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A Nashua girl battling leukemia got some help Tuesday from law enforcement.

Stacey Lacroix, 11, has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since June.

It’s a rare and painful form of cancer.

“I pretty much had to stay inside of the hospital. I couldn’t even get outside to go to the garden at Children’s [Hospital Boston],” she said.

Stacey’s mother, Lilybeth, who is caring for her daughter alone, recently lost her job.

On Tuesday, the Lacroixs were presented with a $5,000 check from Cops for Kids with Cancer, a regional organization that helps families with money for things other than medical bills.

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I’m not sure how old I was when I was first instructed that boys don’t cry – at a guess, maybe six or seven. Once it began, it came at me from all angles: family, teachers, friends, the myriad voices of media and culture. Like pretty much all boys, I learned that tears and sobs were markers of failure. Whether facing up to playground beatings, bullies or teachers, the rules of the game were simple: if you cry, you lose. As little boys begin to construct the identities of grown men, the toughest lesson to learn is toughness itself. Never show weakness, never show fragility and above all, never let them see your tears.

With such beliefs (literally) beaten into us from an early age, it is easy to be shocked by the candour of the former footballer Dean Windass. I

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Cymbalta. Abilify. Lunesta, Chantix and that drug for “when the time might be right.” As a consumer and especially as a psychologist, it unsettles me when I see television ads exhorting potential clients to ask a doctor about a specific drug. Even if I do not believe general practitioners or specialists know best, I do not believe consumers should ask for specific drugs. To me, without any science behind my opinion, that seems like patients are being turned into marketing agents for pharmaceutical companies.

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