Dramatic Increase in Senior Drug Addiction

Dramatic Increase in Senior Drug Addiction – Treatment centers are seeing more older drug addicts. Aging baby boomers coupled with an economic downturn are part of the reason why. (May 18)

Notes on the social crisis in America

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The rate was raised by a quarter recently after DC Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed a “living wage” bill that would have increased minimum wage to $ 12.50 an hour. The flood of Walmart applications is indicative of the job shortage that continues across the …
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Doctors Hear of Horrors of Epidemic of Prescription-Drug Addiction

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Prescription drugs were implicated in the deaths of more than 700 state residents in both 2011 and 2012, according to statistics released by Dr. Roger Mitchell, the New Jersey assistant state medical examiner. He contrasted that number with the 75 …
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