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Intersections: Acceptance as a means of prevention
This is the last in a four-part series exploring the impacts of heroin use on the greater Glendale area. In 1897, German chemist Heinrich Dreser catapulted two drugs to international fame, making the Bayer pharmaceutical company a household name. One...Tags: Heroin, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Flu, Pharmaceuticals, Towson
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Intersections: An exploration of the local impacts of heroin use
Seven years ago, an 18-year-old La Crescenta man was prescribed Vicodin after a routine surgical procedure. The prescription was all it took for a blossoming painkiller addiction to comfortably settle in. In 2009, when the pills became too expensive...Tags: Heroin, Substance Abuse, Medical Research, Long Island, Hospitals and Clinics
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Intersections: Addiction exacts a painful family toll
This is the second in a four-part series exploring the impacts of heroin use on the greater Glendale area. Anne Fisher and her family moved to La Crescenta from Michigan in the early ‘90s. The Los Angeles suburb, with its small-town feel and slow-...Tags: Heroin, Drugs and Medicines, Drug Trafficking, Behavioral Conditions, Health
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Intersections: Finding a way out is a lifelong struggle
This is the third in a four part series exploring the impacts of heroin use on the greater Glendale area. On a Friday morning at the New Way Foundation rehab facility in Burbank, 20 men slowly crowd into a room. The stark white walls are covered in...Tags: Heroin, Drugs and Medicines, Methamphetamine (drug), Heart Attack, Stroke
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Faith and Life: The unhealthy view of sex
Our society and media have done a great deal to taint and perversely hardwire our brains for an unhealthy view of sex. In treating men and women in my practice who struggle with sex addiction or pornography — or who are simply are still stuck with...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Sex
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Small Wonders: Isn't that us in a nutshell?
It is 4 a.m. as I write this. Awakened by God knows what at 3:30 a.m. Such is my designated writing time now. Coffee and keyboard before me, I scan the headlines in hopes of finding something with which to coerce 800 moderately engaging words from my...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abusive Behavior, Behavioral Conditions, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Facebook
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On Campus at Glendale Community College
Addiction Summit Looks at Treatment The Glendale Community College Alcohol/Drug Studies Program and the Alcohol/Drug Studies Club are presenting Addiction Summit 2011, “Substance Abuse Treatment: Taking a Medical and Mental Health Holistic...Tags: Social Media, Mass Media, Colleges and Universities, Poetry, Entertainment
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Recovering addict shares her story with La Crescenta residents
For recovering addict Alexandra Datig, marijuana was a gateway drug that led her down a path of heartache and destruction. Datig — an anti-drug activist who rallied against the marijuana legalization initiative Proposition 19 last year —...Tags: Substance Abuse, Dianne Feinstein, Behavioral Conditions, Juvenile Delinquency, Health
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Jewel enters June Carter Cash's stage
Jewel may have come from the Lilith Fair generation of female singers and songwriters, but her latest move pays homage to a much earlier era of guitar-playing troubadours. The 39-year-old is taking on the role of June Carter Cash in "Ring of Fire," a...Tags: John Doe, Entertainment, Johnny Cash, Jewel, Music
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Police: Daytona woman says pair hired her to defraud Boca stores
Loniee Hughes, who says she's a drug addict who shoots up Dilaudid, agreed to do some things for two people she met at a Daytona-area Taco Bell, police said. The assignment, according to a Boca Raton police arrest report: open up fraudulent lines of in-...
Tags: Macy's, Sears, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, American Express Company, Town Center at Boca Raton
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Lyssa Chapman on her new book, her new show and life beyond Dog the Bounty Hunter
Channel Guide MagazineDog the Bounty Hunter fans know Lyssa Chapman as “Baby Lyssa,” the petite and beautiful blond daughter of Duane Dog Chapman, stepdaughter of Beth Chapman and half sister to the show’s other stars, Leland and Duane Lee Chapman —... -
Rob Roberge weighs in on addiction lit
I tried your steps And stumbled down your stairs My only problem with drugs Is that they always run out These lyrics are from "The Problem With Drugs" by The Popular Mechanics, a Replacements-meets-Steve-Earle quartet. But the band does not...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Entertainment, Behavioral Conditions, Authors, Music Industry
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