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Legalizing drugs: The money argument
Friday marks 75 years since repeal of the Volstead Act, which made the manufacture, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages illegal in the United States. As the anniversary of the end of Prohibition approaches, modern advocates of a similar...Tags: Sales, Law Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Health Treatments, Public Finance
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Drug treatment advocates in a divided house
The Times' Nov. 10 article on lengthening drug-addiction treatment presents a thoughtful report on substance-abuse programs that extend past the 30-day norm. The article relies on studies and interviews with treatment providers who explain that longer-...Tags: Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Laws, Health Insurance, Prisons
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Hard lessons for a lifelong capitalist
''Capitalist, 1792. One who has capital, esp. one who uses it in business enterprises …'' -- The Oxford Universal Dictionary, Third Edition The habit of acquiring capital at a tender age to support the enterprises of life quickly becomes an addiction....Tags: Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated, Harleysville National Corporation, Emmaus, American International Group, Behavioral Conditions
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A roundup of editorials from Michigan newspapers
Block pathways to protect Great Lakes Many Michigan residents are aware of the damage caused to the Great Lakes by the more than 150 nonnative species that have made their way into the lakes' watershed over the years. Millions of dollars have been...Tags: Court Administration, Salvation Army, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, Natural Resource Industry
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A glance at heroin laws around Europe
Countries with prescription heroin treatment for addicts: — Switzerland's heroin prescription program has been running since 1994. Nearly 1,300 addicts are injecting the drug under tight supervision this year in one of 23 centers, which also...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Medical Research, Trials
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Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent today with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers...Tags: Health Insurance, Referenda, Behavioral Conditions, Parliament, Citizens Initiative and Recall
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Swiss vote to keep heroin program
Associated PressGENEVA — The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in...Tags: Behavioral Conditions
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One-on-one with drug addiction
Tribune staff reporterWhen readers were introduced to James Morrison last year in a story about poverty, he was a drug addict living in a shipping container. He was arrested for burglary in Rockford and sent to Sheridan Correctional Center where he retraced his pattern of...Tags: Maxwell Street, James Morrison, Depression, Western Medicines, Prisons
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Swiss likely to favor program of prescription heroin for severe addicts
Associated Press WriterGENEVA (AP) _ Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to...Tags: Health Insurance, Behavioral Conditions, Medical Services, Social Sciences, Private Health Care
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'Ben X,' 'Fix,' 'Lake City,' 'Otto; or, Up With Dead People' and 'Special'
Between 5:45 a.m. and 6:33 a.m., Flemish teenager Ben X (Greg Timmermans) plays an online video game in which he identifies with a medieval hero. This jolt of fantasy is his way of escaping from what he deals with at school -- constant bullying. Ben...Tags: Michael Rapaport, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Juvenile Delinquency, People, Teen-agers
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Attorney: My client didn't dump body
matthew.chayes@newsday.comThe supervisor of a Hempstead Village home for recovering addicts who is accused of removing the dead body of a resident, placing it in a pickup truck and burning the vehicle has been ordered jailed on $200,000 bail. At an arraignment hearing Tuesday, an...Tags: Hempstead (Hempstead, New York), Trials, Arson, Defendants, Court Preliminary
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Two sue Berwyn for rejecting methadone clinic
Special to the TribuneFour months after Berwyn officials rejected a methadone clinic, the center's owners sued the city, seeking a business license and $1 million in punitive damages. The civil rights suit, filed by Berwyn residents Elizabeth Buonauro and Sal Sottile,...Tags: Evanston, Behavioral Conditions, Hospitals and Clinics, Trials, Michael O'Connor
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