| Popping pills in the suburbs?
There have been recent raids on dealers of prescription narcotics stolen from pharmacies. But the story-behind-the-story is the people who may be in your neighborhood or where you work who are getting high popping pain pills. It's drug abuse that may defy every stereotype you have about who's addicted and who's a dealer. "It was about a money-making thing for the doctors and pharmacies, and it was an addiction for me," Bill Wallace said. Wallace, a former Houston bank executive, agreed to talk openly about his past addiction. An addiction not to heroin or cocaine but to prescription painkillers. "I'd hurt my back," he said. A back injury led to a visit to his doctor. "He gave me Vicodin," he said.
New clinic in Toccoa serves those who abuse drugs
TOCCOA, Ga. To help those who are addicted to drugs, a doctor just has opened the first clinic of this type in Toccoa. Don Pittard said narcotic addiction is a chronic, relapsing, incurable medical disease of the brain. His goal is for the clinic is to help those who are addicted return to a normal lifestyle. "These people can't quit," Dr. Pittard said. If they could, there would not be a need for clinics to treat those addicted to narcotics, he said. History has shown that drug abuse has always been a problem in our country, he said, and it has become more prominent in today's society. "The incidents of drug abuse is progressing, and we have to do something about it," he said. Which is why he opened the Pittard Clinic at 1654 Falls Road. It's the first treatment center of its kind in northeast Georgia.
Sullen Isiah Might Be Treading on Thin Ice
Isiah barely looks anyone in the eye as he gives his one-word answers to questions about the team and the league. Maybe he feels burned by the media for the coverage during the sexual harrassment trial. Or perhaps Isiah is more careful than ever when speaking publicly to the press because he knows he's in trouble and he doesn't want to say anything that may anger Garden chairman James Dolan. Remember, Dolan fired Larry Brown for violating the Knicks media policy, not for losing 59 games. You get the feelings that Isiah is thinking, "if they got out of paying Larry half of his contract they might try to do the same thing with me." It's a legitimate concern. Here's one sure way that Isiah can avoid the firing line: win. The Knicks should compete for one of the final two playoff spots in the East.
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