Battling obesity, alcohol and drugs, she rocketed from triumph to disaster and back.

Violence is rampant, and battling drugs often conflicts with other political goals like improving trade.

In 2007, the band's third album was Pierre's first "written completely sober, after battling drugs and alcohol for years".

At a youth counseling center here, most teenagers seeking help in the 1980s were white and battling drugs or alcohol problems.

Gibson, the big gun of the Homestead Grays, remains the league's most feared batter, though battling drugs and alcohol.

As Tucker was battling drugs and alcohol in the early 80s, her career suffered.

After battling drugs, drug treatment programs, and relapses, Mackey Feary was sentenced to prison.

There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism, two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries.

After battling drugs and cancer, Strawberry should stay away from street corners and bars as well as baseball, where so many people will expect him to show his old bravado.

As a hell-raiser, he blazed a trail in the early days of rock, wrecking cars, getting arrested, battling drugs, all while leaving his distinctive stamp on American music.