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HUNTINGTON — For someone deep in the throes of an addiction to heroin or opioids, it's not that uncommon to end up in the news. What is uncommon is fighting that battle while already being a public figure, which means headlines a regular person might not get. Bernard Slater Jr ., resigned from Charleston City Council in April after a string of bad headlines that followed the length of his career as a public servant. "You go from being elected to city council to digging in people's dumpsters," Slater said. "That was my rock bottom right there. I had hit bottom long ago , but I didn't know rock bottom had a basement. After that, I didn't think nothing of it at the time until I sobered up and saw the headlines." Slater's first memories of drugs and alcohol are of getting beer for his uncles out of the refrigerator as they played poker. They would let him take the first drink. Then, at age 5, while at the beach, his uncles – teenagers at the time – ...

Living in San Diego is not cheap, and the never-ending search for Craigslist roommates who won’t murder you in your sleep is part of the price some of us must pay to be renters in paradise. Anyone who has lived here long enough has at least one nightmare Craigslist roommate story to tell. Here are 11 common San Diego Craigslist roommates you can expect to find rummaging through your personal things, or perhaps beating the crap out of a piñata in your yard with their co-workers at 4am on a Tuesday (true story).   The Impossibly Good-Looking Surfer He never shows up anywhere on time, but somehow manages to get out of bed at dawn every single morning to ride some waves. He doesn’t own any close-toed shoes, and when he bothers to wear a shirt at all (rare!) it’s never buttoned higher than his nipples. Thanks to him, the floors are gritty with sand and the apartment smells distinctly of wetsuit. When he’s not in the water, he’s shaping a new board at his bro’s shop or watc...