Emotions run high at Manatee drug court graduation
MANATEE — Erica Dearth has no hesitation in talking about her drug-addicted past which began at age 12 and escalated to smoking crack and marijuana and prescription pill abuse. She hopes it might inspire someone else in the grips of addiction to seek help.
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Former UM pharmacologist details drug use that ended in fiancee’s death
McCracken says “intellectualization” blinded him to dangers Eight months after his fiancee died in Baltimore after injecting bogus drugs, former University of Maryland pharmacologist Clinton B. McCracken has ended his silence, calling his substance abuse “a cautionary tale regarding the extreme dangers of intellectualizing drug use.”
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Community Battling Drug Addiction
Just 45 miles west of Detroit a small community is battling a huge problem heroin addiction among teens.
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