by intern | Jun 4, 2002 | in the news
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks (NEW YORK) Throughout the job interview, Georgia Evans waited anxiously for the question to be asked: Have you ever had a drug or alcohol problem? When it wasn’t, she didn’t volunteer the information....
by intern | Mar 27, 2002 | in the news
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks Susie Richardson is not your average recovering addict. She was 50 years old when curiosity got the better of her and she tried crack cocaine. The result was a “devastating” addiction that for 10...
by intern | Feb 25, 2002 | in the news
NEW YORK – Ecstasy, the potentially lethal “love drug,” is on the move. Glamorized in the 1990s by the predominantly white and suburban all-night “rave culture,” E-pills are now spreading fast into America’s rural areas and inner...
by intern | Jan 21, 2002 | in the news
NineOneOne The Daily News By Susan Ferraro Salt in the wounds Among the millions traumatized by the attacks on the World Trade Center were thousands of New Yorkers already struggling, day to day, with recovery from substance abuse or painful or disabling...
by intern | Jul 29, 2001 | in the news
The New York Times By David Rohde Brandi Wells set off from her Upper West Side apartment for East Harlem on Thursday night fighting memories of a decade of failure. With a mixture of hope and dread churning her stomach, Ms. Wells, a 28-year-old artist with cascading...
by intern | Jun 4, 2001 | in the news
The American Prospect Online By Melissa Paige McNamara Brandy was crawling on the floor near her mother’s feet, dressed in her new denim jumper with tightly braided pigtails framing her dimpled face. Her smile hid any sign that in her nine months, Brandy has...
