More Valley Residents Getting Concealed Weapons Permits

More Valley residents getting concealed weapons permits

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Certain criminal convictions or a history of mental illness are cause to deny a permit. So is a history of alcohol or drug abuse. Permit holders must take a certified training course. They can't take their gun to work without the employers' permission …
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The Reality-Based Community

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The prison system is already financially costly and filled to capacity, and even were it expanded there is no evidence that the threat or even the actuality of a stint in prison causes many drug-involved offenders to change their behaviour …
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Punjab Deputy CM has a plan for change

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Other causes for crime, he says, are unemployment and an alarming increase of drug abuse. Unemployment was 42 for every 1,000 educated individuals, compared to the national average of 25, according to the 66th round of the National Sample Survey.
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Alcoholic Hepatitis

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Although the abrupt onset of these symptoms often causes acute illness, severe AH seldom occurs in the absence of underlying advanced hepatic fibrosis, albeit frequently undiagnosed at the time of presentation. 'Acute' AH is therefore a misnomer …
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Homemade drugs devastating Russian addicts – Homemade drugs have had devastating effects on addicts across Russia, where about 100000 people are thought to be making and using substances made from legal and easily available ingredients. One of the drugs, called ‘Krokodil’ (or crocodile), named after the scaly-looking sores it causes, is made from a combination of headache pills, petrol, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous scraped from the strike strips of matchboxes. Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from Moscow. Warning: This video contains graphic footage. One of the drugs, called ‘Krokodil’ (or crocodile), named for the scaly-looking soars it causes, is made from a combination of head-ache pills, petrol, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous scraped from the strike strips of matchboxes. Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from Moscow. Warning: this video contains graphic footage.