Kalparrin drug and alcohol support service still fighting for federal backing

Published August 9, 2013

Kalparrin drug and alcohol support service still fighting for federal backing

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The Government is tendering for new services, but the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council says the gap in services has left Indigenous people who are battling substance abuse with nowhere to turn. Council member Scott Wilson says as the state's only …
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SWAT-Team Nation

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The moment the assault rifles surrounded her, Angie Wong was standing in a leafy art-gallery courtyard with her boyfriend, a lawyer named Paul Kaiser. It was just past 2 A.M., in May, 2008. Wong was twenty-two years old and was dressed for an evening …
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Fact or Fiction? Combustibility of Spray-On Sunscreens Poses Risk of Skin Burns

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has on file five incidents—and Canadian regulators have noted another—in which people applied spray-on sunscreen and, after approaching a barbecue grill, lighting a cigarette or standing near a citronella candle, …
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