Volunteers Playing Critical Role in Feeding Kids at Waterville School

Published October 23, 2013

Volunteers playing critical role in feeding kids at Waterville school

Filed under: Drug Abuse Portland

Now, poverty can mean lack of money, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, depression — so many other factors.” Teaching and caring for kids means adapting to the changes and changing how you work with them, according to Martin. “We, as a staff …
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My five favorite stories of September … patient/actors, Kitzhaber, AIDS …

Filed under: Drug Abuse Portland

Finally, last week we published the first installment in an ongoing series about a serious public health problem plaguing Portland – opioid addiction ("The price of addiction: prescription pain killers, heroin plague Portland (series)"). Sources kept …
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'Orange is the New Black' author tells corrections officials in Portland to …

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Kerman spent 13 months in a Connecticut prison starting in 2004 on charges of money laundering and drug trafficking for agreeing to transport a bag of drug money from Chicago to Brussels for a former girlfriend more than a decade earlier. A college …
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