Stories That Almost Made it on TDA this Month

It’s not hard to find content for a site that concentrates on addiction and recovery topics, I just wish most of the news stories that got picked up on the radar were positive! As I run across relative news stories while surfing I usually just throw them in my favorites and move on, most of the time I either forget they have been saved or just have too many stories to choose from to write about.

With a cast of characters that sounds more like the start of a joke (a priest, movie star, and a drunk walk into a bar...), these stories would have made good topics, but for one reason or another just didn’t make it to my front page. There are quite a few here so I have forgone adding any comments, but I have placed them in sequence of how the mighty have fallen progressing to those falling mightily.

Priest Selling Cocaine from Rectory-

The Reverend Christopher Layden pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church and one count of possession with intent to deliver 1 to 15 grams of cocaine near a church. The 33-year-old was arrested Wednesday at St. John's Catholic Newman Center after investigators found 3 grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia while searching his home and office.

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Ryan O’Neal and Son Arrested for Drugs-

Ryan O'Neal and his son were arrested Wednesday morning after authorities said they found drugs at the actor's Malibu home during a routine check associated with Redmond O'Neal's probation. Investigators suspect both men had methamphetamine, but the substances still need to be tested, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Man Accused of Cheating Boy on Dialysis Out of Make-A-Wish Go-Kart

Douglas Riesberg, 53, received $11,000 from the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Chicago chapter in March for a custom go-kart for the boy, who is 16 and on dialysis, authorities said. The go-kart was expected to be finished in three weeks, but police said Make-A-Wish never heard back from Riesberg. Deputies found him in an Arizona jail on drug charges Saturday. He allegedly said he was having problems getting a custom go-kart and planned to give the boy his personal go-kart.

Drunk Driving Suspect With 4 DWIs Kills Texas Newlyweds

car driven by a drunk driving suspect with four previous DWI arrests raced away from a sheriff's deputy, ran a red light then went airborne after a wreck and landed on top of an SUV, killing a newlywed couple inside, authorities said. Second-grade teacher Erika Clouet, 24, and her husband of a little over a month, construction worker and aspiring musician German Clouet, 23, of Irving, were killed in the accident early Monday.