The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent
The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent
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This would have been fairly easy to answer some years ago when the opioid abuse so regnant in low-income, rural communities (pigeonholed as "hillbilly heroin") was the role prescription drug addiction seemed to be playing on the national stage …
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Researcher foresees DNA data in treating addiction
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Holland Named Warden at CCI
Holland named warden at CCI
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Holland has also worked at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison as a correctional administrator from 2006 to 2009 and a correctional lieutenant from 2000 to 2004. She worked at North Kern State Prison as a correctional …
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Rallying to End Drug Abuse Among Youth
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The money runs treatment programmes, research on child addiction, outreach in centres for rehabilitation, drug education in school and training practitioners on how to rehabilitate abusers. "The major criteria are that a country should show her serious …
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Drug Addiction Tackled With Petition Campaign
Drug addiction tackled with petition campaign
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The campaign is accompanied by a TV ad hosted on the Odyssey House website called The Box, which features a man who tries to avoid the problem of drug addiction by burying the box of petitions. It carries the tagline 'Addiction doesn't go away on its own'.
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Oregon bills target teen-drugs legal loopholes
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One Woman's Crisis Shows How Affordable Housing Policy Turns Its Back on …
One Woman's Crisis Shows How Affordable Housing Policy Turns Its Back on …
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This week, a 59-year old, disabled African American woman in Minneapolis received 10 days-notice that her lease is being terminated, and almost no one cares. This woman, “Annie,” has … And now, there's “Annie”, who is being evicted on a one-strike …
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Bud Selig calls for tougher drug penalties
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Demand Surges at Halifax Needle Exchange
Demand surges at Halifax needle exchange
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The Mainline Needle Exchange is a non-profit group dedicated to supporting current and former drug users through harm reduction strategies. Part of that … to Oxycontin. There are also controversial "safe" crack kits that are designed to prevent …
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Repercussions of attorney's arrest
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Repercussions of attorney's arrest. A well-known Muskegon defense attorney now needs legal counsel himself after being arrested on a drug charge. … The increased charge is treated as a felony in Michigan, Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson …
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