My 1000-mile walk back to happiness: How author Cheryl Strayed got her life …
… has been richly rewarded. Wild is a New York Times number-one bestseller in the US, was the volume with which Oprah Winfrey chose to relaunch her unfeasibly influential book club, and it's about to be published in the UK. … The marriage was …
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Michael Barrymore is dead – or so says Michael Barrymore: Shamed comic kills …
In an interview with The Independent, Barrymore said: 'Nobody's written a book on how to handle fame, or the downside of it. We loved each other. I loved her, and she loved me too much.' After the break-up, he descended into a public spiral of drink …
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Police: Lowell bank robber had cab waiting
LOWELL — A Lowell man with a five-page criminal record allegedly admitted to police he took a cab to and from robbing the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank on Wood Street Thursday to get cash to feed his heroin addiction. In Lowell District Court on …
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Correction: People-Cameron Douglas story
NEW YORK—In a story Dec. 18 about appeals court arguments in the Cameron Douglas drug case, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Douglas' lawyer, saying he referenced Douglas' father, Michael Douglas, when discussing Cameron Douglas' history of …
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Rock Hill woman gets 4 years in deadly stabbing
Johnson's criminal history includes three years in a New York prison for shooting a woman during an argument over a man, a subsequent petty larceny and two York County drug-related charges. Copyright 2012 The Herald. All rights reserved. This material …
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IG Report: Pardon Attorney Conduct Should be Reviewed
The department's internal watchdog took up the review of Rodgers' conduct after the joint-publication in May 2012 of an investigative piece by ProPublica and the Washington Post that asserted a man serving three life sentences in Alabama on drug …
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New Missoula addiction treatment center to open in April
The center is a project of the Western Montana Mental Health Center, and housing and development director Patty Kent said the campaign will help bring in part of the remaining $ 300,000. The Mental Health Center already has raised $ 3 million so far.
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Actor Martin Sheen helps Tulsa addiction treatment center at fundraiser
"Addiction treatment and recovery centers help the entire community in ways most never see," Sheen said during a recent phone interview. "People we all know need help. They're in our churches. They're our co-workers. They're our children and our family …
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Former COO of Peter Young treatment facility indicted
The New York State Attorney General's office charging the one-time COO of drug and alcohol treatment facility 820 River Street, Inc. in Troy with grand larceny, criminal possession of a forged instrument, and falsifying business recors. The AG says …
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Drug addicts considered in New York’s Medicaid reforms
State officials are digging into the details of how to save money in the Medicaid program, and to the dismay of some local lawmakers they say the best way to to achieve that long-term goal is to add more preventative services, all while restructuring …
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Ocean City dealing with ‘overwhelming increase’ in heroin cases
In an effort to reverse an “overwhelming increase” in heroin abuse in Ocean City this year, police in Maryland’s largest beach resort launched a broad, weeks-long investigation into the local drug trade — resulting last week in the indictments of more …
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