However, many of the approaches commonly used with adult sex offenders (e.g., the use of specialized supervision staff, sex offender specific treatment providers, and the polygraph) are being adopted by juvenile supervision agencies around the country.
At birth the lungs are pinkish white in color; in adult life the color is a dark slaty gray, mottled in patches; and as age advances, this mottling assumes a black color. The coloring matter consists of granules of a carbonaceous substance deposited in the areolar tissue near the surface of the organ.
Black lung is a serious, and sometimes fatal, disease caused by exposure to coal mine dust. Black lung causes permanent lung damage, which can affect breathing and normal heart function. Coal miners who develop black lung can file claims under state and federal workersâ compensation laws, which provide benefits for workers with occupational lung diseases. What is Black Lung? Black lung (also called coal workersâ pneumoconiosis) is a disease that is caused by inhaling coal mine dust.