Officials Fret Over Facebook School 'confessions'
Officials fret over Facebook school 'confessions'
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Tom Walters of the Thunder Bay Children's Centre said he is worried younger students are using this kind of page as a vehicle to sensationalize alcohol and drug abuse. He's also concerned that these supposedly “secret” Facebook confessions aren't …
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Heroin use surges in suburbs, small towns
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What Martin and others like him are witnessing is a growing and more dangerous wave of drug addiction sweeping the country, ensnaring a new population — several hundred thousand Americans — in the heroin trap and importing crime to America's …
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Prescription drug abuse topic of latest police Dispatch
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SEABROOK — In the latest issue of the quarterly newsletter, The Dispatch, officer John Mounsey of Seabrook Police Department discusses prescription drug abuse and shares specific information about the kinds of narcotics that are being misused.
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Drug overdose prevention could be right at our fingertips
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In 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 3,200 people in the state died in automobile crashes, while 3,561 people died of drug overdoses, the bulk of them involving prescription pills. That high number of deaths is particularly …
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