Drug Abuse

Today is 4th February, the "World Cancer Day." The day is observed each year by World Health Organization (WHO) as well as more than 280 cancer-fighting organizations across 90 countries. International Union Against Cancer (UICC) observes "World Cancer Day", in order to spread awareness about cancer and it preaches how to protect ourselves against cancer. February 3rd, 2010 DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA (GaeaTimes.com)- DRIVE4COPD has partnered with NASCAR to alert America about the risks associated with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

In India-EU summit we have discussed this and all other issues and we both are committed to resolving outstanding matters amicably   -Anand Sharma

 

Officials in Weymouth are arming parents with more information on opiates, part of the town's fight against drug abuse. Weymouth received a $900 Community Health Network Alliance grant, which will pay for a community guide on drug and opiate prevention to be drawn up and printed. Last year, information on opiates was sent out with every water bill, reaching 15,000 homeowners.  

The Schizophrenia PORT was created in 1992 with joint funding from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ) and the NIMH, as 1 of 14 task groups to address concerns about the appropriateness of care for common medical and psychiatric conditions. This second update of the initial 1998 report 3 was necessary, the PORT members explain, because "research on technologies for treatment of schizophrenia has continued to quickly evolve." In ...

It may be easier, or at least less difficult, for people to figure out how to live with schizophrenia   -Larry Davidson

 

Facing repeated deployments with little down time at home, some soldiers and their families are struggling with stress, depression, marital problems, financial woes and alcohol and drug abuse. And it gets worse from there. An increasingly high number of these active-duty soldiers, upon returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, are taking their own lives.  

After the sentencing, defense attorney Jon Delaney told reporters that Riley was trying to spare her daughter, who is charged with first-degree murder along with three others. Delaney said part of the deal for the mother is that the daughter, 17-year-old LeShelle McBride, will be offered a sentencing deal of six to 20 years for second-degree murder. Prosecutors declined comment on Delaney's claim about the mother-daughter deal.

I don't think 45 years is enough, but that's what we agreed to   -Mike Stewart

 

VALPARAISO | Mayor Jon Costas named 37 people Friday to serve on Valparaiso's Substance Abuse Task Force to develop ways of fighting alcohol and drug abuse along with its consequences to the community. One more is expected to be named. "We're committing resources, organization and enthusiasm to creating an environment where our young people know better and do better," Costas said.

We're committing resources, organization and enthusiasm to creating an environment where our young people know better and do better   -Jon Costas

 

A 50-year-old Victoria man convicted of trying to kill his ex-wife and her common-law husband has died in a single-car crash in Saanich. Robert Bruce Cuthbert was behind the wheel of a 1989 Toyota Tercel stationwagon when it went off the road and into a concrete retaining wall off Interurban Road near Quayle Road on Jan. 20. He was pronounced dead at hospital.  

She and Edward Davis (left), of Syracuse, who does peer outreach for ACR, were handing out condoms and literature about HIV/AIDS. Sunday is National Black AIDS Awareness Day. Syracuse, NY -- Edward Davis never thought he'd have AIDS. A Brooklyn native, he enjoyed a Manhattan party life with little thought to where drug abuse and sex would take him.

I have a simple story and if sharing it will save lives, then OK   -Edward Davis

 

Sixty-seven fifth graders at Berlin Elementary School received their diplomas from the DARE Program on Friday, January 29. D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through twelfth grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives. The lessons are led by a law enforcement officer – in Rensselaer County by Sheriff's Deputy Jim Phelps.