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'American Idol' results: Idol Gives Back night
Reality CheckIn case you missed the 4,000 promos last night, tonight's American Idol is all about Idol Gives Back. So that means lots of guest performers, lots of fund-raising and lots of hard looks at hard situations that children in the......Tags: Siobhan Magnus, Annie Lennox, Simon Cowell, Mary J. Blige, Television
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Not a cure-all
Sun reportersMany heroin addicts trying to break the grip of drugs and crime turn to a health center on West Saratoga Street for help. Some come asking for an orange pill they believe might be a "wonder drug" for treating their problems. Nearly 200 have gotten it....Tags: Photography, Reckitt Benckiser, Urinalysis, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance
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No prescriptions, but plenty of users
Sun foreign reporterThe sun set hours ago. Most everyone who sang and prayed in this concrete room with curtains that's still stuffy from body heat have gone home. Christabelle Piangnee, a 29-year-old whose life has become an incongruous mix of opiates, prostitution and...Tags: HIV, Drugs and Medicines, Addiction, Schering Plough Corporation, Mauritius
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Homeless no more
Sun reporterBundled in thermal underwear, a wool sweater and a heavy coat, Roderick Wolfe cranked back the seat in his old Toyota hatchback and closed his eyes. Sleep and morning would come soon enough. The 17-year-old Edmondson High athlete was oblivious to the...Tags: Sociology, Punishment, HIV, Vehicles, Drugs and Medicines
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An epidemic's unseen cause
Sun reporterWhile just a teenager in the 1970s, she danced on The Block, where she snorted cocaine and heroin and sold sex in back rooms. Later, with her addictions firmly rooted, she set out on her own, offering her body on the streets of West Baltimore as a...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, HIV, Maryland, Drug Use, Medical Research
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Many steps to a fresh start
Sun reporterAngela Jackson strides down Pennsylvania Avenue with pamphlets under her arm, unfazed by the line of dealers hawking drugs beneath blinking police cameras. "James Brown, James Brown!" cries one young man, applying the late soul star's name to his heroin...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Medical Procedures and Tests, HIV, Drugs and Medicines, Maryland
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Success, setbacks in France
Sun foreign reporterDr. Jean-Pierre Aubert considers himself not only a general practitioner but a dealer of sorts. From his second-floor office up a winding staircase in an apartment building near the Sacre-Coeur Basilica, the doctor prescribes a drug called...Tags: Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, Photography, HIV, Drugs and Medicines
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Targeting link between HIV, prostitution and addiction
Sun reporterWomen who sell sex for drugs will receive new attention from public health authorities interested in finding ways to curb the spread of HIV. State and city health officials say they will join forces to explore the links between prostitution, drug...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Punishment, HIV, Drugs and Medicines, Maryland
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'I can't turn it off'
Sun reporterMore than 25 years after being pressed into a life of addiction and prostitution, Ann Battle thinks she may have found a better path. Battle, 38, says she was only 11 when an adult she doesn't want to identify rented her out to support his own drug...Tags: HIV, Drugs and Medicines, Addiction, Drug Use, Behavioral Conditions
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Ailing system struggles with inmate care
Sun StaffIn mid-March 2002, Marcella N. Leski, 39, was jailed for failing to appear in court on a drug-possession charge. Twelve days later, she was so ill that her legs were amputated below the knees. Her family alleges in a lawsuit that the prison contractor'...Tags: Colon, Accounting and Auditing, Nursing, Medical Procedures and Tests, Maryland
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Cruise blends travel, love of music
Special to The Baltimore SunJack Kolb is a huge classical music fan. The retired research physicist is a regular listener to WBJC in Baltimore and joins the public radio station's semi-annual international music trek whenever he can. Recently, the Westminster resident was in...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Carnegie Hall, HIV, Opera (genre), Radio Industry
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