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Study: Pot Smoking Increases Risk of Psychosis

(March 1) -- Before Mike Stultz even ate breakfast, the 17-year-old would start his morning by smoking a joint -- only to bump up with a few hits of marijuana every few hours throughout the day. One year later, he was pulled out of college after suffering from a hallucinatory breakdown. Stultz had become convinced that...

6 Red Flags in Fort Hood Case

(Nov. 12) -- Hindsight is always 20/20, especially as investigators and reporters try to connect the dots following a tragedy as stunning as the Fort Hood massacre. In the week since the attack that left 13 dead, these possible warning signs about Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with killing his fellow...

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05/30/12 State: $1-a-pack cigarette tax passes Source: The Daily Journal - Kankakee IL Gov. Pat Quinn is thanking lawmakers who voted to approve a $1 increase in cigarette taxes.
05/30/12 Transition help for recovered mental patients Source: The Press Democrat - Santa Rosa CA
When Mathew Beck returns to Sonoma County after spending nearly a dozen years locked up in the state mental hospital, he'll enter a conditional release program for the criminally insane that counts two other killers among its members.
In his transition from asylum to the street, Beck will be under close watch of doctors and social workers, living first in a residential care facility near Santa Rosa and later transferring to a group home or his own apartment.
Along the way, the man who stabbed to death two Rohnert Park women in a psychotic frenzy will attend regular outpatient therapy sessions and submit to random drug testing.
05/30/12 Mall to implement tobacco-free policy Source: CBS - WIVB TV News 4 - Buffalo NY The owner and operator of Walden Galleria is implementing a tobacco free policy on their property, starting Thursday.
05/30/12 No outdoor smoking at 2 WMass malls Source: NBC - 22 News WWLP - Springfield MA HOLYOKE, Mass. Smoking inside shopping malls was banned years ago, but now the Holyoke and Hampshire Malls are also banning smoking outside.
05/30/12 Wise Words: What Are You Afraid Of? Source: The Edge It has the power to derail your entire life if you are bound by it.