Child Addicts Find Succour in a Corner of Kabul
Social service providers and advocates rally against state funding cuts
Waving signs and holding banners imploring lawmakers and the governor to raise taxes rather than cut social services, hundreds of human service providers and recipients rallied in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.
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Medical Marijuana Advocates Bypassing Traditional Approval, Effectiveness Regulations
NPR continues its examination of medical marijuana: “Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have launched a medical experiment that doesn’t follow any of the rules of science. By approving the use of marijuana as a medicine – with varying kinds of restrictions – these jurisdictions are bypassing the federal government’s elaborate processes for approving medicines.” “That’s highly unusual …
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Child addicts find succour in a corner of Kabul
Source: Reuters * Three clinics tend to Afghan women, child opiate addicts * U.S.-led experts struggle with drugs relapse, cash shortage * Afghanistan unique in child exposure to heroin smoke By Dan Williams …
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