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  • Editor's Note: This is the first in a periodic series of articles a year in the making that examines the effects of drug abuse in Maine. BUCKS HARBOR - Nicholas Ames has been a fisherman, a carpenter and a crewman for the Maine Department of Transportation. He is a son, a brother and a father.

  • To raise awareness of the problems that drugs and alcohol can create, Vanderburgh County Chief Deputy Sheriff Dave Wedding made a group of North High School students pore over a week's worth of newspapers. Their assignment: Make a note of every story that mentions drugs or alcohol. Wedding met with the students -- a junior and senior level psychology class -- Monday to discuss their findings.

  • Heaphy is the United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia. Over the past several months, The Roanoke Times has appropriately run a number of articles and editorials regarding the prevalence of prescription and illegal drug abuse in Southwest Virginia. The most recent, "We need an Rx against drug abuse" (Oct. 12 commentary), stated, "We desperately need a new approach to fight the drug problem instead of the lock 'em up and throw away the key mentality of the past.

  • ...A complete list of all articles used for production of the new animal drug includi... appears that the drug has a potential for abuse, the Commissioner shall forward that information t...

  • Editor's Note: This is the second in a periodic series of articles a year in the making that examines the effects of drug abuse in Maine. ROCKLAND - Even though Knox County is a far cry from the rough streets of Baltimore, just as the cops featured on the HBO series "The Wire," Detective Reggie Walker of the Knox County Sheriff's Department knows his way around a stakeout.

  • Introduction: Prison: A Warehouse For The Mentally Ill II. A Solution: Integrated Treatment III. The Substance Abuse And Mental Illness (SAMI) Program: An Integrated Treatment Alternative A. The History of SAMI B. The SAMI Team: The Client's Support System C. The Individual Team Members and Their Roles in SAMI: 1. The Judge 2. The Probation Officer 3. The Case Managers 4. The Program Nurse 5. The Psychiatrist 6. The Program Director D. The SAMI Program's Surrounding Support E. The "Clients": Who is a SAMI? IV. The Treatment Process: A Sami's Road To Recovery A. Therapy B. A "Sculpted" Drug Program C. Work: A SAMI's Pride D. Team Meetings V. The Philosophy Behind The SAMI Program A. Engagement B. Persuasion C. Active Treatment D. Relapse Prevention/Aftercare VI. The Four Step...

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  • AARP fighting to improve health care for older people An Associated Press story "House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP" in the March 30 News, based on a report by three members of Congress, offers a slanted picture of AARP and ignores the real reasons for our advocacy and the benefits our members and people 50- plus receive.

    ... long term, closes the dreaded prescription drug doughnut hole and offers our younger members new ...Great, more articles on drug abuse. Stories like this make it that muc...

  • While research on religion and drug use has proliferated in recent years, only a few researchers have explicitly examined the nexus of race, religion, and illicit drug use. Utilizing an ethnically diverse sample of young adults in South Florida (N=1772), we find that Whites are more likely to use illicit drugs than African Americans, non-Cuban Hispanics, and Cuban Hispanics, and Whites are also less likely to attend religious services and self-identify as religious than other racial/ethnic groups. Multivariate analyses indicate that religious attendance is a significant deterrent of drug use for all racial/ethnic groups, but the protective effect of religion is significantly greater for Whites and Hispanics than for African Americans. In the end, while differences in drug use between Hi...

    ...Many articles examining Hispanic religion, however, focus on rel... (1991) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2003) combined several years of data from the Mon...



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