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NAMI Maine Executive Director Wins National Award
Story at the NAMI web site - "Carol Carothers, executive director of NAMI Maine, who led Maine’s initiative to prevent inappropriate incarceration and improve treatment of people with mental illnesses has been awarded $120,000 and the nation’s highest honor for community health leadership. She is one of 10 outstanding individuals from around the United States chosen to receive a Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program (CHLP) award."  
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Generic OxyContin hits streets before stores
CNN story - "The generic form of the powerful painkiller OxyContin already is for sale on the black market in Appalachia, even though it's not yet available in all pharmacies. Dan Smoot, chief detective for an anti-drug task force in eastern Kentucky, said undercover narcotics investigators began purchasing the generic drug from street-level dealers earlier this week. Investigators suspect a shipment of the drug was stolen from a storage building in eastern Kentucky..."  
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As grant expires, Mental Health Court's fate uncertain (Tennessee)
Story in The Tennessean on Davidson County Mental Health Court - "...the only one of its kind in the state. The court's total annual cost of $106,000 was funded by a $79,000 federal grant and $27,000 from Metro government. But the federal grant is expiring, and court officials are hoping Metro government will pick up the full tab. The court began in January 2001"  
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