Adam Friedman » Anti-Poverty http://adamfriedman.org Let's Make Things Better, Together Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:01:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Project Prevention and its Critics http://adamfriedman.org/policy/social/project-prevention-and-its-critics/ http://adamfriedman.org/policy/social/project-prevention-and-its-critics/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:57:51 +0000 Adam http://www.adamfriedman.org/?p=431 Project Prevention is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 1997 by Barbara Harris, who had adopted four out of eight children from a mother addicted to crack-cocaine.  Based on Barbara’s experience watching two of the children go through substance withdrawal, and on doing more research into the horrific plight of children of drug addicts (some of [...]

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]]> http://adamfriedman.org/policy/wages/wal-mart-act-like-costco-if-you-want-to-do-business-in-somerville/feed/ 0 Begging for the Whole Truth about Drug Rehab http://adamfriedman.org/policy/social/begging-for-the-whole-truth-about-drug-rehab/ http://adamfriedman.org/policy/social/begging-for-the-whole-truth-about-drug-rehab/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:36:04 +0000 Adam http://www.adamfriedman.org/?p=374 Today I wrote a letter to the Globe in response to this article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/29/begging_for_help_on_crack_street/ If only Richard Farrell’s arguments for his narrow-minded “rehab for all” program were as thorough as his own recovery from drug addiction (“Begging for help on Crack Street”, 4/29/09, A11). Unfortunately, we’re left with another feel-good solution that wastes taxpayer money [...]

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