COA Family Program for Families of Drug Addicts.wmv

COA Family Program for Families of Drug Addicts.wmv – This free program for family members of persons with drug and/or alcohol addiction combines classroom instruction with real world experience. Participants le…

Pope Francis pays tribute to 'Mafia martyr' beatified in Sicily

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Fr Pino Puglisi, who was gunned down by Cosa Nostra in Palermo in September 1993, had become a major thorn in the side of the Graviano family in the working-class neighbourhood of Brancaccio. In his efforts to set up a social … Don Puglisi was one of …
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Is it because it's too hard?

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Is there ever going to be an answer on how to help addicts? I don't want to give up on hope after losing my daughter, Lori. In April, I found out that my nephew has been struggling for five years to over-come his addiction to heroin. Because I had just …
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Paranoia over Woolwich murder may store up trouble for the future

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It's a variant of the anti-drugs approach. Except that, as we know, a few teenagers always slip through the most fine-woven support system to become addicts, and a few teenagers will also slip through the anti-radicalism net to become violent killers …
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