The seven women in the cast are drug and alcohol abusers in various stages of recovery.

But he was also a thief, as well as a drug and alcohol abuser.

Former drug and alcohol abusers are also difficult, he said, because there is always a chance they will start using again behind his back.

"A lot of drug and alcohol abusers are trying to medicate themselves."

The cost of treatment and prevention of individual drug or alcohol abusers amounts to less than half that figure.

The rest talked openly about their problems with their teen-age children, who are drug and alcohol abusers.

Everyone in the case was a drug or alcohol abuser, all but Ms. Johnson said they were on public assistance.

Plans for an intervention are made by a concerned group of family, friends, and counselor(s), rather than by the drug or alcohol abuser.

And of those 69,000 mentally ill, they estimated that 24,500 were also drug or alcohol abusers.

Many are drug or alcohol abusers, he added.

The seven women in the cast are drug and alcohol abusers in various stages of recovery.

But he was also a thief, as well as a drug and alcohol abuser.

Former drug and alcohol abusers are also difficult, he said, because there is always a chance they will start using again behind his back.

"A lot of drug and alcohol abusers are trying to medicate themselves."

The cost of treatment and prevention of individual drug or alcohol abusers amounts to less than half that figure.

The rest talked openly about their problems with their teen-age children, who are drug and alcohol abusers.

Everyone in the case was a drug or alcohol abuser, all but Ms. Johnson said they were on public assistance.

Plans for an intervention are made by a concerned group of family, friends, and counselor(s), rather than by the drug or alcohol abuser.

And of those 69,000 mentally ill, they estimated that 24,500 were also drug or alcohol abusers.

Many are drug or alcohol abusers, he added.