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...been worried about him for months. Jailed after brandishing a knife at a psychiatric hospital, the heavyset mechanic had been on medication and living at his parents' home since his release on probation last May. His parents confided in neighbors Clint and Bernice Merrill that they feared Furrow would crack. Loni Merrill, who has known Furrow and his family since the two went to junior high school together, recalls her mother saying just a few months ago, "I really hope Neal doesn't get a gun." He had seemed fine for a while, tending his parents' mobile home and staying...
...baby that Barbara Harris carried home from the hospital--a stiff-limbed infant who couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a stretch, who would wake screaming and vomiting? "He was a bundle of nerves," recalls Harris, who adopted Isiah and three of his siblings, all born with crack cocaine in their systems. "He had the shakes. All you could do was have patience...
...former waitress with a cheerful, assertive manner, Harris runs CRACK from a two-room office above a dental clinic, working mornings while her children are in school. Her board of directors includes a law professor, a retired police officer, three social workers and a foster mother who has taken in seven drug-addicted babies. CRACK has mounted a toll-free hot line, a website cracksterilization.com and billboards in four states. It opened a chapter in Chicago last month and has garnered attention from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. Radio shrink Dr. Laura Schlessinger contributed...
Several clients referred by Harris are willing to defend the program publicly. Sharon Adams, 39, says she prostituted herself for 12 years to pay for crack and bore 14 children--eight of them born addicted. Now drug free and working as a pizza-delivery driver, she says, "This program isn't forcing anybody to do anything." Sherry Golding, 29, a former methamphetamine addict who struggled to regain custody of her three children, says the $200 she got to have her tubes tied was "a lifesaver. It helped me get my life together...
...have had a wild youth, if that means he dated many women or drank too much from time to time. But what about the illegal use of cocaine? Tens of thousands of Americans are serving mandatory jail sentences for having been caught with cocaine or its variant, crack. If Bush did try cocaine, how does that square with his support of Texas legislation putting those caught with less than a gram of the drug in jail...