Ask Amy: Mother's Addiction Is Heartbreaking for Son
Ask Amy: Mother's addiction is heartbreaking for son
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My mother has been addicted to marijuana my whole life. She says it's for lower back pain, but it … My parents are getting a divorce, and my dad says it is partly because she refuses to admit she has a drug problem or take responsibility for her life …
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Crime up in Canton: Drugs, gangs, homeless, economy to blame
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Crime is rising in the city, and a majority of the people committing it are repeat offenders, homeless, in need of mental help or are addicted to drugs. Violent crime increased 24 …. It is listed at 72,919 in July 2011, the website said. So if people …
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Napa native comatose, stranded in San Diego following motorcycle crash
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Gradias said Lotton refused to take pain medication after his first accident because he did not want to succumb to drug addiction like some of his family members. The family said his resilience then, and in other instances including when he went to the …
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Outcry In The Barrio Helps Former Drug Addicts & Gang Members – By Josh Navarro – KVEO-NewsCenter 23 Reporter Thursday, March 10, 2011 – 4:37pm PHARR- The Upper Valley is filled with criminal activity from drug smuggling to gang violence and getting out of that lifestyle can be a challenge. There’s one place in Pharr that is willing to help and hopefully change the lives those who want to walk away from criminal activity. Francisco Soto JR. used to be a drug trafficker here in the Valley and was addicted to drugs for 25 years of his life. “I got to a point where I didn’t have enough money no more and I had a family to support and a drug addiction to support also. so after that i couldn’t support my habit so what I did I started trafficking drugs you know up north. maybe two weeks every month to support my habit. I was doing drugs weeks straight, two or three days straight. finish up and it lead my to steal also you know from my family because I couldn’t support my habit no more,” said Soto. He said his addiction began when he was eleven years old and started with a cigarette and then it climaxed with the use of heroin, marijuana and crack. He lost his family to his addiction and hit rock bottom at a jail in Indiana. He made a decision after reading a book about man called Freddie Garcia who was another former drug addict and former gang member who changed his life through Christianity. “I got to do something with my life. and they told me that Jesus is changing lives so it was right there in jail where i asked for forgiveness to God …
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