Brazil's crack epidemic
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Health workers make daily rounds, as part of a program run by the Social Action Secretariat, looking for the suspected addicts to remove them from the streets. In the preceding week, 290 suspected addicts were taken to nearby shelters. Felipe Dana / AP …
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MARINES WILL FACE ALCOHOL TESTING BEGINNING IN 2013; NAVY WILL …
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The main goal “is not to catch people and drive up the number of nonjudicial punishments,” said John Veneziano, a Marine veteran who directs the Consolidated Substance Abuse Counseling Center at Camp Pendleton. “It is early intervention.” But alcohol …
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Paramus in 2012: A Look Back on July through December
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State and local officials joined to officially mark this new tier of this expanding statewide initiative that disposes of unused drugs safely and helps prevent young people from a path towards prescription drug addiction. In just a year's time the …
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London Breed's emphasis: kids' lives
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Second on her list: helping adults in her district secure steady, long-term employment. Breed said her experience growing up in the Fillmore and Western Addition- and the lessons she's learned since, as head of a community arts center not far from the …
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