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Sherry Lynn Wilkins, Woman Who Drove With Man On Car, Guilty Of Murder
Wilkins, who acknowledged having served time for residential burglaries over the years, said she kicked the heroin habit with the help of methadone and more recently had been using medical marijuana. She told of obtaining a degree in addiction …
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How Philip Seymour Hoffman Could Have Been Saved
Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. When I heard about it and learned the apparent cause — initial reports said it was a heroin overdose — my reaction wasn't only sadness.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in NYC apartment
Hoffman has struggled with drug addiction for years and entered a detox facility for heroin last spring. He had been sober for 23 years prior. Remember celebrities we lost last year. Hoffman began his acting career in the early '90s, appearing in such …
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Narconon Freedom Center Joins NIDA Offering Marijuana Info For National …
Narconon Freedom Center Michigan joins the NIDA for National Drug Facts Week giving away the myth busting booklet “10 Things Parents May Not Know About Marijuana.” Albion, MI … The Narconon program is a holistic drug-free rehab program. The drug …
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Sober living homes offer hope, support to recovering addicts
In October, a 25-year-old man died of an alleged heroin overdose in an Oxford House in Rumson, Monmouth County, and there was a nonfatal overdose in the same house in December, prompting the municipality to take legal action to try to close it. Finding …
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Cameron Crowe on Philip Seymour Hoffman and the 'soul' of 'Almost Famous'
… works, which commanded deep respect; and the news of his struggles with addiction, and the cost of that, are upsetting, because they indicate a soul more troubled than any of us who consumed his films as entertainment probably ever stopped to …
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No science for Obama's recent pot claim
That's a position a lot of teens take today — more teenagers smoke pot than cigarettes, according to a 2012 survey from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there's a scarcity of research to determine just how risky it is to use …
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US Airstrike Kills Woman, Seven Children in Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai linked the incident to the continuing tensions with Washington over his postponement of signing a bilateral security agreement (BSA) that would allow some 12,000 US troops to remain in the country indefinitely after the …
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Sharon dies at 85
JERUSALEM (AP) – The son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says his father has died. The 85-year-old Sharon had been in a coma since a debilitating stroke eight years ago. The Sheba Medical Center that has been treating Sharon said last …
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The Master
He said that the heroin “had only lasted a week or so”—this after being free of addiction for 23 years, he had said—and that he had checked himself into an East Coast detox facility for ten days, encouraged by “a great group of friends and family …
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Hoffman's 'ka month on heroin'
The star had separated from his longtime partner Mimi O'Donnell in the months before his death and was living alone in the rented apartment close to the couple's former home. The Oscar-winner, who had three children with costume designer O'Donnell, …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Death: 50 Bags of Heroin Found in Apartment (Reports)
Philip Seymour Hoffman's New York apartment contained approximately 50 bags of heroin at the time of his death on Sunday, according to multiple media reports. Investigators also found used syringes and prescription drugs in the home of the 46-year-old …
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