| Ex High-Flying UK Banker Launches TV For Addicts
A former London banker whose cocaine addiction cost him his high-flying job and nearly destroyed his marriage has created Britain's first television channel to help addicts and their families. Dan Butcher, 34, from Berkshire, developed an addiction that left him suicidal while running a foreign exchange trading desk at a firm in London's financial district known as the "City." "If I didn't have a wife and children I would have killed myself," he told Reuters in an interview. "If they weren't around, I wouldn't be here." At his lowest point, he was taking up to 300 pounds worth of cocaine a day and was arrested for possession after visiting his dealer. The last few days before he sought help were spent alone in a hotel room, drinking vodka and taking cocaine around the clock without sleeping or eating.
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The bedroom ceiling now needs replacement and it turns out to be asbestos. My home is a construction zone, and my husband and I are sleeping downstairs not an easy place for me to get with the hurt knee. I smashed my little finger in one of those theater seats in the Senate gallery. I got scooped by the Lewiston Tribune. I got double-booked on a dinner I set up for the family gathering and am scrambling to cancel caterers and reschedule the whole thing elsewhere. I missed a grant deadline. My knee brace tore a hole in my favorite black pants. My cat brought in a live bird that my husband cornered in the house the next day, and Im still finding feathers. I missed most of the best ski season in years, and the doctor says my knee wont be ready for windsurfing until August despite my cherished goal of June.
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JASON JONES: Louisiana Tech begins the new year at 3-9 and will look to start the WAC portion of its schedule with a win over the visiting Fresno State Bulldogs. Tech just completed an impressive 10-point win over McNeese State in which true freshman Dwayne Lathan broke out with 19 points, five rebounds, and two steals in 19 minutes. The Tech Bulldogs held the Cowboys to 38% shooting for the game including 28% in the first half. Fresno State arrives after a seven-point loss to Stanford that brings it to 7-6 overall and 1-5 on the road. The California Bulldogs are led by 5-10 guard Kevin Bell who was picked second team all WAC in the preseason and is averaging 17.5 points per game. Fellow guards Eddie Miller and Bryan Harvey also average in double figures while 6-9senior post Hector Hernandez leads the team with 6.9 rebounds to go with his 10.8 points per game.
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