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After a 17-year tenure as president, Nick Neupauer on Tuesday, Jan. 9 announced his plan to retire from Butler County Community College.
Neupauer, 56, will retire at the year’s end on Dec. 31, he shar.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2021, 46.3 million people aged 12 or older (or 16.5% of the population) met criteria for having a substance use disorder in.
BUTLER TWP Kara Nastasi said her brother, Krispen, died in April 2017 after struggling with addiction, and that 20 years ago, talking about that struggle was taboo.
“It doesn’t bring people togethe.
BUTLER TWP Gayle Brumagin’s daughter, Crystal, was 12 when she started using drugs. At 14, she entered her first rehabilitation center.
“I just thought it was like a phase,” said Brumagin, a nurse’s.