Holiday Message to Alexandria Students Includes Warning About Drug Use
Holiday message to Alexandria students includes warning about drug use
Filed under: drug addiction news 2010
In 2010, 65 percent of 10th-graders and 74 percent of 12th-graders indicated alcohol use during their lifetime; and 35 percent of 10th-graders and 46 percent of 12th-graders indicated use in the past 30 days. While surveys indicate that Louisiana …
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Pasco officials tried to snuff out Spice, synthetic drugs in 2012
Filed under: drug addiction news 2010
"This isn't the kind of drug that people stop using and can go back to a normal life," said Szulis, who volunteers at the Pasco County Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention. "These kids are hurt. It's not getting better." A few years ago, spice was a …
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INDYCAR: 7-Time Indy 500 Starter Salt Walther Passes Away
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In 2000, Walther was sentenced to 180 days in jail for child endangering and 10 months in prison for violating terms of his probation in the 1998 drug case. • In April 2007, Walther plead guilty to failure to pay child support, and in July a warrant …
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Trillion Down The Rathole And Counting: The Ill-Fated War On Drugs
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A few months later, presumably in the wake of a report suggesting that as many as 15% of the GIs in Vietnam were addicted to heroin and countless others used marijuana on a regular basis, the Nixon Administration coined the term "War on Drugs." Mostly …
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