Drowning in Drugs: Heroin Cheaper Than Food in Pakistan

Drowning in Drugs: Heroin cheaper than food in Pakistan – Over one billion dollars’ worth of heroin each year – that is the deadly fallout Pakistan gets from the blooming narcotics industry that provides the main ca…

Local ministry provides transportation, more for recovering drug addicts

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Years later, Shallenbarger said she was close to death, weighing 88 pounds after more than three decades of drug addiction. Seven of those years, she was addicted to meth. “I knew I was going to die if I didn't get help,” said Shallenbarger, who for a …
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Hard Hittin' Poets share their vision at Trinity-on-Main

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“Growing up, I was influenced by the soul of hip-hop music and my older brother Aaron, who moved away to live with my father in Washington D.C.,” he said. “One day I found a stack of my brother's rhymes and raps, and that was when I decided I wanted to …
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Marijuana marks a milestone; first banned in California 100 years ago

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Shortly after, Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act classifying marijuana as a drug with a "high potential for abuse" and "no currently accepted medical use." When arrests … Gieringer said a statewide coalition is being formed that would …
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Md. health officials seek to address rise in drug overdose deaths

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“The collaboration between public safety and public health agencies is a powerful partnership for combating the problem of drug overdoses,” said Tammy Brown, executive director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention. “While law …
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