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US CA: Families Turn To Interventions To Help Addicts

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1678/a04.html
Newshawk: Beth
Pubdate: Sun, 23 Oct 2005
Source: San Mateo County Times, The (CA)
Copyright: 2005 ANG Newspapers
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http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87%257E2524%257E,00.html
Website: http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/392
Author: Monique Beeler, Staff Writer

FAMILIES TURN TO INTERVENTIONS TO HELP ADDICTS SURVIVE

SOMEWHERE ON the road to adulthood, Derek Cooper got lost - then found, then lost again.  It would take the intervention of a stranger to set him back on track.

Derek's start was promising: Upper middle class home, college-educated parents, great schools, plenty of money for extras.

A bright, good-looking kid, he did OK in school and made friends easily in his Burlingame neighborhood.

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