"Health & Medical News"

California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled that police need to return marijuana seized from medical users if drug charges against them have been dropped, the San Francisco Chronicle? reported Nov. 30.

Police, prosecutors and local governments had argued that it would condone drug use, interfere with federal law enforcement, and possible expose police to prosecution on drug charges if they were forced to return seized marijuana. But the court cited California’s medical-marijuana law in ordering that seized marijuana be returned to its rightful owners.

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Washington — Wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are surviving injuries that would have been fatal in earlier wars. That’s the good news. But these serious wounds also are causing a great deal of pain, which, if untreated, can trigger a cascade of life-disrupting changes, according to pain experts speaking at an Oct. 30 Capitol Hill briefing.

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A new Gallup poll finds that most Americans think homelessness is largely caused by alcohol and other drug abuse, but still think more should be done to address the problem, the Associated Press reported Nov. 14.

The poll, funded by mortgage company Fannie Mae, found that more than 80 percent of the 1,000 people polled blamed addiction for causing homelessness, while about 70 percent cited mental illness. By comparison, only 67 percent thought homelessness was caused by insufficient income, and 65 percent cited job loss.

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