The fast cash, easy money illegal drug trade
I want to share information I have gathered on the illegal drug trade within our county

Drugs touch many lives - Story #22
We have a raging war in own back yard. It has nothing to do with Iraq or illegals.

Drugs touch many lives - Story #21
Tonight the pain in my heart is so heavy. My son is owned by his addiction to pain pills.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 20
First I would like to say that YES there is a place in Huntington, WV w here opiate dependent people go to receive counseling and/or treatment to get off of drugs.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 19
Thanks so much for the many stories you have put in the paper about drugs. I know many, many people are reading these.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 18
Over the past sixteen weeks I've continued to somberly read the astounding stories of the people who have dealt with drugs, whether it is from personal use or watching someone they love use. In my case I was an observer. I speak as a child of a drug addict.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 17
I’m writing this in response to the many weeks I’ve been reading other people’s stories. This is my story. I hope and pray it will touch at least one person who is suffering from the disease of addiction.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 16
My story of addiction begins, I believe, before my birth. I do believe some of us are predisposed to be addicts.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 15
I have been reading the drug stories each week and it is heartbreaking.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 14
During the past 13 weeks I have read so many touching stories about the death and destruction caused by drugs. I know so well what each and every one of you feel because I also had a child who used.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 13
During the past weeks as I’ve read the detailed stories of lives destroyed or permanently damaged by drugs.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 12
I have read these stories over the past few weeks and it seems that each one has touched home so much with me. I'm a 27-year-old woman who is a recovering drug addict.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 11
On Sept. 26, 2006 we lost our youngest daughter, Tina, age 22. She died due to the sale of illegal prescription drugs. We tried so hard to raise our 3 children right.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 10
My story is another one from the parents perspective, and like so many others, I never dreamed I’d ever face such a problem.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 9
I have read the many stories of how drug addiction has touched so many lives. I now feel that it is time to tell my story.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 8
My beautiful 19-year-old niece died in October after taking Oxycontin, which one of her “friends” had given her. I had written the following poem to tell her story and hopefully to “wake up” some of these teens that trust everybody and anything just so they can fit in with their peers.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 7
My story begins at age five. We lived in middle suburbia Dayton, Ohio. I was the youngest of three children. It was 1961 when everyone thought that the streets were safe for children to play. I was one block from my home and my friend’s grandfather raped me.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 6
Before I begin my story of my life and experiences with drugs and alcohol, I would like to say a little bit about myself. I was born and raised in Carter County.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 5
Drugs have touched members of my family in one way or another for almost 20 years now.

Drugs Touch Many Lives - Week 4
My story begins as me being the daughter of a drug addict. I watched my dad drink and do drugs from an early age. My mom had left and my dad could no longer take care of my sister and I.

Drugs touch many lives - Week 3
While reading the recent story about the brother lost to drugs, I realized it was time to tell my story.

Drug touch many lives - Week 2
Editor’s Note: This is week 2 in a series of first-hand accounts of lives touched by drugs here in Carter County. The names will be changed to protect identity.

Drugs touch many lives

The Faith that Delivered
Jude 3-3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Pastor's Pen
Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers; and they have testified to your love before the church.

Pastor's Pen
Greetings friends and neighbors! I trust that your Easter holiday was blessed and that you took the opportunity to worship the risen Lord Jesus Christ, who conquered sin, hell and death on that first Easter morning!

Pastor's Pen
It’s never too late to start laboring for the Lord!

Pastor's Corner
In the month of January, churches worldwide are called on to reflect upon the sanctity of human life during Sanctity of Human Life week (January 21-28).

Remember When
It is amazing how a death can affect your outlook on life.