Time for Change Foundation offers incarcerated women hope, a second chance
Acevedo was drinking alcohol by age 9, doing meth by 11, was sexually and physically abused. Addicted to alcohol and methamphetimines, she spent 11 years … "I was homeless, abused and incarcerated. The only thing offered to me for years was handcuffs …
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Do war-weary troops have drinking problem? Marines launch get-tough policy.
“If we put our efforts towards reducing alcohol abuse and misuse in the Corps, these other things will not be totally eliminated, but it will certainly have an effect on those.” The figure of .01 is relatively low, Foster acknowledges, and could result …
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Re: your Jan. 4 article, “Homeless find help in court”:
Years of living on the streets, drug and alcohol abuse and often underlying mental illness, make the road back to dignity and self-sufficiency a long and winding one, even if there is a flickering desire. This leaves our cops as the case workers of …
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