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When Foster Care Hurts

When Foster Care Hurts

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The trauma, she believes, set her up for a decade of alcoholism, drug addiction and violence starting in her mid-teens. She ran away from her foster family and became … Now clean and sober but living on disability assistance with five children, she …
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Anti-meth law creates new class of criminal, a sign of drug's vast impact on

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1, 2012, it had kept 18.6 million milligrams of pseudoephedrine out of the hands of people who had already bought the maximum allowed through March 2013, according to a Michigan State Police database. Still, nearly 20 … "For a lot of the smurfs, they …
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23% of assault-injured youth in an urban hospital ER reported possession of a

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A new study by the University of Michigan Injury Center provides data that could be important to breaking the cycle of gun violence that kills more teens and young adults than anything except auto accidents. … a high-risk population of assault …
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