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...ADAMHA study discloses that at least 50% of the 1.5 million to 2 million Americans with chronic mental illness abuse illicit drugs or alcohol, compared with about 15% in the general population. It also reveals that the dual diagnosis virtually guarantees a hard fall through the cracks of the system. "Most mental health programs screen out people who have substance-abuse problems and send them down the street," explains Julie Boynton, director of a six-month-old rehabilitation center in Los Angeles County that deals specifically with both conditions. "And the alcohol and drug programs won't take people...
...case that unfolded in Room 13 of London's High Court contained all the elements necessary for a topping midsummer titillation. It included charges of illicit sex, payoffs, skulduggery in high political places and a celebrity plaintiff. Small wonder, then, that hardly a seat was vacant during the 14 days of testimony and summation in the libel suit brought against the Star, a lurid London tabloid, by best-selling Novelist (First Among Equals, Kane and Abel) and former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Jeffrey Archer. The charge: that the Star falsely claimed that Archer had purchased the services of a London...
...country." Jackson insisted that Hart had been correct in ducking the adultery question. A candidate's morality, he said, should be judged by his stands on issues such as South African policy and the contras as well as bedroom behavior. Intimate inquiry is legitimate, Jackson contended, only when "some illicit relationship was having some bearing on national interest or national security...
...leader who permitted a band of overzealous aides to conduct secret and possibly illegal operations right under his nose. The White House has done little to dispute that characterization, and for good reason: an inattentive Reagan who knew little of the weapons sales to Iran and nothing about the illicit funneling of arms to the Nicaraguan rebels seemed better than a President who played an active role in the affair...
...grand jury investigating cost overruns associated with the $9 million home-reconstruction project recommended theft charges against two developers and blasted the mayor's office for what it termed a "morass of incompetence, ineptitude and mismanagement." The grand jury said it has discovered more than $200,000 worth of illicit funneling of funds, salaries and equipment from the reconstruction project, along with $150,000 in other questionable disbursements. Much of the blame for the fiasco, said the jury's report, "lies with the mayor and the key people on whom he relied." Replied Goode: "I wanted more than anything else...