Finding Ginger Baker: First-Time Filmmaker Jay Bulger Traces His Journey Into

Finding Ginger Baker: First-time filmmaker Jay Bulger traces his journey into

Filed under: Drug Abuse Hawaii

Actually it was the guest room of Baker's South African compound, where in 2008 Bulger lived for three months, getting to know (and learning to take a torrent of abuse from) the legendary drummer behind Cream, Blind Faith, Ginger Baker's Air Force …
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Ex-boxing champ 'Macho' Camacho on life support after shooting

Filed under: Drug Abuse Hawaii

Hector "Macho" Camacho was shot in the face in a drug-related shooting in Puerto Rico and was on life support today. He is shown here in June 1996 after his unanimous decision over Roberto Duran in an IBC middleweight title fight at the Trump Taj Mahal …
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Healing Words: Creative Writing Programs as Therapy for Kids in Detention

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By the time I was seven my mom was a stripper/prostitute; she would do anything in order to get money for her drug addiction. Even if that meant selling her own daughter to grown men for support of it.” Another essayist writes: “I have had a terrible life.
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Prescription painkillers 'like loaded guns' for teens

Filed under: Drug Abuse Hawaii

She graduated to OxyContin, a more powerful painkiller she first obtained from a doctor in Hawaii whom she'd found in the Yellow Pages. She convinced him over the phone that she needed the drug for pain, and he mailed her OxyContin. … They kept me …
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