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Sizzlin’ Summer

Sizzlin’ Summer

Sizzlin’ Summer: City Paper’s homage to the season when it’s so hot and humid your legs to stick to the chair 5/16/2012
Vol. 36, No. 20

Vol. 36, No. 20

news: Cover Art 5/16/2012

Whose Money?

The Mail: Perhaps Mr. Curran needs a lesson on how the “real world” works. 5/16/2012

Murder Ink

Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 8; Murders this Year: 73 By Anna Ditkoff 5/16/2012

Murder Ink

Murder Ink: A belated update from the March 7 issue By Anna Ditkoff 3/7/2012
Sweepstakes Take

Sweepstakes Take

Mobtown Beat: A new bill aimed at online “sweepstakes” games has poker machine operators worried By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/9/2012

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Councilmania: On the agenda for April 30 By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/9/2012
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Wall To Wall

Feature: Murals by street artists from around the world now occupy Station North By Andrea Appleton 5/9/2012
Vol. 36, No. 19

Vol. 36, No. 19

news: Cover Art By Rarah 5/9/2012

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Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 3; Murders this Year: 65 By Anna Ditkoff 5/9/2012

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Cleaning Up: Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches.

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Cleaning Up

Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches.

Baltimore’s well-known illegal drug industry, which City Paper examined in 2008, has a flip side—the mostly federally-funded $50-million-per-year drug treatment industry. Because city leaders have for decades spoken of the need to better serve the city’s (seemingly never diminished) 60,000 substance abusers while wrapping pleas for more public funding in the slogan “treatment works,” we decided to examine drug treatment as a business and ask how well it actually does work—and for whom. A series by Edward Ericson Jr.


PART 1: Cleaning Up: Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches. 06/22/2010

PART 2: Old Habits: Medicalization is the hot new thing in drug treatment. Just like in 1970. 07/27/2010

PART 3: "We Are Not In the Housing Business": Baltimore's recovering addicts need a clean, affordable, safe place to live. Somebody's making money on it--but don't ask who, or how. 9/29/2010

PART 4: "Waiting for the Plan": As more money flows into drug treatment centers and the number of addicts rises, Baltimore can't determine which programs actually work. 11/10/2010

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