Mayor-Elect’s Daughter Reveals Drug Use

Published January 6, 2014

Mayor-elect’s daughter reveals drug use – Chiara de Blasio, daughter of New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, admits to dealing with substance abuse and depression.

Amid heroin epidemic, schools to hold awareness night

Filed under: drug addiction help substance abuse

GRAFTON — Four area school districts, including Columbia, Midview, Keystone and North Ridgeville, are partnering with the Lorain County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services to hold a drug addiction awareness night at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at Midview Middle …
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Poverty in a Cup: Why a Federal Judge Rejected a Florida Drug-Test Requirement

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By offering "expert" witnesses whose testimony was excluded after Judge Scrivens declared it unreliable, and by offering lay witnesses whose testimony about drug use among TANF recipients was unsupported by statistical information. And by arguing that …
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Can states monitor antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes ?

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State inspectors often feel hindered in their review of the use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes, according to an ongoing investigation by the Center for Medicare Advocacy, a nonprofit consumer group. The Center looks at Medicare polices and the …
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