Trumbull Students Learn Life Lessons From a Former Celtic

Trumbull Students Learn Life Lessons from a Former Celtic

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The then 18-year-old started like the students at St. Joseph, listening to a professional sports player talk about the dangers of drug abuse and saying to himself it could never happen to him. That changed one day when he walked in on his college …
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Rehabilitating drug addicts

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Many of them did not even have the decency to read the Articles of Impeachment. This week, the chairman of the House committee on public information did not allow a vote on the bill even though there was … Rehabilitation is easier when the addicts …
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Concerns across Peterborough as generic form of OxyContin may soon be on

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In the letter Minister Aglukkaq stated she's heard the devastating stories of drug addiction, but she doesn't believe it's up to politicians to pick and choose which drugs are approved. Additionally, she says there is no basis in the Food and Drug Act …
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Pain medication addiction reaching epidemic level

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In a recent newspaper article, a Nebraska State Patrol investigator called the abuse of prescription drugs an “epidemic” in the state. Aly Hassan, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry in the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine …
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Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated As Illness – Comedian Russell Brand has told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee addiction should be treated as an illness instead of a crime. The 36-year-old who said he had beaten a heroin addiction which saw him arrested a dozen times, blamed his drug problems on emotional and psychological difficulties. Society should not “discard people, write them off on methadone and leave them on the sidelines” and should exercise more “love and compassion”, he argued.

 

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