Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen has a page on Facebook. His page features a photograph of the Commandant, attired in a flightsuit a few yards away from an Osprey tiltro
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Everyone has their horror stories concerning the current economic downturn, which many experts claim is the worst financial disaster since the great depression of the 193

When Frank “E.” was 12 years-old, few people would have predicted much of a future for him. The son of a single, cocaine-addicted mother, Frank was already regularly
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In the last 20 years, the addiction profession in California has responded to many issues: creating service systems for an ever-growing need; increasing treatment capacit

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My story with chemical dependence is every parent’s worst nightmare. In October 2005, my son Brent died of an adverse reaction—a deadly combination of ecstasy and alc

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