Capital Health Care: E-cig ban takes effect; soda ban receives support
ON DRINK SIZE –- The city's health department received a boost from a coalition of hospitals and minority advocates who filed an amicus brief in support of the city's ban on large sugary drinks, saying “the problem it addresses is perhaps the gravest …
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Protecting Vermont's Children, Part Two: Assessing Neglect
Walcott says many of the families DCF works with whose members have substance abuse problems fall into this "risk of harm" category. Madison Akin, a counselor at … “Students will come into our office and they'll be talking about drug use," Akin says …
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Poverty series: Lebanon fares well compared to other counties, but there's …
Drug addiction took its toll. Neither had jobs, and they were evicted from their apartment. That's when they took a long, hard look at things and eliminated drugs from their lives. They joined Palmyra Circles in September 2012, and soon started entry …
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