Senate Votes to Reduce Welfare-Eligible Years

Senate votes to reduce welfare-eligible years

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… in Nashville. (FILE PHOTO). NASHVILLE — The Senate voted Monday to reduce from five years to four the lifetime maximum amount of time that most people can receive welfare benefits and to authorize prosecution of women who use drugs illegally while …
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Addiction: Recovering Main Street

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In the hands of first responders, clinics and even families, this safe, easy-to-administer drug (brand name Narcan) can prevent drug and alcohol poisoning (that's what overdose is) from killing. There is similar Pennsylvania resistance to allowing …
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Heroin addiction in NH

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The number of people admitted to state-funded treatment programs for heroin addiction has jumped 90 percent in the last decade, with the greatest increase between 2012 and 2013, when 1,540 people were treated for heroin addiction. … The New Hampshire …
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