Good Government Is Good (Partisan) Politics
Good government is good (partisan) politics
[rewrite]The plan, which relies on the General Assembly making the 67 percent income tax increase permanent, could bring jobs to a Southern Illinois facility that Quinn closed less than two years ago. According to the governor's budget office, … IDOC started …[/rewrite]
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Council OKs synthetic drug ordinance
[rewrite]The Charleston council and Coles County Board previously put on the books an identical ordinance, which imposes fines for synthetic marijuana and similar substances and for drug paraphernalia and related items. The ordinance has a broader definition of …[/rewrite]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Victims and Villains of the Drug Trade
Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Victims and Villains of the Drug Trade
[rewrite]The flurry of grief and opinions and ruminations on the topic has mostly passed, but recently two brief pieces on Hoffman showed up in The Daily News and The New York Post, the twin newspapers of record for sordid New York City tales. The first story …[/rewrite]
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After death of Johnathan Crupi, 21-year-old heroin addict, another recovering …
[rewrite]He's been drug-free for eight months. (Staten Island … STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A young South Shore resident attending the wake of his 21-year-old friend who died of a heroin overdose knows the body in the casket could just as easily have been his …[/rewrite]
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Lorain Alcohol Drug Rehab Launches Updated Intervention Program
Lorain Alcohol Drug Rehab Launches Updated Intervention Program
[rewrite]This is where a professional interventionist can come into the picture and stop the madness of drug abuse. It takes time to map out strategies and plans for an actual intervention to take place. One of the initial actions an interventionist will do …[/rewrite]
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As Peter Young Center drug rehab closes, doctor plans wellness center
[rewrite]Father Peter Young, who began his work with addicts more than 60 years ago, in Albany, has long been the head of more than 90 residential sites, in-patient treatment centers, and halfway houses in New York State. He ran the rehab center bearing his …[/rewrite]
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Congress Provides Preventative Care for Medicare Prescription Coverage: Opinion
Congress provides preventative care for Medicare prescription coverage: Opinion
[rewrite]By Sally Osmer. New Jersey is home to more than 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries. This public insurance program is a vital source of health care coverage, helping local seniors afford the medical services and drug treatments needed to ward off disease.[/rewrite]
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Ensuring generic drug safety
[rewrite]So the manufacturers have bumped up the FDA's paltry $ 2 million budget for dealing with generics to $ 20 million and are sponsoring a testing program. According to Bloomberg News, … Starting with generic heart drugs, ADHD treatments, immune …[/rewrite]
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Christopher Walsh, Husband of High Profile Child Therapist, Jailed for Battery
Christopher Walsh, Husband Of High Profile Child Therapist, Jailed For Battery
[rewrite]Christopher Walsh is a co-owner and founder, with his wife, of “Inspirations,” a teen rehab center in Fort Lauderdale. Ironically, the center treats alcohol and drug addictions. The CEO of the facility is Dr. James Hughes who, according to the police …[/rewrite]
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Panel studies options for Suffolk drug treatment facilities
[rewrite]The legislator said that due to limited space at existing treatment centers, people are often sent off Long Island and away from their families and support systems to places that have room for them. She said individuals should be able to find treatment …[/rewrite]
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