Leaders concerned about drug report

By Nate DeGraff and Margaret Moffett Banks
News Record N.C.

Problems with a High Point drug-rehab program are frustrating community leaders and prompting renewed calls for a long-term drug-treatment center in Guilford County.

A new report said Alcohol and Drug Services has too many empty beds and has strayed from its original mission of providing a 12-step treatment program. Only about half of ADS' 55 beds are occupied, and the program typically houses addicts for less than a week.

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Drugs know no boundaries: Addiction cuts across all social classes

Each needle they popped through their skin - each pill, each puff, each snort - could have been the one that killed them

BY TOM LONG
Citizens Voice Penn.
Jan 23_06

Two 22-year-old recovering addicts sat at a table in Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services in Wilkes-Barre. As addicts go, they had been lucky.

Palmer and Taylor, as they asked to be called, backed away from the brink of death. As high school students traveling to buy heroin and other drugs in Philadelphia's drug-laden Badlands, they witnessed shootings and muggings.

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