We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

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We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

The region has faced significant flooding in the last week. Powerful winds from another storm have compounded the misery.

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Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.