Youth Gets Jail Warning Without Bail for Eight Incidents

Published October 16, 2013

Youth gets jail warning without bail for eight incidents

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment

Magistrate Gerard Lethbridge told the 18-year-old, who was in the middle of a week-long drug and alcohol-fuelled bender when he hit the pedestrians, he was heading towards the "corrupting" adult prison system. … "What's his problem?" His lawyer …
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WWU president: Drinking, drugs a problem, but Bellingham riot counter to …

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse treatment

SEATTLE — Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard acknowledged Monday that the school is facing challenges when it comes to student drug and alcohol use, but said an off-campus melee over the weekend is counter to the university's …
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Dustin Paxton High Risk To Reoffend, Hard To Treat: Crown

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… Alta., was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tag/ronald-smith" target="_hplink">convicted of murder </a>in Montana in 1983 for shooting to death two cousins, Harvey Madman Jr. and Thomas Running Rabbit, while he was high on drugs and alcohol …
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