Drug Abuse Can Be Heightened by End-of-Year Stress

Drug Abuse Can Be Heightened by End-of-Year Stress

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… specialist with Columbia St. Mary's Health Care. He says more people seek help for substance abuse at this time of year, including college students anxious about the semester's end. McElroy says some have already dipped into legal and illegal drugs.
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'Mother' makes things awkward for theater companies

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With the Hat" tells the story of Jackie, a drug addict and dealer who has been released from prison and is trying to go straight. The play was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in 2009 and at New York's LAByrinth … "It's a play about …
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Drug Addiction Among Medical Professionals Not Unusual

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Our secondary goal should be helping our colleagues—as we would help any patient under our care,” Stem said. Long shifts, mandatory overtime, and shift rotation are believed to be the common triggers of drug addiction in nurses. ANA said the most …
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1000 Stories documents Hill District in Pittsburgh

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The stories ranged from happy childhoods in a neighborhood stocked with everything one could want to the searing pain of losing a child, being displaced from a home and addiction. The stories flowed from one student to the next: "My … "But my …
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