Letters: We Need to Share in Water Pain

Letters: We need to share in water pain

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Browsing through CNN web pages, I discovered that every 19 minutes someone in the United States dies of a prescription drug overdose, but no one has ever recorded a marijuana overdose. Marijuana has a curative effect for diabetes and regular users …
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OxyContin Tops List of Abused Prescription Drugs: Survey

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"Our goal is to understand the personal characteristics of people who are susceptible to drug abuse, so we can detect problems ahead of time." The survey found that 54 percent of respondents preferred the high they got from oxycodone, while 20 percent …
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Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following self-assessment tests can help you determine whether or not …
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Community Services for Jan. 5

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NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, is a family-to-family support group for individuals and caretakers of individuals with a mental health problem. For information, call Carol Foster, 256-441-4435, or Katherine Hood, …. Ongoing training with …
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