In Camden, Prostitutes Pick Between Handcuffs and Helping Hand

In Camden, prostitutes pick between handcuffs and helping hand
"None of these women woke up and thought this was where they'd be," said Brenda Antinore, founder of Seeds of Hope Ministries, a group that helps the poor, homeless, drug-addicted, and women engaged in prostitution. "People don't really understand …
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Nursing a passion for movies
Some of her close friends took to the streets — selling and using drugs and becoming stick-up kids. Her mother, a counselor at a drug rehabilitation center, would often bring home recovering heroin addicts to show her daughters first hand the severely …
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California Bill Would Give Drug Users Treatment Instead Of Prison Time
The significance of this statistic is not lost on Romero, who is now living and working as a drug counselor at the Amity Foundation, a residential substance-abuse treatment center based in Los Angeles. Romero recently calculated that his 19 years in …
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Path To Recovery – Documentary-style television of real alcohol and drug addiction counselors telling their truths. Their purpose is to help find people who would like to becom…