Subject: Drug Addiction

• Josh Hamilton

  March 26, 2009

• CHARLIE'S ANGELINSPIRED BY SAX LEGEND PARKER, SONNY ROLLINS FINDS PEACE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE-WHETHER HE'S PLAYING IN IT OR NOT

  September 15, 1993

• Staying Power

  The Chimeras are the Tempe band that would not die

  January 4, 1996

• Waiting to Inhale

  Luis Sharpe led a double life. In public, he was an admired NFL star. In private, he was a crackhead hell-bent on self-destruction.

  June 6, 1996

• Children of Synanon

  An acclaimed Tucson drug-treatment program went suddenly, mysteriouly bankrupt. Administrators blame the board of directors. But others are questioning the administrators and their history at the notorious drug-treatment empire known as Synanon.

  October 10, 1996

• Tokin' Resistance

  Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen

  December 12, 1996

• Methology - Part I

  Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  December 18, 1997

• Methology - Part II

  Arizona is awash in crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant that makes the weak strong, the lazy motivated, the fat thin, the trivial profound. Abuse it enough, and it can also make you psychotic.

  December 18, 1997

• A Capitol Idea

  Phoenix Community Alliance's new plan for the Capitol Mall sends the homeless scrambling while the city looks the other way

  November 5, 1998

• Shooting Star

  Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

  November 12, 1998

• Letters

  November 26, 1998

• Grant's Doom

  State misspent $350,000 of federal funds earmarked for HIV and substance-abuse services

  April 1, 1999

• Street Without Hope

  On Madison Street, crowds of crack-addicted homeless are plaguing police and downtown businesses. But no one seems to be doing much about it.

  May 6, 1999

• Letters

  May 20, 1999

• The Once and Future Mom

  CPS slammed for severing parental rights while doing little to preserve the family

  May 27, 1999

• Shape Up or Sharpe Out

  Trouble-plagued NFL vet faces stint in Valley rehab

  May 3, 2001

• Gentle Exit

  ADJC Director steps down

  August 21, 2003

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 22, 2005

  December 22, 2005

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 5, 2006

  January 5, 2006

• Silver Jews

  August 7, 2008

• Alice In Chains

  September 18, 2008

• Blood on the Tracks

  O.C. straight-edge kids suffer for their art

  February 12, 2009

• Former Korn guitarist Brian Welch finds Jesus

  June 19, 2008

• Arizona Medical Board's hands-off approach to relapsed addict physicians is endangering patients

  March 6, 2008

• An Inconvenient Untruth

  BTT play will make you squirm -- and that's no lie

  October 18, 2007

• Blazing Saddle

  Where the girls are

  August 31, 2006

• It Girl

  Welcome to the Cult of Katie Rose. Hope your liver can handle it

  May 25, 2006

• Hey, Hey, We're the Junkies

  The heroin of our story

  May 18, 2006

• Meth Madness

  For $5 million, Arizona can grow its population of meth users -- just like Montana

  April 27, 2006

• Get Out of the Chronic Rescue Rut . . .

  And accept that you can't always save the people you love

  January 19, 2006

• Methology Redux

  When it comes to Arizona's meth addiction, there are no easy solutions

  December 15, 2005

• Fast Times at Westwind junior high

  Any way you add it up, kids at one Valley middle school were dealing meth out of their backpacks

  December 15, 2005

• Meth Treatment

  Meth addiction isn't impossible to beat -- but the treatment's not cheap. And good luck finding it

  December 8, 2005

• Bad Medicine

  Locking up cold medicine makes the politicians feel good -- but it won't put a dent in Arizona's meth habit

  December 8, 2005

• Meth and Sex

  Tweakers, straight and gay, are obsessed with sex. The result is that pregnancy and HIV-infection rates among meth-heads are increasing at alarming rates

  November 24, 2005

• Ice, Ice, Baby

  Arizona moms are abusing meth more than any other drug. Want to get them clean, save the family and save tax dollars? Try dangling their kids as the carrot

  November 24, 2005

• Take Two Bottles of These. Call Me When You're Dead

  Dr. Willard Hunter's repeated misprescription of dangerous drugs has contributed to two deaths. But the state medical board doesn't see any reason to revoke his doctor's license.

  February 15, 1996

• Cage

  Hell's Winter
  (Def Jux)

  October 6, 2005

• Blood on their hands

  October 14, 2004

• XO, Elliott

  Elliott Smith, 1969-2003

  October 30, 2003

• There's Something About Phoenix

  Phoenix police shoot and kill a lot of people. But it's time to look beyond the police department for the reasons.

  June 5, 2003

• It Takes a Tribe

  A tiny Indian community struggles to educate its young

  August 1, 2002

• Moment of Truth

  A Goonie no more, Corey Feldman is searching for his soul as a rock musician

  December 7, 2000

• Club Meds

  The mental-health-care system says Lynda Sue Dale, a young mentally ill mother, is ineligible for treatment -- until she informs the bureaucrats she's talking to New Times

  July 13, 2000

• Concealed Weapons

  Despite some misfires, The Pistoleros keep looking for a break and say that rumors of their demise are greatly exaggerated

  April 8, 1999

• Family Affairs

  A professional Phoenix woman wanted to help one poor, "at risk" family. It was the type of private initiative that both political parties say will ease the harsh impacts of welfare reform. Her three-year experiment in personal responsibility rescued an 1

  December 26, 1996

• Opiate for the Mrs.

  When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski

  September 8, 1994

• ALONE IN THE DARK

  September 22, 1993

• Phoenix Police See Spike in Heroin Use

  www.motivatedphoto.com​Just when we though crystal meth reigned supreme as the drug of choice among hard dopers, here's this blast from the past. Remember heroin? Well drug addicts sure do, and according to Phoenix police, "smack" is coming back in a big way."Between January 2006 and January 2008, we confiscated a little less than three kilos of heroin off the streets," says Detective James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Department. "Between January 2008 and August 2009 alone, we confiscat

  August 7, 2009

• Three-Week-Old Girl Not Expected to Survive Injuries Police Say Were Caused by Her Father

  Brian Mark Hopf​The 3-week-old girl, who police say suffered some gruesome injuries at the hands of her father, 25-year-old Brian Mark Hopf, is not expected to survive. Hopf poked the girl in the eyes,police say, and dropped her on the floor, leaving her with several skull fractures, broken ribs, and other serious injuries. According to authorities, there is evidence that the girl was sexually abused. Hopf, an admitted meth addict, says he accidentally dropped the girl and poked h

  September 9, 2009