Rare US Senate Field Hearing Focuses on Vermont's Addiction Fight

Rare US Senate field hearing focuses on Vermont's addiction fight
“The trouble with those metrics was that history clearly showed that arrests alone were not going to change the environment because it does not take into account the underlying social issues relating to drugs,” Baker said. He explained how the city has …
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Bob the Street Cat books sell 1m copies in UK
Now, proving that there is nothing the British like more than a heartwarming story about an indomitable feline, the homeless busker turned author James Bowen, who wrote about how his cat changed his life in A Street Cat Named Bob, has joined an elite …
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Innocents Lost: Protecting kids with hollow promises
Safety plans are supposed to work like contracts: The parents, step-parents or grandparents agree to stop whatever it is they are doing to endanger a child — overindulging in pain pills, getting drunk, engaging in fistfights around the children …
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