Teenage Heroin Epidemic
Teenage Heroin Epidemic – Swansea Love Story: An award-winning look at a generation lost to heroin, as told through the tragic love story of Amy and Cornelius. In 2009, Swansea drug a…
For North Lawndale teen, graduation, college scholarship is a story of triumph
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She was only 7 years old when she watched her mother get handcuffed and arrested on drug possession charges, leaving Pillot to help care for two younger sisters. Her father, too, was arrested on drug charges. Then, four years later, he disappeared from …
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Prescription drug collection set for Saturday
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The Charlestown Substance Abuse Coalition is holding its annual prescription drug “Take Back” Saturday to allow residents to properly dispose of prescription drugs. The collection, now in its fourth year, allows residents to safely get rid of unused …
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TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER'S BOOKWORM: Memoir gets funeral home …
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With your own job, you had your own money to buy your own things, maybe help out at home, or sock some away. Finding work, yep, was the right thing to do. … grief of families who lost someone elderly was hard enough. Wylie Funeral Home also did a …
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
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Some context will help to explain what happened. Prior to 2009, the Rockefeller Drug Laws imposed mandatory prison sentences for most drug offenses. If a judge thought that drug treatment would be a more appropriate sentence, she could not issue a …
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