A Young Mother In Mississippi Could Face Life In Prison For Giving Birth To A …

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Researchers agree that health disparities among children should actually be attributed to poverty, not to drug use. Nonetheless, these cases persist. A routine prenatal checkup for a pregnant woman in Wisconsin led to her arrest and involuntary 78-day …
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Immunity for those who report a drug overdose, closer to becoming a law in Pa

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That's vital because then they will have a sort of protective shield around them and they will be more comfortable in calling 911 to get the first responders there, to make sure that the person who is overdosing gets the medical treatment they need …
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Attack addiction

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There's no upside to drug addiction. But at least the inter-related plagues of prescription drug and heroin addiction add some badly needed perspective to the matter – that addiction is a public health crisis rather than a law enforcement matter alone.
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