A father's fight for his son's survival

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By the end of Robert Sr.'s life, Emery was forced to watch as his father, a man who had told Emery to never use any drugs, increasingly medicated to the point of taking 32 pills a day. "I despise drugs," Emery said. "I thoroughly, thoroughly despise …
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APNewsBreak: Effort building to change US pot laws

Filed under: Drug Treatment Centers Portland

7, 2012, file photo, Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants in a grow room in Seattle. (AP file | Ted S. Warren). SEATTLE—An effort is … Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon …
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Some questions and answers about PTSD

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Dr. Charles Marmar of New York University Langone Medical Center said that treating a highly-functioning person soon after their trauma can be accomplished in four to six weeks. But if a soldier served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the PTSD …
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