'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
Abbott and childhood friend Tammie Norris, whose daughter was also a heroin user, decided last year to bring attention to the problem in their hometown, using Facebook to organize poster-waving demonstrations by everyone from recovering addicts to …
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April 7 Letters From Readers: Evaluate all local 'War on Drugs' programs
In 1971, President Nixon, declaring “War on Drugs,” requested congress to pass and fund legislation titled “Drug Abuse Prevention and Control” for the “… prevention of new addicts and the rehabilitation of those addicted.” Legislators, to “prevent …
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Addiction conference comes to Kennesaw State
email to a friend | print. Teresa Wren Johnston, founder and director of Kennesaw State University's Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery, said a conference at the center this week aims to bring all the addiction sciences together. Special to …
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