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  2. Social Security (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A limited form of the Social Security program began, during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, as a measure to implement "social insurance" during the Great Depression of the 1930s. [18] The Act was an attempt to limit unforeseen and unprepared-for dangers in modern life, including old age, disability, poverty, unemployment, and the ...

  3. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005 (P.L.109-171) allows for the boards of the FDIC and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) to consider inflation and other factors every five years beginning in 2010 and, if warranted, to adjust the amounts under a specified formula. [50] [51]

  4. Suicide - Wikipedia

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    About 50% of people who die of suicide have a mood disorder such as major depression. [181] [182] Sleep and diet may play a role in depression (major depressive disorder), and interventions in these areas may be an effective add-on to conventional methods. [183] Vitamin B 2, B 6 and B 12 deficiency may cause depression in females. [184]

  5. Ketamine - Wikipedia

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    [122] [118] [109] [123] Ketamine has been found to increase dopaminergic neurotransmission in the brain, but instead of being due to dopamine reuptake inhibition, this may be via indirect/downstream mechanisms, namely through antagonism of the NMDA receptor. [118] [109] Whether ketamine is an agonist of D 2 receptors is controversial.

  6. Methadone - Wikipedia

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    The incidence of TdP was 41.9 cases per 100,000 users of methadone in the 18-64 year old age group. [59] In this study of TdP, methadone was the highest-risk drug in the 18-64 year-old group, with the sole exception of the antiarrhythmic drug amiodarone , which was associated with 66.5 cases of TdP per 100,000 amiodarone users. [ 59 ]

  7. Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia

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    This definition, as a "male Latin American inhabitant of the United States", [36] is the oldest definition which is used in the United States, it was first used in 1946. [36] Under this definition a Mexican American or Puerto Rican , for example, is both a Hispanic and a Latino.

  8. Charles Krauthammer - Wikipedia

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    Of the Kansas evolution hearings, he wrote: "In order to justify the farce that intelligent design is science, Kansas had to corrupt the very definition of science, dropping the phrase 'natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us,' thus unmistakably implying — by fiat of definition, no less — that the supernatural is an ...