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... TownOnline.com - Local News: Prescription for addiction A:hover {color: CC6600} Home The Register Local News RSS Feed Prescription for addiction By Donna Tunney/ dtunney@cnc.com Thursday, March 30, 2006 E-mail article View text version View most popular Cape Cod Drug Task Force investigations Cocaine: 50 percent Heroin: 25 percent Pharmaceuticals: 12 percent Other: 13 percent - Lt.

John Allen, Cape Cod Drug Task Force OxyContin-heroin connection alters traditional drug culture The car crash didn't kill him, but the OxyContin almost did.

Meet Ed, a Provincetown native and recovering drug addict, whose last name is withheld for his privacy.

At 30 years old, Ed has a sad, scary history of addictions, arrests and incarcerations - enough to curl your hair.

Ed was already a drug user prone to addictions at the time of his accident when he was 19.

Then his doctors allowed him to fill and refill prescriptions for OxyContin, the intensely addictive opiate.

Ed managed to sustain his habit for nearly six years, going from doctor to doctor, pharmacy to pharmacy and emergency room to emergency room, finagling prescription after prescription.

"All the drug addicts on the Cape know who the compliant doctors are and how to play the pharmacies.

There was this one gay doctor - all you had to do was flirt with him to get what you needed," Ed says in the basement of a Mid-Cape facility run by Gosnold Cape Cod, the non-profit detoxification and r...

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The children targeted are between 11 and 15 years of age and the idea is to help them make healthy choices and develop life skills.

The vote of thanks was given by Con Cluskey.

Fartown Mrs B Brown Tel (01924) 495181 Woodhouse Townswomen's Guild held its first committee meeting of the new year.

Officials elected were: president Jean Leeming; chairman Joan Barton; vice-chairman Kath Lynch; secretary Jean Butterworth; treasurer Jane Pridmore; assistant secretary Dorothy Morton; assistant treasurer Kath Lynch; entertainment Jean Yale; homecraft Marjorie Ramsden; international Pat Leeper; music Dorothy Morton; programme Mary Hind; social studies Joy Holt; guild visitors Marjorie Ramsden and Joan Andrews; registrar Theresa Taylor; federation delegate Barbara Wilkinson; press officer Jean Leeming.

The Thursday Club met in the village hall.

Mrs June Jones presided and the speaker was Mandy Barwick who talked about the Forget Me Not Trust.

The Thursday Fellowship met in Trinity Methodist Church coffee lounge for an informal get together led by Mr Max Booth.

Trinity Friends met in the church coffee lounge where Jill Lucas presented a talk and slide show entitled From The Sea Coast To The Mountain Top.

Hartshead Brian Hunt Tel 712153 Hartshead J&I School children were joined by Paul Regan of the Sir Cliff Richard Tennis Foundation to show how to put donated equipment to best use.

Lightcliffe Bryan Hunt Tel 712153 Lightcliffe and Hipperholme Art Society welcomed guest pastel ...

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