Sentences with phrase «of crack addicts»

Strange Weather (Peggy Ahwesh, Margie Strosser, 1993) follows a group of crack addicts at home in Florida, while a storm brews outside.

Glad to hear you dis the freak out over the FEMA camps rumors too, which in my experience, though limited, is the forte of the crack addicted!

Not exact matches

It's way weirder than that, detailing Lindell's rise from a 47 - year - old crack addict with a problem so bad even his dealer cut him off to the owner of a sprawling pillow empire that pulled in $ 280 million last year.

Gamers are famous for so losing track of time and becoming so immersed that they forget to eat, sleep or go to work — just the same as a heroin addict camped in a crack house.

In reality nearly everyone in the church and their residential homes are recovering addicts — their drugs of choice usually heroin, crack and / or alcohol.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

Among many of us their are those who are addicted to God - crack.

The U.S. government, he says, imports and sells crack to make addicts of poor blacks, for whom the Constitution «is possessed of all the power and relevance of toilet paper.»

There are those killed in fights over turf, innocents caught in cross fire, citizens terrified of city streets, escalating robberies, children fed free crack to get them addicted and then enlisted as runners and dealers, mothers so crazed for a fix that they abandon their babies, prostitute themselves and their daughters, and addict their unborn.

When we're with the crack addicts, prostitutes, dealers and similar folks, He is right there in the midst of all of us.

By the age of 15 I was addicted to crack cocaine, running the streets of New York doing everything and anything for another hit!

Of course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addicOf course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addicof an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addict.

Moon heard a list of rumors: He was a crack addict.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

And while there are indeed some babies born to crack addicted women who are then placed for adoption... it is hardly the norm or the majority and even (some of, if not most of) those stories have happy endings.

Yes the home group will contain some higher risk moms (some VBAC, some breech, some GDM) but it won't contain the full spectrum of high risk that the hospital gets: Women with clotting disorders on heparin, maternal heart disease, moms addicted to crack, moms with HIV, 12 and 13 year olds, women who walk in off the streets in labor with no prenatal care, women with sickle cell and cystic fibrosis and type 1 diabetes, babies with severe anomalies.

It's a lesson which is actually starting to damage the coalition, as it proceeds, crack - addict - like, with a mad variety of initiatives at breakneck speed.

Gordon recently came under fire after posting a series of racist and anti-Muslim diatribes on Facebook, including one in which he called Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, a «former crack addict.»

The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

There I was, feeling like a cross between a superstar chef and a crack addict, madly jabbing a needle into a scrunched - up pouch of freeze - dried NASA shrimp cocktail, injecting a bit of water, and watching the water dribble uselessly back out.

Neurologist Christian Lüscher has worked 15 years to try to crack the code of what happens in the addicted brain.

I explained it was for a blog but he didn't seem to understand the concept of blogging and looked at me a bit like I was a crazy crack addict trying to steal his store secrets.

Played in the film by Christian Bale, Eklund was a subject of the 1995 HBO documentary titled High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, which chronicled the day - to - day lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachussetts.

A former pro once dubbed «The Pride of Lowell» for knocking down Sugar Ray Leonard in a publicized fight, Dickie has since devolved into a fidgety crack addict pitifully living off his middling past glory, and a bottom - feeder attempting to profit from, and relive his career through, his younger sibling, all while neglecting his duties as Micky's manager in order to puff the pipe and, as with one fight, throwing him to the wolves to make a quick buck.

The Fighter is based on a true story but it includes all of the generic story points — a down on his luck local Boston boxer, Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) has a career that is hampered by his crack addicted brother Dicky (Christian Bale).

Fiona starts to plan for her future now that Monica is back but her reprieve may be short - lived as Monica falls apart, spends the squirrel fund and gets arrested; Steve conspires to reunite Estefania with her true love so that he can be with Fiona; Lip and Ian learn the true identity of Mandy's baby; Sheila takes in a homeless crack addict.

Writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are the masters of the anti-hero, having done so before in Half Nelson (which earned Ryan Gosling an Oscar nomination), about a crack - addicted history teacher and Sugar, about a minor league baseball player.

In this routine, Bale has found the rhythm of a charismatic crack addict: always on, always centre - stage, always ready to perform for any inquisitive eyes.The first act inclusion of a camera crew from HBO, who are allegedly shooting a documentary about Dicky's down - and - out life in Lowell, is a stroke of genius from director David O Russell and writers Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson.

As you begin to watch Stephen Gaghan's latest offering (Gaghan is well known for directing «Syriana» about a merger of two American oil companies and «Traffic» wherein a conservative judge finds that his daughter is a crack addict), you may wonder how that line could be justified.

But instead, the Academy was won over by an intimate portrait of a young, gay black man in a poor Miami housing project whose mother (brilliantly played by Naomie Harris) is a crack addict.

Singer's «good looks» are curiously absent from his film, but its featured characters read like a litany of the underprivileged and have bodies and faces to match: drug addicts, recidivist criminals, those from broken homes, failed marriages, existing outside of the social welfare network who have literally fallen through the cracks in the pavement.

Inevitably, the years of homophobic abuse, from a crack addict mother and bullying classmates, take their toll.

And while the two adults who lean in aren't his parents (one of them is actually the drug dealer selling to Chiron's crack - addicted mom), they somehow know the exact words to say when the boy softly asks them, «Am I a faggot?»

Though the film is worthy of a Best Picture nomination, Christian Bale deserves an Oscar nod for his excellent portrayal of crack - addicted brother Dicky.

Moonlight (2016) is both a poetic and provocative portrait of a young black child, the sensitive, bullied son of a crack - addict single mom in a tough Miami neighborhood, presented through three acts of his life from childhood to adulthood.

Naomie Harris has stated her reluctance to take on the role of a crack - addicted mother — was there no resistance, on your part, to the idea of playing a drug dealer?

I was shocked and dismayed to find that so many of the young men I grew up with had succumbed to the crack cocaine trade and were either addicted to it or selling it, died or were killed for it, or were in jail because of it.

Loading it with people and junk and then finding out what lurks in front of that gearbox is like discovering that your grandma is a crack addict.

Three storylines weave together the experiences of a black family: In the 1940s, Evelyn, the wealthy, Creole daughter of a doctor, falls of a poor boy; in the»80s, Evelyn's daughter Jackie grapples with her marriage to a recovering crack addict; and in post-Katrina 2010, Jackie's son T.C. struggles against the prison system.

Cats love the taste of these digests; for some cats, it's like kitty crack and actually causes them to be addicted.

Otherwise, this is strictly a puzzle game where getting stuck is fairly unlikely unless you happen to have the brainpower of your average crack addict from Glasgow, although now that I think about they can be quite sly... Anyway, the point is when you aren't taking in the scenery or wrangling the story into something cohesive you'll probably be completing some form of puzzle.

It would appear that we gamers are addicted to the prospect of successful licensed games, like a crack addict to, well, crack.

Am I, along with other fans of loot - based games like this, addicted to this form of digitalised crack without even realising it?

I jump at the bit anytime I hear of a new survival horror game; I'm like a crack addict with very little...

Scene # 2880, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Elisabete Cristina at the reception of» de bracos alberto,» one of the few NGO's helping crack addicts in» cracolandia», 2014 Archival pigment print; printed 2016 47 1/8 x 35 3/8 inches

The crack addicted idiotic monkeys in charge of the feeble minded brain trust that put forth and implemented the substandard worthless trash that is Bixby should be fired.

By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer In a story that shows the importance of using overlapping tools to do criminal background checks, a jury recently ruled that negligence by the Housing Authority in a North Carolina city led to an elderly woman's death at the hands of her crack cocaine addicted neighbor in 2007.

And while there are indeed some babies born to crack addicted women who are then placed for adoption... it is hardly the norm or the majority and even (some of, if not most of) those stories have happy endings.