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Rapper Lil’ Boosie Sentenced
You would think that being incarcerated would make it tough to commit crimes, but if you’re Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, you find a way. On November 29, local hip-hop star Torrence Hatch, known by his stage name Lil Boosie, plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle codeine syrup, marijuana, and ecstasy into two Louisiana state [...]
Heroin User Gets Clean
Heroin is a highly addictive drug. Users of heroin start and then they cannot stop because the urge to continue is strong and you just can’t fight it. So you keep taking the drug so you don’t feel the withdrawals. Take for instance one heroin addict we’ll call her Miss A. She started using heroin [...]
Education on Heroin
About Heroin Addiction Heroin is a highly addictive narcotic. This year alone, it has been reported that there are 810,000 Americans addicted to heroin. What is the cost of that figure to society? The price is in the billions. Let’s divide where this money goes. Heroin abuse gives an individual health problem like heart infections, [...]
Maryland Marijuana Drug Threat Assessment
Marijuana is the most available, commonly abused illicit drug in Maryland. Most of the marijuana in Maryland is produced in Mexico, but some of it is produced in Maryland. Some local dealers cultivate cannabis indoors and outdoors. Those who do marijuana are usually not violent, but violence in Maryland is up because of marijuana distribution [...]
Bath salts in Louisiana
Half a dozen dangerous chemicals sold as fake bath salts and plant food have been outlawed by emergency order in Louisiana. If you are caught selling them you face penalties just like you sold heroin. This is the result of direct action taken by Governor Bobby Jindal. The powders are sold with the names of [...]
Experts alarmed by rise in Alabama’s drug-related suicide attempts
Suicide attempts by young male Alabama residents rose 55% between 2005 and 2009, a government report says. There is some reason to believe that the misuse of prescription drugs is clearly helping to fuel the problem. In 2009, men aged 21 to 34 made more than 29,000 emergency room visits for medication-related suicide attempts compared [...]
Our Clients Graduate Able to Solve Their Own Problems
What is a condition? It is a state that something is in. As we live our lives we have problems we make choices and decisions and so our life is lived. Sometimes we don’t make the right decisions and we end up spinning our lives out of control. Now what we get with that is [...]
Rehabilitating the Addict’s Integrity
What are personal values and integrity? Integrity is when you know something is true and you stick by it and you don’t change it no matter what your friends or family says. That is integrity. This affects your personal values tremendously. So you have to be able to see for yourself what is true and [...]
How Bad Influences Drive Addictive Behavior
Today we are going to talk about the people in our lives. Yes, all of those lovely people who sometimes try to stop you in your actions or they don’t have such good opinions about you and they don’t hesitate telling you about it. In other words they invalidate you and squash you. Sometimes these [...]
New Orleans, LA men found guilty for drug offenses
Two New Orleans men were found guilty this week of drug offenses, according to The Times-Picayune. One man, Kerry Smith, a 35 year old New Orleans native, was arrested for selling drugs in front of his house. At the time of his apprehension, more than 100 pieces of crack cocaine were found on his person. [...]
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