East Bay Profile: Ex-Inmate Works to Help the Formerly Incarcerated in West …

East Bay Profile: Ex-inmate works to help the formerly incarcerated in West …

Filed under: drug addiction stories

Abarra has been arrested for drug-related offenses more times than he cares to count, the first time when he was 19 for being caught with two joints. He started smoking marijuana with friends growing up in the housing projects in Vallejo, Fairfield and …
Read more on San Jose Mercury News

Review: 'Nurse Jackie' doesn't go for the big laughs – Sioux City Journal

Filed under: drug addiction stories

"Nurse Jackie" needs to take a similar approach — particularly now — to her drug addiction. In the opener, one doctor exits, another enters. The new ER leader … It doesn't tell stories we see on most sitcoms. But it also doesn't feel a need to make …
Read more on Sioux City Journal

Some Missouri success stories

Filed under: drug addiction stories

And we now have three regional treatment courts serving the unique needs of our military veterans. One success story is Kennedy, who served in the U.S. Army in the 1980s and who, a decade later, fell into drug and alcohol abuse, leading to multiple …
Read more on St. Louis American