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Insurers are using a broad range of tools to get customers to take the cheaper drugs they want them to take, and failure to follow their instructions can be costly.

In many cases, a patient's doctor has to get prior approval for a drug before the plan will cover it.

In others, the plan will limit the quantity of a drug the patient can get.

Plans also divide drugs into tiers.

The lowest level requires only nominal out-of-pocket costs, while the highest - called specialty tiers - require the customer to pay for a...

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Business Push to limit injury coverage for impaired workers collapses Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:33 PM PST PHOENIX (AP) - Fears about opening the door to lawsuits against employers and a tug of war between business groups and health-care providers have prompted lawmakers to abandon a push to deny worker's compensation benefits to those injured on the job because of their alcohol or drug use.With more questions than answers, legislators on Wednesday threw up their hands on the issue a month after a proposed constitutional amendment and a bill to implement it were passed by the House.

Saying they wanted to shore up policies against substance abuse, business groups sought the legislation after the state Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law promoting drug-free workplaces by restricting benefits to substance-impaired workers.The ruling said the law clashed with the Arizona Constitution's mandate for payment of benefits for on-the-job injuries without c...

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- Turkmen - Ukrainian Uzbek Thursday, 30 March 2006 E-mail this page to a friend Print Version Russia: Recovery A Tough Process For Child Alcoholics By Claire Bigg A child alcoholic resting at Kvartal(RFE/RL) Every year in Russia, at least 100,000 children and teenagers seek medical help for alcohol abuse.

Thousands of them are already hardened alcoholics.

The road to full recovery is particularly tough for these children, most of whom come from dysfunctional families, from orphanag...