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Smoking: New ways to quit
By now, even the tobacco companies agree: Smoking is bad for your health -- very bad, in fact. Cigarettes are the most hazardous, but cigars, pipes, and smokeless tobacco also contribute to tobacco's terrible toll. And secondhand smoke is an important...Tags: Death and Dying, Diseases, Sleep Disorder, Healthcare Policies, Western Medicines
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Drug treatment advocates in a divided house
The Times' Nov. 10 article on lengthening drug-addiction treatment presents a thoughtful report on substance-abuse programs that extend past the 30-day norm. The article relies on studies and interviews with treatment providers who explain that longer-...Tags: Laws, Crimes, Prescription Drugs, Therapies, Health Treatments
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Legalizing drugs: The money argument
Friday marks 75 years since repeal of the Volstead Act, which made the manufacture, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages illegal in the United States. As the anniversary of the end of Prohibition approaches, modern advocates of a similar...Tags: Punishment, Public Finance, Crimes, Law Enforcement, Sales
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Hard lessons for a lifelong capitalist
''Capitalist, 1792. One who has capital, esp. one who uses it in business enterprises …'' -- The Oxford Universal Dictionary, Third Edition The habit of acquiring capital at a tender age to support the enterprises of life quickly becomes an addiction....Tags: Wachovia Corp., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Berks County, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania
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A roundup of editorials from Michigan newspapers
Block pathways to protect Great Lakes Many Michigan residents are aware of the damage caused to the Great Lakes by the more than 150 nonnative species that have made their way into the lakes' watershed over the years. Millions of dollars have been...Tags: Salvation Army, Marine Science, Building Material, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Justice System
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A glance at heroin laws around Europe
Countries with prescription heroin treatment for addicts: — Switzerland's heroin prescription program has been running since 1994. Nearly 1,300 addicts are injecting the drug under tight supervision this year in one of 23 centers, which also...Tags: Trials, Behavioral Conditions, Medical Research
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One-on-one with drug addiction
Tribune staff reporterWhen readers were introduced to James Morrison last year in a story about poverty, he was a drug addict living in a shipping container. He was arrested for burglary in Rockford and sent to Sheridan Correctional Center where he retraced his pattern of...Tags: Electronics, Maxwell Street, Illinois, Metal and Mineral, Western Medicines
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Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent today with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers...Tags: Private Health Care, Referenda, Behavioral Conditions, Government Health Care, Citizens Initiative and Recall
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Swiss vote to keep heroin program
Associated PressGENEVA — The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in...Tags: Behavioral Conditions
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Attorney: My client didn't dump body
matthew.chayes@newsday.comThe supervisor of a Hempstead Village home for recovering addicts who is accused of removing the dead body of a resident, placing it in a pickup truck and burning the vehicle has been ordered jailed on $200,000 bail. At an arraignment hearing Tuesday, an...Tags: Theft, Crimes, Defendants, Fires, Trials
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Cops: 'Sober home' supervisor burned dead body
The supervisor of a Hempstead Village home for recovering addicts removed the dead body of a resident - the second death there in a week - placed it in a pickup truck and burned the vehicle, Nassau police said yesterday. The body of Frank Gangale, 52,...Tags: Theft, Crimes, Fires, Behavioral Conditions, Vehicles
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Swiss likely to favor program of prescription heroin for severe addicts
Associated Press WriterGENEVA (AP) _ Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to...Tags: Private Health Care, Behavioral Conditions, Government Health Care, Medical Services, Health Insurance
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