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A former employee of Waco’s Heart of Texas Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse accused of stealing more than $65,000 from the organization was sentenced Monday after earlier agreeing to a plea deal, but she didn’t get exactly what she was seeking.
The Central Texas woman who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $65,000 from the Heart of Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse was sentenced to 10 years probation and ordered to pay restitution.
BAC, London This is a bit of a carry on, in more ways than one. There are over 50 characters but only one performer, Amanda Lawrence, in this affectionate whirlwind tribute to the comedy actor, Charles Hawtrey, who stole his name from the Edwardian actor and manager, lost his career to alcoholism and his life to gangrene. The former child actor, who began his career playing a Lost Boy in Peter ...
The SA National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) says drug abuse in the workplace is costing the business sector billions each year...
A Scottish woman escapes an abusive relationship and heads to Chicago, where she meets a suicidal hitman and an alcoholic detective. 21 Albemarle St...
A former bank executive who is an admitted alcoholic was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for stealing $611,590 from the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association in Chester Township while serving as its volunteer treasurer.
ELYRIA — Creativity flowed as freely as the liquid treats at Thursday’s Zero Proof Mix-Off at Lorain County Community College. Organizations from around Lorain County competed in an alcohol-free drink contest sponsored by the Lorain County General Health District to promote celebrating this holiday season responsibly. The Ohio Highway Patrol again carried top honors from the judges, [...]
In her bestselling 2005 memoir The Glass Castle, American journalist Jeannette Walls recalled a childhood that gave dysfunction a new name. As she was raised by an alcoholic father and an eccentric mother, there were times when Wall and her siblings slept in cardboard boxes and subsisted on margarine and cat-food. How such untamed characters slipped under society's net is partially explored by ...
Excessive alcohol consumption greatly increases the body's need for thiamin (vitamin B-1). Increased need for B-1 along with a poor-quality diet explains the erratic eye movements, staggering gait and deranged mental functions commonly seen in serious alcoholism.
Washington, Dec 3 : A new Australian study suggests that parental encouragement leads to alcoholism in teenagers.
Economic downturn causes demand for affordable drug and alcohol rehab programs. Mountainside in Connecticut cites a sharp increase in demand for its services and attributes stress caused by economic crisis which has led to an increase in alcoholic binge drinking, drug abuse and marital problems.
