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  The transitions of Sybil Clarkson

  05.29.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sybil Clarkson, a former crack addict for 18 years, and Transitions, the program which helped her become clean and who she now works for as a Child Care Coordinator/Case Manager, have been profiled in The Journal Gazette of Fort Worth, Indiana.

  Clarkson had previously tried to give up drugs with AWAC, another program run by the non-profit Women’s Bureau (part of the United Way Movement), but lapsed after she left the 90-day program.

• North America, People, Treatment

  Mindy McConnell

  05.24.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ever since she was young Mindy McConnell wanted to be the “bad girl” and the “rocker slut that was doing the drugs, drinking the beer and having the sex.” When she was 10 she stole some beer and cigarettes from her father. By the time she was 15 she found methamphetamine and dropped out of high school in her freshman year as it “interfered with [her] drug career”. Over the next 10 years she tried a plethora of illegal substances, had a son, Isaiah, and sold meth with her boyfriend (who also cooked it).

• Europe, Treatment

  Streetwise but at sea

  05.23.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  The English drug charity Streetwise Charitable Trust, originally formed in 1992 to address an increase in drug abuse in the London Borough of Newham, is setting up a detox centre on an old fort built during World War One, unused for the last 35 years. Situated in the mouth of the river Humber near Grimsby, on the east coast of England, Bull Sands Fort was originally built on a concrete island to protect industries and Royal Navy fuel bunkers.

• North America, People, Treatment

  Nick Sheff

  05.20.06 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Nick now claims that he was searching for methamphetamine for his entire life, and when he tried it for the first time,” as he says, “That was that.”

  My Addicted Son, David Sheff, The New York Times Magazine

  In February 2005 David Sheff told the story of his 23-year old son’s three-year addiction to meth. It was a tale of family connections lost and found, old habits, dying hard and being reborn. While Nick had relapsed several times before, he had been clean 10 months at the time of writing and was possessed of a determination not previously discernible. The article concluded with the reproduction of a letter Nick had written to his 11-year old brother, who he had once stolen eight dollars from during his troubled period. He described his shame over how the trust he wanted to build with him now was so elusive back then. While recognising that he couldn’t reclaim the past, he staked a claim to the future: “I will be here for you. I will live, and build a life, and be someone that you can depend on. I hope that means more than this stupid note and these eight dollar bills.” One can only hope that he has kept what he found.

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