United Way Helps Treat Mental Illness, Addiction
United Way helps treat mental illness, addiction – Each year, the University of Michigan participates in a campaign to help raise funds for services in Washtenaw County through the United Way. This video shows how giving to the Washtenaw County United Way helps treat the mentally ill and those battling addiction.
Mixed day for welfare drug tests
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State lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday for and against the controversial bill, which would require that all people pass a drug test before receiving benefits through Temporary Aid for Needy Families, the state's welfare program. Two Nashua area …
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Parents Numb to Misuse of Pain Meds by Children
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Despite the prevalence of painkillers in medicine cabinets, the poll found that parent support was lukewarm for policies that would discourage abuse of pain medicines. Nearly half oppose a requirement that leftover pain medicine be returned to their …
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Paige's Pages: The books that bind
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Her prose is succinct and blunt and she sugarcoats nothing — shit happens and she wants you to know it. But “Play It As It Lays” wasn't really a holiday-happy-feeling book, unless you think drug abuse and depression are equivocal to cookies and, uh …
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