Longtime Community Health Center CEO Bids Farewell

Longtime Community Health Center CEO bids farewell

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Akron-based Community Health Center offers treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues as well as services for the general public. Ziegler, now 71, joined CHC as director of the methadone clinic in 1978, taking the reins as CEO in 1980.
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How to Shoot Up

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This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade's photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. For more on the series, look … Who's approaching …
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Love Can Save an Addict

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That is powerful. I found women there so strong, so caring, so hell-bent on loving me that I couldn't help but come back. I had to have what they had. Recovery from this disease of addiction, and it is a disease. It is happening, I am becoming a lover …
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