Lily's Place Offers Love, Treatment for Drug–addicted Newborns
Lily's Place offers love, treatment for drug–addicted newborns
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Four years ago, Mary Brown held a drug-addicted infant in her arms for the first time while volunteering at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Afterward, she asked herself what she was doing with her life and decided to devote herself to a mission: helping …
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Lamar Odom's Father Talks About His Son's Alleged Drug Abuse And How The …
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Lamar Odom has been making headlines in recent weeks for his alleged drug use and supposed marital trouble with Khloe Kardashian. He's even been said to have cheated on her with multiple women. But now his father, Joe, is speaking out in defense of …
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Bills would give state new powers to fight prescription drug abuse
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Brown, who as attorney general railed against prescription drug abuse and pill-pushing doctors, declined through a spokesman to say how he would respond to the bills. The proposed legislation was spurred by a series of investigative reports in The …
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FDA beefs up pain-drug warnings in face of abuse epidemic
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed stronger safety language on labels of long-acting and extended-release opioids in response to an epidemic of overdoses and deaths from the widely used pain medicines. The labels need to highlight …
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