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Last year, just a day before the 54th Grammy Awards, the world lost one of the greatest voices in music, multi-platinum selling artist Whitney Houston. February 11, 2013 will mark the one year anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of the iconic ...
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Drug traffic fuels addiction in Sierra Leone
Aljazeera.com
"Whatever [drugs] I'm going to be able to do, I'm going to do. Because I really don't have nothing." Huddled at the end of a narrow alleyway downtown, Hindowa and two friends shared stories ofaddiction and life on the street. "My mother died, my ...
HOOKED: Realities of drug addiction; Addicts struggle to find help, rehabilitation programs - morningjournal.com: ". . . “There just doesn’t seem to be the resources available to help everybody.” The same concerns were raised by local families at a recent meeting of SOLACE, a support group for family members of addicts. “I feel like if I don’t do something, I’m going to be looking at him in his casket,” one father said about his 28-year-old son. Last year, 60 people died from drug overdoses in Lorain County, triple the 22 who died in 2011. Heroin abuse has become a major threat. . . ."