Judge Suspends Sentence

Published January 3, 2013

Judge suspends sentence

Filed under: drug rehabs

26 by returning home – rather than reporting to jail – after she was kicked out of a drug rehabilitation program. Armentrout's attorney, William T. Nestor, said Armentrout was accused of leaving the premises of the rehab center to go to an adjacent …
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State jails struggle with lack of treatment, rehab programs

Filed under: drug rehabs

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Gene Mooney, a small-time thief and drug user who was the poster boy for the creation of Texas' system of rehabilitation-oriented state jails in 1995, is still in prison. After all, had he received more drug …
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Prosecuting a war against heroin

Filed under: drug rehabs

His life almost followed. What on earth was there to be proud about? To understand, travel to St. Louis, where Sabora, 36, is mounting an intense campaign against the drug that nearly destroyed him. Since emerging from a rehab in southern Illinois 17 …
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