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Part 6: Hope, Not Handcuffs In a growing number of towns, police aren't arresting people facing addiction. Instead, they're providing a doorway to treatment. Judge Linda Davis hasn't only seen the toll opioids take from the bench. She's also seen it at home—with one of her daughters. "I thought our family would be the last …
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I am reading Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, by Nic Sheff. Nic was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would smoke pot regularly, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. He always felt like he could quit and put his life together …
You can say that drug addiction could happen to anyone's child, because it could. You can say that it happens in every community, because it does. But what happens when it's your neighborhood? The residents of Campbell County, Kentucky know. When you mention Matthew W. to some of the people who knew him, when he …
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The following information appeared in The Sunday Item, April 3, 2016, Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Teresa Stoker gently pulls a sterling silver necklace from beneath the neck of her gray sweatshirt and holds it out beyond her chin. Ashes of 27-year-old Mark Stoker are piled inside a tiny cylinder, strung next to an imprint of her youngest …
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I apologize for not posting anything for the past three weeks. I had a personal emergency. Something that demanded my total attention. As you may know from reading "about" me, I have a history of drug and alcohol abuse. I've been attending 12-Step meetings since 2001. At that time, I was drinking a fifth of …
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