VA's Opiate Overload Feeds Veterans' Addictions, Overdose Deaths
VA's opiate overload feeds veterans' addictions, overdose deaths
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the agency charged with helping veterans recover from war instead masks their pain with potent drugs, feeding addictions and contributing to a fatal overdose rate among VA patients that is nearly double the national …
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Alarm leads DeLand police to man who had been shot to death
Breaking News · Crime / Mugshots · Coastal Volusia · Southeast Volusia · West Volusia · Flagler / Palm Coast · Florida · Nation / World · Politics · News of Record · Obituaries · Weather · Data Center. Outdoors; Beaches … Tulloch served jail time in …
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Rights restoration pushed at forum
Meade shared his story Sunday with congregants at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale in Oakland Park, whose morning service and afternoon Town Hall meeting focused on the federal governmentís war on drugs and the mass incarceration of …
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Prescription pain pills often lead to harder drugs – and to Camden
More than 80 percent of those arrested in Camden for possessing or seeking narcotics are from suburban communities, according to Camden County Police Chief Scott Thomson. A three-day operation in May netted 45 buyers — 36 of whom were from the …
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