5 Graduate From Kanawha Drug Court

Published January 24, 2013

5 graduate from Kanawha drug court

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

Harold Lee Battle, Alan Mason, Michal "Betsy" Raines, Marisa Martin and Mona Tignor took turns speaking to a crowd of family, friends and law enforcement that came to cheer their graduation from the county's yearlong drug court program. The drug court …
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'Resolution': Another Cabin, A Very Different Show

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

Chris (Vinny Curran) resists his friend Mike's (Peter Cilella) attempts to save him from drug addiction in the indie horror film Resolution. As unsettling intrusions into their rundown rural abode mount, however, they both might need a different kind …
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Ariel Rubin lets the music pull her in

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I just want to warn you that musicians become drug-addicted and suicidal. Their lives fall apart. Don't do it. Do something better with your life,' ” she says. “And then I had other people — my music teacher, my parents — who were like, 'This music …
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Let's Fight a Different 'War on Drugs'

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Drug abuse, much of it from prescription medication, now kills more Americans each year than homicide or car accidents. It has become the fastest-growing cause of accidental death in the U.S.. To put the magnitude of the issue in perspective, the death …
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