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It’s a new addiction to deal with – technology, like computers and smartphones. Addiction specialist Dan O’Neil says some families are predisposed toward addiction, so parents need to be aware and work towards a healthy balance of technology and person to person interaction.

A just released study says the danger of teenagers abusing opiods and other strong pain medication often begins with a prescription for too many pills. It ends with leftovers in the home, giving teens easy access to pills, which they can abuse. The research was done by C-S Mott Children’s …

Monday’s Amber Alert was the second issued in less than a week. Do systems like this remain effective when used multiple times over a short period? Penny Fischer is a Captain with the Michigan State University Police, which uses the “MSU Alert” emergency program. Fischer says MSU Alert notifies about …