Drowning in debt.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: November 21, 2002| Author: Brim, Risa | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

LEXINGTON, Ky. _ Adele Gorgan was on top of the world.

A single mother of two with a bachelor's degree in health services administration, she had a six-figure salary as the director of a health-research firm.

She figured things could hardly get better.

Then she accepted an even better job with a more stable company, picking up a huge bonus and a larger salary.

That's when things got worse.

About five months after she took the ...