Alcohol Deaths Spur Changes on Reservation
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The Flathead Indian Reservation is shifting its focus to children and retooling tribal policies following the drinking deaths of four boys in a six-month period. The deaths, starting in late 2003, stunned the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, but inspired a gritty resolve to help children deal with alcohol without underestimating the power of generations of alcohol abuse.
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TORONTO (CP) - The fatal stabbing of a young man trying to eject unwanted party guests from his family home, the third such knifing in just weeks, has police worried about a potentially fatal holiday recipe: teens, alcohol and knives.
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Police say excessive drinking is a factor in a rise in the number of rapes and sexual assaults over the last year.
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By Amelia Nielson-Stowell Deseret Morning News  A controversial group home in Sandy can now increase the number of drug- and alcohol-addicted patients treated at their neighborhood facility, much to the ire of local residents.
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Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities globally as smoking and high blood pressure, a study says.
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When it comes to causing death and  disability, alcoholic drinks are as bad as tobacco and high  blood pressure.
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Heavy consumption of alcohol from drinks as well as sources including medicinal remedies and cleaning agents may be a leading cause of death among working-age Russian men, researchers said on Thursday.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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At least 35 people have died from drinking methanol-laced sugarcane liquor in the past week and nearly 600 have fallen ill, overwhelming hospitals in Nicaragua's worst health crisis in recent history, officials said Monday.
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The shooting deaths of six hunters in northwestern Wisconsin this week has prompted a complex set of reactions - perhaps nowhere more than in the Twin Cities Hmong community.
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Updated methods for calculating alcohol consumption classify many more people as drinking too much.
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Text of report by Chris Kiwawulo entitled "Local gin waragi kills 40 drinkers" published by Ugandan newspaper The New Vision website on 28 February  At least 40 people have died after drinking toxic waragi, a local gin, in the central region in the last two weeks.
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Poisonous liquor sold by an illegal alcohol bar in Indiaâs financial capital has killed 51 people and sent nearly 100 others to hospital over two days, provoking city-wide raids on alcohol vendors, a municipal official said today.
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Text of report by Kenyan KTN TV on 10 December  [Presenter] Many residents of Kargi, bordering Chalbi Desert, Marsabit District [northern Kenya] have died while others are suffering from incurable chronic diseases like lung cancer from the effects of exposure to dumped chemicals.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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Trying to neutralize fierce opposition, the chairwoman of an Indian tribe that wanted make the Bay Area home to the nation&#39;s third-largest gambling hall has agreed to decrease the
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By Howard Decker, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif.  Sep. 14--BARSTOW -- A vote in the House of Representatives on a bill to  ban "reservation shopping" that would have kept two American Indian tribes  from building a casino resort here failed to pass Wednesday.