Duke Fraternity's Racist “Asia Prime” Party Puts Greek Community Behavior Back …
Duke fraternity's racist “Asia Prime” party puts Greek community behavior back …
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Fraternities across the country encourage members to take drugs, brutally haze pledges and drug girls at parties. The president of … University. After graduating, she finally left her Southern roots to move to Washington D.C. Follow her @LauraAnnByrne.
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Thousands Oppose Governor O'Malley's Ill-conceived Gun Bills
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Many of these are genuine assault weapons, i.e., capable of fully automatic fire. Most weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels are of this type, and did not come from U.S. dealers as alleged by the gun control crowd, because they are much more …
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Handguns, some stolen, used in most St. Mary's shootings
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Melissa Virasith remains in a wheelchair in her family's home in a Pennsylvania town as federal lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and Maryland's legislators wrangle over proposed changes in gun control laws that critics contend would further threaten the …
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Dagga to revive US unions?
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During the past few years unions, led by the UFCW, have played an increasingly significant role in campaigns to allow medical marijuana, now legal in California, 17 other states and Washington, DC. In the November elections, UFCW operatives also helped …
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Dr. Howard A. Heit Talks About Iatrogenic Addiction – Howard A. Heit, MD, FACP, FASAM, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Diplomate in Addiction Medicine, Certified Medical Review Officer, Chronic Pain Specialist, Assistant Clinical Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, explains iatrogenic addiction and how it manifests in practice. The NIH defines iatrogenic addiction as an addiction that is inadvertently induced by a physician, medical treatment or diagnostic procedures. Dr. Heit says that iatrogenic addiction can occur in a patient who has given an adequate and comprehensive history that is negative for drugs and alcohol, either in the patient themselves or the patient’s family. A controlled substance could go through a certain pathway that causes the patient to lose control of the medication and become addicted to it. Dr. Heit adds that the incidence of iatrogenic addiction is unknown but it is believed to be rare.