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E-Cigarette Adverts Target Susceptible Youth

E-cigarette adverts target susceptible youth Advertisements for electronic cigarettes are seen by around 70% of middle and high school students in stores, online, in newspapers and magazines or on television and in movies, says a new report published in the Centers for Disease Control and … Read more on Medical News Today The Salvation Army Cordova Outpost provides something for everyone from … A thrift store operates on Main Street, a food bank is available for emergency help, there's women's ministry group, bible study, family movie night, computer lab, ongoing life skills classes, a variety of youth services, Sunday school programs … Read more on Cordova Times Read more... ...

Overcoming Alcoholism Story From California Drug Rehab

  Overcoming Alcoholism Story from California Drug Rehab – http://www.soberliving.com Sober Living by the Sea helps people find a purpose in life and really enjoy living sober in Newport Beach, California. Visit http…   Gov. Brown grants 63 pardons just in time for Easter Most of the other crimes were drug-related. Pardoning during the holidays has become a tradition in the Brown office. On the Eve of Easter … release from Governor Brown's office. Individuals who have been convicted of a crime in California may apply … Read more on 89.3 KPCC Read more... ...

Seven Days in Solitary [4/13/2014]

...  Days in Solitary [4/13/2014] Seven guards at Taylorsville prison in North Carolina have been let go as a result of an ongoing investigation into the death of a man incarcerated there. Michael Anthony Kerr, who was being held in solitary confinement when he died, had struggled with … Read more on Solitary Watch Duffy's Law, named for Burlington man, promotes organ donation The law allots April as Organ Donation Awareness Month in North Carolina. The bill came about eight years after its namesake, Duffy Collins, died from an autoimmune disease that destroyed his kidneys. His family was unable to donate a kidney, and he … Read more on Burlington Times News Read ...

10 Things to Know for Today

...  things to know for today Authorities set in motion a legal process that makes it unlikely drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will face U.S. cases pending against him anytime soon. 4. WHERE HEALTH CARE NEEDS A REHAB. Doctors Without Borders says access to medical … Read more on Freeport Journal-Standard Juvenile Solitary Confinement: Modern-Day 'Torture' in the US Critics note that solitary – which youths have been subjected to in U.S. juvenile facilities for more than a century – often denies children access to education, mental health treatment, physical activity, and reading and writing material. Despite … Read more on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Read ...

Alcohol Rehab Centers New Brunswick Call 732-709-4471 for Drug Rehab, Detox NJ

  Alcohol Rehab Centers New Brunswick Call 732-709-4471 For Drug Rehab, Detox NJ – http://www.delrayrecoverycenter.com/.Alcohol Rehab Centers New Brunswick Call 732-709-4471 For Drug Rehab, Detox NJ. Delray Recovery Center is located in bea…   Valley parolees get gift cards in new state program Visalia felon arrested on drug, weapon charges 2 hours ago … The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which has a new incentive program designed to reward parolees when they reach benchmarks in programs to re-integrate them into … Read more on Fresno Bee Read more... ...

Some Alarming Facts About Mental Illness in America

by chuck.taylor Some Alarming Facts About Mental Illness In America Of the 45.6 million adults who had diagnosable mental illness in 2011, 11.5 million had serious mental illness. Other surveys put those numbers even higher. Mental illness has been on the rise over the past few decades. Between 1987 and 2007, the … Read more on Business Insider Community Mental Health Act anniversary marked Prior to the bill being signed 50 years ago, consumers were warehoused very unfairly in large congregate settings," said Eileen Durkin, CEO of C4, a comprehensive provider of behavioral health services for people with mental illness. "The bill allows … Read more on ABC7Chicago.com Read more... ...

Lawmaker Will Seek to Abolish Solitary Confinement for Mentally Ill Prisoners

...  will seek to abolish solitary confinement for mentally ill prisoners Also at the top of his agenda was a plan to remove mentally ill prisoners from “administrative segregation” into what he called a Residential Treatment Program that was supposed to offer the kind of human contact experts say inmates need before being … Read more on The Colorado Independent VP Biden says country is on cusp or 'remarkable changes' in care of those with … BOSTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday ...