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North Suburban YMCA partners with drug and alcohol awareness group
The Northbrook Citizens for Drug and Alcohol Awareness is merging with the North Suburban YMCA to provide educational services to the community. When the 30-year-old nonprofit announced in March that it was ending its programs because it did not have...
Tags: YMCA, Lifestyle and Leisure, Clubs and Associations
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Des Plaines, Park Ridge, Niles police chiefs oppose medical marijuana
Illinois legislators may have voted to legalize medical marijuana, but the police chiefs of three Maine Township communities say the proposed measure could spread the drug's availability and challenge their ability to curb impaired driving. William...
Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Niles, Park Ridge, Health Treatments, Des Plaines
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Luxury drug-rehab center in Umatilla to offer recovery in style
Troubled celebs struggling to overcome addictions might start pointing their limos in an unlikely direction: the remote Lake County town of Umatilla. The former Florida Elks Children's Hospital in Umatilla is being reborn as a luxury drug-rehab center...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Behavioral Conditions, Ocala National Forest, Family, Eating Disorders
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New York mayoral hopeful Quinn opens up about overcoming bulimia
ReutersBy Edith Honan NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - New York City mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn spoke out on Tuesday about her decade-long struggle with bulimia and alcohol abuse after her mother's death from breast cancer. "It was such a challenging time,...Tags: The New York Times, Eating Disorders, Anthony D. Weiner, Michael Bloomberg, Local Elections
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Letters: Addiction treatment that works
Re "Felons allowed to help addicts, a report finds," May 14 The fact that addiction counselors in California who are sex offenders and other types of felons are allowed to provide addiction treatment is just the tip of the iceberg in a fundamentally...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Addiction
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Social Sciences, Mental Illness, Health, Demographics
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Medical marijuana at last?
Illinois can't be accused of rushing to embrace medical marijuana: The first state to allow it did so in 1996, and the General Assembly is only now getting around to approving the idea. Whether it will become law is not clear: It now goes to Gov. Pat...
Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Illinois Governor, Health Treatments, Pat Quinn, Drugs and Medicines
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Former police lieutenant announces bid for Kane County sheriff job
Former police Lt. Don Kramer is aiming to follow in his father's footsteps as Kane County Sheriff next year. Kramer, 55, of Geneva, recently announced his candidacy for sheriff in the 2014 election. He's the first to come forward, and will run as a...
Tags: Politics, Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Primaries, Elections
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LETTER: Trying To Force Frats Coed A Mistake
I am a fraternity man from North Carolina. As soon as I heard that the Tinity College board of trustees wanted to force fraternities and sororities to go coed, I knew that heads would roll. Trinity President James F. Jones Jr. should resign after... -
State Shouldn't Make Pardons Process Secret
The latest attempt to draw the curtain of secrecy around state government would exempt pardon applications from the Freedom of Information Act. It is baneful. Like so many similar proposals introduced in the General Assembly this year, it amounts to...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, John A Kissel, Dannel P. Malloy , Danbury
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Community Calendar: May 18, 2013
TODAY — Devary Reunion, 10 a.m. at the Coon Club on Pine Ridge Road. Pot luck dinner will start at 1 p.m. For more information, call David Devary at 745-8644. — Conceal/carry weapons training from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Behavioral Conditions, American Red Cross, Dwayne Johnson, Anglicanism
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Angel Smith given human services award
University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg — Angel Smith, of Crab Orchard, was presented the Human Services Award April 22 during the 54th annual Honors Day Program. The award winner in the Department of Human Services is selected based on GPA,...
Tags: University of Louisville, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, Education
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