Revised proposal still may deter welfare recipients
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Written tests and an in-person interview with DSS and substance abuse specialists determine whether an applicant should be referred to a drug or alcohol abuse treatment program. They do not currently drug test, said Barbara Harris, Wake County's Work …
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For Phila . prostitutes , a new dawn
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It is court-associated and based on the idea that reducing recidivism requires addressing the underlying problems of sexual trauma and substance abuse that lead women to the streets. "When people see women on the street arrested … They receive …
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Viral cardiomyopathy leads Randy Travis to get heart device
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The heart typically pumps out about 60 percent of its blood volume on every beat, explains Dr. Randall Starling, a heart failure specialist at the cardiovascular medicine department of the Cleveland Clinic, but a patient with cardiomyopathy might only …
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