Seminar Puts Spotlight on Substance Abuse

Drug treatment not yet focus of task force
COLUMBUS — There was talk of criminal investigations, dangerous drug databases, unlawful pain clinics and more during the Ohio Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force’s inaugural meetings. But there was one cornerstone to the epidemic’s cure that Gov. Ted Strickland would have not seen in the task force’s initial report: drug rehab.

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Derailed: Seven Sports Stars Who Self-Destructed
It’s a sad thing when a person self-destructs, and can no longer control his or her behavior. It’s hard to watch. Like a train heading towards a blown-out track, facing certain doom, yet with no way to stop. When it happens to our heroes, right before our very eyes, in a very public way, it becomes something even more than that. It becomes part tragedy and part reality television at the same …

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Seminar puts spotlight on substance abuse
More than 150 people, including imams, took part in an awareness programme on drugs organised by the Ministry of Interior at the Qatar Islamic Cultural Centre (Fanar) auditorium recently.

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