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...that day in her courtroom, McNally sent the sometime meth user back to his forklift and the mechanic and recovering cocaine addict back to his three kids. The pot-smoking teenager trailed behind his mother. Says the judge: "When somebody's threatening to throw you in jail, it doesn't feel like they care about you. Now there's a different attitude." And it is showing results...
...film’s protagonist is one such computer addict. Richard Longman, played by Boys Don’t Cry’s Peter Sarsgaard, has spent the last year essentially hibernating, living off the windfalls of a successful business venture while playing video games and watching porn...
ARRESTED. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 39, ex-Mets and ex-Yankees slugger; for violating probation for the fourth time for a 1999 drug and prostitution-solicitation conviction; in Tampa, Fla. Strawberry fled a rehab center and said he was picked up for an A.A. meeting by an addict with whom he smoked crack and was robbed of jewelry by five gunmen...
This lure is particularly strong for "people who have had sobriety problems before," says Richard Rogg, founder and owner of the fashionable Promises Malibu--a rehab clinic where the high-profile addict can try to kick the habit. "He'll have an operation, and the doctor will give out Vicodin like they're M&M's. Soon, he's addicted. I'm hearing the same old story: 'I had five or 10 years' sobriety, but I got loaded on Vicodin, and I went...
...everyone who uses painkillers for more than a few weeks at a time will become an addict, says Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He suspects that most of those abusing Vicodin obtained the drug illegally. Says Leshner: "It's important to separate when the substance is a medicine and when it is abused." Just ask Eminem, who in Under the Influence declares, "I'm like a mummy at night/fightin' with bright lightning/frightened with five little white Vicodin pills bitin...