Political Empire Wednesday, Sept 12


 

Political Empire Wednesday, Sept 12 – REHAB CENTER INVESTIGATED – A state Senate investigation faulted the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs for not enforcing a law that drug treatment cent…

 

PCP more prevalent among arrestees in DC than other big cities

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Introducing the report at a seminar at the Urban Institute in the District last week, R. Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, cited the overall statistics as a need for better substance-abuse treatment …
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Health Care Overhaul Excludes Some Immigrants

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The Affordable Care Act will make health insurance accessible for millions of uninsured people starting in January through taxpayer-subsidized private policies for middle-class families and expanded access to Medicaid, the program for low-income people …
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Activists Urge End to War on Drugs

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Workers on their lunch breaks and a few tourists paused to snap cell phone photos of the group of activists as they marched, led by a police escort, from the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C. down 16th Street NW and into Lafayette Park for …
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