Talking to Your Kids About Drug Use

Talking to Your Kids About Drug Use – What do you say if your child asks if you’ve used drugs in the past? Hazelden’s Dr. Joseph Lee joins Fox 9 News to discuss whether parents should talk to their teens about their own drug use. Dr. Lee believes parents should be honest as they are the greatest influence on a child’s development. For more about sharing personal experiences with addiction, visit: www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

The Single Payer Solution?

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"McDermott's ideal world, health reform would have meant a single-payer health care system." Having people wait 6 months to a year to get treatment is well worth it if it prevents those evil insurance companies from getting their grubby hands on those …
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Yeager's Vision for Santa Clara County

Filed under: does drug abuse treatment work

“My goals for 2013 are as ambitious as they were in 2010, if not more so,” he told a standing-room-only crowd, referring to his last time as board president, when he pushed for bans on smoking, single-use plastic bags and candy-and-soda-packed vending …
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