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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Brings Attention to Drug Addiction – Washington Post (Blog)

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death brings attention to drug addiction – Washington Post (blog)


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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death brings attention to drug addiction
Washington Post (blog)
Peter Shumlin, whose State of the State address in January focused only on drug addiction, said treatment for all opiate addiction… Continue reading

Demi Lovato Addresses Drug Addiction After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death – Zap2it.com (Blog)

Demi Lovato addresses drug addiction after Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death – Zap2it.com (blog)


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Demi Lovato addresses drug addiction after Philip Seymour Hoffman's death
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After the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from an apparent drug overdose on Sunday (Feb. 2), many celebrities offered their condolences to… Continue reading

Gun Rights Advocate Slams Task Force Recommendations

Gun rights advocate slams task force recommendations
Adding the names of those deemed by judges to have mental or substance abuse problems to the National Instant Background Check System. • Creating guidelines for police chiefs to follow in determining who is “suitable” to own a gun;. • Barring convicted …
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What Draws the Line Between Recreational Drug Use and Addiction?

Question by Bobby: What draws the line between recreational drug use and addiction?
I’m no stranger to recreational use of drugs, I have tried many myself at one point or another and am surrounded by people who smoke pot every day for the most part and experiment with… Continue reading

We Can’t Solve Drug Addiction – American Spectator (Blog)

We Can’t Solve Drug Addiction – American Spectator (blog)


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We Can't Solve Drug Addiction
American Spectator (blog)
Amidst all the policy prescriptions for how we could have saved Hoffman, we face the fundamental problem of drug use: every person has a vice. Whether it's overeating, smoking tobacco,… Continue reading

Vermont Faces Opiate Drug Abuse Crisis

Vermont faces opiate drug abuse crisis
The two-term Democrat says devoting his entire State of the State speech to drug abuse was necessary, because 80 percent of inmates in Vermont jails are there on drug-related charges; serious crimes are up 46 percent over the past five years; and last …… Continue reading

Diagnosing the Drug Deal: Did Shumlin Overstate the Case for Vermont's Opiate "Crisis"?

Diagnosing the Drug Deal: Did Shumlin Overstate the Case for Vermont's Opiate "Crisis"?
Gov. Peter Shumlin grabbed state and national headlines last week when he used his State of the State address to launch a campaign against a “rising tide” of opiate addiction and related crime. “In every corner of… Continue reading

Editorial: Opiate Addiction; Public Health Crisis in Vermont

Editorial: Opiate Addiction; Public Health Crisis in Vermont
If Vermont has been suffering from a quiet crisis of opiate drug addiction “bubbling just beneath the surface,” as Gov. Peter Shumlin put it last week in his State of the State Address, that part of the problem has been solved.
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Vermont’s Drug Addiction Problem and Other Fascinating News on the Web

Vermont’s Drug Addiction Problem and Other Fascinating News on the Web
During the holiday season, we learned that as many as 40 million Target in-store customers had their credit card data stolen. It turns out that the problem wasn’t nearly that small. And hackers got away with a lot more… Continue reading

Vermont’s Drug Addiction Problem and Other Fascinating News on the Web – TIME

Vermont’s Drug Addiction Problem and Other Fascinating News on the Web – TIME


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Vermont's Drug Addiction Problem and Other Fascinating News on the Web
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Peter Shumlin, the governor of Vermont, dedicated his entire state of state address to one topic: Drug addiction. Like many states, Vermont… Continue reading