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STORY SLUGGED: ADDICTION-YOUTH -- (May 4, 2006) Kim Ford is a guidance specialist at The New School in Watsonville, Calif. The New School, an alternative high school largely comprised of former gang members and drug addicts in Watsonville, Calif., offers some services you won't find at your typical high school -- including rides to nearby AA and NA meetings, after-school 12-Step classes, routine urine testing and a dog that comes in to sniff backpacks a few times a year. Here, Ford speaks with student Ulises Palacios. (Vern Fisher/MCT)