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Prescription pill academy raises awareness on issue
Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky.The 2013 Kentucky Law Enforcement Rx Academy kicked off Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Sloan Convention Center with representatives from various substance abuse prevention organizations and state officials working with law enforcement agencies to help put...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Bowling, Sports, Abusive Behavior
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Chicago Tribune wins Peter Lisagor awards
The Chicago Tribune won 16 Peter Lisagor Awards for outstanding journalism Friday night in a competition sponsored by the Chicago Headline Club. The Tribune's investigative series “Children at Risk,” written by reporters Christy Gutowski...
Tags: NATO Summit, Chicago Tribune, NATO, Chicago Sun-Times
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Goths know how to have fun
Portland Press Herald, MaineA friendly goth night? Aren't goths supposed to be dour, gloomy folks who dress in black and rock out to very dour, gloomy industrial rock music? "There are a lot of people in black, but the core of what we do is the people, and it ends up being a...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dance, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Entertainment Events
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The Miami Herald Fred Grimm column
Miami HeraldOceana is a misnomer, a small town at the confluence of the Clear Fork and Laurel Fork rivers in the mountains of southern West Virginia, some 400 miles from the nearest ocean. Lately, locals have given it a more accurate appellation. They call it Oxyana....Tags: Regional Authority, Mike Fasano, Theft, Mountains, OxyContin (drug)
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Should we be providing needles for drug users? Controversy follows program at Bethany Place
Belleville News-DemocratMickey Weiss visits Bethany Place to keep himself and his drug-using friends alive. Weiss is a 34-year-old drug addict who lives in Collinsville. Once a week, he goes to the Belleville nonprofit agency to pick up new needles, a vial of the overdose...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Illinois Governor, Recreational Substance Use, AIDS, Health Organizations
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Tunstall High School dealing with chicken pox outbreak
Tunstall High School is dealing with an outbreak of chickenpox. Around 20 students at the Pittsylvania County school have chickenpox and are out of school. Head nurses from the county school board office are working directly with the school to see...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Symptoms, Teaching and Learning, Chickenpox, Pittsylvania County
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Pueblo in line with painkiller epidemic
The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.Local officials confirm what federal health officials have been saying for a decade: Prescription painkiller abuse is an epidemic that claims more victims every year -- more than cocaine and heroin combined. Pueblo County Coroner James Kramer said...Tags: Symptoms, Hydrocodone (drug), Chemical Industry, Heroin, Pain
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EDITORIAL: Christie's struggle and the country's
The Philadelphia InquirerBetween all our talk of the obesity epidemic as a public-health problem and our actual, often moralistic attitudes toward the overweight lies a distance much greater than any extra-large waistline. For evidence, look no further than this week's revelation...Tags: Weight, Regional Authority, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Obesity
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OPINION: Like it or not, terrorists deserve a burial
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteOne of the unremarked stories of the American experience in recent years is the rise of idiocy to epidemic proportions. Everywhere one looks, idiots are at work, and not all of them in Congress. Perhaps it was ever thus, but my impression is that more...Tags: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, The New York Times
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EDITORIAL: Doc's prescient prescription
The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind.Viewed through a 2013 prism, Doc Bowen's response to the AIDS epidemic looks merely prudent, routine. But Otis R. "Doc" Bowen, a country doctor who became a beloved Indiana governor, took over as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary in 1985. For...Tags: Blood Transfusion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Diseases and Illnesses, AIDS
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Military sex crime record should bring shame
Maybe, in the end, we will thank Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinksi, head of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention Unit, who was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery early Sunday after a woman reported he drunkenly approached her in a parking lot and...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sexual Assault, Abusive Behavior
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EDITORIAL: Addressing mental health helps community
Victoria Advocate, TexasScientists often say America is suffering from an epidemic. Last year, there was the West Nile Virus, and leaders often point to the growing obesity problem. But one epidemic we are concerned about is not always widely recognized because not everyone...Tags: 2010 Census, Diseases and Illnesses, Mental Health, West Nile Virus, Mental Illness
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