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According to top rehabilitation facility research, the percentage of high school seniors who admitted to using Vicodin and Oxycontin at least once in the last year was 9.6 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively. It is common for opiate abuse to begin with these two substances.

Most of these young adults don’t have their use detected while on prescription drugs; yet, because of increased unavailability and exorbitant price (as much as $50 per pill), the natural segue is to move on to street heroin. This is an even uglier descent down the addiction ladder. We now have an epidemic of deaths linked to Fentynol-laced street...

I’ve truly come to realize, if you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.  A large percentage of the population would view my idea of a “normal day” as a bit insane. Yet, I would prefer the term “organized chaos.” Being a modern day nomad and a Jane-of-all-trades, my agenda ranges from scheduling events through my nonprofit, Everyday Heroes Like You, to hoping on a plane and riding the Southwest “bus” to Los Angeles for a photo shoot or a hosting gig. I think it’s important to view every day as an ideal day. It’s all about maintaining a...

AN AWARD-WINNING MIXOLOGIST. ONE OF TOP LOCAL SINGING TALENTS. A WELL-RESPECTED RESTAURATEUR. THESE 10 VALLEY VIPS ARE AT THE TOP OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PROFESSIONAL TURFS (AND SOME ARE LOOKING TO OVERTAKE OTHER FIELDS, AS WELL). SO, HOW DID THEY GET TO WHERE THEY ARE TODAY?

STORY BY MELISSA LARSEN

PHOTOS BY JASON BLACK

“Since graduating high school, I've been in the beauty industry. First, as a model, then as the owner of a modeling agency and now as a makeup artist and photographer. It’s...

Kathy Shayna Shocket has the inside scoop on people who make a difference. 

The scoop on the Scottsdale party with a 007 mystique.