51.   Sheriffs could refuse to issue a concealed-carry permit to drunks, drug abusers or the mentally ill.

52.   Similarly, he said, the public has become a great deal friendlier toward a therapeutic approach for drug abusers instead of reliance on prosecution and incarceration.

53.   She also became an alcohol and drug abuser, a mother of five who sipped vodka at the breakfast table and once threw herself down a concrete stairwell.

54.   Some trickled to a blossoming new market of drug abusers in South Africa.

55.   Someone might mention Gary and cities like Gary, and such unappetizing subjects as disability payments for alcoholics and drug abusers.

56.   Study after study has shown that treatment of drug abusers is the best and cheapest way to do that.

57.   That approach is less focused on telling drug abusers about the dangers of drugs than on getting them to use drugs more safely.

58.   That meant it would not produce the quick spike of euphoria that drug abusers crave.

59.   Talley said that he trusted his patients and that if a few drug abusers slipped by him, so be it.

60.   The idea was that courts could become involved in helping drug abusers overcome their addictions instead of simply recycling them through the system.