Fire from within (Help with drug addictions)

Fire from within
News-Star - A sole sentence painted on a trailer parked in Tim Todd's carport reads: "Go out and preach the good news to all creation." But the evangelist sees a looming mission field in his hometown. One year after Todd received the torch to carry on Revival

High and Inside Drugs May Be a Bigger Problem Inside Maryland s
Baltimore City Paper - BOTH SIDES NOW: Former correctional officer Shelby Stern says that even the most well-meaning COs are flummoxed by the drug problem in prisons. DOING HARD TIME: I Can't We Can founder Israel Cason is among a growing contingent that would like to see

SNL's Farley revived for drug treatment ads
Houston Chronicle - LOS ANGELES -- Eight years after his drug-related death at age 33, Chris Farley will be making a reappearance in Los Angeles. The family of the oversized comic has approved the first major commercial use of his image -- on a series of Los Angeles

Teen challenge changes addictions and lives
Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Editor s note: This is the first story in a two-part series on Appalachian Teen Challenge, a long-term drug rehabilitation program for young men ages 18 and older. Although non-professional, therapeutic counseling and structure are key components

Road to recovery: Drug addicts get help through court program
Times Reporter - Members of the Tuscarawas County Community Corrections Drug Court program wait to take a drug test before a recent class. Members are required to submit to a drug test before every session. At age 16, Chris was roaming the halls of New Philadelphia

Jason van Rassel, Calgary Herald
Calgary Herald - Members of Calgary city council and justice officials will meet next week to discuss establishing a criminal court that can send drug addicts for treatment as an alternative to jail. Court-supervised treatment has cut drug-related crime and costs to

Homelessness: Disclose identities P-I Editorial: The SHARE/WHEEL group
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Perhaps "[t]he taxpayers who fund these programs don't expect such anonymity" should step forward first and go on record about their "names, ages, Social Security numbers, any addictions, mental illness, [and] pregnancy." What's the matter? Afraid

Where prosecutor candidates stand
Journal and Courier Online - Pat Harrington is challenging Jerry Bean, Tippecanoe County's prosecutor for the past 15 years, in the May 2 Republican primary. In advance of the election, the Journal and Courier posed 10 questions to each candidate. Here are their full responses

Options for the addicted
NW Arkansas Times - Mary Ann Gunn is talking about the challenges women often mothers face when fighting addiction. She speaks toward the jury box, where some women are sitting, shackled, in their orange and white jail outfits. "I understand that the issues you