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Bob Pennell illustrationMail Tribune / Bob Pennell illus
… and want to find help often must wait weeks or months for treatment. Patients who need residential treatment can wait from three to eight weeks for a bed to become available in a publicly funded facility, says Rita Sullivan, executive director of … Read more on Mail Tribune

Getting Hooked
Within a year, he had dropped out of high school and lost a baseball scholarship. By 21, he was experimenting with cocaine and methamphetamine, and started snorting the popular painkiller OxyContin. …. But as prescribers better understand the … Read more on Mail Tribune

Dispatch from the Edge
In another, I can't find the cabin in the midst of what can only be described as a modern-day boomtown full of meth-headed roughnecks. And more … Maybe that's symptomatic of a boom and bust culture, where the qualities of a place often change so rapidly. Read more on cozine