It happens to the most political of families -- former presidential candidate George McGovern cut off his alcoholic daughter, Terry, who later died at the age of 44 after falling into a snow bank and freezing to death.
Karen Franklin feared it would be her family's story, too. She watched helplessly as her teenage daughter, Lauren, descended into a methamphetamine addiction.
The all-female staff at the Casa de Palmas residential facility for women were so focused on creating a home-like atmosphere that they even included in the décor a fireplace, in a part of the country that might call for its use on fewer than a handful of days most years.
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