11.   As a young police officer, I had no patience or sympathy for alcohol and other drug abusers.

12.   A former drug abuser, she said she voluntarily relinquished custody of one of her children because her addiction was getting the best of her.

13.   African American women have been portrayed in the political arena as welfare queens, drug abusers and lazy, Arnwine said.

14.   After all, teams have drafted in the first round woman-beaters, car thieves and drug abusers.

15.   But drug abusers have no way of knowing if they belong to this high-risk group.

16.   But drug abusers quickly learned that the drug could provide a heroin-like high.

17.   But drug abusers quickly discovered that crushing the pill immediately released its narcotic.

18.   Dallas Green has never had much sympathy for drug abusers.

19.   Defense lawyers have suggested that the two killings were mistakenly committed by drug dealers out to settle scores with Ms. Resnick, a confessed former drug abuser.

20.   Drug abusers circumvent the time-release process by crushing the pills and snorting the powder, like cocaine, or mixing it with water and shooting it, like heroin.