Continue the Fight — Lawmakers Must Attack Drug Scourge

Published January 9, 2013

Continue the fight — Lawmakers must attack drug scourge

Filed under: drug addiction help substance abuse

The statistics alone are reason enough for alarm. In West Virginia, an estimated 40,000 people are addicted to some form of controlled substances and aren't receiving treatment. And one fifth of all pregnant women in the Mountain State have a drug …
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Knowledge and dogmatism on pot policy: an inverse relationship

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Even if you knew those details, the quantitative results are not easy to predict, and there's no obvious way to assign benefit-cost weights to, e.g., increased substance abuse against increased consumers' surplus and reduced arrest counts. But a TV …
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Eight out of nine stores pass tobacco compliance check in Haddam, Killingworth

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The Haddam and Killingworth resident state troopers and members of the state's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Tobacco Prevention and Enforcement Program on Monday conducted unannounced compliance inspections of establishments that …
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Why Are So Many Gypsies Killing Themselves?

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Another related bum-out is the fact that, within the last five years, the rates of drug abuse in both communities have risen exponentially, and suicide rates have grown to be six times higher than those of the general UK population. Travelers and …
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