Addiction Recovery News 06/2006 (Page 4)

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Singer Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal. (Jun 8, 2006)

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros will donate $10 million to help cities improve drug-treatment programs, and Mayor Byron W. Brown hopes that Buffalo will be among the recipients. (Jun 8, 2006)

Jacqueline Johnson says her peer counseling group at Behavioral Health Services helped her to admit her drug addiction and recover from depression. The program, that she says saved her life, will be eliminated at the end of the month. (Jun 8, 2006)

Singer arranged Portuguese detox himself (Jun 8, 2006)

Delhi has about 25-30 drug de-addiction centres. And the number of serious drug addicts in the city ranges between 3 to 5 lakhs. (Jun 8, 2006)

DURHAM, N.C.----June 8, 2006--Expression Analysis, Inc., a full-service microarray processing, analysis and data management organization, has entered into an agreement with IMC, an award-winning solutions company, to provide isolation of genomic samples and Affymetrix microarray processing for samples from a clinical trial IMC is conducting on an award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (Jun 8, 2006)

Singer Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal, it has been reported. The troubled Babyshambles star flew to the country at the beginning of the week and entered a detox clinic in another bid to beat his crack and heroin addictions. (Jun 8, 2006)

Singer Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal. (Jun 8, 2006)

Pete Doherty has reportedly checked himself into rehab in Portugal in another attempt to beat drugs. The Babyshambles star made the decision to enter rehab himself and flew out to Portugal at the beginning of the week. (Jun 8, 2006)

Jacqueline Johnson says her peer counseling group at Behavioral Health Services helped her to admit her drug addiction and recover from depression. The program, that she says saved her life, will be eliminated at the end of the month. (Jun 8, 2006)

I know a lot about drugs and the drug war, both personally and professionally. Drugs have had a positive and a detrimental impact on my life. I have laughed, played and found inspiration while intoxicated. I have also struggled, fought and cried because of my addiction to drugs. I have spent the last six years working for an organization that is working to reform drug laws. I have read (Jun 8, 2006)

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago today said its long-time president and chief executive, Wayne M. Lerner, will resign effective Aug. 31. (Jun 8, 2006)

An addiction center is opening Europe's first detox clinic for game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone. Video games may look innocent, but they can be as addictive as gambling or drugs because of the release of endorphins in the brain. (Jun 8, 2006)

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Almost anyone with a teenager may think they know this already. (Jun 8, 2006)

Funds are to be used to build comprehensive public drug addiction treatment systems in large U.S. cities. (Jun 8, 2006)

Detroit Tigers outfielder D'mitri Young has entered rehabilitation, according to sources. (Jun 8, 2006)

Thursday, it was reported Tigers player Dimitri Young checked himself into rehab at the Betty Ford Center in California. There has been no conformation or denial from the Tigers. (Jun 8, 2006)

SINGER Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal. (Jun 8, 2006)

SINGER Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal. The troubled Babyshambles star flew to the country at the beginning of the week and entered a detox clinic in another bid to beat his crack and heroin addictions. (Jun 9, 2006)

ALTOONA- Pittsburgh Pirates' starting pitcher Kip Wells is expected to join the Altoona Curve for an injury rehab start next Thursday night, June 15th, at Blair County Ballpark against the Harrisburg Senators. (Jun 9, 2006)

Many East Texans enjoy living in this part of the country because of the rural neighborhoods. But one community is up in arms about a drug rehab center beingbuilt in their backyard. Don Cable has lived in rural Angelina county for more than 40 years. (Jun 9, 2006)

Thursday's MLB news briefs: Mark Prior allowed three runs and four hits in five innings of a rehab start for Double-A West Tennessee. (Jun 9, 2006)

Mark Prior allowed three runs and four hits in five innings of a rehab start for Double-A West Tennessee on Thursday night. Prior, who has been on the Chicago Cubs' disabled list all season because of a sore right shoulder, helped the Diamond Jaxx to a 6-4 win over the Birmingham Barons. The right-hander struck out four while his fastball was consistently clocked at 90 mph. Prior walked two (Jun 9, 2006)

Mark Prior allowed three runs and four hits in five innings of a rehab start for Class AA West Tennessee on Thursday night. (Jun 9, 2006)

Porter County drug unit officers and Ogden Dunes police on Wednesday filed drug charges against six people. The drug unit filed possession of marijuana, maintaining a common nuisance and child neglect charges against Robert Gilmer, 40, and Bridgette Gilmer, 36, both of 5277 Concord, Portage. (Jun 9, 2006)

The number of drug-overdose deaths in Baltimore has fallen to the lowest level in 10 years, the apparent result of a huge effort by the city to make drug treatment readily available and to give addicts the capability to reverse some overdoses themselves. (Jun 9, 2006)

BBC News Online looks at the different fortunes of two local drug addiction treatment centres a world apart. (Jun 9, 2006)

With her background in social work, you'd think city councillor Sandy White would sympathize with the dispossessed denizens of Dundas Street east -- the drunks, the drug addicts, the mentally disturbed and homeless people you'll see most hours of the day and night near the corner of Dundas and William streets. (Jun 9, 2006)

Troubled singer Pete Doherty has checked himself into a rehab centre in Portugal in a desperate bid to get clean. (Jun 9, 2006)

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - An addiction centre is opening Europe's first detox clinic for video game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone. (Jun 9, 2006)

"One Way Ticket to Hell" looks to be one hot ticket, but this ultra-campy musical about the perils of drug addiction craves a fix or two in its current incarnation at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center. (Jun 9, 2006)

Vic Plessner, a leading Security Consultant suggests a different approach to dealing with drug offenders. (PRWEB Jun 9, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/SW5zZS1Mb3ZlLUhvcnItRW1wdC1JbnNlLVplcm8= (Jun 9, 2006)

KELLY OSBOURNE refuses to appear on a celebrity version of hit reality TV show BIG BROTHER, because it reminds her of being in rehab. The 21-year-old (Jun 9, 2006)

The first time I wrote about Jim Doyle was in 2000, and the subject was his innovative approach to drug offenders. Doyle, who had been a judge since 1992, was acutely aware of the role drug use played in the lives of many of the defendants who appeared before him. (Jun 9, 2006)

MegaStar says: 'Portugal is welcome to him.' Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal, according to reports. Yawn. (Jun 9, 2006)

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - An addiction centre is opening Europe's first detox clinic for video game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone. (Jun 9, 2006)

Pete Doherty has checked himself into rehab in Portugal, according to a Babyshambles source. (Jun 9, 2006)

His homecoming to West Tennessee started a little shaky, but the end result of his third rehab start was good enough for Mark Prior. (Jun 9, 2006)

In California and across the nation, methamphetamine addiction is tearing apart families and sending growing numbers of children into foster care. The drug's impact on child welfare has become so severe, it now compares to the crack cocaine crisis of the 1980s, according to a national report released Thursday by Generations United, a group that focuses on the needs of grandparent caregivers. (Jun 9, 2006)

(PRWEB) June 9, 2006 -- Vic Plessner of the VHP Group, a security consulting company, is recommending a different approach to dealing with drug offenders. (Jun 9, 2006)

The long slide of a rock star into drug addiction and death offers greater dramatic possibilities, but it's the tough, mundane - some might say boring - business of staying sober and starting over that interests writer-director Olivier Assayas in his affecting, absorbing film "Clean." (Jun 9, 2006)

Lawyer confirms Portuguese rehab treatment (Jun 9, 2006)

Pete Doherty is in rehab in Portugal – and the course is "going well", according to his lawyer. The singer's representative told Thames Magistrates Court that he was making progress although still "striving towards" being completely clean, in a review of his progress. (Jun 9, 2006)

"One Way Ticket to Hell" looks to be one hot ticket, but this ultra-campy musical about the perils of drug addiction craves a fix or two in its current incarnation at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center. (Jun 9, 2006)

How do you keep hundreds of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-graders interested while presenting them with three hours’ worth of anti-drug messages? (Jun 9, 2006)

Recovering addicts — that is what members of Delhi's Narcotics Anonymous call themselves. For they believe drug addiction is a disease that, at best, can be arrested but never cured. Sending addicts to prison or for a forced recovery at a detoxification centre never helps and is often harmful. (Jun 9, 2006)

Jim Anderton celebrated the 10th Anniversary of Te Awhina Aftercare Service in Christchurch tonight with a speech on addiction and a drug policy which included and understood the problems of addiction. (Jun 10, 2006)

Notes: Another rehab start for Colon (Jun 10, 2006)

Many East Texans enjoy living in this part of the country because of the rural neighborhoods. But one community is up in arms about a drug rehab center being built in their backyard. (Jun 10, 2006)

Drug enforcement officials and federal prosecutors claimed Friday that a recent drug bust involving the arrest of more than 90 alleged drug importers and dealers in the Seattle area had a "huge" impact on the drug trade here. (Jun 10, 2006)

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