Activist Down but Not Out

Activist down but not out
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Debra Nuñez with her husband, David Oaks, in his room at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend where he is in the Neurology Department recuperating from a broken neck and other injuries. … Since he was 19 and a student at Harvard University — and …
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Cambodian-Americans confronting deportation
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An Indiana minister who has lived in Cambodia since 1994, he started the Returnee Integration Support Center in Phnom Penh in 2002 to help deportees like Chhim obtain documents, housing, jobs, and drug treatment. He knows of 12 returnees who have …
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Big drug in a little city: Heroin finds its way into small town America
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To finance the addiction, Patrianakos stole from his family, borrowed from friends, and taught himself to counterfeit $ 100 bills. Like many addicts, he entered treatment programs several times, only to return to heroin. He finally was arrested for …
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Reduce HIV by trading syringes with addicts?
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They hoped to speak with intravenous drug users and sex workers, give away injection paraphernalia and safe-sex kits and encourage addicts to enter treatment. They go where they see … But when someone is ready, Zipp said, a project worker immediately …
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