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Subject: Drug Addiction

  • Get Lit: Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, by Ian Christe

    September 25, 2007
  • Race and Baseball: The Stories of Josh Hamilton and Darryl Strawberry

    June 5, 2008
  • 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.

    April 12, 2001
  • Book Review: Howard Stern's Sidekick Writes

    Given the amount of personal information he’s spilled on the radio over the years, avid listeners of “The Howard Stern Show” probably know more about the private life of cast member/comedian Artie Lange than most of their close friends and relatives. A natural-born storyteller, Lange has entertained audiences with tales of his growing up in blue-collar New Jersey, stint as a longshoreman, the tragic story of his father, and -- most frequently -- his bouts with depression, substance a

    November 17, 2008
  • Drunk, But Not Disorderly

    May 12, 1994
  • Woman Trouble

    June 6, 1996
  • Just Say No (to Open Debate)

    November 7, 1996
  • Holistic Touch

    July 17, 1997
  • Super Squeak

    October 2, 1997
  • Legal Moves

    July 30, 1998
  • Heal Thyself

    September 3, 1998
  • Too high. Period.

    December 31, 1998
  • Skid Row Scholars

    April 27, 2000
  • Girls Rock!

    Summer camp was never this cool

    December 4, 2008
  • Kept and Dreamless, The Custodian

    Two films look at life in Argentina

    July 17, 2008
  • Silver Jews

    Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea www.silverjews.net

    June 12, 2008
  • In Defense of The Genre

    December 13, 2007
  • Don't Knock Her

    January 5, 2006
  • Godsmack

    Godsmack performs Tuesday, July 17, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-230-1600.

    July 12, 2007
  • Against All Odds

    A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.

    November 3, 2005
  • Cranked

    Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

    September 1, 2005
  • Innocent Lost

    Melanie Wilson takes us through the Foggy world of drug addiction

    July 28, 2005
  • Letters

    December 25, 2003
  • Best Two-Man Show

    Alley Theatre's Stones in His Pocket

    September 25, 2003
  • Prison Break?

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

    July 17, 2003
  • High Scores

    Students are using drugs illegally not to party down, but to get better marks on exams

    April 17, 2003
  • Living Large

    A trendy clothing line for plus-size girls

    March 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?

    February 27, 2003
  • Con's Con

    A contained experiment in Medicaid finally gets uncovered

    June 6, 2002
  • Salton Crackers

    A parade of crazies keeps this Sea afloat

    May 16, 2002
  • Mission: Impossible?

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

    August 17, 2000
  • In Arms' Way

    Phil Arms once saved Ron Garner from a life of sin. Garner tried to return the favor when confronted with evidence of the preacher's drug use. But Arms viewed it as just a Judas kiss.

    June 15, 2000
  • Methadone Meltdown

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

    April 27, 2000
  • A Visit to Gatesville

    A gray November day spent in the gray world of the inmates and staff of the Texas State prison for women

    December 9, 1993
  • Back to School with Miss Pop Rocks!

    ​For most kids in the Houston area, this week signals the return to reading, writing, and random drug searches of their lockers. Ah, modern times. The bell ringing us back to class got Miss Pop Rocks thinking of all the pop culture schools she wishes she could have attended.Bayside High (Saved by the Bell)With a principal like Mr. Belding at your beck and call (did you ever notice the man was not even important enough to have his own secretary?), how would you not want to go to a school like B

    August 25, 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 of Jones' steady descent into drug addiction over the preceding years, as well as his recent departute/dismissal from the Stones. This week, however, police in Sussex announced they will be reexamini

    September 1, 2009
  • Artist of the Week: Country Store Buffalo on Breast Implants, Beer-Drinking Bison and That Old Devil Cocaine

    Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.​ You are in the enviable position of someone about to witness history. Get ready for it. To help with the mood, why don't you go ahead and pretend like there are horns blaring in the background and somebody just released a f

    November 11, 2009