Heroin Addicts Speak

Published August 6, 2013

Heroin Addicts Speak – Meet people deep in the throws of a heroin addiction, with no way out.

Mujica defends Uruguay's marijuana licensing plan

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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay is poised to become the first nation to create a legal, regulated marijuana market, encouraging growers and sellers to produce enough pot to keep users from depending on illegal drug traffickers. The plan to put the …
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A Bill of Rights for the Homeless

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Cuts in federal assistance to the poor—including mental healthcare and affordable housing—put people out on the streets. But as sociologist Teresa Gowan argues in her 2010 book Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, rather than …
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Prescription-Only Drug Won't Help Combat Meth

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Recent statistics from Oregon are telling. Meth abuse continues unabated despite passage of a prescription ordinance for pseudoephedrine in 2006. What's worse, these policies have invited a host of other problems into the area as violent drug cartels …
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Obama's Five Disconnects

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Disconnect 3: Between what Obama says the problem is and the policies he pushes to cure it. The trends toward income inequality are the results of tectonic global shifts in capitalism. It's not easy to figure out what actual government policies might …
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