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Luxury drug-rehab center in Umatilla to offer recovery in style
Troubled celebs struggling to overcome addictions might start pointing their limos in an unlikely direction: the remote Lake County town of Umatilla. The former Florida Elks Children's Hospital in Umatilla is being reborn as a luxury drug-rehab center...
Tags: Ocala National Forest, Addiction, Personal Service, Eating Disorders, Hospitals and Clinics
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Rob Roberge weighs in on addiction lit
I tried your steps And stumbled down your stairs My only problem with drugs Is that they always run out These lyrics are from "The Problem With Drugs" by The Popular Mechanics, a Replacements-meets-Steve-Earle quartet. But the band does not exist...Tags: Literature, Behavioral Conditions, Addiction, Music, Authors
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Letters: Addiction treatment that works
Re "Felons allowed to help addicts, a report finds," May 14 The fact that addiction counselors in California who are sex offenders and other types of felons are allowed to provide addiction treatment is just the tip of the iceberg in a fundamentally...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Addiction
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Community Calendar: May 18, 2013
TODAY — Devary Reunion, 10 a.m. at the Coon Club on Pine Ridge Road. Pot luck dinner will start at 1 p.m. For more information, call David Devary at 745-8644. — Conceal/carry weapons training from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Anglicanism, Long Term Care, Christianity, Medical Specialization
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LETTER: Trying To Force Frats Coed A Mistake
I am a fraternity man from North Carolina. As soon as I heard that the Tinity College board of trustees wanted to force fraternities and sororities to go coed, I knew that heads would roll. Trinity President James F. Jones Jr. should resign after... -
Michelle Obama wants Bowie State graduates to promote education
Michelle Obama encouraged the graduates of Bowie State University on Friday to live up to the legacy of their university's founders and the leaders of the civil rights movement by promoting the importance of education in the black community. "Just...
Tags: Graduation, Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Barack Obama
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State Shouldn't Make Pardons Process Secret
The latest attempt to draw the curtain of secrecy around state government would exempt pardon applications from the Freedom of Information Act. It is baneful. Like so many similar proposals introduced in the General Assembly this year, it amounts to...Tags: John A Kissel, Crime, Law and Justice, Dannel P. Malloy , Elections, Justice and Rights
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Former police lieutenant announces bid for Kane County sheriff job
Former police Lt. Don Kramer is aiming to follow in his father's footsteps as Kane County Sheriff next year. Kramer, 55, of Geneva, recently announced his candidacy for sheriff in the 2014 election. He's the first to come forward, and will run as a...
Tags: Primaries, Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Elections, Politics
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Demographics, Learning Disability, Culture, Medical Procedures and Tests, ADHD
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Medical marijuana at last?
Illinois can't be accused of rushing to embrace medical marijuana: The first state to allow it did so in 1996, and the General Assembly is only now getting around to approving the idea. Whether it will become law is not clear: It now goes to Gov. Pat...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn, Health Treatments
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The supervised after-prom party: Now with cars, iPads and other goodies
ReutersSometime on Sunday morning, a Pennsylvania high school student will be presented with the keys to a black Honda Civic just for going to a party after the school's annual prom dance. In Roanoke, Virginia, one student will drive away next month with a...Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Computer Hardware, Colleges and Universities, Apple iPad, Personal Service
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FEATURE-The supervised after-prom party: Now with cars, iPads and other goodies
ReutersBy Alice Mannette WICHITA, Kan., May 17 (Reuters) - Sometime on Sunday morning, a Pennsylvania high school student will be presented with the keys to a black Honda Civic just for going to a party after the school's annual prom dance. In Roanoke,...Tags: Computer Hardware, Theme Park Vacations, Colleges and Universities, Health and Personal Care, Personal Service
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