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Drug Abuse
Alabama doctor starts 'Mothers Against Meth' after losing her own brother
September 24th, 2004
Mary Holley, MD, has witnessed the ravages of methamphetamine. As an obstetrician in Albertville, Alabama, she estimates about 10% of her pregnant patients are addicted. One was "…high as a kite. Comes in dilated 9 centimeters. She is pushing out her baby. I am trying to get the clothes off this woman so I can deliver this baby and a gun falls out of her bra," Holley said. But the methamphetamine epidemic in Appalachia has now become a personal crusade for Holley: Four years ago, her brother Jim shot and killed himself after a struggle with meth addiction. "After he died, I started looking into it as a...
Source: Food & Drug Law Weekly (2004-09-24)
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