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Mexico's Growing Middle Class, Easy Proximity Make It Trade Partner to Watch

Mexico's growing middle class, easy proximity make it trade partner to watch
In the popular American imagination, Mexico's economic achievements often are still overshadowed by negative headlines coming from places like Tijuana, Juarez and Mexico City — tales of border drug seizures, gangland beheadings, brazen attacks on …
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How Serious Is a Juvenile Drug Paraphernalia Charge?

Question by Coltin: How serious is a juvenile drug paraphernalia charge?
Last night me and a friend were by some baseball fields getting ready to smoke pot. My friend started packing a bowl and hit it and handed it to me but a car started coming towards us and it… Continue reading

Cody Longo Sentenced to Alcohol Education Classes in DUI Case

Cody Longo Sentenced To Alcohol Education Classes In DUI Case

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Later that month <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/01/lindsay-lohan-in-rehab-ex_n_746893.html" target="_hplink">she checks into the Betty Ford Center</a> for substance abuse rehab. In October a judge orders Lohan to stay in rehab until …
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Focus on the Family: Teen's Use of Marijuana Causes Tension in Family

Focus on the Family: Teen's use of marijuana causes tension in family

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Legalities aside, the fact remains that cannabis is a mind-altering and addictive drug. Your son needs to know that his physical and mental health is being compromised. If you've noticed recent changes… Continue reading

Motivational Enhancement Therapy: Treatment for Substance Abuse & More

Motivational Enhancement Therapy: Treatment For Substance Abuse & More

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Motivational Enhancement Therapy: Treatment For Substance Abuse & More Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “is a counseling approach that helps individuals resolve their ambivalence about …
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Cannabis for Elders: A Precarious State

Cannabis for Elders: A Precarious State

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Although California facilities administrators—even those who had allowed residents to use medical marijuana, or who considered it—fear federal prosecution and decline to discuss it for publication. … For the marijuana advocates working to change …
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Maine House OKs Extending Treatment Coverage for Addicts

Maine House OKs extending treatment coverage for addicts

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AUGUSTA — The Maine House has approved a bill to extend MaineCare coverage for certain drug addiction treatments to more than two years. The House gave final approval to the bill on Wednesday. It allows for the… Continue reading

Letters: Shore Slogans, Catholic Lobbyists and Legalizing Pot

Letters: Shore slogans, Catholic lobbyists and legalizing pot

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In fact, although treatment admissions and the popularity of different drugs routinely fluctuate, overall drug use and dependence have remained relatively constant for decades. Addiction is a disease; using drugs is merely a symptom of a… Continue reading

Herion Nation – Documentary


 

Herion Nation – Documentary – Cocaine Nation and Heroin Nation premiered on the Discovery channel are rated TV-14 because of the subject matter and some disturbing footage of drug abuse. …

 

Woman living life post-addiction

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