Officials Drop Charge Against UNC’s Sturdivant

Suburbia’s heroin addiction
A study says the Chicago region leads the country in abuse of the drug. We talk to an addict, a cop, a grieving mother, a landlord and a survivor fighting to stay clean Meet five people with distinct insights into why Chicago has the nation’s most severe heroin problem. Together they illuminate a plague that stretches from city streets to suburban funeral parlors, one that has proved hard to …

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US Army report finds alarming rise in drug abuse, other factors alongside record suicides
WASHINGTON – An U.S. Army report on the record number of soldier suicides says the trend reflects a rise in risky behaviour including drunken driving and drug abuse in a military stretched to the breaking point by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Officials drop charge against UNC’s Sturdivant
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a drug charge against a North Carolina linebacker after he entered a deferred prosecution agreement. Stanly County prosecutor John Phillips told The Charlotte Observer on Friday that Quan Sturdivant will be required to complete 24 hours of community service and have a substance abuse assessment.

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