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Tom Sizemore says he's done with drugs. "I'm not trading my whole life for some powder," the 45-year-old actor told The Bakersfield Californian in a jailhouse interview. He's serving time for violating probation and will be released next month. "God's trying to tell me he doesn't want me using drugs because every time I use them I get caught," Sizemore said. Sometimes God works in mysterious ways. Then there are those other times. Halle's hyperbolic The pregnancy hormones are flowing for pregnant Halle Berry, whose comments to "Extra's" AJ Calloway at the New York premiere of her film, "Things We Lost in the Fire" were so ripe with emotion they required multiple exclamation points in translation. "It's an exciting time in my life!!" she declared. And, regarding her model boyfriend and baby daddy Gabriel Aubry: "He's an excellent cook.
Services needed to break young user cycle
TEENAGERS are dying and families are being torn apart due to a lack of services for adolescent drug addicts, campaigners have claimed. A shortage of detox facilities for teenagers, a lack of mental health beds, no proper aftercare for teen drug users when they come out of treatment along with limited accommodation facilities for recovering addicts are combining to create a crisis within Ireland's adolescent population.
While services for teenage addicts improved in recent years, much of a 2005 government-sponsored report on the problem remains to be implemented.
Professionals have identified the lack of residential detox facilities, specifically earmarked for adolescents, as a key weakness in the State's battle against drug addiction.
Two of the country's main drug treatment centres, Beaumount Hospital and Cuan Dara in Dublin, have no designated detox programmes or beds for under-18s.
One on One With Frank Ballance
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One on One With Frank Ballance
Former U.S. Rep. Makes Public Plea for an Appeal Ex-Congressman Says His Prison Sentence Is Too Long Former Congressman Expected to be Sentenced On Federal Charges Former Congressman Ballance May Soon Face Criminal Indictments FBI Looks Into Frank Ballance's Campaign Finance Records Ballance Says He Will Not Step Down Despite Hyman Foundation Scandal Ballance Apologizes, But Stands Up For Hyman Foundation Ballance Takes Over Eva Clayton's Seat .
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