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And many of the people in question are real deadbeats--drunks, addicts, and the like.
When she talked to cocaine addicts, she admitted to having tried the drug herself.
Criminologist John DiIulio claims that inner-city "super-preachers" are the best hope for saving troubled kids from crime: Churchgoing seems to prevent backsliding by recovering drug addicts and former criminals.
But that, I think, is a very bad analogy, because heroin addicts tend to be people who believed at the outset that they could escape addiction.
Time spots a new treatment for heroin addicts: The drug buprenorphine relieves cravings and withdrawal symptoms, but packs only a small high and is not addictive.