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Why Is Mom in Rehab?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 14, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Why Is Mom in Rehab? By CHARLES M. BLOW At this URL is the accompanying graph which is the major part of this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/opinion/14blow.html?scp=1&sq=Why+Mom+is+in+Rehab&st=nyt The actress Tatum O?Neal was arrested recently on charges of buying crack cocaine from a man on the street near her New York City home. She is a 44-year-old mother of three. She has spent years in and out of drug abuse treatment (which she chronicled in her 2004 memoir), and according to her publicist she will continue to ?attend meetings? for drug and alcohol abuse. Ms. O?Neal illustrates a disturbing trend among those being admitted to substance abuse treatment services: a growing percentage of older women are being treated for harder drugs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).