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Letters to the Editor: Nov. 1
Travis Poole understands school issues To the editor: Of all the elections coming up next week, none is more important that the choices we make for the four open positions on the Washington County Board of Education. I have known and worked with Travis...Tags: Drug Use, Real Estate Buyers, Elections, Jay Carney, Services and Shopping
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Chicago decriminalizes pot
The Chicago City Council doesn't always act with wisdom and frugality, but it did so today in voting to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Treating it as a crime wastes money, diverts police from truly scary activity and brands many...Tags: Substance Abuse, Lifestyle and Leisure, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago City Council, Marijuana Use
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Glued Toddler Mom Gets 99 Years in Brutal Attack on Daughter
KTLA NewsDALLAS, TX (KTLA) -- A mother of five who plead guilty to gluing her toddler's hands to a wall and beating her into a coma was sentenced to 99 years in prison Friday. Elizabeth Escalona, 23, pleaded guilty in July to injury to a child for brutally...Tags: Broken Bones, Injuries and Wounds, Drug Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Trials
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Jessamine school board wants more drug testing for athletes
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comNot satisfied with random drug testing for student-athletes in Jessamine County, the school board wants to begin testing all in-season competitors. Discussion of the issue began at Monday night’s work session during a presentation of the drug-...Tags: PCP, Drug Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Teaching and Learning, Students
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Emanuel explains support of decriminalizing pot possession
Clout StreetA majority of Chicago aldermen have signed on to an ordinance that would allow police to write tickets instead of make arrests for small amounts of marijuana possession, a strong indicator the measure will pass when the City Council votes on it next week....Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Drug Use, Chicago City Hall, Chicago Mayor, Punishment
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Alaskans Turn In 1,838 Pounds of Unused Prescription Medication
Channel 2 NewsAlaskans turned in 1,838 pounds of prescription medication during the fifth Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Prescription Take-Back event on September 29. Rates of prescription drug use in the U.S. are alarmingly high. More Americans...Tags: Drug Use, Pharmaceuticals, Lifestyle and Leisure, Drugs and Medicines, Prescription Drugs
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Our View: Teen prescription drug abuse hits home
Most of us have seen the commercials warning parents and other adult family members to safeguard their prescription medications from teenagers. Those warnings hit home this week when eight Imperial County teens in two cities and two separate cases...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Drug Use, Behavioral Conditions, Adderall (drug), Drugs and Medicines
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Community concerned about drug use
Friends and family members of a recently deceased, drug-addicted teen who attended Huntington Beach High School urged the City Council on Monday to work with schools in combating drug use among youths. "You guys have to do something about it," said an...
Tags: Drug Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Heroin, Prescription Drugs
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Will pot laws go up in smoke?
Judging from recent history, any young person who aspires to be president should be aware that certain attributes seem to be critical. You have to be male. You have to have an Ivy League degree. You have to have been a governor or senator. And, don't...Tags: Health Treatments, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Elections, Bill Clinton
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Police collecting unwanted, unused prescription drugs
Staff reporterPrescription drug use is skyrocketing in the U.S. with millions illegally or improperly using the drugs. Tomorrow is an opportunity to clean out those unused drugs from the medicine cabinets at home and make everyone a little safer. Over the past decade,...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Drug Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hershey (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), PlayStation Portable
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Minorities unequally disciplined in high school
On a spring morning last semester, a teenage girl wound up in the nurse's office at Hinsdale South High School, throwing up after smoking marijuana before school. Three other students smoked pot with her, she told the dean. All four got in trouble...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Law Enforcement, Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Marijuana Use, Police Arrests
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DEA blocks controlled-substance distribution at Florida Walgreens facility
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday banned a Walgreens distribution center in Jupiter from dispensing controlled substances to its pharmacies in Florida and the East Coast, saying the business constituted an "imminent danger" to the public....
Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Drug Use, Lifestyle and Leisure, Drugs and Medicines
Nov 1, 2012
|Story| Herald Mail
Jun 27, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 12, 2012
|Story| KTLA-LTV
Jun 13, 2012
|Story| Jessamine Journal
Jun 19, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 6, 2012
|Story| KTUU
Oct 6, 2012
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
Oct 3, 2012
|Story| HB Independent
Sep 30, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Sep 28, 2012
|Story| WPMT-LTV
Sep 26, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 14, 2012
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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