSSBL for 18 years," said Mike Ruger, the Barons' general manager. "Doug is one of the most gifted, talented players I have played with ... He is also a great person and cares about all of his teammates."
After a successful high school career Levien went on to play baseball at La Salle University where he was an all-conference player. His baseball days were phased out as he pursued a master of arts degree in international relations from Webster University.
Levien, who has served in the U.S. Army for 17 years, moved to Joint Base Lewis-McChord last year, where he is the commander of the 593rd Special Troops Battalion.
Since college, Levien continued to play intramural softball and when he saw an advertisement for the PSSBL, he took advantage of the opportunity to continue to play the sport he loves. Levien plays a 20-game season in a 35-and-older league.
"Sports and baseball are important to a Soldier," Levien said. "It's all about dealing with pressure, stress and the competitiveness. Any key leaders or Soldiers, whatever your gig is, it's important to relax. For me mentally, it's easy once you walk on the diamond and leave the day's activities behind."
The JBLM intramural program is important to Levien and the 593rd STB. With Soldiers constantly deploying Levien said sports are essential for resiliency and keeping them recharged for their day-to-day work.
In the week leading up to Sunday's game, Levien prepared to be deployed to the East Coast after Hurricane Irene for hurricane relief.
"We were alerted Friday night for possible deployment and it looked like I was going to miss (the game)," Levien said.
But the local authorities and the National Guard's aid proved to be enough.
Unfortunately for Levien, Hurricane Irene changed the plans of his father, Doug Jr. (the younger is Doug III), to fly from New York to see his son at Safeco. Levien credits his retired Marine dad for his joining the Army and pursuing baseball.
Levien's wife, Lt. Col. Deborah Ellis, and Soldiers from the 593rd will be in attendance at Safeco to support Levien.


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