Clarence Page: Don't Overreact to Celebrity Drug Deaths

Published February 17, 2014

Clarence Page: Don't overreact to celebrity drug deaths
As his many obituaries and tributes recount, Hoffman had been clean of drugs and alcohol for two decades, during which he had a brilliant career. Then he started taking prescription pain pills two years ago and checked into a rehab program last year.
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Heroin is becoming the drug of choice of the young, the restless, the dead …
There are no signs that the opiate onslaught is slowing as more young people are graduating from the abuse of oxycontin and other prescription painkillers, and digging early graves with heroin. Ohio will not be able to build enough prisons, or arrest …
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Addicted on Staten Island
Jacqueline Fiore, the executive director of the Staten Island Y.M.C.A. Counseling Service, a highly respected drug treatment facility, said she and her colleagues in the recovery world had anticipated and worried about a heroin problem for several …
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