Mark Millican: 'I Have Hope Now'

Mark Millican: 'I have hope now'

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

After getting pregnant again at 19 she cleaned up, but her addiction returned after her second son was born. “I finally got in trouble for drugs,” she said of an arrest in 2008. “I got eight felonies — possession of meth, tools for the commission of a …
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Education Preserves Class Inequalities

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

But by the time the triplets donned mortarboards in the class of 2008, their story seemed to validate the promise of education as the great equalizer. Angelica, a daughter of a struggling Mexican immigrant, was … For her mother, addiction to …
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Plunge follow-up includes drug abuse action plan

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

The program also keeps prescription drugs out of the hands of people who could abuse them. More than 4,000 pounds of pharmaceuticals have been collected since the Marshfield Police Department's dropoff program became permanent in 2008. Gramza …
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Randy Leonard: A controversial, get-it-done politician prepares to leave the …

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

He said it's difficult to pinpoint the moment her life descended irretrievably into drug and alcohol abuse. She had been in and out of treatment programs as many as 19 times since high school. Leonard acknowledged in a 2005 interview with The Oregonian …
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