But before you get too scared, black mold is a type of mold and it has a very long name. It is caused from years of moisture problems and rarely happens overnight. You can get it quicker if the conditons are right and it can spread until it ruins a building.

Just because you see mold and it is black, it does not mean it is the terrible "Black Mold" as it may be another type. There are many types of mold. None are good for you but many you can cure. Any type of mold needs to be addressed and the moisture problems need to be corrected.

Any water damage that is left un-fixed should be reported first to the Property Manager or the owner. If no action in a reasonable amount of time, call the heath department or building inspector. A building inspector will inspect the whole building and close it down in health hazards exist or it is not up to code. The owner will have to board it up and vacate tenants and this nulls your lease.
If the owner takes action and fixes the building problems in the time given by the inspector, you will have to stay and pay off your lease. Many times numerous other items show up, especially on older buildings, and the owners can not afford to fix all the problems. This happened to me and I am in Real Estate.

A old Victorian building I owned with 7 units was turned in the the inspector. He came out an wrote 5 pages of violations. Like the foundation was not to code the windows were too small by 1/4 inch and minor stuff. We had to board it up and vacate tenants. We did not agree with the findings as this was an old building and many like it were all over the area. We later found out the Hospital wanted our property to build a parking garage. They came while we were suffering with the mortgage and the vacated building and offered us a low low figure. We took it as we had no choice. But this example shows you just how ruthless a Building Inspector can be.

Good Luck

You can read about your renters rights, just search for it online, they are very specific. It may be called the Fair Housing Act ???

A doctor must decide whether your continued prescription should remain the same, be adjusted, or even be replaced by something else that might help you more. Many drugs should not be prescribed longer than a certain amount of time. Furthermore, your body could get used to one drug after a while and you may not still be getting the same results and you might be switched to something else for that reason.

Also, sometimes a drug might have been found out to have side effects that weren't known about before and the doctor may decide to switch you to something safer.

All these decisions will most often be determined based on your replies to the doctor's questions plus maybe one or more blood/urine tests.

Of course, this is all based on the assumption that you'll be seeing a good doctor. I don't believe that the odds are good of that happening if you get a doctor doing your examination under a free or very low cost government program where there's a line a mile long with people who can't afford a regular doctor… by appointment, who's been chosen by the patient because he's/she's good.

Hope this helps