NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’d like to have your thoughts on what value the NAC supplement may have in reducing cravings for marijuana or nicotine? I’m 73 and have been smoking marijuana daily since I was 21. Now I’m quitting for health reasons.

MOMENTS IN TIME

On April 1, 1999, David Smith was arrested and charged with originating the “Melissa” email virus, which infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused more than $80 million in damage.

How will we be led?

To the Editor: Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He had to contend with but a monarch, King George III, not an autocrat. Nowadays, it seems autocracy is perhaps fashionable within some spheres, mainly the Republican Party.

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Fentanyl testing strips legal and widely used in Michigan

New dollars distributed to groups fighting substance abuse can be used to purchase strips that test whether drug dealers cut heroin or other street drugs with often-deadly fentanyl. The simple paper strips are illegal in some 20 states.

Statins and thiazides acutely increase blood sugar, risk of diabetes

DEAR DR. ROACH: My question regards the results of my fasting glucose tests for the past couple of years. I am 81 and weigh around 150 pounds. The medications I am taking concern me, with relevance to the A1C levels of my quarterly blood work.

My Jimmy Carter Story

To the Editor: Hearing that former President Jimmy Carter is near the end of life in hospice care, I recalled one of my favorite memories of an encounter with Carter in 1996.

Mass shooting coverage shows crucial role of student journalists

LANSING When the horrendous shooting occurred on the Michigan State University campus, student journalists rushed in to cover the tragedy, its impact on the university and community, the investigation and university security. Their reporting and photos about the Feb.

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | GLADWIN STUDENTS EARLY 1900S

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | GLADWIN STUDENTS EARLY 1900S

MOMENTS IN TIME

On Feb. 27, 1693, England’s first women’s magazine, The Ladies Mercury, debuted.