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Addiction and Recovery

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Jeff Bagwell's Nightmare With Hand Doctor Michael Brown Gets Worse

    Houston Astro legend Jeff Bagwell continues to pay the price for getting involved with the weird, sleazy, black hole that is the court odyssey of TV-ad star hand doctor Michael Brown. Brown has had a series of cases in criminal and divorce court, and vague allegations that Bagwell -- who's been goi ... More >>

  • News

    May 3, 2012
  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    An Awesome Houston Oiler Public Service Announcement

    Granted, there's plenty to be entertained by in this collection of early-`70s TV ads. If you don't love the huge land-yacht 1973 Lincoln-Mercurys, which look big enough to land helicopters on, you're bound to like the "small" version which retains all the luxury in a more efficient body (that nevert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Derek Boogaard Died by Accidental Overdose of Alcohol and Oxycodone

    Derek Boogaard: accidental OD​Derek Boogaard, the former Houston Aero fan favorite who was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment May 13, died from having too much alcohol and oxycodone in his system, according the medical examiner's report released today. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    Shock the Junkie

    Is ibogaine really an addict cure-all?

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Top Five Teen-Idol Rehab Alumni

    ​Checking into rehab is no laughing matter. That said, we at Rocks Off often find inspiration in even the darkest of corners. So when it was announced, much to our surprise, that Dallas-born teen pop starlet Demi Lovato had checked into rehab an inpatient treatment center, we pondered celebri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Music's Top 10 Biggest Post-Drug Comebacks

    ​The list of drug casualties in rock and roll is a long and sad one. All the suicides, car crashes and the stray gang-related murder are outweighed by the amount of people who just can't stop putting junk into their system, or at least moderate it to a point where they aren't lying cold on a h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Cowboy Junkies' Poetic Restraint at House Of Blues

    Flickr photo by adambowie​Everybody knows that good news always sleeps til noon. -- "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning" There was a palpable tingle of anticipation in the joint as we waited for the curtain to go up on the Cowboy Junkies' first gig in Houston in a coon's age Tuesday at House ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2010

    To Live Is to Fly

    Canada's Cowboy Junkies ­enter their 25th year louder and ­angrier than ever.

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Detox Craze: Stupid or Sane?

    ​We can't turn on the TV or the radio without hearing about the latest detox craze. Just the other day, we heard Rod Ryan talk about how great the Blessed Herbs one-week cleanse was on his radio show. Trust us, we really don't need to hear about his cleanse in detail that early in the morning. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    The 30 Craziest People In Houston: An Official HPD List

    Photo by Chris Curry Travis Bonser is one of Houston's 30 craziest people. Travis Bonser learned how to shoot heroin from his mother. It happened when he was 14, after his mom became too fat to tie her own arm or leave the house to pick up the dope from her dealer. It wasn't long before Bonser was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Six More Mysterious Musical Deaths We'd Like to See Reopened

    That's Brian Jones, who is still dead, in the lower right corner.​Original Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool 40 years ago. It was declared "death by misadventure," a cause of death that probably didn't come as a shock to those who had been aware ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2008

    Race and Baseball: The Stories of Josh Hamilton and Darryl Strawberry

    That's Brian Jones, who is still dead, in the lower right corner.​Original Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool 40 years ago. It was declared "death by misadventure," a cause of death that probably didn't come as a shock to those who had been aware ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 31, 2008

    ASK A MEXICAN

    Mexican Dogs and Drunk Driving

  • Culture

    January 17, 2008

    Drunk Mexicans and Specious Etymologies

    Mexican Dogs and Drunk Driving

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Naked Men: The ManKind Project and Michael Scinto

    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one.

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2007

    Another Dispatch from the Streets of Houston

    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one.

  • Resolutions

    January 19, 2006

    Fit or Fat, Houston?

    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one.

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    Don't Knock Her

    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one.

  • News

    September 1, 2005

    Cranked

    Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

  • Calendar

    July 28, 2005

    Innocent Lost

    Melanie Wilson takes us through the Foggy world of drug addiction

  • Music

    August 5, 2004

    Back in the Saddle

    The Cowboy Junkies ride again

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Letters

    The Cowboy Junkies ride again

  • News

    October 9, 2003

    Letters

    The Cowboy Junkies ride again

  • News

    July 17, 2003

    Prison Break?

    Critics wonder if massive TDCJ cuts will be a prelude to privatization

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Getting Off

    Houston-based Sex Addicts Anonymous knows the lesson well: For those caught in the Bubble, lust has no limits

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    Living Large

    A trendy clothing line for plus-size girls

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Deal of a Lifetime

    Drug addicts can get hard cash to be sterilized or go on birth control. Is it ridding the world of unwanted babies -- or just ducking the underlying problems of abusers?

  • News

    January 9, 2003

    Back in the Saddle

    A former mayoral staffer resurfaces at the county

  • News

    June 6, 2002

    Con's Con

    A contained experiment in Medicaid finally gets uncovered

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Sick Kids

    For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Nature of the Beast

    Plastic surgeon Billy Ringer has been sued ten times for malpractice. He's on probation for sexual misconduct. He sewed a needle into Colleen Guidy. But he's still in business -- cutting, vacuuming, rearranging and, it seems, injuring patients.

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    Mission: Impossible?

    SEARCH's mobile outreach team tries to help Houston's homeless off the streets

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Skid Row Scholars

    Recovering alcoholics find financial aid in a unique Texas Tech program

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Methadone Meltdown

    Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    Saving Baby Angela

    An infant with two fractured ribs and bleeding on the brain. A teenage single mom with no high school diploma. Grandparents with a business to keep afloat. Can CPS find a stable home for Angela Delacourt?

  • Music

    March 4, 1999

    Punk Drunks

    An infant with two fractured ribs and bleeding on the brain. A teenage single mom with no high school diploma. Grandparents with a business to keep afloat. Can CPS find a stable home for Angela Delacourt?

  • Music

    December 31, 1998

    Too high. Period.

    Curt Kirkwood, now living in Austin, is still a Meat Puppet. His brother Cris is a missing-in-action junkie.

  • News

    September 3, 1998

    Heal Thyself

    Rapid detox leaves a nurse suffering unforeseen side effects

  • News

    July 30, 1998

    Legal Moves

    Attorney John O'Quinn has checked into a substance-abuse center as he prepares for his disbarment suit

  • Music

    July 23, 1998

    Rotation

    Attorney John O'Quinn has checked into a substance-abuse center as he prepares for his disbarment suit

  • News

    December 4, 1997

    The Johnson Treatment

    Council candidate presides over a rather unique substance abuse program

  • News

    July 17, 1997

    Holistic Touch

    Some ex-patients credit the mind-body therapy of New Age healer JoAnne Mandel with saving their lives. Others say her compassion stopped at the bottom line.

  • Music

    June 13, 1996

    Not the Same Old Junkies

    A new label and energy return Canada's moaners to the spotlight

  • News

    June 6, 1996

    Woman Trouble

    Black America is suffering, and author Robert Myers knows who to blame

  • Music

    January 25, 1996

    Old-Fashioned Lust Songs

    After two decades, AC/DC still stands for down and dirty fun

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    The Torments of Academia

    According to a UH professor, his "perceived disability" is one

  • Film

    June 29, 1995

    Female Trouble

    Two offbeat films chronicle three offbeat young women's struggles

  • News

    June 2, 1994

    Letters

    Two offbeat films chronicle three offbeat young women's struggles

  • Film

    May 12, 1994

    Drunk, But Not Disorderly

    Meg Ryan battles the curse of cuteness

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