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Joseph Henry is now with the Maine State Police. When the Journal talked with him he was working as a prison guard in New Hampshire.

Randall Updegraff is a Christian Scientist who has been serving as a volunteer prison chaplain since 1986. He spoke with the Journal about the men he meets, particularly in relation to drug problems.

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I have to admit that Keith grew up in a home that wasn't the best in the world. I drank a good bit and was gone from home a great deal of the time.

Most people don't realize that it's easy to get involved with drugs, but it's really hard to get away from them. I first started drinking alcohol when I was about 15.

When I was stationed in Korea, the people I hung around with in the Air Force were smoking a lot of marijuana. After I returned to the States, I didn't do drugs until about 1965, when I was in southern California.

One afternoon when I was home alone, my husband's aunt telephoned. Frantically, she told me that my mother-in-law, who had a long history of drug addiction, was now high on drugs and out of control.

Is health or life more than a chemical reaction? The growth of mind-altering, behavior-modifying, body-regulating, and other drug products makes this more than an empty question. Whether one is staving off depression, high or low blood pressure, anti-social behavior, diabetes, impotence, or hyperactivity, drugs are available.

"Love: The Anti-Drug" is the headline on an advertisement that ran in  The New York Times a couple of years ago. As this is being written, the advertiser's website (www.

I found Christian Science when I went to visit my sister who lived in a Paris suburb. At that time, I was a hairdresser in Paris.