Healthy St. Mary's partnership to address substance abuse prevention
Dr. Meena Brewster, the county's Health Officer and director of the St. Mary's County Health Department, is calling for community-wide action to address substance abuse prevention and control. "Our community needs to come together to address this issue.
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Ohio Launches Youth Drug Abuse Prevention Initiative, “Start Talking!”
COLUMBUS – As we focus on our New Year's resolutions for 2014, Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich and First Lady Karen W. Kasich urge Ohio families to adopt a pledge for the coming year: a pledge that will help keep their children safe from the tragedies that …
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Kasich launches youth drug abuse prevention program
Kasich, with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and members of his cabinet at his side, said Start Talking will involve parents, teachers coaches and the students themselves in helping end the drug abuse he said is in every town, in every corner of the …
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More Moms Losing Kids in Family Court Drug Wars
The DEC movement follows the passage of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act on prenatal drug exposure and potential harm to children by exposure to any presence of illegal drugs. Under the 2003 law, states are required to have procedures for …
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St. Mary's Co. Gov. News Briefs
Dr. Meena Brewster, the county's Health Officer and director of the St. Mary's County Health Department, is calling for community-wide action to address substance abuse prevention and control. "Our community needs to come together to address this issue.
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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino: "The disease of addiction doesn't discriminate"
A meteoric rise to fame brought Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino from training at a gym in central New Jersey in 2009 to a press tour in Australia in Feb. 2012. That's when he encountered a problem. The “Jersey Shore” star had run out of his oxycodone …
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'Heroin in pill form': Staten Island racked by prescription painkiller addiction
BP James Molinaro is just one Staten Islander who lost his son to painkiller addiction, and eventually overdose. “There was no excuse for him to do what he did,” Molinaro said at a press conference last week. “But he was ten-foot-tall and bulletproof …
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Television ad campaign aimed at preventing prescription painkiller addiction …
But thanks to citywide efforts to help prevent the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse on Staten Island and elsewhere, she hopes to use her family's tragedy to educate the public. To that end, the city Health Department launched a powerful new …
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Lansing-area group targeting drug addiction
The group's goals include prevention and providing information about addiction. It's also a way for families to network, meet each other, share information and “help each other help their kids,” Pavona said. “We felt like we were the only parents in …
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Opiate addiction support group coming to Cape
What: Learn to Cope, a statewide support group for parents and family members dealing with a loved one addicted to heroin, OxyContin and other drugs. When: Meetings will be held every Tuesday evening, beginning Tuesday, at 7 p.m. in the training room …
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Prescription drug abuse group proposed
PEPPERELL — A Pepperell woman is asking the Board of Health for support in starting a subcommittee to raise awareness about prescription drug abuse. Therese LaRose, who works with the Lowell Health Department, said at the Oct. 1 Board of Health …
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Prescription drug abuse group proposed
PEPPERELL — A Pepperell woman is asking the Board of Health for support in starting a subcommittee to raise awareness about prescription drug abuse. Therese LaRose, who works with the Lowell Health Department, said at the Oct. 1 Board of Health …
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Prescription drug abuse: State needs to do more, group says
Mississippi, which has seen drug overdose deaths triple since 1999, scored 5 out of 10 on a new report card that grades how well states are doing in their fight against prescription drug abuse. “The rapid rise of abuse requires nothing short of a full …
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Liquor store plans ignore community wishes
"Full opening hours equals alcohol abuse, reduced hours equals reduced abuse, and no hours equals no abuse." Suggestions that problems caused in the area in previous years were due to poor management by Chiman Patel rather than the presence of the …
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Public improvement plan to tackle health issues
Statistics show that northeastern Colorado adults have a higher rate of physical inactivity than those in the rest of the state, while children are more physically active. The Northeast Colorado Health Department is developing a Public Health …
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Economic Growth, Poor Health Linked In New Study
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-brenoff/whitney-houston-prescription-drugs_b_1280439.html" target="_hplink">Even drinking wine with dinner and then taking prescription sleep aides can be a lethal combination</a>. A U.S. Department of Health …
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