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Summer Reading: Heidi Moore - Marketplace (blog)

June 30, 2010 - 6:40pm

Summer Reading: Heidi Moore
Marketplace (blog)
From our reliance on debt to the greed of some on Wall Street -- all of it came from our own addiction, not to crack but to money. Traders talk about this. ...

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Slot machine proponents address Texas lawmakers - Houston Chronicle

June 30, 2010 - 4:55pm

Slot machine proponents address Texas lawmakers
Houston Chronicle
... the "crack cocaine of gambling" because of their speed and the amount of money that can be lost. She asked lawmakers not to impose an "addiction tax."

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Governor No Better Than A Drug Dealer - Jamestown Post Journal

June 29, 2010 - 11:14pm

Governor No Better Than A Drug Dealer
Jamestown Post Journal
Paterson is imposing on smokers is using their addiction to get at every dime they make. He is no better than a crack dealer who uses the addiction against ...

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Breathless addiction tale lacks shot of reflection - Irish Times

June 29, 2010 - 7:00pm

Irish Times
Breathless addiction tale lacks shot of reflection
Irish Times
BILL CLEGG'S memoir of crack addiction and self-destruction is an engrossing and fast-paced read. I started it at noon on a Saturday, and was finished by ...

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Portugal's experience points to drug solution - The Province

June 29, 2010 - 11:23am

Portugal's experience points to drug solution
The Province
It has become clear that arresting, prosecuting and jailing heroin and crack addicts doesn't make them stop using ...

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Portugal's experience points to drug solution - The Province

June 29, 2010 - 2:26am

Portugal's experience points to drug solution
The Province
It has become clear that arresting, prosecuting and jailing heroin and crack addicts doesn't make them ...

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Bill Wilson's Gospel - New York Times

June 28, 2010 - 9:00pm

Bill Wilson's Gospel
New York Times
The article is noteworthy not only because of the light it sheds on what we've learned about addiction, but for what it says about changing behavior more ...

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Rihanna Caught Smoking Pot in Barbados- Her Father's Addiction and Physical Abuse - Gather.com

June 28, 2010 - 3:29pm

Rihanna Caught Smoking Pot in Barbados- Her Father's Addiction and Physical Abuse
Gather.com
Rihanna's Father was addicted to crack cocaine when she was growing up. He use to physically abuse her mother in front of Rihanna and her siblings- I ...

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You want drunk driving reform: Crack down on first offenses - Isthmus Daily Page

June 28, 2010 - 1:38pm

You want drunk driving reform: Crack down on first offenses
Isthmus Daily Page
You most likely suffer from a serious addiction and need treatment. But of course, the legislature is not willing to fund any serious reform because to do ...

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A human side to the drug problem - Ottawa Citizen

June 28, 2010 - 2:20am

A human side to the drug problem
Ottawa Citizen
... run on the crack cocaine situation in Ottawa. I live in the ByWard Market area and I see daily the drug's effects on the addicts and on the community. ...

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Moscow adopts new cigarette warnings - Independent Online

June 27, 2010 - 8:45pm

Moscow adopts new cigarette warnings
Independent Online
Moscow - Russia slapped "smoking kills" warnings on cigarette packages from Saturday in an effort to crack down on an addiction kills up to ...

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Couple says meth addiction can be beaten - Times Daily

June 27, 2010 - 3:33am

Couple says meth addiction can be beaten
Times Daily
“Twenty years ago, marijuana was the big deal, then it became cocaine and crack; now pills and meth are the big things,” Sheffield Police Chief Greg Ray ...

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'Portrait Of An Addict': One Man's Rise And Fall - NPR

June 26, 2010 - 6:41pm

Globe and Mail
'Portrait Of An Addict': One Man's Rise And Fall
NPR
But there was something else: Bill Clegg was a crack addict. And all those outward trappings of success collapsed over a period of two months ...
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, by Bill Clegg, Little, Brown, 222 pages ...Globe and Mail
Old Man Addict David Carr Tackles Young Man Addict Bill Clegg in NYT Book ReviewVillage Voice (blog)

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72 hours on the streets and thousands of stories - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

June 26, 2010 - 4:13pm

72 hours on the streets and thousands of stories
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Cook told me his crack addiction kept him on the street for 20 years before he finally got right. He's now married and looking to buy his first home. ...

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Old Man Addict David Carr Tackles Young Man Addict Bill Clegg in NYT Book Review - Village Voice (blog)

June 26, 2010 - 12:57pm

Globe and Mail
Old Man Addict David Carr Tackles Young Man Addict Bill Clegg in NYT Book Review
Village Voice (blog)
Carr's own disclosure comes in the seventh paragraph: As the author of my own memoir about crack addiction, I don't pretend to know how to avoid the numbing ...
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, by Bill Clegg, Little, Brown, 222 pages ...Globe and Mail
'Portrait Of An Addict': One Man's Rise And FallNPR

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Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture - ScienceBlogs (blog)

June 26, 2010 - 11:46am

Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture
ScienceBlogs (blog)
I didn't even get to the part where he claims crack addicts kill. I couldn't get past the "I drink a couple drinks and don't get fucked up - but crack and ...

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Major drug sweep in Alle-Kiski Valley nets about 40 arrests - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

June 26, 2010 - 9:01am

Major drug sweep in Alle-Kiski Valley nets about 40 arrests
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The suspects were charged with selling heroin, crack or powdered cocaine, and other drugs including painkillers such as oxycodone, methadone hydrochloride ...

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Russia adopts "smoking kills" cigarette warnings - Reuters India

June 26, 2010 - 8:43am

Russia adopts "smoking kills" cigarette warnings
Reuters India
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia slapped "smoking kills" warnings on cigarette packages from Saturday in an effort to crack down on an addiction kills up to 500000 ...

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Russia adopts "smoking kills" cigarette warnings - Reuters

June 26, 2010 - 8:40am

Russia adopts "smoking kills" cigarette warnings
Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia slapped "smoking kills" warnings on cigarette packages from Saturday in an effort to crack down on an addiction kills up to 500000 ...

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2Pac's 'Dear Mama' selected for inclusion in Library of Congress' national ... - Los Angeles Times (blog)

June 25, 2010 - 2:45pm

CBC.ca
2Pac's 'Dear Mama' selected for inclusion in Library of Congress' national ...
Los Angeles Times (blog)
"Dear Mama," written shortly before Shakur served a prison term, vividly renders the hardships of addiction and poverty that his mother endured in her ...
Attention, Rap Scolds.Tapped (blog)
Tupac's Classic 'Dear Mama' Selected For Library of Congress' National ...BallerStatus.com

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