Laborers warned about meth trade dangers
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Fotonovelas &#151; pocket-sized picture books popular in Mexico &#151; have gotten a California makeover that authorities hope persuades immigrant laborers to resist the easy-money temptation of the methamphetamine trade.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional...
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(HealthDayNews) -- Methamphetamine abuse is a dangerous, yet growing practice. So it's important for parents to discuss the problem with their children, the National Institute on Drug Abuse says.
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A pending early release of hundreds of crack-cocaine dealers whose sentences have been judged unfairly harsh threatens to cause more crime in U.S. cities, Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned on Thursday.
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By Bill Luster, The CJ. Meth is further straining Kentucky and Indiana&#39;s underfunded systems for treating drug addicts and alcoholics, according to state officials, treatment advocates and others.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to  build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender  policies, have brought prostitution, human trafficking, poverty,  HIV/AIDS and greater burdens for local communities around those  projects, new research finds.
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A delegation of visiting U.S. union leaders expressed alarm Wednesday at what its members called a steady erosion of labor rights in the world's deadliest country for organized labor.
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INVERCARGILL'S Hazardous Substance Group is anxious to track down a container of sodium hydroxide, destined for a drycleaners, believed to have fallen from a vehicle in Invercargill six weeks ago.   The chemical is a key ingredient in the manufacture of methamphetamine, or "P" .
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Site will alert users to roadwork and accidents in their local area.
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Last March, the federal government issued an unusually detailed alert to the nation's 5.5 million health care workers: The powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to nurses, pharmacists and others who handle them.
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Business & money: Leaking factory pipe identified as most likely cause of illness in more than 30 people.
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The first study of a large group of workers breathing air with very low levels of benzene suggests that the chemical may harm the bone marrow, the body&#39;s main factory for blood cells, even
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People who stripped minerals at a plant in Dearborn between the early 1950s and 1990 were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos, according to a public health consultation released Tuesday by state and federal officials.
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One of the byproducts of last weekend's NBA brawl could be a poisoned atmosphere in collective bargaining talks.
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The federal safety level for benzene, a leukemia-causing air toxin found throughout Houston and routinely inhaled by petrochemical plant workers, is too high to protect workers from blood cell
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One of the researchers involved in the methylisothiazolinone study said, &quot;I would be particularly concerned about occupational exposure in pregnant women and the possibility of risk to the
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.