Bruises Left on Chicago's LGBTQ Community by Violence

Bruises left on Chicago's LGBTQ community by violence

Filed under: Chicago Drug Abuse

She sees cases of self-inflicted personal violence, in which people inflict harm on themselves, and the structural violence that marginalizes people along with the violence imposed upon those people. Self-harm, she explains, includes drug and tobacco …
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The supervised after-prom party: Now with cars, iPads and other goodies

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The Roanoke Area Youth Substance Abuse Coalition in Roanoke, Virginia, holds a "grand finale party" on June 1. Each of the area's high schools can send four students who have attended an after-prom party to this special after-after-prom party.
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Health, safety primary concerns in school's decision to drug-test

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Harold J. Krent, dean and professor of law at Chicago-Kent law school, and Debbie Moak, a mother whose family has suffered heartbreaking tragedies associated with drug abuse, presented different sides of the argument whether students should be tested …
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Johnny Borizov guilty in triple murder of ex-girlfriend's family

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“It pretty much corroborates what Jacob Nodarse says,” said James, 29, adding that until then he was “skeptical” because of Nodarse's history of mental illness and drug abuse — and because Nodarse acknowledged he was the triggerman. “Everybody …
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