Hepatitis C "serial infector" sentenced to 39 years in prison

Hepatitis C "serial infector" sentenced to 39 years in prison

Filed under: Maryland Drug Abuse

Defense lawyers argued that a 30-year sentence would better balance the seriousness of the crimes against Kwiatkowski's mental and emotional problems and his addiction to drugs and alcohol, which they said clouded his judgment. In all, 32 patients were …
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High rate of students suffer from alcohol dependency

Filed under: Maryland Drug Abuse

The study estimated that almost 12,000 college students in Maryland need counseling for problems associated with alcohol use or abuse. However, Emily Sears, manager of substance education, treatment and prevention in the Counseling Center, said that …
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Last drive with Mom

Filed under: Maryland Drug Abuse

She and I developed a new tradition then, in which we would get in her car and drive from D.C. out to rural Maryland, out to the countryside. From there we would let ourselves get completely lost. The only navigational rule was that we …. I already …
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Worlds Apart: Health Care and Pharmacy in China

Filed under: Maryland Drug Abuse

I was curious whether there were any laws in place to regulate dispensing of medications without prescriptions as well as to limit the potential for abuse of medications such as antibiotics or opioids. I wondered how … The pharmaceutics degree limits …
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