Drug Abuse

While local retailers are hoping for a surge in business as the holidays approach, despite hard economic times, mental health providers have been seeing more patients since the economy first started heading south. And, they expect it only will get worse through the holidays and in the weeks immediately after Christmas and New Year's Day. Steve Cavender, administrator of behavioral health services at Parkview Medical Center, said during an interview Wednesday that every program operated by the hospital  

Officers with the Greenville Police Department were dispatched to 91 calls Wednesday, took five people into custody — all for outstanding warrants — and filed 18 reports. — Davy Floyd Lee Jones, 32, Greenville, had probation on a charge of assault revoked and was sentenced to 90 days in the Hunt County Jail. — Edward Charles Phillip, 46, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., forfeited bond on a charge of felony DWI. A warrant was ordered for Phillip's arrest and new bond was denied. —  

Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called 'scale of craving', an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse are the factors most commonly involved in people falling back into the habit.  

Autumn Savoy yesterday shuffled into court manacled and handcuffed, mouthing "I love you" and "Get me out" to his mother in the front row. Gone were the tearful admissions that he was scared and only doing what he was told when he allegedly helped cover up his friends' involvement in last month's deadly home invasion in Mont Vernon. Savoy, 20, was arraigned in Nashua District Court on a third felony charge of hindering apprehension for allegedly helping two friends throw evidence -- including clothes al