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  <title><![CDATA[AMA Says Marijuana Has Medical Uses, Calls for More Research]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Marijuana (cannabis) has been shown through limited research to have proven medical uses, the American Medical Association said in a new policy statement that also urges the federal government to consider moving the drug out of Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act in order to facilitate clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medications.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:10:25 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Drunk Drivers with Kids in Car Could Face Felonies in N.Y.]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The New York state Assembly has passed a bill that would make it a felony offense to drive while intoxicated if children under age 16 are in the vehicle.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:05:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Tolerance of Marijuana Reflected in Seniors' Use]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Some members of the Baby Boomer generation not only remain tolerant of marijuana use but also continue to smoke the drug themselves.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:30:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Experts Worry About Fading Attention to Smoking Threat]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. smoking rate rose in 2008 for the first time in 15 years, and experts worry that the public has become complacent about the public-health threat posed by tobacco use.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mich. Employers Confused by New Medical Marijuana Law]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Employers in Detroit, Mich., are struggling to make sense of the state’s new medical-marijuana law.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:03:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[NYC: Police DWI Case Leads to Policy Reform]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[New York police may soon be able to get expedited warrants to conduct involuntary blood-alcohol tests on drunk-driving suspects.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:30 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[NORML-Affiliated Cannabis Cafe Opens in Oregon]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Portland, Ore.'s new Cannabis Cafe serves food and medical marijuana to members of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) who hold state-issued medical-marijuana cards.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:04:10 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Georgia Bans Tobacco in All Prisons]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Georgia’s Department of Corrections will start phasing out smoking and tobacco use in its 37 facilities beginning Jan. 1.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:02:49 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[L.A. Finally Drafts Medical-Marijuana Rules]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[More than a year and a half after it first began drafting regulations for medical-marijuana clinics, the city of Los Angeles has released proposed rules to control the dispensaries' proliferation.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:04:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Family Dinners Still Popular in U.S. Homes]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[More than 60 percent of families in the U.S. said they ate family dinners together at least five nights during the past week, according to a new survey .]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:14:17 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Athletes Who Use Performance Drugs Likely to Abuse Other Substances]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Rutgers University researchers have found that student athletes who use legal and illicit drugs to boost their sports performance also are more likely to drink heavily and use recreational drugs like marijuana and cocaine.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:13:04 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[More Workers Seek to Clear Criminal Records to Find Jobs]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The lousy U.S. job market has made it more urgent for workers with criminal convictions to seek to have their records purged so they can compete for work.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:12:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[N.M.: New Medical-Marijuana Suppliers Named]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[New Mexico, the first state to officially authorize marijuana growers for its medical-marijuana program, has named an additional four suppliers to meet growing demand for the drug.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:09:06 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Outlaw Alcohol Sports Sponsorships, Researchers Say]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Governments should ban alcoholic-beverage firms from sponsoring sports teams and sporting events, which could instead be supported by taxes on alcohol products, according to researchers.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:48 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Male Athletes Drink More, Smoke Less, Study Finds]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Adolescent males who play team sports are less likely to smoke cigarettes or be depressed but are more likely to drink alcohol and get into fights, whereas sports participation generally reduces risky behavior among girls.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:28:10 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Eying L.A. Free-for-All, Other Calif. Cities Look to Limit Medical-Marijuana Programs]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Communities across California are moving to control medical-marijuana clinics, fearing a repeat of the unchecked proliferation of dispensaries in the city of Los Angeles.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:26:19 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[NH: Drunk-Driving Victims' Kin Seek Roadside Memorial Signs]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Makeshift roadside memorials have sprung up nationwide at the site of fatal alcohol crashes, and now advocates in New Hampshire say a similar concept could raise public awareness about the dangers of drunk driving.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:24:50 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Senate to Mark Up Criminal Justice Policy Panel Bill]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is set to mark up a bill that calls for a comprehensive review of U.S. crime and drug-control policy, but the measure could get a rough reception from a leading Republican lawmaker who would like to sharply limit the scope of the review.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:43:18 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[FDA Threatens Ban on Alcoholic Energy Drinks]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Alcoholic drinks that contain caffeine are facing an imminent ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unless manufacturers can clearly show that the products are safe for consumers.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:49:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Congress Orders Review of Mandatory Minimums]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Sentencing Commission has been directed by Congress to conduct a review of mandatory-minimum sentencing and issue recommendations about alternative sentences.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:51:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Crushing Virtual Cigarettes to Squish Addiction]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Can destroying cyber-cigarettes help smokers quit? Surprisingly, a new study says yes.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:54:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Residents Confront Local Drug Dealers Over Community Impact]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Residents in Peoria, Ill., recently got the chance to confront alleged drug dealers about how they are negatively impacting the community.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:24:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[CDC Finds Little New Progress in Cutting Smoking]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[About 20 percent of adults in the U.S. were regular smokers last year, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is concerned that the numbers of adult smokers failed to decline significantly after a decade of near-steady progress against the nation's top cause of preventable deaths.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:57 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Military Deploying Therapists to Attack Combat Stress at Source]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon is sending a record number of mental-health professionals into combat zones in Afghanistan to meet the needs of U.S. troops.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:16:49 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Medicaid Programs Limit Coverage for Smoking Cessation]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Most state Medicaid programs offer some type of coverage for smoking-cessation programs, but just two states cover treatment completely, according to research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:07:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Campaign Sounds Alarm about Misuse of Prescription Drugs Among Teens]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE), along with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and representatives from 15 nationally recognized prevention, health professional and child advocacy organizations, are launching a new toolkit, "Maximizing Your Role as a Teen Influencer: What You Can Do to Help Prevent Teen Prescription Drug Abuse."]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:26:26 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Expand Vets' Access to Methadone, Other Addiction Treatment, Report Says]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. military's Tricare program is coming under fire for not providing reimbursement for methadone maintenance and buprenorphine treatment -- two leading pharmacological interventions for opioid addiction.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:19:56 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Bill Allowing Federal Funding of Needle Exchange Limits Locations]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A bill that would lift a longstanding ban on federal funding of needle-exchange programs would also bar such programs from being established within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, or other venues frequented by children.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:10:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Fatal Overdoses Often Involve Methadone, Washington Study Finds]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Methadone was involved in 64 percent of fatal overdoses on prescription opiate drugs in the state of Washington, more than double the rate of overdoses on oxycodone or hydrocodone, according to a new report from state and federal health officials.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:08:52 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Maker of Stop-Smoking Products Eyed by Reynolds]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A firm that makes nicotine gum and other smoking-cessation products could soon become part of the Reynolds American, Inc., tobacco company.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:55:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Don't Switch to 'Lights' to Quit Smoking, Researchers Say]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Switching to so-called light cigarettes won't improve your health or help you quit smoking, experts say.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:55:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Alcohol Use Hinders In-Vitro Fertilization, Study Finds]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The odds of achieving a live birth through in-virto fertilization (IVF) fell by 26 percent if either sex partner consumed four or more alcoholic drinks weekly, according to a new study.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:52:34 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[More States Allowing High-Alcohol Beer]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Beer with alcohol levels two or three times higher than your typical Budweiser or Coors are being sold in a growing number of states.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:59:29 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexican Traffickers, Growers in Indian Country]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Mexican drug cartels are not only setting up marijuana grow operations in U.S. national parks and other public lands but also have infiltrated a number of Indian reservations.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[iPhone App for 12-Steppers Developed]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A new application program for the Apple iPhone connects people in recovery with a support network of peers in the 12-step community.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:02:14 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Colo. Lawmakers Look to Rein In Medical Marijuana]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Legislators in Colorado are proposing a wide range of regulations to control medical-marijuana dispensaries.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:57:52 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Study Explores Action of Alcohol-Related Metabolic 'Switch']]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A study of fruit flies finds that heavy drinking may initiate a genetic process that increases alcohol tolerance but also switches the body from metabolizing alcohol to forming fat in the liver -- the underpinning of the deadly disease cirrhosis.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:55:05 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Injunction Denied in Tobacco Firms' FDA Case]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A courtroom bid to block implementation of the FDA tobacco-regulation law filed by a top cigarette company has been denied by a federal judge.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:52:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mexico's Drug Cartels Recruiting Youth]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Drug cartels are luring an alarming number of Mexico’s youth into a lifestyle of fast money, drugs and crime.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:00:56 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[FDA's Tobacco Unit Unaffected by Lawsuits]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to set up its new tobacco-regulation unit despite pending lawsuits from tobacco companies such as Reynolds American, Inc., and Lorillard, Inc.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:53:47 EST</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Animal Study Finds Males More Affected by Prenatal Cocaine Use]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Cocaine use during pregnancy appears to be linked to impulsive behavior among male children but not females, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Combine Nicotine Patch, Lozenges to Quit Smoking, Researchers Say]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A study comparing five pharmaceutical approaches to quitting smoking found that mixing nicotine patches and lozenges was the most effective, in part because it seemed to best duplicate the highs and lows of nicotine addiction faced by smokers.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Marijuana Legalized in Breckenridge, Colo.]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[In a largely symbolic move, voters in the Colorado ski town of Breckenridge voted overwhelmingly to approve the legalization of marijuana possession.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Smoking During Pregnancy May Predispose Kids to Behavioral Problems]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Women who smoked during pregnancy were more likely to report having children with behavioral problems, and researchers think the reason could be fetal brain damage.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[MADD Launches Program To Help Parents Influence Teen Alcohol Behavior]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Nationwide Insurance have launched a multi-media program to give parents of high school students the communication tools they need to stop teen alcohol use. ]]></description> 

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  <description><![CDATA[Voters in Maine this week decisively approved a measure that will make medical marijuana more available to residents.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Company Designs Filter to Remove Some Cigarette Toxins]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A Hong Kong biotech firm has designed a filter that removes some of the toxic chemicals from cigarette smoke but leaves the tobacco flavor intact.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Address Drinking, Smoking to Raise Life Expectancy: WHO]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[About one in four premature deaths worldwide can be traced to five preventable health factors -- alcohol use, poor childhood nutrition, unsafe sex, bad sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure -- according to the World Health Organization (WHO).]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[U.K. Drug Czar Fired for Saying Illegal Drugs Less Harmful Than Alcohol, Cigarettes]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has fired his drug czar after David Nutt said that LSD and ecstasy are less dangerous drugs than alcohol or tobacco.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Study Shows How Alcohol Can Spread Cancer]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Researchers from Rush University Medical Center may have discovered how alcohol transforms regular cancer cells into a more aggressive form of the disease that can spread to other areas of the body.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Smoking May Hinder Arthritis Treatment ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Several recent studies have found that smoking cigarettes may trigger rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or hinder the treatment of RA.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Cheap Alcohol Appeals to Problem Drinkers, Study Finds]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[About 70 percent of the alcohol consumed by a group of problem drinkers in Scotland had been bought at a discount, according to a study that concluded that heavy drinkers actively seek out cheap alcohol and that setting minimum alcohol prices could cut overconsumption.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Researchers Probe Smokeless Tobacco's Relative Safety]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and academic researchers are examining whether smokeless-tobacco products can potentially be viewed as a safer alternative to smoking.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Cut Drunk Driving Standard to .05 Percent, MADD Canada Says]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Quebec should cut its legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 percent as recommended by the province's transport minister in 2007, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada says.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Fight Heroin with Heroin, Study Says]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Less use of street drugs and less criminal activity were among the benefits of giving heroin addicts daily injections of the drug along with counseling and other services, according to a new study.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Medical Marijuana Providers Need to Know Patients, Colorado Court Rules]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A Colorado court has let stand the drug conviction of a woman who supplied marijuana to medical-marijuana dispensaries, saying the she did not qualify as a "caregiver" under state law because she did not have direct contact with patients.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Agassi Drug Revelation Earns Criticism from Tennis Peers]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Tennis champion Andre Agassi's admission of drug use more than a decade ago has led to confusion and condemnation among current and former tennis pros, including some who have been professed admirers of his career.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Light Smoking Impairs Arterial Health, Study Finds]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Young smokers suffer reduced cardiovascular function even if they smoke only a few cigarettes per day, according to research from Stella Daskalopoulou at the McGill University Health Center.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Federal Government Pushes Development of Addiction Vaccines]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The federal government wants to leverage interest and investment in vaccine development to get pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs that could "inoculate" people against addiction to cocaine, nicotine, and other substances.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Pharmacies Worry About Liability for Prescription-Drug Abuse]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Pharmacies nationally are closely watching a Nevada case in which car-crash victims and their families are suing stores that sold painkillers to a driver who had been suspected of abusing prescription drugs.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Leading Health Reform Bill Allows Higher Premiums for Smokers, Not Other Drug Users]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Health insurers would be allowed to charge smokers higher rates under the Senate Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill, but no such provisions are in place for users of illicit drugs.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[New Brews Sacrifice Alcohol, Flavor to Save Calories]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[U.S. brewers are promoting a new class of ultra-low calorie beers that have lower alcohol content than typical mass-marketed full-strength and light brews.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Former Anheuser-Busch Spokesperson Sues Over 'Frat Party' Work Environment]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Francine Katz, the longtime spokesperson for brewer Anheuser-Busch, is suing the company for sexual discrimination, saying that she earned lower pay than her male colleagues and endured a 'locker room' and 'frat party' atmosphere during her 20 years with the company.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Legalization Gets a Hearing in California]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The California legislature held a hearing this week on a bill that would legalize marijuana, and if that fails to pass state voters will likely have the opportunity to vote on legalization via ballot initiative next fall.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[New York May Try Collecting Cigarette Taxes from Native Americans]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[New York lawmakers are considering collecting unpaid taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American tribes to non-Indians as a way to help address the state’s budget deficit.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[States Adjust to Leading Role in Medical Marijuana Enforcement]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[States with medical-marijuana laws on the books are taking a harder look at their statutes now that the Obama administration has announced that legitimate medical users and suppliers won't be prosecuted under federal law.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[More States Considering Prescription Laws to Battle Meth]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The state of Oregon requires a prescription to purchase certain formerly over-the-counter medications that can be used to make methamphetamine, and now other states are considering similar laws.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Utah Legislature Considers $2 Cigarette Tax]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A Utah state Senator wants to raise the tobacco tax from 69.5 cents per pack to $2 per pack in order to help address a budget shortfall, and experts say a tax hike is likely to pass.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Canadian Governments Seek Huge Sums from Tobacco Industry]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Various liability claims by Canadian governments against tobacco companies could total nearly $200 billion.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Effect of a Case Management Intervention as Part of a Needle Exchange Program on Opioid Agonist Treatment Retention]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[In a clinical trial, investigators sought to determine the impact of a case management intervention on treatment retention among needle exchange program participants referred for opioid agonist treatment.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Could Choice of Antipsychotic Medication Impact Alcohol Use in Patients with Serious Mental Illness?]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Researchers compared the relative impact of first- and second-generation antipsychotic medications on alcohol use in patients with schizophrenia and a co-occurring alcohol use disorder.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Increases in Methamphetamine-Related Treatment Admissions for Pregnant Women]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Researchers studied whether increases in methamphetamine use in the U.S. has impacted substance abuse treatment use by pregnant women.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Are Brief Alcohol Interventions Likely to be Effective in Routine Primary Care Practice?]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Researchers conducted a meta-analysis to determine the effectiveness of brief interventions for nondependent unhealthy alcohol use in primary care settings.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Alcohol, Other Lifestyle Factors, and Mortality]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Data from the Health and Retirement Study are compared to determine whether the survival benefit associated with moderate alcohol use remains after accounting for nontraditional risk factors such as socioeconomic status (SES) and functional limitations.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Does Mandated Treatment Improve Outcomes for Women with Co-occurring Disorders and Histories of Violence?]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Researchers studied participants in the national Women, Co-occurring Disorders, and Violence Study to determine if women mandated to substance abuse treatment had better substance use, mental health, and trauma outcomes compared with demographically similar women who entered treatment voluntarily.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[APIS: New Resource on State Underage Drinking Policies]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS), a project of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, announces its latest update of state-by-state alcohol policies.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Cold Beer Banned in Attempt to Prevent Public Drinking]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A Chicago suburb has banned the sale of some cold beer in order to address a local problem with public drinking.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Anchorage Forces Treatment on Some Homeless Alcoholics]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The city of Anchorage, Alaska is involuntarily checking homeless people into rehab in the wake of more than a dozen deaths due to drinking, exposure and other causes.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Minnesota Supreme Court Calls Bong Water a Controlled Substance]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Individuals can be prosecuted under drug laws for possessing a small amount of bong water that contains traces of marijuana or other controlled substances, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Mexico's Cocaine Use Doubles ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Over the last six years cocaine use in Mexico has doubled, according to a recent report issued by the Mexican government.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Cocaine Changes in Brain Reversed by Amino Acid, Animal Study Suggests]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina say that a common amino acid could be used to undo the brain-circuitry changes wrought by cocaine use and reduce craving for the drug.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Random Roadside Breath Tests Considered in Canada]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Officials in Canada are considering changing the law to allow police to conduct random roadside Breathalyzer tests for drunk driving, rather than just for-cause tests.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Nation's Only Licensed Marijuana Distributor Sees No Panacea]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A recent amendment to New Mexico's medical-marijuana law allows producers of the drug to get licensed as legitimate medical suppliers. But the state's (and the nation's) sole recipient of a marijuana producer's license said she lives in fear of theft or prosecution and doesn't want her identity revealed.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Judge Blocks L.A.'s Attempt to Shut Down Medical Marijuana Dispensaries]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A California Superior Court judge has issued an injunction preventing the city of Los Angeles from shuttering a Playa Vista medical-marijuana dispensary, a decision that effectively brakes the city's efforts to shut down most such clinics.]]></description> 

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  <title><![CDATA[Drug Czar Urges Police to Advocate Against Legalization]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske's thinking about drug addiction has moved from disdain to enlightenment over the past decade, but the former police chief views drug legalization as a 'non-starter' and is urging law-enforcement officials to speak out against the idea.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:16:47 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Police Tip Not Enough to Justify Breath Test for DWI, Court Says]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Police need to personally observe signs of impaired driving before pulling over a driver and administering tests for DWI, even if they received an alert from citizens about a possible drunk driver.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:31 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Major U.S. Crackdown on Mexican Drug Cartel]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A Mexican drug cartel that recruits members from drug-rehabilitation programs and has religious pretensions was the target of a U.S. law-enforcement sweep that resulted in 303 arrests.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:35:24 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Heroin Threat Exceeds Taliban, U.N. Says]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The annual death toll from use of Afghan heroin in NATO countries exceeds the total number of deaths among the troops of these nations during the entire course of the Afghan war, according to a new report from the United Nations.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:31:14 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Controlled Substances at Center of Medicaid Fraud Probe]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A new government report has uncovered 65,000 apparent cases of 'doctor shopping' for controlled substances that amount to Medicaid fraud.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:29:37 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Study: Parents' Expectations Can Influence Risky Teen Behavior]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[The more parents expect their teens to engage in risky behaviors such as drinking and using drugs, the more likely their teens are to follow through with those behaviors, a study says.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:18:05 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Judge to Rule on FDA Oversight of e-Cigarettes]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A federal judge may soon decide whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to regulate electronic (e-) cigarettes as drug-delivery devices.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:12:40 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Support for Legalization Hits All-Time High: Gallup Poll]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Forty-four percent of Americans now say they support marijuana legalization, while 54 percent oppose legalizing the drug.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:44:00 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Missouri Town Requires Prescriptions for Cold, Allergy Medications ]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Union, Mo., just became the second town in the U.S. to pass a law that requires a prescription to buy (formerly) over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines such as Sudafed, Aleve Cold &amp; Sinus and Claritin D, which contain the methamphetamine ingredient pseudoephedrine.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:16:40 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Would End Under Bill]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A bill introduced in Congress would equalize penalties for offenses involving crack and powdered cocaine.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:08:18 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Medical Marijuana Unlikely to Be Covered in Health Plans]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Medical marijuana and healthcare reform are both hot topics, but the odds are against medical-marijuana users getting reimbursed by their health plans for purchases of the drug.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:51:41 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Va. 'Sticker Shock' Campaign Highlights Risks, Consequences of Giving Alcohol to Minors]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[A youth-led initiative from northern Virginia launched the regions' first Sticker Shock campaign to educate adults who might betempted to purchase alcohol for minors. 
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  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:49:23 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Association Seen Between Crack Smoking and HIV Infection]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Individuals who smoke crack cocaine daily are more likely contract the AIDS virus, but researchers are not sure why.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:48:57 EDT</pubDate> 
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  <title><![CDATA[Mass. Court Clears Lawsuit Seeking Diagnostic Tests Paid by Tobacco Industry]]></title> 
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  <description><![CDATA[Tobacco companies can be sued by smokers seeking to compel the firms to pay for diagnostic screenings for possible lung cancer, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.]]></description> 

  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:07 EDT</pubDate> 
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