Elizabethtown College students, faculty and community members gathered in Gibble Auditorium for an Opioid Epidemic Symposium Monday, Feb. 19. Panelists discussed everything from why these opioids, such as heroin, are so addictive, how to help people overcome addictions and the impact opioid problems can have on families. Pennsylvania now has the fourth-highest opioid overdose rate
READ MORECR’s Friendly Market, a convenience store located on East High Street in Elizabethtown, was caught selling synthetic marijuana and bath salts in exchange for food stamps. The Pennsylvania Legislature banned these illegal drugs last year and those who purchased the substances were illegally using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cards, which are solely intended
READ MOREDrug prohibition has failed in the U.S. and will someday end just as alcohol prohibition did in 1933. Despite the legal consequences of illicit drug use, some 22 million Americans use illegal drugs. And support for legalization of marijuana, the most widely used illegal drug, has been growing in past years with Gallup Polls reporting
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