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To hell and backwith Nelson Trout

30 recovering addicts spill their guts

“The main thrust of this book is about helping people. I took pains to write everything in brutal detail, as the tellers experienced it, because I won’t get the message across if the story isn’t true and interesting.”

— Nelson Trout,author of ‘Blood on the Ceiling’

Staff Photo by Phil Tomlinson

Nelson Trout with his new book, “Blood on the Ceiling.’’

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

~John Lennon

Staff photos by Cathy Cramer

Above, Tyler Kahn and Rachel Rivera arrive for the Millville Senior Prom on Saturday night in Ocean City. Right, Shaq Lee and Barbara Allen arrive for the Millville Senior Prom on Saturday night. To see more photos from the Millville Senior High School prom or other South Jersey proms in the coming days and weeks, go to nj.com/southjerseyproms.

Staff Photo by Cindy Hepner

Robin Smith and Mathew DeVault, take to the dance floor to win “Dancing with the Cumberland County Stars’’ competition.

LoBiondo usedto challengessince 1994

FRANK LoBIONDO

By Phillip Tomlinsonnj.com/south

COMMERCIAL TWP. — Nel-son Trout’s life has been a whirl-wind of change over the past three years.

Since the beginning of 2009, he has gone through the entire brutal cycle of drug addiction and recovery.

Along the way, he lost his house, his marriage of 32 years fell apart leaving him heartbro-ken and he was even forced to leave his dog behind when he finally faced down his devils and entered a rehabilitation facility.

Now Trout has found a new lease on life, and a new career writing books.

But the journey from desola-tion to what he eventually hopes will prove to be redemption led the Millville native through hell and back, a hell that he shares in vivid, lurid detail in his newly published book, “Blood on the

Ceiling.”A collection of narratives

about the ravages of addiction, “Blood on the Ceiling” chronicles the personal stories and experi-ences of more than 30 recover-ing addicts that Trout met in the various rehabilitation facili-ties and halfway houses that he passed through.

He got the title for the book from one story that in particular stood out vividly in his mind.

“Alice” was a young woman that Trout interviewed while in rehab.

She shared a story about one instance, when she was shoot-ing up a mixture of heroin and speed and got a blood clot in her syringe.

“She pulled the needle out of one of the last good veins in her left arm, pointed it toward the sky and pushed the plunger.

Hard.

(See TROUT, Page A-3)

From staff reportsnj.com/south

It’s a crowded race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Second Congressional District, with Republicanincumbent Frank LoBiondo facing oppo-sition from both sides of the aisle.

In the June 5 primary, RepublicanMike Assad, of Absecon, has declaredhis candidacy opposing LoBiondo, call-ing the for-mer Cum-b e r l a n d C o u n t y freeholder “the most l i b e r a l R e p u b -lican in e i t h e r house of the Unit-ed States Congress.”

A s s a d , 24, has been a mem-ber of the Absecon Board of Education for seven years, and identifies himself as a “small government conservative” on his website.

The winner of the GOP primary will face Democratic candidate Cassandra Shober, from Ventnor.

Shober owns a small business in Atlantic City with her husband. Her bio includes volunteer work for the BoyScouts of America and the United Way.

“Congressman LoBiondo does not fight for the priorities of our district and

Fightin the2nd Dist.

(See LoBIONDO, Page A-3)

By Jim Cook Jr.nj.com/south

It was a great night for Matt DeVault and Robin Smith.

Their quick-stepping moves nabbed them the top honor at Dancing with the Cumberland County Stars Saturday night at the Cen-terton Country Club.

But it may have been an even greater night for the Cumberland County Tech-nical Education Center, which reaped the proceeds and support from the many attendees of the glamorous affair.

“The goal of this event is to raise funds for our

(See DANCERS, Page A-9)

Smith-DeVaultstar dancers

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‘THE AVENGERS’ RAKES IN $200M IN FIRST WEEKEND.

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