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Aug. 24, 2010

Hooked on 'Hooked on Drug Court'

As parents, how do we know when we should first become concerned that our teenager is drinking to access? By Mark B. Simons of the California Court of Appeal.

Mark B. Simons

Interested in becoming so caught up in your next novel that you dream about it at night, stepping in to fill a character in someone else's story? That's what happened to me when I read the new novel by Judge Lynn Duryee, "Hooked on Drug Court." It opens with 15-year-old Andy locked up in Juvenile Hall with a bad hangover and a new law violation, bitterly complaining, "I'm all alone in the effing universe. A...

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