Sky's the Limit for Drone Uses
Sky's the limit for drone uses
Local video production company SlicedTomato Productions works on an ariel drone shoot with Republic Locomotive in Greenville. How do you feel … So far, 13 states have enacted laws addressing the use of drones, and more than a dozen others, including …
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Coming in the air: Allergy season just around the corner
"It's always hard to tell what kind of season we'll have and when it's going to start," Johnstone, of Allergy Partners of the Upstate, told The Greenville News. "But we are starting to see … Treatment consists largely of trying to avoid the offending …
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Commonly Available Blood-Pressure Drug Prevents Epilepsy After Brain Injury
Commonly available blood-pressure drug prevents epilepsy after brain injury
Coauthor Guy Bar-Klein, a doctoral student at Ben-Gurion University, searched a long list of drugs before discovering losartan, which is approved to treat high blood pressure because it blocks the angiotensin receptor 1, but which incidentally also …
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Supreme Court upholds affirmative action ban in Michigan
It said public colleges and universities "shall not discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin." 'The same playing field'. Michigan state officials did …
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Panel Studies Options for Suffolk Drug Treatment Facilities
Panel studies options for Suffolk drug treatment facilities
The legislator said that due to limited space at existing treatment centers, people are often sent off Long Island and away from their families and support systems to places that have room for them. She said individuals should be able to find treatment …
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How Long Island is Losing its War on Heroin
But, some of those presenters, even some legislators who voted for it, were unaware that Nassau disregarded half of a landmark local anti-heroin law it enacted following a Press investigative series in 2008 that exposed the depths of Long Island's …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
… struggle and fail. Contrails from jet planes passing overhead intersect the National Museum of Art in Washington, Thursday … In the course of Marchese's five-year battle with heroin, the young man from Blackwood, N.J., was repeatedly denied …
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Double redemption: One man's battle with alcohol
His lawyer had called him in D.C. Connor was wanted by State Police and needed to get back to Delaware. Connor knew why: … He was drinking even as he was on the phone helping someone else get into an addiction treatment program. … Brady told Connor …
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State Auditor: Tolls Truth, Heroin Help, Airport Board and Need for …
State auditor: tolls truth, heroin help, airport board and need for …
Kentucky State Auditor Adam Edelen returned to the Northern Kentucky region on yesterday as the featured speaker of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce's monthly Eggs n Issues forum. The first-term Democrat has made several trips here since …
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Kentucky reports rise in heroin use
Legislation passed in Kentucky in prior years, known as the Pill Mill Bill, amounted to a crackdown on rehabilitation facilities found to be complicit in the state's prescription pill trafficking problem. Experts from around the state have testified to …
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New Screening Program to Become Routine Part of Exams
New screening program to become routine part of exams
… Authority (NARBHA) announced its Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program, which has implemented substance use screening programs in five mainstream health care centers in northern Arizona, has screened its 7,000th …
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Number of male and female drug addicts in Azerbaijan made public
The number of registered drug users in Azerbaijan in 2013 has been made public, APA reports. As of December 31, 2013, Republic Drug Treatment Center under the Health Ministry said that 28 376 people were registered at the center. This indicator was 27 …
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