Sensible Washington Wants All Drug Possession Crimes to Be Misdemeanors

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“I think that as our understanding of addiction has grown as a society there's more interest in treating it as a public health issue and not as a criminal issue,” says Fitzgibbon, who will likely be a co-sponsor of the yet-to-be-written bill in the …
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Heroin Hits Home: The Deadly Drug Invades America's Schools

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After a stint in rehab, an overdose, and another stint in rehab, it looked like he was finally starting to get a handle on his addiction. Like Cory Monteith, Andrew was … Over the course of two years, she entered treatment six times, overdosed on …
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Washington State Fund Pumps .7M into Personalized Medicine, Protein Studies

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At the Seattle Children's Institute, researcher Michael Jensen won a $ 1 million LSDF award to fund efforts to study a T-cell cancer therapy that is in clinical trials and to identify characteristics of the T cells and tumors that correlate with the …
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