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Danniella Westbrook on 'Jeremy Kyle': 'I Took Coke While Giving Birth'

Danniella Westbrook on 'Jeremy Kyle': 'I took coke while giving birth'

Filed under: drug rehab treatment drinking age

Now clean for 12 years, it was her husband Kevin Jenkins who put her in rehab after she stole from him. … The child star said that it was her circle of friends who got her into the drug at a young age: "I had cocaine before my first drink or …
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Jonathan Kay: Putting human faces to Downtown Eastside's missing and

Filed under: drug rehab treatment drinking age

As a young child, Dawn Crey of the Sto:lo First Nation witnessed her father die of a heart attack — an event that set her mother to heavy drinking. Janet Henry of the 'Namgis First Nation had a sister who was raped and murdered at the age of 19 — and …
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He beat addiction, and then the odds

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He was on crack cocaine by age 15 and hooked on heroin by 18. He went through 16 rehabilitation programs, more than two years of methadone and four incarcerations, he said. "I was into theft, robbery, all for the drug addiction." In 2003, while …
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Dad does school drop-off, then violent drug binge

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Montiroli's ex-wife and two children, aged 10 and 12, lived around the corner from him so he went home on his own, showered and took his son and daughter to school at 8.30am. Mr Dunn said … They started drinking vodka and taking cocaine and …
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