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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Rabies prevention The Department of Health offers information on how to prevent the spread of rabies and what to do in the event of exposure. Rabies is most often seen in raccoons, bats, foxes and skunks. Information: 410-222-7168 or visit aahealth.org....Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Rabies, Brooklyn Park, Addiction, Peripheral Vascular Disease
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Maryland families to get new tool in fight against drug overdoses
Linda Fletcher lives in fear of reliving a nightmare: a son dying from a heroin overdose. Her son Kris Klipner succumbed to the drug in 2007. He was 28. Klipner's half-brother battles the same kind of depression as Kris. He suffers the same heroin...
Tags: Perry Hall, Addiction, Maryland General Assembly, Behavioral Conditions, Heroin
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Severn mother on probation after son drank methadone
A Severn mother who, despite a poison center's admonition to get her son to a hospital immediately, waited until her child began having a seizure from sipping his father's methadone, was placed on three years' probation Friday. Kimberly Brooks, 28,...Tags: Justice System, Glen Burnie, Punishment, Hospitals and Clinics, Child Abuse
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State investigating Baltimore methadone clinic after man's death
The day after her ex-husband's funeral in January, Sabrina Lumpkin started calling every public official she could think of, trying to get someone to pay attention. Warren Lumpkin, 34, had died in a Southwest Baltimore house of heart complications...
Tags: Symptoms, Elkton, Disease Prevention, Behavioral Conditions, Heroin
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Heroin deaths rise as crackdown on prescription drug abuse succeeds
As efforts to crack down on the abuse of prescription drugs have worked, a new problem has emerged, with addicts who can no longer get their fix by popping pills turning to the old-fashioned street drug heroin, health and law enforcement officials say....Tags: Perry Hall, Laws, Maryland State Police, Drug Trafficking, Addiction
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Severn father acquitted of child abuse charges
A Severn father was found guilty of child neglect on Wednesday, but was acquitted of the most serious charge facing him — child abuse — in a case that stemmed from his 5-year-old son losing consciousness after drinking methadone. In a...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Judges, Justice System, Child Abuse
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Severn father on trial for child abuse after boy drank methadone
Police testified Tuesday that a Severn man, whose 5-year-old son lost consciousness last September after drinking methadone that the father acknowledged buying, waited more than an hour after the boy initially became ill to call for help because he "was...
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Lexington Market, Child Abuse, Trials
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Severn couple facing child abuse charges after child drank methadone
A Severn couple already facing drug and weapons charges after rescue workers and police were called to their house for a report that their child accidentally took methadone are now also under indictment on child abuse and neglect counts. Paul...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Justice System, Lexington Market, Methamphetamine (drug), Emergency Health Procedures
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Election Day message: The nonsense of marijuana busts
Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its accounting of all arrests made by law enforcement agencies across the fruited plain. Cops and federal agents made 12,408,899 arrests in the USA in 2011. No wonder we're known around the world as...
Tags: Laws, Justice System, Demerol (drug), Prisons, Police Investigations
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Family of Bel Air woman killed in crash files suit against drug treatment center
The family of a 64-year-old Bel Air woman killed in a car accident in July 2011 has filed suit against a Belcamp substance abuse treatment center, asking for $20 million in compensatory and punitive damages. In the suit, filed Oct. 3 in Harford County...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Laws, Justice System, Court Preliminary, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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5-year-old ingests methadone; father gets arrested
A 28-year-old Severn man was arrested on multiple gun and drug charges Tuesday after paramedics responded to his home and found his 5-year-old son had ingested methadone, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Paul Kristopher Brooks, of the 1200...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Methamphetamine (drug), University of Maryland Medical Center, Heroin
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Woman pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter for causing 2011 fatal accident near Bel Air
A 28-year-old Harford County woman accused of causing a fatal accident near Bel Air in July 2011 has pleaded guilty to a single count of manslaughter by motor vehicle, the county state's attorney said, and will serve a prison term of five years. Nicole...
Tags: Accidental Death, Justice System, Transportation Accidents, Court Preliminary, Prisons
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