Reclaiming lives from meth

Reclaiming lives from meth
Dell Humbert decided to take a different direction in his life 19 months ago — that’s when he brought a stop to his addiction to methamphetamine.In 2005, Humbert’s wife died and he became a single father of two boys, who are now 9 and 12. His addiction peaked back then, and he was spending an average of $ 200 a day on meth. Humbert lost custody of his two children, which is what made him realize …
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“We Are Not In the Housing Business”
Third of a four-part series. PART 1 : Cleaning Up: Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore–and causing providers headaches. 06/22/2010 PART 2 : Old Habits: Medicalization is the hot new thing in drug treatment. Just like in 1970. 07/27/2010 Providing housing to recovering addicts was good business for Mark Anthony Spence—for a while. In late February 2009 he listed his income at …
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How Smokers Think about Death
In 2012 the U.S. [More] Death – Tobacco smoking – Cigarette – Smoking cessation – United States
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