Issues Related to Addiction
- Berkeley Woman Overcomes Major Obstacles, Now Graduating from Yale
Homeless people, drug dealers, prostitutes, and mounds of junk filled Lily Dorman-Colby’s south Berkeley home before she was separated from her brothers and placed in foster care. Doug Oakley of the Oakland Tribune writes that although living with her drug-addicted, bipolar mother seemed like freedom at the time—no bed times, homework, or general supervision—Dorman-Colby knew something was wrong.