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3 sentenced in Common Pleas Court

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Agler also must serve 30 days in jail, but was given work release and does not have to begin her sentence until this Sunday, January 6. Judge Steele also ordered Agler to undergo a substance abuse assessment and treatment and she must take a parenting …
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Oil sands drug-testing battle reaches critical stage

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Substance abuse among workers in Alberta's booming oil patch near Fort McMurray, with its work sites full of heavy machinery, has attracted widespread concern. Already, workers at Suncor's facility and others submit to tests before they are hired, as …
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Understanding and Compassion: Essential Ingredients to Mental Health Reform

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Both can be treated and almost have a clear sense of when the malady is remedied. While we can use various x-rays and MRIs technologies to detect recurring cancer, mental illness doesn't have such tools. Mental illness is something that can linger for …
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Prosecuting a war against heroin

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His father was a drug user who got clean in the late 1960s and became a counselor and executive at the Gateway Foundation, one of the largest addiction treatment centers in Illinois. Yet even they didn't fully recognize their son's teenage substance abuse.
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