Area Superintendents Weigh in on Drug Policies

Area superintendents weigh in on drug policies

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

The new policy would require students wishing to play a sport, participate in extracurricular activities, go to a dance or drive to school to provide a hair sample for a hair drug test — because it provides a better look backward into a person's drug …
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ADHD Medication and Obesity: Causal or Coincidence

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ADHD. Medical studies in the past have linked hyper-activity disorders to smoking and drug abuse, and now the argument is being made that medication is leading to obesity, even years after the child has taken it. The question whether this is a valid …
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Coping with mothers who neglect their kids

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She's the director of Shields for Families, a South Los Angeles nonprofit that helps low-income families deal with basic problems like shelter and transportation, and long-term issues such as mental illness and substance abuse. The group has one of the …
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Government officials discuss drug abuse – A number of government officials gathered in Holyoke Friday to discuss what’s being called a drug abuse crisis in western Massachusetts.