Drug Abuse

Homeless memorial remembers deceased who may have been forgotten
The National Homeless Persons Memorial, held Thursday evening, paid homage to the little known and perhaps least understood members of society who had died while homeless. The crowd held lit candles … An estimated 40 percent of those are children. In …
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The bonds that bind them: Getting sex-trafficking victims out of the game …
A study by nonprofit agency A Heart for Justice found that a human trafficker can make $ 200,000 per victim per year, 10 times the $ 20,000 profit in one kilogram of a street drug. Kiera was … That disguises the depth of the problem by skewing the …
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