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Beginning next year, Medicare will pay for tobacco cessation counseling for all tobacco users covered by the federal benefit program. Under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, certain preventive care services, such as tobacco cessation counseling, will be covered by Medicare at no cost to beneficiaries. The new benefits, which also include annual physical exams and ...

Teacher, student in addictions counseling program shared prescription drugs

A former student and teacher in an addictions counseling program shared prescription drugs. Both people were let go from the school, but officials have not explained the reasons for the dismissals.

Counseling Center adds mind-body health services

The life of a college student is filled with stress, anxiety and sleeplessness. Baylor's Counseling Center recognizes these issues and is making a way to help students manage those stresses through new mind-body health services they will be providing this fall.

Counseling offered at local marinas

Helping to provide assistance to those affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill situation, the Baldwin County Mental Health Center has been on hand at local marinas from daylight to dark, offering counseling to anyone in need.