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...
by intern | Apr 14, 2001 | in the news
Associated Press By Elizabeth LeSure In his 60s, Ramon Loper spent the last few years of his musical career desperately feeding a heroin addiction. He rushed from gig to gig, getting cash and getting high. “And then,” he says, “I broke my hip. Thank...
by intern | Mar 8, 2001 | in the news
New York Daily News By Thomas Zambito At first glance, it could be a gathering of church elders on a Sunday morning. But the seven men and women gathered in the basement of an East Harlem treatment center are among the city’s most incorrigible drug...
by intern | Oct 9, 2000 | in the news
New York City-based Odyssey House, a 33 year-old therapeutic community (TC), plans to open an innovative treatment center for adolescents based on a variation of the TC model that will help the most troubled youths who have high service needs. this will include...
by intern | Sep 16, 2000 | in the news
The New York Times By Clyde Haberman Darryl Strawberry, the recovering drug user, cancer survivor and sometime baseball player, was back in the news this week for all the usual reasons. He was in trouble with the law. Mr. Strawberry’s troubles came to the...
