How Drug Abuse Affects Teenage Brain Development

How Drug Abuse Affects Teenage Brain Development – Dr. Annette Bosworth discusses how alcohol and drugs change the adolescent brain affecting mood and memory.

Heroin use in county on the rise

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“It goes up and down, stimulants, depressants,” said Mike Maritzen, supervising drug counselor for Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, a county program aiding those in the criminal justice system with addiction problem. “In the '80s it was …
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Full transcript: Luke O'Connor

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LO: It would be accepted that most drug users, if you were to look at statistics from the United Nations and elsewhere, are people who recreationally use drugs behind close doors, and do so safely. Even in my experience, and I am sure in the … Also …
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Many freed criminals avoid deportation, strike again

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The Globe also found that the pattern of secrecy extends to the treatment of immigrants who end up behind bars, though they have no criminal records. … Over the past four years, immigration officials have largely without notice freed more than 8,500 …
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