Prince William County Health Calendar

Prince William County health calendar

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Mental health support group for caregivers, family and friends of people with mental illness, sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. … Families Anonymous a 12-step program for adults with family members with substance-abuse problems.
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Workshop aims to help heroin addicts

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… also undergoing a substance abuse struggle. Damico said she is an active member of Nar-Anon Family Groups, meeting every Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. at the MidPointe Library in Middletown. “We are helping friends and families of addicts,” Damico said.
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Jane-O-Mania: 'Among the Janeites' and 'Jane Austen's England'

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The seventh child of an Anglican rector—a member of the lower ranks of the landed gentry, whose death threw the family into dire financial straits—Austen spent the majority of her life in the rural hamlets of Hampshire and the Somerset spa town of …
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Drug and alcohol testing rare in public schools

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Steve Pasierb, president and CEO of Partnership at drugfree.org, said the problem isn't that schools aren't discussing drugs and alcohol, but that families aren't. "Far too frequently, parents lay this issue off on the schools," he said. "It's a family …
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