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Happy Arbitrary Monday in February
The one that galls most is the flippant treatment of our national hero George Washington, who was born on February 22, 1732 (actually February 11, 1731, for those of you who have your iPhones and Androids set to display the Julian calendar). The good …
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Marijuana: Is it still a gateway drug?
Since the New Year, nine more have died in Ocean County — six from heroin, two from a mixture of heroin and prescription drugs and one from an apparent prescription overdose, according to the Ocean County prosecutor's office. … Now with Colorado and …
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Flanagan heads panel probing treatment of heroin addiction
"I've sat in the drug courts in my district and it just tears your heart out to see families coming and pleading with judges to put their adult children away," she said, especially with a lack of availability of post-detox treatment. "Where are the …
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Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
Their facilities help with all sorts of addiction including drug and alcohol rehabilitation, dual diagnosis treatment, Christian and faith-based rehab centers, gambling addiction, drug and alcohol detox, and eating disorder treatments. Recently …
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Carlisle is a heroin hotspot – police
While heroin addiction is at shocking levels within the Carlisle area, organised crime gangs are being blamed for the number of people seeking help for amphetamine addiction in west Cumbria. The figures come from Unity, the county's drug and alcohol …
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Joanna Dennehy: The woman who murdered men 'for fun'
Lukasz Slaboszewski moved to the UK from Nowa Sol, Poland, in 2005 to work at the DHL warehouse in Peterborough. At the time of his death, he was prescribed methadone as a substitute for his heroin addiction. He was last seen alive leaving his home in …
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£10m to help Blackpool's most desperate residents
The team of 24 specially trained workers, based at a new HQ in the town centre, will hit the streets and identify those in the resort worst affected by drug and alcohol problems, mental illness and homelessness. The hope is the … “We are after the …
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Legal, Regulated Heroin Could Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman
But there hasn't been much talk about the painful, obvious, cold, hard truth: Heroin should be regulated—and not only because science says so, but because, (and again, let's be honest) look around. Drug prohibition didn't keep us from this great …
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Fans flock to Philip Seymour Hoffman's Manhattan apartment in wake of star's …
The actor told TMZ in 2013 that what had begun as a prescription pill habit quickly escalated to snorting heroin, and so he checked himself into a detox facility to get the issue under control. The actor's name had been one of many bandied about online …
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Crack Pipe Vending Machine in Canada Will Cut Number of Injuries, Spread of …
"You have to have treatment, you have to have detox, you have to have safe spaces to use your drugs of choice and you have to have safe and clean supplies," See stated. Mariner James of Portland Hotel … "While the [New Democratic Party] and Liberals …
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