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                                                     Maria Alexander 
                                                       
                                                       
                                                    I completed treatment under 
                                                      Prop.36 in 2002 after over 
                                                      15 years of heroin and cocaine 
                                                      addiction and prostitution 
                                                      on the streets of downtown 
                                                      LA. I now have over 5 years 
                                                      clean and sober and currently 
                                                      am the Exec. Dir. of a non-profit 
                                                      that provides job and computer 
                                                      training to addicts finishing 
                                                      residential drug treatment. 
                                                      I have also gotten both 
                                                      of my children back and 
                                                      am a single mother who provides 
                                                      the sole support of my children. 
                                                    
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