Against All Odds, Newark Woman Rose Above the Mean Streets and Now Lifts Other …

Published January 8, 2013

Against all odds, Newark woman rose above the mean streets and now lifts other …

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This feature is part of "I Am New Jersey," a Star-Ledger series profiling some of the people who make the Garden State special. … She says her teenage-prostitute mother traded her for sex with drugs, when she was 7. Her dad, a convicted murderer, was …
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Ex-NBA Star to Share Addiction Woes at H-H

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Herren has been drug- and alcohol-free since Aug. 1, 2008 and has traveled to schools, prisons and rehab centers to share his message, which, according to Rubenstein, has little to do with sports. "He's not there to talk about basketball," Rubenstein said.
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Riley Regan, advocate for alcoholism treatment, dies at 77

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Roseanne Scotti, state director of the New Jersey Drug Policy Alliance said the decades when Regan was advocating for treatment were some of the worst for stereotypes against drug and alcohol users. "People who talked about this 20 years ago were often …
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