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Steve Earle’s ‘I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive’: Candy-Coated Texas Noir

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Heroin Addiction: Steve Earle’s ‘I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive’: Candy-coated Texas noir
Steve Earle’s new novel, “ I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive ,” tells the story of Doc Ebersole with all the kitsch and color of a Loteria card placed before an Our Lady of Guadalupe votive candle. As Earle imagines it, Doc gave honky-tonk king Hank Williams his final, killing dose of opiates. The book is set in 1963 San Antonio, 10 years after Williams’s death, where a disgraced and drug …
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Heroin Addiction: Plainville man held in burglary spree
By LISA BACKUS Staff writer PLAINVILLE — A local man was held on a $ 90,000 bond after his arraignment this week on charges he broke into more than two-dozen cars during a one-man crime spree in April, police said.
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From Heroin in Eugene to Oregon Medical School Grad

Heroin Detox: From heroin in Eugene to Oregon medical school grad
Her trajectory began in Eugene where she first snorted black-tar heroin in the spring of eighth grade. Now she is among the 59 women and 45 men who will earned the degree of doctor of medicine from Oregon Health & Science University/
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Heroin Detox: St. Louis Inmate Death Has Family Seeking Answers
41- Year-Old Scott Perry Died Friday Relatives of 41-year old Scott Perry are demanding answers from the St. Louis City Justice Center. Perry died Friday night after spending five days incarcerated at the center. He was too ill Friday morning to make a court appearance. Sherri Eldridge, a cousin so close she calls herself his sister, said he was in the detox program at the jail because he had …
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Heroin Detox: Dare to Prevent raises awareness against drug use
WEIRTON – Area residents came out for the all-ages concert hosted in the Weirton Municipal Plaza on Saturday for the second-annual Dare to Prevent Concert – a concert to raise awareness in the fight against heroin addictio.
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Heroin Detox: Painkiller addiction up in pregnancy
A Cleveland doctor says more pregnant women are seeking treatment for opiate addiction and many aren’t aware of one option that could save their baby’s life.
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Heroin Detox: LAWRENCE: Detox Ruling Due June 22

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Heroin Detox: LAWRENCE: Detox ruling due June 22
More than 15 residents lined up last week in an effort to sway the Lawrence Township Zoning Board of Adjustment as it wrapped up a controversial application for a use variance to permit a residential drug and alcohol detoxification center in an office park on Federal City Road.
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