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Heroin in New Orleans High Schools It's cheap. it's deadly, and teens think ... - bestofneworleans.com
13 September 2010, 10:02 pm
By Matt Davis

I've spent 11 months of the last two years in jail," says Arun Rahman, who dropped out of one of the area's most expensive private schools two years ago, in his senior year, to try to kick a heroin addiction. It didn't work.

Rahman, 20, talked to Gambit in late August, just four days out of a seven-month, court-ordered stay at the Narconon rehabilitation center in Baton Rouge. It cost his parents $36,000 to send the former National Merit Scholarship finalist there.

Say it isn't so....

much more at http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A81423

[ethercat]

Wonder if the court is directly referring people to narconon, or if the parents picked narconon off a web search/referral and the court just approved it?  We need to do some research on this, and how people keep ending up at narconon as a result of court-ordered rehab.

Arun Rahman's biggest challenge is just beginning:

Rahman, 20, talked to Gambit in late August, just four days out of a seven-month, court-ordered stay...

4 days out of rehab in late August, it's now mid-late September, I wonder how he's doing, and how he will be doing a year from now...

Oh, well, at least the article wasn't strictly a puff piece for narconon.