Booze Bracelets a Step Closer

Booze bracelets a step closer

Filed under: drug rehab treatment- lowering the drinking age

Cabinet has approved the law change which will allow the introduction of alcohol monitoring bracelets for people conasidered high-risk and those on bail in the community. The ankle … "Alcohol is a major driver of crime, and this is another tool to …
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Teenage drinking, drug use linked to early-onset dementia

Filed under: drug rehab treatment- lowering the drinking age

Alcohol abuse emerged as the strongest of nine risk factors that could be traced as far back as adolescence, according to a study of 488,484 Swedish men conscripted for military service between September 1969 and December 1979 at an average age of 18 …
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Marijuana Policy Project: John Kavanagh One of the Worst State Legislators in

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This is backed up by earlier research on the long-term effects of marijuana, which indicate changes in the brain similar to those caused by long-term abuse of other major drugs. And a number of studies have shown a connection between continued …
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Westmoreland County seeing drug overdose surge

Filed under: drug rehab treatment- lowering the drinking age

October's education session is likely to be followed by a private brainstorming session where task force members will be able to propose and discuss ways to reduce the county's drug problem, Mr. Matson said. Initial examination … It is not just …
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