Trip to the movies turns into trip to jail
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Lemieux denied using cocaine, but told police that he hadn't taken his prescribed medication that day. He later told the officers that he'd recently been a patient at a drug treatment program, for an addiction that started with painkillers he was given …
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Community talks substance abuse problem
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"If that's the way it continues, your family will be a victim of drug-related crime," Caynor said, "whether you're the victim or somebody in your family is trying to support their habit themselves, and that's the facts of the situation." Participants …
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Sport stars who died in 2012
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Dokes lost the title to South African Gerrie Coetzee in 1983 and his career and life went to pieces. A cocaine addict for most of his life he was sent to prison for 10 years in 2000 for the attempted murder of his girlfriend but was released in 2008 …
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