Peorian expands personal battle of staying off drugs to cleaning up South …
"It's a very miserable life to do drugs, living hell," she said. "Your home, there is no home. You live on the edge every day." Harris took a bus to Central Illinois Center for the Treatment of Addictions. She crawled through the door, and spent the …
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"My Kind Of Town Sacramento Is"
I first came to this beautiful city in 1989, from the north suburbs of Illinois on two semi trucks, and a car. … The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center is a six-month program built on a model designed to help transition individuals into a …
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Prosecuting a war against heroin
His father was a drug user who got clean in the late 1960s and became a counselor and executive at the Gateway Foundation, one of the largest addiction treatment centers in Illinois. Yet even they didn't fully recognize their son's teenage substance abuse.
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