Jamie Evans on Heroin Addiction
Jamie Evans on heroin addiction – At the height of his career former jumps jockey Jamie Evans was worth a small fortune riding winners around the world. But he turned to heroin after his brot…
Editorial: By one's experience, alarm over addiction
It's not just heroin addiction, he says. It's about prescription drugs being the new gateway to heroin. Prescription drugs like oxycontin being lifted from home medicine cabinets are allowing some drug abusers to skip alcohol and marijuana and go right …
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Actor Wes Bentley opens up about past heroin addiction
Bentley, who was 20 when he filmed his role as a troubled teenager in Sam Mendes's tragic tale of suburban tristesse, subsequently found himself presenting at the Oscars while being hailed as a young Christian Bale. It was all too much, too soon, he …
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Heroin Makes a Comeback
"It really shook our community," said Norman Redberg, executive director of Kittitas County Alcohol Drug Dependency Service. He has evaluated 27 heroin users in the fiscal year that ended June 30, compared with three in 2008. Ellensburg has 18,000 …
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