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Fort Meade commander taking on synthetic marijuana
At first, the soldier's behavior was puzzling. He appeared to be having hallucinations. He was anxious. He became belligerent. A drug test identified the problem: The young man had become the latest service member at Fort Meade to experience an...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Fort Meade (military base), Business, Behavioral Conditions, Synthetic Marijuana
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Why Mental Health Screening Of Gun Buyers Is No Answer
The Hartford CourantThe horrific mass murder of children and school personnel in Newtown prompted calls for more screening of gun buyers to identify the mentally ill and prevent or restrict purchases of weapons and ammunition. This simplistic, impractical and unfair proposal...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Health and Medical Professionals, Depression, Behavioral Conditions, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Bowling for sanity
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When President Obama said in his State of the Union address that "This time is different," referring to his push for tighter gun-control laws, he wasn't just whistling Dixie. Analysts seeking insight into the gun debate need look no...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Trials, State of the Union Address, Laws, Barbara Bush
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Rejecting 31,000 gun deaths as a fact of life
There are so many violent tragedies every day — I'm thinking specifically about the deaths of young people, and particularly those by gun — it's impossible to process it all, much less give our hearts to it. If we tried, our heads would burst....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Howard County, Morgan State University, Health and Safety at School, Murder
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The weighty issue of the day
So it turns out Chris Christie is fat. If, somehow, that fact had escaped you before, surely it came slamming home last week after he appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman." There was the 50-year-old governor of New Jersey jokingly snacking on...
Tags: Weight, Kirstie Alley, Politics, Government, David Letterman
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If someone in your family suffers from mental illness, read on . . .
People who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses need help -- but members of their family need coping skills as well. Starting Feb. 21, a series of classes will kick off in Hampton designed to...Tags: Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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The weighty issue
So it turns out Chris Christie is fat. If, somehow, that fact had escaped you before, surely it came slamming home last week after he appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman." There was the 50-year-old governor of New Jersey jokingly...Tags: Weight, The New York Times, Entertainment Events, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Government
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), H.L. Mencken, Tuberculosis, Edgar Allan Poe
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In Theory: Do the media glamorize suicide?
French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote, "No fact is more readily transmissible by contagion than suicide." According to writer Giles Fraser, the media play a part in this transmission. In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Fraser argues...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Depression, Kurt Cobain, Human Interest, Behavioral Conditions
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Letters: Jail isn't for the mentally ill
Re "Prison's revolving door," Editorial, Feb. 5 Crime and arrests in Los Angeles County continue to decline. On the countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee's website, the first annual report on public safety realignment shows recidivism rates...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Illness, Prisons, Behavioral Conditions, Bipolar Disorder
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Slain SB police officer's brother applauds gun control plan
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – Some of the president's new gun control proposals unveiled Wednesday may have prevented the shooting death of a South Bend Police officer about 6 years ago. Corporal Nick Polizzotto was gunned down by a man that was mentally unstable....Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Politics, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress
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The system's missing pieces
In testimony before President Barack Obama's Gun Violence Task Force on Jan. 9, Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a Columbia University professor and former president of the American Psychiatric Association, said that the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, coming so soon after...Tags: Medical Specialization, Personal Weapon Control, Depression, Human Interest, Prisons
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