1/9: Collective Soul Drummer Warns Teens Against Drugs at the Rock
1/9: Collective Soul drummer warns teens against drugs at The Rock
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Alice Cooper's youth center, The Rock at 32nd Street, is hosting an event called Rock & Roll and Recovery at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, January 9, aimed at keeping teens away from drugs and alcohol. The free event will feature live music, free pizza and a …
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New study shows "alarming" binge drinking among women
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Call the national Drug and Alcohol Treatment Referral Routing Service at 800-662-HELP. Go to www.cdc.gov/alcohol for more … Extra Photos. Sue Monsey the Ashley Hope Residential Treatment Center for Alcohol Addiction has battled acoholism all her life.
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Study On US Binge Drinking Among Women Draws Critics
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“Binge drinking poses a clear health risk for women given it can result in high blood alcohol content, reduced inhibitions, poor judgment, and risky behaviors,” Dr. Elizabeth Waterman of Morningside Recovery Centers in Newport Beach, Calif., said. “In …
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College Grad (Olivia Moody) Shot Bully, Gets 30-year Prison Sentence 6 Days After Graduation – An honor student who worked her way out of Chicago’s crime-ridden Roseland neighborhood to become the first in her immediate family to graduate from college, Moody’s life had once been on a different course. But in May, less than a week after she received a degree in criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a jury convicted her of killing a 21-year-old mother of two after a senseless altercation over a young man. Moody claimed that she had been bullied by a group of women from the neighborhood and that the shooting was self-defense. The jury decided it was second-degree murder. Now the young woman born to a prostitute and crack addict who abandoned her at the hospital after birth, a young woman who believed that education would be her ticket “out of the ghetto,” is serving a 30-year sentence in an Arkansas prison. “My world has been turned around,” Moody said, tears trickling down her face as she sat for an interview at the McPherson Unit, a women’s correctional facility about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock. “I tried to live my life as a model that you can be successful regardless of where you came from,” she said, having dreamed of becoming a lawyer and even a Supreme Court justice. “It’s hard to tell my little brother and sister they can do better when I’m sitting in prison. I feel like I’m a failure to them.” When she was 8, Moody was featured in a Time magazine article that chronicled her mother’s efforts to give up her life on the streets …
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