Fighting Drug Addiction With ‘Flash Jobs’ and High Fashion

Fighting Drug Addiction With ‘Flash Jobs’ and High Fashion
STOCKHOLM—Marie Teike is a fashion designer who manages a tailor shop at the Stockholms Stadsmission, the main charity in Sweden’s capital. One of her star pupils is Susi, a rail-thin, 50-something woman with a deeply lined face who can be found most …
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Couple Receives Blessing After Breaking Chains Of Drug Addiction
A Tulsa couple is getting a second chance after battling a drug addiction and starting over after a local church group pitched in and gave them keys to their future. “You know, we had the house, we had the kids, we had the fence and that all go stripped …
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Funding is in doubt for Regina drug addiction housing program
The drug-addicted women who come through the doors of Regina’s Kate’s Place often need one last chance to turn their lives around. Like those women, the program itself is in desperate need of support before it’s too late for it to be saved.
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On drug addiction issue, Chris Christie stresses compassion
“The war on drugs has failed,” Chris Christie declared yesterday. “There will always be jail cells for violent sociopaths who may have drugs as part of their problem as well,” he continued, “but for those who do not and whose crimes …
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More going abroad for drug fix
More Singaporeans are going abroad – to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and even Japan – for an easy fix, say social workers and drug addiction counsellors. — ST FILE PHOTO: MUHAMMAD SHAH. By Hoe Pei Shan. The club's dance floor was filled with …
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Vet who sold painkillers at addicts' meetings looks for mercy
"Although he appears to have viewed himself as providing some kind of service to the community, in fact he preyed on the vulnerable by selling prescription narcotics to drug addicts, thus fueling the very disease they sought to escape," Assistant U.S …
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Maine Lawmakers Consider Heroin Overdose Drug
Gideon's bill would make naloxone prescriptions more widely available to family members of opiate addicts and others who may find themselves in an emergency situation. For several years, drug overdose deaths in Maine have surpassed car accidents as …
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