Affording Addiction Help (1 Letter)
To the Editor: Re “Picking Addiction Help” (Personal Health, Feb. 12): My 19-year-old son is currently in a Connecticut residential program for dual-diagnosis drug rehab modeled on Hazelden. Despite having good employer-provided family health coverage, …
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Shelter residents get help with addictions
On Thursday, Amarillo Recovery from Alcohol and Drugs began an intensive outpatient drug and alcohol treatment program that is geared toward the area's homeless shelter residents who are dealing with addiction. The free program, the first of its kind …
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Former CAPA teacher talks about heroin addiction, helping others
A former Pittsburgh Public Schools science teacher who got hooked on heroin and helped rob a bank in 2011 talked to Channel 11's sister station WTOV Tuesday about her fight with addiction and how she's trying to help others. Philicia Barbieri said the …
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