Women's centres give vital help to ex-convicts. So why cut them?

Published January 27, 2013

Women's centres give vital help to ex-convicts. So why cut them?

Filed under: addiction help

At 13, Lily stopped going to school, began to drift and drink, became addicted to crack cocaine, and lived with an abusive, drug-addled boyfriend. At 21, she attacked a woman, her only crime. She served three years and now, recently released on licence …
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Maura Casey: Anonymity of addiction hurts more than helps

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HARTFORD, Conn. — I often wished that state legislators who knew the most about addiction would band together and speak out as one during budget debates. Who better to advocate for treatment and chip away at public denial than the recovering …
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KIM SMITH: Help curb fatal drug abuse with alternative techniques

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Media reports of an epidemic of prescription pain medication abuse and fatal overdoses have prompted calls for action from health care regulators and California legislators. Responding to a series of stories in the Los Angeles Times, the leader of the …
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