The Wire – Narcotics Anonymous, Dee-Dee and Bubbles – Bubbles was based on a real person, and here’s David Simon’s obituary of him: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-03-16/news/1992076028_1_possum-police-dep…

Editorial: Singling out poor Hoosiers

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On some level, all of Indiana should cheer the proclamations of just wanting to do the right thing for families caught in a cycle of addiction. … Maybe so. But benevolence isn't driving a bill that seeks to weed out drug users and toss them into …
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Redhouse now uses drumming and singing to help addicts in recovery programs …

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Redhouse, who says there isn't a drug he didn't do, later got kicked out of his family's home and ended up in foster care, where things just got worse because, he says, members of his adoptive family were also addicted to drugs. … According to that …
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Rick Steves pushes his love of travel at benefits for KCLU radio station

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Steves said the drug addiction rate in Portugal has decreased by half since that country developed similar laws. … “I wrote down little quotes he was saying as I listened,” said Rebecca Cardone, the president of Cal Lutheran's student body association.
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