Hoffman and the Terrible Heroin Deaths in the Shadows

Hoffman and the Terrible Heroin Deaths in the Shadows
Now that Hoffman is gone the one purpose his passing can offer is to bring into sharp focus the fact that overdose deaths have long been on the rise in the U.S. (according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deaths from drug overdoses …
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Perryville man gets 10 years for throwing boiling water on wife
… pictures of the severe burns to her back, shoulder and buttocks to Oliver, so he could see the extent of her injuries, and that his callous response to those photos — taken by nurses during the woman's 16-day stay at the Bayview Burn Center in …
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CVS goes smoke free [Editorial]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 19 percent of the adult population smoked in 2011, the most recent year for which data are available. … The effort to ban smoking in parks in Baltimore County follows along the same …
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Vapor and Mirrors: Are E-Cigarettes Masquerading as a Safer Alternative?
Since being imported from China in 2007, sales of e-cigarettes have soared to $ 1.7 billion, albeit still only a fraction of what tobacco rakes in.2 The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sought to ban e-cigarettes as unapproved drug …
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