One Family’s Story

One Family’s Story – How do parents of an addict remain hopeful? What are the options for the family of alcoholics and addicts? Does treatment work? Is there support for the loved ones that addiction effects?

Without compromise, sequester takes effect

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“I would prefer more prioritized cuts that would address real waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending, but this plan was crafted by the president and rather than indicating he will work with Congress to avoid sequestration, he is moving the goal …
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Give needles and condoms to inmates to curb HIV: experts

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Giving inmates drug substitution treatment, needles and condoms are key ways to help curb addiction and HIV infection in European jails, experts say, calling on authorities to change their approach to prison health care. … In Moldova, seven prisons …
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Put your smartphone away and read this

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If this were a more conventional success story, it would have ended like this: The company exits, Felix rakes in millions, starts his own company and lives happily ever after. …. Worse, we are starting to treat other people ?(and ourselves?) as ongoing …
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