'Northfield News Series' Archive

Jake’s Story (Part 3): Nothing else to lose

Published July 1, 2008.

After Jake died from a heroin overdose, his parents work to prevent that tragedy from happening to others:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=23125

Gjeni’s Story: Change comes one person at a time

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Gjeni overcomes an abusive childhood with the help of a foster parent who adopted her:

http://northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=23130

Neil’s Story: Death of a friend leaves a stark reminder

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A Northfield youth struggles with staying clean:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=23124

Clinician’s Story: Withdrawal medications come to town

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Dr. Charles Reznikoff brings counseling services and antiwithdrawal medications to Northfield:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=23123

Law Enforcement’s Story: Looking for trouble

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Rice County’s Drug Task Force responds to the heroin situation:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45387

Recovering addict writes a poem

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This poem was written by a young girl during her last week of treatment for heroin addiction:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45385

20 year old tells his story of heroin addiction

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A  2006 graduate of Northfield High School shares his story of drug addiction and recovery:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45386

School’s Story: A tough test

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The Northfield School District responds to the heroin crisis:

http://northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45392

Questions are still out there about addictions

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In this guest column, Barb Wornson shares here thoughts about drug addiction:

http://www.northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45445

A year later, what has been done?

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Kathy Sandberg of the Rice County Chemical Health Coalition summarizes the Northfield area’s response to chemical health issues:

http://northfieldnews.com/news.php?viewStory=45381