Back From Slinging Drugs, He's Now Cleaning the Streets

Published October 28, 2013

Back from slinging drugs, he's now cleaning the streets

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

Gant and his volunteer crews were first responders at McPherson Square – the infamous Needle Park at F Street and Indiana – where dealers and addicts kept the five-acre green space dangerously littered with syringes. Gant kept doing cleanups until the …
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Bartlett leaders hope to raise awareness of heroin plague

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

Bartlett Police Chief Kent Williams has heard too many times from young, recovering heroin addicts that they wished they knew how dangerous the drug really was before trying it. Same for their often "very loving, connected, grounded families" who are …
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Review: Audra McDonald taps the soul of songs in concert

Filed under: drug addiction help for families

Yes, the woman who won her fifth Tony Award last year for her defiantly realistic portrayal of a drug-addicted prostitute in "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" happens to be an ace clown. PHOTOS: Hollywood stars on stage. McDonald sang teasing lullabies, …
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