Mental Health Improvements Are A Key Part Of Obama's Plan To Reduce Gun …

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Surrounded by schoolchildren, President Barack Obama on Wednesday introduced his plan to reduce gun violence … that includes increasing access to mental health services and conducting federal scientific research on gun-violence causes and prevention …
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Speaker calls on students to avoid alcohol, drugs

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Whitten pointed out there are reasons to sacrifice one's life whether it be for country or for a good cause, but sacrificing one's life due to drug abuse whether it be caused by alcohol, prescription drugs or street drugs is not acceptable and is …
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Kick your nicotine addiction once and for all

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from HIV/AIDS, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. Smoking, the …
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Peers recommend decriminalisation of drugs

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But the opposite seems to be true in the US where abuse of legal prescription drugs has become a national epidemic. Prescription drugs now surpass motor vehicle accidents as the number one cause of accidental death in almost half of US states, with …
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