Brockton, Quincy Take Aim at Youth Drug Abuse

Brockton, Quincy take aim at youth drug abuse

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One in a series of occasional stories about opiate abuse and its consequences. Youth prescription drug abuse is the focus of extensive data collection in several Massachusetts cities, including Brockton and Quincy, as communities prepare to launch …
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Palm Beach State College Limiting Adjunct Faculty Hours To Avoid Health …

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As independent fact-checkers showed (PolitiFact.com 2009b; FactCheck.org 2009a), her statement that these consultations would be mandatory was simply false–they would be entirely voluntary. Similarly, there is no evidence that …. amount that …
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Stop guns from getting into wrong hands

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Perhaps it's the fact there are no jobs, failed schools, no father's, poverty everywhere, drug infestation, gang-bangers at every corner, no future whatsoever and very few pathways out. The worthless politicians will not address these real problems …
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