'Homelessness Is Life and Death'

'Homelessness is life and death'

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

'Tek it to Dem' started in 2008 and was the brainchild of a group of National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) staff members. Mitchell said while Food For The Poor and a few church groups would assist the homeless sometimes, the government was dragging …
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Recovering Santa Rosa addict describes descent into heroin use

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

His story illustrates the new face of heroin addiction in Sonoma County. Like O.G., a growing number of heroin addicts are teens … By about 2007 and 2008, the eastside OxyContin crowd had expanded across Santa Rosa and into several other Sonoma …
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Actor Martin Sheen helps Tulsa addiction treatment center at fundraiser

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

Addiction touches us all, whether it's drugs and alcohol, sex, gambling, anger … it hits all of us. We have to fix our … this need all too well. She's volunteered at the center since it first opened in the 1980s, and he helped run the place until …
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