THE ROAD Not Taken
THE ROAD not taken
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I had to leave a lot of friends behind to get where I am now, especially in the beginning." Bill Edmondson. Enlarge Image …. He had a real downhill battle after that." Edmondson also spent time homeless in Toronto, where he fell deeper into drug abuse.
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Calls for Belfast madness to end after weeks of protest and violence leave …
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Indeed, statistics show that compared to some areas of Glasgow or Liverpool, there are lower rates of drug addiction and unemployment. The cause of the riots is complicated … problems to be negotiated. But the madness of the last six weeks must end now.
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Sotomayor makes surprising revelations in book
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It's not surprising, then, that she describes near-death experiences with diabetes and her decision not to have children in part because of it, the deaths of her alcoholic father and drug-addicted first cousin, her former 3½-pack-a-day cigarette habit …
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Rancho Cucamonga man, founder of Frontier Homes, puts productivity …
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Decades ago, while struggling with substance abuse, Jim Previti Jr. was a homeless man with a drug conviction. Battling addiction for more than a decade, he spent nearly two years homeless … Both have the opportunity to view life …
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Iran grapples with drug problem – Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, the Iranian president, has proposed a budget estimated at 8bn for 2011, with a promise that spending will focus on agriculture, education and research. It is unclear how much of this budget will go on tackling the nation’s rising drug problem, though opium continues to pour into the country from neighbouring Afghanistan. In the last 10 months, Al Jazeera correspondent Alireza Ronaghi reports that police have seized over 400 tonnes of drugs and have lost dozens of police officers in the attempt to eradicate drug abuse in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Now some public security officials are saying the effort to chase and arrest drug dealers and users is almost pointless in the face of the sheer quantity of narcotics brought into the capital city every day. At a conference on drug control in Tehran this week, Brigadier-General Hamidreza Hosseinabadi, head of Iran’s anti-drug task force, criticised international organisations and Western powers for their lack of co-operation. “Those who chase terrorists in Afghanistan, they have left drug traffickers free. “I think they even guide traffickers. They allow a fifty percent increase of drug production in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, where the head quarters of British forces is located. What does that mean?” Hosseinabadi asked. Antonino De Leo, the representative of UN office on Drugs and Crime in Iran, says he is eager to help but his hands are tied. “Our technical assistance programme … is funded by …
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