Next Door but Invisible- the World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction

Next Door But Invisible- The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction – *I don’t own this video. I’m uploading it in order to add captions to it since Overstream.net (and every other third party pulling from YouTube) is down .* Original here: www.youtube.com “Penn medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg study the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. SAS Frontiers, September 2009 ”

Combat Veterans Find Sobriety, Redemption Through Kansas City Pilot Program

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In June, ESA, which provides a variety of electronic monitoring technologies to offenders sentenced in Kansas City-area courts, helped Judge Bland introduce the 4 month alcohol monitoring pilot, free of cost, using technology known as SCRAMx (Secure …
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Prescription Drug Abuse At All-time High For Teens

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Researchers from the University of Colorado at Denver recently discovered that young people in the U.S. are abusing prescription pain medications at an alarming rate – 40 percent more than past generations to be exact. Many of the adolescents … They …
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