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Elephant on Main Street Blog, 2005 - 2007 Archive August 2005
Insurance
Insurance parity is surely one of the key battles to be fought — I say "to be" because the effort has been feeble thus far — by recovery advocates.
The insurance lobby won one recently, and lost…
Heroin Deaths in NYC
We've been traveling, but bad news about drug use not only travels but has a way of being there when we arrive.
Pete, Carrick's boyfriend, is watching the house and pets while we're gone. He called…
Oregon
I got a call from Racheal less than an hour ago. She came across 'Saving Carrick" on the MSNBC website and was so inspired by it that she wanted to talk to one of us.
Racheal is clean and sober for…
Colombia II
When my friend Jacques told me a couple of weeks ago about the seizure of Colombian children by right- and left-wing military groups, I wondered why I hadn't read more about the issue. Today, the…
Charlie Murray
A couple of hours ago, Charlie Murray, 29, was standing below a cherry picker, where an electrician was changing a light bulb on the Warburton Ave. Bridge in our village. Charlie evidently touched a…
Casualties
One of the most harrowing figures about the failure of our drug policy is contained in a story about "Saving Carrick" on the website of Anchorage's KTUU, Channel 2. More than 15,000 people are…
NCADI Video
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information held one of the dozens of FAVOR-inspired "house parties" across the country…
Macbeth at Untermeyer
We got back from the opening of Piper Theatre Productions' "apprentice" production of Macbeth in Untermeyer Park in Yonkers a little while ago.
Duncan played Macduff, Hecate and a murderer, and was…
Moving Forward
One of my closest friends, a person I've confided in for more than ten years, is a woman I've met in person only once, when we grabbed a quick lunch a few years ago when I was on assignment in…
Ostracism
I had a conversation this morning with Betty, whose son got into trouble with some other young men in a few incidents about a year ago. Some marijuana was involved but there were other issues that I…
Hazards of Blogging
So we were at the train station an hour ago buying Carrick's monthly commutation pass when I realized that her 21st birthday was just four days away.
"Listen, with all the hullaballoo these last few…
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