Drug Addiction

Rick Perry and State Senator Jane Nelson Want Texas to Drug Test Welfare Recipients

It's the most wonderful time of the year: There's still some very stale, deeply discounted Halloween candy kicking around the aisles at CVS, Christmas music has suddenly overtaken your dentist's office, and Texas legislators have begun pre-filing bills for the upcoming legislative session. The ses ... More >>

What Do Lance Armstrong, Dopers and Nazis Have in Common?

Dallas County Has a List of its 100 Drunkest Drunks, and It's Out to Get Them Treatment

If you're reading this, chances are you're probably not among Dallas County's "Top 100 Serial Inebriates," the recently compiled list of some of the area's most hopeless alcoholics. These aren't the people who overindulge on a Saturday night and have to sleep it off in the drunk tank. These are the ... More >>

Betty Ford Clinic to Open Temporary Dallas Center. For 7-Year-Olds.

If former first lady Betty Ford didn't make it cool to go to rehab, she certainly helped erase some of the stigma associated with admitting to drug and alcohol abuse. She struggled publicly with alcoholism and painkiller addiction and, as a result, established the Betty Ford Center in California. T ... More >>

Grant Jones Breaks Down Saints, Sinners & Liars

It's been a couple of years since Dallas' Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos released their last album, a self-titled disc of supremely straight-forward country. For the new album, however, Jones chose to follow an inspired vision he's harbored for the last few years. Saints, Sinners & Liars wi ... More >>

Pot Addiction Study Tracks the Brains of People Who Really Enjoy Weed, Maybe Too Much

If you're high right now, you may want to tune in. Try not to giggle. A University Texas at Dallas professor was awarded nearly $2 million dollars to study marijuana addiction for the next five years. We're talking pot, the addiction suffered in silence -- or in inappropriate laughter at anything th ... More >>

Preview: Childish Gambino, Danny Brown at Palladium Ballroom

Saturday, April 7, at Palladium Ballroom

Calling All Saints

Can't Catch Her ...

In Suburban Dallas, Loosening "Cheese" Heroin's Deadly Grip

Another round of deaths have another round of North Texas parents trying to wipe out a deadly combination of heroin and cold medicine.

In Dallas Veterans Court, Desert Storm Soldier Gets His Promised Second Chance Today

Photo by Mark GrahamJudge Mike Snipes​Back in October, Sam wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a lengthy piece about Dallas County's relatively new veterans court, which gives second chances to soldiers who come home from war -- some damaged in some way, many broke, most alone -- and turn t ... More >>

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Running on "bubble gum and duct tape," a new court aims to keep damaged vets out of jail.

DA Craig Watkins: Punishment or Treatment For DWI Offenders is a "False Choice"

​No doubt you caught at least some of The Dallas Morning News's recently wrapped three-part series on Texas's trouble with properly punishing drunken drivers. Probation instead of prison; back behind the wheel instead of behind bars. Says Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in a missive ... More >>

Mickey Avalon's Journey From Drugs To Clubs

Fighting Fire With Fire

Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?

Sooner or Later You Knew I’d Get Around to Pro Rasslin’

National Public Radio's Still Slicing Into Dallas' Cheese Problem

Coffee Boy

David Sheff signs at Satrbucks

Alice in Diapers

Days of the New sober up at HOB

Greg Williams: Life After The Hardline

From the Lost and Found Dept.: The Ticket's Greg "The Hammer" Williams

Cleaning Up the Truck Stops, One Abused Woman At a Time

The Gut-bucket Gospel

Dallas' Street Church will meet you where you are, even if it's in a crack house

Jesus in the Jailhouse

Old-time religion confronts 21st-century Texas prisons: Does it work, and is it constitutional?

Cheesy

We want a new drug...or not

Needle Point

Family Ties

The 10 Percent Doctrine

A preacher uses tithing to build a Latino megachurch

Test Patterns

Toke This

The Mayor of Boxville

Laura Miller to homeless: Get out of downtown. Homeless to Laura Miller: We've got our own mayor.

Mary Gauthier

Saturday, February 11, at Poor David's Pub

Appetite for Reconstruction

What doesn't kill them only makes them a supergroup: The rise of Velvet Revolver

Generation Rx

Adrift in a sea of psychotropic pharmacology, it's easy for a kid to drown.

Unwritten Law

Here's to the Mourning (Lava)

Book 'Em

Rock memoirs take us behind the music

Clean Time

At Dallas' courthouse, a small, hopeful experiment is under way in breaking the jail habit

Hoosegow HMO

A contained experiment in Medicaid

Letters

Don't Be a Wimp, Silly Boot Camps, Us and Them

Behind the curve

Courts that aim to treat, not punish, addicts gain a slow toehold in Texas

Bad trip

As anguished Plano watched heroin pick off its children one by one, a cry went up for police to do anything to stop the deadly plague. Months later, some parents say they went too far.

Help for the tacky

Too high. Period.

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

Armed and dangerous

Judge John Creuzot will do just about anything to get addicts off drugs--including poking their ears with needles

Liars' court

Judge John Creuzot shepherds wayward addicts through recovery

The Comeback of Harvey Martin

Eighteen months ago, the former Cowboys hero was drinking and drugging his way to disaster. Now he's clean, sober, and planning to stay that way.

Top to bottom

Roy Tarpley was once the NBA's best--till he stumbled and took the Mavericks down with him

McKinney doctor suspended

Acquitted of attempted murder charges, he still loses medical license

Bitter pills

Stop freaking out-- Tablet's deeper than you think