'Maya's Notebook': a tough young woman flees a world of trouble

Filed under: Drug Addiction Help Seattle

Rebellion leads to a harrowing descent into addiction and a life of crime in Las Vegas. Allende writes chillingly of the ugly underbelly just below the glitzy veneer of Sin City. Freshly arrived in the drug den that becomes her home there, lorded over …
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Report: Partners often at fault in child deaths

Filed under: Drug Addiction Help Seattle

DCS officials say drug abuse, domestic violence and low incomes contributed to the 2011 totals. Officials say the agency had a prior history with the child killed in only six of the 40 cases. DCS Director Mary Beth Bonaventura says state officials need …
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Highs, lows of getting sober

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Caudle, who had an 8-month old daughter at the time, was trying to turn her life around after a battle with addiction to illegal drugs. She went through both inpatient and … In August she needs to go to Seattle Children's. I don't know if she will …
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