9-Year-Old Jessica Lunsford – Murdered by a Repeat Sex Offender – Inspires

9-Year-Old Jessica Lunsford – Murdered By a Repeat Sex Offender – Inspires

Filed under: Illinois Drug Addiction

The 46-year-old spent time in prison and had his driver's license suspended for 99 years, but as his drug addiction to crack cocaine became more severe, Couey's crime spree escalated into sexually assaulting two young children. As a twice convicted sex …
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What the Gun Lobby and the Marijuana Lobby Have in Common

Filed under: Illinois Drug Addiction

… or recognize its use as an affirmative defense in a court of law. Those 13 states, blue and red, are Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas …
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Bolingbrook Church One Step Closer to Moving into Former Walgreens

Filed under: Illinois Drug Addiction

Some readers feared the church would bring "ex-cons and drug addicts" into the neighorhood and saw that mission as a perceived threat to their safety. "Not in my backyard," they said. George Guilford, pastor and founder of Ultimate Faith, said that …
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OXYCONTIN, THE SIGN LANGUAGE, AND THE BLAGOJEVICH DEAL – Today I will deal with three issues, (1) the issue of drug addiction, in particular the OxyContin problem, (2) I will present the first problems of our economic disaster (3) and finally I will make a comment on the 6-figure book deal former Illinois Governor Blagojevich, also known as Goldfinger signed. — When researching the background of the drug addiction of certain celebrities, I came across a New York Times article of May 2007 – to which I came through a link of a law firms website reporting that three former and at that time current executives of Purdue Pharma had pled guilty to criminal charges that they had misled the FDA and physicians by not disclosing that OxyContin is addictive. OxyContin is said to be causing a sense of euphoria as it changes the chemical make-up of the brain. It may be habit-forming and should not given to someone who has a history of drug abuse or addiction. There seems to be a question whether oxycodone-induced brain changes can ever be repaired. — One of the victims of the Purdue cover-up of the addictive nature of oxycontin apparently was Republican spokesman and policy-maker Rush Limbaugh who several years back admitted in his radio program that he was addicted. Apparently, his admission followed his prosecution for felony doctor shopping, as reported by Law.com in May 2006. Prosecutor Roy Black finally agreed to a plea bargain that spared Limbaugh jail time under the condition that he attended an 18 months drug treatment program