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Example sentences for: abuse

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The cover story criticizes America's favorite drug prevention program, Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
According to Kincaid, the real problem with our obsession with child sexual abuse is that it distracts us from other kinds of abuse that affect far more children than molesting does: boring, unsensational kinds of abuse such as poverty, neglect, and bad schools.
Efforts to detect and deter fraud and abuse due to these conflicts, he said, “will be likely to be undermined as long as those charged with detecting fraud and abuse, like the [Pennsylvania] Inspector General, are appointed by politicians who are themselves beholden to the drug industry.
Utah's poor and disadvantaged need all types of legal help, from dealing with domestic abuse to protecting limited assets in old age.
The bill closes the soft-money loophole, which is the worst abuse of the current system.