Drug Abuse

Veterans' treatment addresses both mental illness, substance abuse
G. Michael Holmes is succeeding in a Columbus Veterans Affairs program that provides combined treatment for vets who have both mental illness and substance-abuse problems. After an emotional breakdown in 2000, … Columbus has a team of seven or eight …
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Bystanders die in W.Va. mass killing linked to drugs
Fred Swiger, 70, and son Freddie, 47, were delivering the local newspaper before dawn July 26, as they had done daily for 30 years, when they were shot and killed execution-style on a dark residential street. Sidney Muller, an … Sgt. Jason Webber …
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1 year later, family seeks 'justice' in methamphetamine death of 2-year-old boy
According to the review, a social worker might have received important information about Nathan's health and safety by calling his doctor in the months before the toddler died. The physician had told … abuse and neglect. “Pretty much where he lived …
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