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How society pays for addiction

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In Kentucky alone, state taxpayers spent $ 1.7 million on prisoners' teeth in a single year — about double the amount of non-prisoner dental treatment. Roughly 80 percent of those costs went to cover treatment and decay, much of it attributable to …
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Who's winning Elko's War on Meth?

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Meth can be manufactured anywhere from a large factory operation (common in Southern California or Mexico) to a 1-liter bottle in a bathroom. Users often have uncontrollable twitching, paranoia, itchy skin, rotting teeth, low body weight, sunken cheeks …
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How the Small Screen Got Big

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Tom Fontana, the mind behind "Oz," cut his teeth working on MTM's "St. Elsewhere." But the place where Mr. Martin's TV revolution was truly fomented was …. The "Difficult Men" of Mr. Martin's title are, most obviously, the middle-aged male lead …
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