What It's Like to Tell People You're Homeless

What It's Like to Tell People You're Homeless

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Not everyone "out here" is a drug addict, a criminal or mentally ill. Granted, there are people out here who fit … Ask yourself, how long you would last out here without any help before you'd turn to addiction or crime? That's another reality I've …
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Obamacare Provides Significant Reform On Substance Abuse Treatment

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The Obama administration has included a specific prescription drug abuse prevention plan to the National Drug Control Strategy to help educate, monitor, and enforce policies to help deal with the growing popularity of prescription drug abuse. Obamacare …
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Adoption Day: Parents and children celebrate the end of a long journey

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After they moved, they lost touch with the boy and for five years they had no idea what became of him, unaware that in 2008 his parents' drug abuse led to his placement in the foster system. When Siegrist spotted his face, the couple, who have been …
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Carroll offers help for drug, alcohol addictions

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Addiction always seems to start with alcohol, according to Townsend, or at least it is almost always involved. Townsend said he has heard many parents say proudly that their child doesn't do drugs. They say their child might drink a little, but “at …
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