In a column entitled “Sometimes love can outlive addiction” Jeff Hawkes describes:
“Twenty-one times Rey entered treatment. Twenty-one times he relapsed.,,
“In April 2008, Rey, 36, and Linda Cruz, 41, residents of the 300 block of Beaver Street, experienced a turning point. Rey started taking a daily dose of methadone, a synthetic narcotic that deadens his brain’s hard-wired craving for heroin and squelches the sickness and pain that drove him to do whatever it took to get a fix.
“Now a middle-aged man, Rey is finding it’s possible to wake up feeling normal and not be consumed by the scramble for cash and drugs.”
WATCHDOG: Hawkes was one of two runners-up for NewsLanc’s ‘Person of the Year.’ (Art Morris for his masterful service as chair of the LCCCA was the other.) It was a close call. Certainly Hawkes would be the ‘Journalist of the Year’ for articles such as the above. Two wags of the tail!
