Want to Curb Chicago Gun Violence? Get Behind Background Checks

Want to curb Chicago gun violence? Get behind background checks

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Outside the arena of gun violence, many Western European cities face crime problems surprisingly similar to our own, including high rates of illicit drug use, burglary, muggings, sexual assault, auto theft. The United States actually ranks in the …
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Eight Types of Nurses You Never Knew Existed

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For the Windy City Rollers of Chicago that care comes from "Mama Doc," aka Judy Ramsay, RN, PEDS-SPEC. A quiet pediatric nurse by day, Mama Doc spends her evenings voluntarily treating the … Working as a consultant with the state of Kentucky's foster …
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Can Sports and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduce Crime in Chicago?

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While media portrayals emphasize strategic, instrumental violence (for example, the shootings committed by Snoop Pearson and Chris Partlow as part of Marlo Stanfield's drug war against Avon Barksdale in The Wire), as suggested by our example, this is …
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Drug Addiction – The idea sprung forth from a test question I came across: Substance abuse can be defined by all of the following except: a) intermittent drug use at social events. b) Recurrent legal problems…