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Inmates to get addiction treatment

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Thomas Stuber, chief operating officer of the drug abuse service, said the two agencies have already been working together to provide some counseling to the inmates, but Stuber said that when inmates are released, they often do not attend recommended …
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Local students' drug activity revealed

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A newly released youth substance abuse survey shows a large percentage of Hernando County's middle- and high-school students continue to use illegal drugs, including heroin and methamphetamine in their lifetimes. And many of them have also admitted to …
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Dedham officials, residents discuss drug abuse

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“We've had a drug problem for years. I want to know what the town is going to do about the problem,” Victoria said at the Substance Abuse Taskforce meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 15. Dedham Police Detective Kevin Mahoney presented statistics that back up …
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A 'trippy' high: Synthetic drugs can 'change your brain,' users say

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In numbers that mirror national statistics, poison information calls about synthetic marijuana more than doubled across South Florida in 2011, to 103 from 47 the year before, according to the Florida Poison Information Center in Miami. 2012 saw …
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