Waco's Low-Income Drug Rehab Options Improved, but Still Limited

Waco's low-income drug rehab options improved, but still limited
In the first half of 2011, the Freeman Center gradually shut down its 96-bed residential program, the only state-funded drug and alcohol rehab service in McLennan County, and merged with Cenikor. For more than a year, low-income clients had no access … Read more on Waco Tribune-Herald

Atty. General Holder pushes to lift voting ban against ex-convicts
“They undermine the re-entry process and defy the principles — of accountability and rehabilitation — that guide our criminal justice policies,” he added. Laws governing voting — for convicts and others — differ from state to … are facing a life … Read more on Raw Story

For some artists, lure of drug too strong
They include Robert Downey Jr., who has been drug-free since 2003; and Mackenzie Phillips, who after being arrested for heroin possession in 2008, successfully completed a drug rehab program. But nowhere has heroin's influence been felt more than in … Read more on Attleboro Sun Chronicle