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Parenting an addicted child

Parenting an addicted child

“It’s agony, it’s heartbreak, it’s exhaustion. It’s just running around knocking on people’s doors at 7 a.m. looking for your kid, and they send you to someone else’s house and someone else’s, and you find out your kid is in Albany …”

Tracking the heroin epidemic in Woodstock

Tracking the heroin epidemic in Woodstock

A former addict looks at heroin addiction and is shocked by its pervasiveness in Woodstock. “I could never have imagined in 1968, when I was using, just how out of hand the problem has become today,” he writes. It’s hitting the younger generation especially hard. You can see it driving through Woodstock on a nice summer day, says one addict in the story: where you used to see young people hanging out and having fun, now it’s only tourists. Many of those young people are, instead, indoors, in designated shooting galleries.