MLB Is Batting Cleanup on Players' Drug Use

MLB is batting cleanup on players' drug use

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Major League Baseball wants us to believe it has recovered from its Steroid Era, that it has cleaned up the once-pervasive performance-enhancing drug problem that beefed up ballplayers' bodies, inflated statistics and corrupted the record books. The …
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The selling of attention deficit disorder

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Doctors and parents have largely accepted drugs like Adderall and Concerta to temper the traits of classic ADHD, helping youngsters succeed in school and beyond. But Conners did not feel triumphant this fall as he addressed a group of fellow ADHD …
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Drug problem in United States is not going away

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There is an army of dedicated people trying to solve the problem. They have an impossible job. Many people ask me how I am able to work with the finances of people like lottery winners and injury victims, where statistics show that the overwhelming …
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Children are collateral victims when mom serves time, academic finds

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His mother was in prison – a chronic thief and drug addict, she had been arrested 31 times and convicted 15 times. Ten years later, John's own rap sheet included eight arrests and two convictions. He'd held a series of dead-end jobs and saw little hope …
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