They strongly object to criminal penalties for drug-addicted pregnant women, favouring rehabilitation instead.

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After the arrest of Ranta a drug-addicted, unemployed printer Hasidic Jews surrounded the car that carried him to jail and chanted, "Death penalty!"

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At Great Starts, I worked directly with drug-addicted newborns as lead teacher in the infant room, and I became the nursery director three years later.

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Max Payne, an alcoholic and drug-addicted virtual character, could inject much-needed new life in May after such a weak April, and down sales for most of this year.

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But the image that strikes me, and the one I remember, is that of an aging, lonely, unkempt, drug-addicted recluse, ensconced at a terribly high expense in a Las Vegas suite, obsessively trying to keep things operating-room clean, living in fear that a germ would infect and kill him.

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But he said that the reasons for humans becoming addicted to any drug were more complex than simply their genetic make-up, and that a test for any gene uncovered by further research would not necessarily work.

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It needs only to win a few seemingly small battles at the margins--squash Social Security privatization here, cap drug prices there--and a majority of U.S. voters can become addicted to the sweet narcotic of government largesse.

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He noted that 4% to 6% of children become addicted to gambling, and that it has been linked with other high-risk behaviors, including drug use.

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