Meet the $18000 Man: From Poverty and Drug Abuse to a Job

Meet the 000 man: From poverty and drug abuse to a job
Hammond says he ended up in Baltimore three years ago, addicted to crack cocaine and snorting heroin, living in abandoned buildings where "the rats were fierce," and financing his addiction by breaking into cars and stealing copper pipes out of … Read more on NBCNews.com (blog)

Laser treatment on the brain to switch on/off cocaine addiction – Digital Journal
From behavioral therapies to lobotomy and substitute substances, the drug-abuse mechanism in the brain has yet to be conquered with significant success. Treatment for addiction to illicit drugs such as cocaine includes several processes like … Read more on DigitalJournal.com

Scott Mooneyham: Drug–abuse epidemics a century ago … and today
RALEIGH — In Harper Lee's classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Mrs. Henry Lafayette DuBose is both Southern lady and moody morphine addict. It would be easy to imagine today that the fictitious Mrs. Dubose was an anomaly, a character only marginally … Read more on Salisbury Post