Too many veterans lose the battle with drug addiction: Early intervention is critical
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, over 3.9 million veterans have a substance use disorder or mental illness.
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, over 3.9 million veterans have a substance use disorder or mental illness.
Local students will graduate high school in the coming weeks and pursue college degrees and careers, and 14.7 percent more will get hired.

Sentara RMH Medical Center has donated $30,000 to Mercy House of Harrisonburg through the Sentara Cares program.
The senseless slaughter of World War I began with the murder of a single man, a Crown Prince of a European empire whose name no one was particularly familiar with at the time.
The so-called Party of Lincoln is now truly the party of Simon Legree. Meanwhile, the trillions in tax cuts already given by Trump to the nation’s wealthiest would remain, and the IRS would be unable to track down the worst tax cheats among them.
Dr. David Doré, the next chancellor of the VCCS visited with a few students at Blue Ridge Community College Tuesday afternoon.
The U.S. House voted 217-215 on Wednesday to pass the GOP debt-ceiling bill, which has no chance of winning passage in the Senate, but does give MAGA Republicans a seat at the budget negotiating table with Senate Democrats and President Biden.
Two Augusta County leaders flipped from their earlier support of funding for body and dashboard cameras for the county sheriff’s office when push came to shove Wednesday night, effectively tabling the cams, which have the support of an overwhelming majority of county residents, for at least another year.
General advice given to young people is to do their work well, lest they be fired from their job. Being fired holds a negative stigma and of course, for most people, can affect the likelihood of future employment, especially in the same industry.
Virginia’s labor force participation rate is, finally, ahead of where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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