Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85

Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85

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Her young life was free of the scandals that plagued so many other child stars – parental feuds, drug and alcohol addiction – but Temple at times hinted at a childhood she may have missed out on. She stopped believing in Santa Claus at age 6, she once …
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Bringing it Home: Hoffman overdose a reminder for recovering addicts

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Related Media. For more than two decades, Philip Seymour Hoffman struggled with drug addiction. On Feb. … Bobby Ferguson, who has been sober for 23 years, said that if there's one good thing to come from Hoffman's death, it's that many struggling …
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Heroin grows common on Houston streets

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Garza's death is one of a mounting toll from heroin overdoses in the Houston region as availability of the lethal drug has exploded due to an influx of cheap, but potent, black tar heroin grown by Mexican drug cartels and smuggled over the Texas-Mexico …
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Philip Hoffman was trapped in a love triangle

Filed under: Texas Drug Addiction

Hoffman wrote that he was haunted by “demons” and was desperately trying to control his addictions by attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings, NBC reported. He also wrote about scoring his drugs, with some of the … “In one line, he refers to 'Frank …
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