Drug User Penalties Should Be Reduced, Organization of American States Says

Drug User Penalties Should Be Reduced, Organization Of American States Says

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The organization on Friday released a 200-page report advocating the decriminalization of drug use as a strategy to reduce violence associated with drug trafficking and to better treat addicts afflicted with chronic behavioral health problems …
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EXCLUSIVE: Pink attempted to use her success to save her best friend, who

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Pink, now 33, is a megastar who has sold more than 40 million albums and has a net worth of $ 70 million. Coffey has been dead three years — a victim of an addiction enabled in its latter stages by a Dr. Feelgood who fed her prescription drugs in …
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Treatment needed to keep Rx abuse from leading to heroin

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The pull of opiates — both legal and illegal — is so strong that Orman Hall, director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, predicts that, within a couple of years, there will be more Ohioans in addiction treatment for heroin …
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