Weymouth Council Appoints Committee on Drug Abuse – Wicked Local Weymouth

Weymouth council appoints committee on drug abuse – Wicked Local Weymouth

Weymouth council appoints committee on drug abuse
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WEYMOUTH – The town council has formed a new committee charged with tackling substance abuse issues in an effort to further raise awareness of the drug problem and help come up with ways to help push back against it. The new five-member Mental …

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Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions – abc40


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Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions
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Here in Massachusetts, Governor Patrick has declared a statewide emergency to deal with drug abuse. The Holyoke Health Center is bustling with activity. It treats some 8,000 patients for all kinds of medical problems and has its own pharmacy.

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Mother’s ‘challenge’ focuses on drug abuse – Waterbury Republican American

Mother's 'challenge' focuses on drug abuse
Waterbury Republican American
This harrowing incident spurred Richardson to start Challenge-28, a grassroots movement to increase awareness of substance abuse among adolescents and promote clean living and healthy choices by teenagers and their families. Read more of this story …

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drug abuse – Google News

Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions
Here in Massachusetts, Governor Patrick has declared a statewide emergency to deal with drug abuse. The Holyoke Health Center is bustling with activity. It treats some 8,000 patients for all kinds of medical problems and has its own pharmacy.
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Mother's 'challenge' focuses on drug abuse
This harrowing incident spurred Richardson to start Challenge-28, a grassroots movement to increase awareness of substance abuse among adolescents and promote clean living and healthy choices by teenagers and their families. Read more of this story …
Read more on Waterbury Republican American


Criminalizing harmful substance abuse during pregnancy: Is there a problem
Tennessee this week became the first state to explicitly criminalize substance abuse during pregnancy, if it harmfully affects the child. Under the law, signed this week by Gov. Bill Haslam (R), a pregnant woman can be charged with assault if a child …
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