Addiction Recovery News 07/2006 (Page 3)

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According to the American Stroke Association, 700,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke every year. That's one stroke every 45 seconds. (Jul 5, 2006)

Tigers notes: Young starts rehab assignment (Jul 6, 2006)

KOTA BARU: It is time for a special court to be set up to hear cases of drug offenders to overcome the massive backlog of such cases, Kelantan Pemadam said. (Jul 6, 2006)

Right-hander Ben Sheets is scheduled to begin a minor league injury rehabilitation stint with a start for the Milwaukee Brewers' Triple-A affiliate on Sunday. Sheets, who has missed most of this season with tendinitis in his shoulder, is scheduled to throw 65 pitches for the Nashville Sounds. Sheets, who began the season on the disabled list and made only four starts before returning to the DL, (Jul 6, 2006)

MILWAUKEE -- Right-hander Ben Sheets is scheduled to begin a minor league injury rehabilitation stin... (Jul 6, 2006)

Ben Sheets is scheduled to begin a minor-league injury rehabilitation stint with a start for the Brewers' Triple-A affiliate on Sunday. (Jul 6, 2006)

Notes: Sheets ready for rehab (Jul 6, 2006)

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. -- He is merely 26 years old, but Rhett Parrott can be excused if he feels like an old man. After all, most of his State College Spikes teammates are fresh out of college. (Jul 6, 2006)

Title: New Drug Helps Smokers Quit and Stay Quit Category: Health News Created: 7/5/2006 1:57:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/5/2006 1:57:05 AM (Jul 6, 2006)

ACTRESS Ashley Judd had 47 days of rehab to help her cope with a cleaning compulsion and depression. The Hollywood beauty, who has been married to Scots racing driver Dario Franchitti for four years, admitted she checked into a Texas treatment centre in February. (Jul 6, 2006)

The guilt set in. "What did I do wrong that makes him do this?" Liz Rehmer asked herself, searching for logic in her son's addiction to methamphetamine. (Jul 6, 2006)

Europe's first rehab for computer game addicts has opened in the city usually known for other temptations - Amsterdam. The clinic's founder, Keith Bakker, previously ran clinics for drug addicts but set up his centre when he saw problem gamers were offered no help. (Jul 6, 2006)

Bridgeport Mayor John M. Fabrizi: admitted cocaine use; sought drug treatment on his own; so far, no criminal charges. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy: addiction to prescription medicines; sentenced to drug treatment for driving under the influence of prescription drugs. (Jul 6, 2006)

MILWAUKEE - Right-hander Ben Sheets is scheduled to begin a minor-league injury rehabilitation stint with a start for the Milwaukee Brewers' Triple-A affiliate on Sunday. (Jul 6, 2006)

Oliver Hamilton says he wasn't afraid of jail: He was afraid of change. Two years ago, the San Diego Navy veteran overcame his fears and his 36-year drug and alcohol addiction with the help of Proposition 36, the ballot measure requiring treatment instead of prison for nonviolent drug offenders. (Jul 6, 2006)

RBC, 06.07.2006, Moscow 18:51:46. The number of drug addicts in Russia rose by 15 times between the late 1980s and 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his Internet conference today. According to various estimates, up to 6m people use drugs today, among them 4m long-term drug addicts. (Jul 6, 2006)

By Brook Stockberger, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Jul. 4--A multi-million dollar expansion project is planned for a Las Cruces medical facility. (Jul 6, 2006)

Kate Moss' earnings have soared since her cocaine scandal last year. The shamed supermodel was worried her career was finished after pictures of her snorting the class A drug were published last September. (Jul 6, 2006)

Koren Robinson's agent confirmed a website report Thursday that the receiver has re-entered an alcohol rehab facility. But Alvin Keels made it clear that Robinson's decision was voluntary and he has not violated the NFL's substance abuse policy. "Is Koren Robinson in rehab or at a rehab facility? Yes," said Keels, responding to a report that first broke on profootballtalk.com. "Was Koren Robinson (Jul 7, 2006)

Vikings starting wide receiver Koren Robinson is reported to have checked back into alcohol rehab. More Vikings News (Jul 7, 2006)

DAYTON — The executive director of Montgomery County's Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board will seek to retire and be rehired next month at a reduced salary for the next three years. (Jul 7, 2006)

Eaton takes first steps back in rehab (Jul 7, 2006)

Ashley Judd recently admitted herself into rehab to save herself from her own narcissism. (Jul 7, 2006)

From the author of Minority Report , Total Recall and the spectacular Blade Runner comes yet another winner, A Scanner Darkly . But this time round, the late Philip K Dick's book on drug addiction, a vice he himself suffered from, is adapted for the silver screen with a difference. (Jul 7, 2006)

A huge government settlement has done nothing for the shares. (Jul 7, 2006)

North Carolina-based Project Prevention, which offers a cash incentive of $300 to drug addicts and/or alcoholics to receive long-term or permanent birth control, will bring its 30- foot motor home to Sacramento and San Francisco over the weekend. (Jul 7, 2006)

RehabCare Group Inc. said Friday it closed on its acquisition of the assets of Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital. (Jul 7, 2006)

Vikings receiver Koren Robinson said Friday that he's not in a South Carolina rehab facility but rather is taking classes in an effort to help him maintain his sobriety. "I'm not in rehab, it's nothing like that," Robinson said. "I'm taking prevention classes so I won't have to go back to rehab or won't have a situation. I just wanted to get away, make sure I'm bulletproof. So I'm just trying to (Jul 7, 2006)

Vikings Wide receiver Koren Robinson told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Friday that he strongly denies any wrongdoing and denied the fact that he had relapsed into substance abuse. (Jul 7, 2006)

Peter Forsberg has begun rehabbing his surgically repaired right ankle, seven weeks after the first of two planned ankle operations. (Jul 7, 2006)

Minnesota Vikings receiver Koren Robinson says he's not in rehab and didn't have a relapse. Reports surfaced last night that (Jul 8, 2006)

Minnesota Vikings receiver Koren Robinson knows he'll always be under scrutiny while living life as a recovering alcoholic. These last few days, however, have been a little over the top. (Jul 8, 2006)

Reports surfaced Thursday night that Vikings receiver Koren Robinson had voluntarily checked himself into a rehab facility to seek further treatment. The term "rehab facility" carries with it a certain stigma that led some to believe he could have suffered a relapse. Nothing could be further from the truth, Robinson said Friday afternoon. (Jul 8, 2006)

By KRISTI L. NELSON, [email protected] Substance-abuse treatment works -- when abusers can get it, White House drug czar John Walters told a group of local providers and advocates Tuesday morning. (Jul 8, 2006)

Koren Robinson wanted to set the record straight. The Vikings' No. 1 receiver said Friday he hasn't had a relapse and isn't checked into a rehab facility in South Carolina. Rather, he is taking classes in an effort to help him maintain his sobriety. "I'm not in rehab; it's nothing like that," Robinson said. "I'm taking prevention classes so I won't have to go back to rehab or won't have a (Jul 8, 2006)

The Santa Cruz County agency that oversees addiction counseling under California’s “treatment not incarceration” law saw good news in the form of a funding increase in the recently passed state budget, however, the language of the funding increase could put the program at risk. (Jul 8, 2006)

Peter Forsberg has begun rehabbing his surgically repaired right ankle, seven weeks after the first of two planned ankle operations. (Jul 8, 2006)

Findings replicated in twin study based in Norway - a country with lower prevalence of drug use than the United States and AustraliaResearchers have found that genetic factors may play an important role in a person's use, misuse or dependence of illicit drugs like marijuana, stimulants, opiates, cocaine and psychedelics. [click link for full article] (Jul 8, 2006)

Friday, July 7, 2006 4:19 PM CDT WILLIAMSON - A mother of three and grandmother of five, she knows first hand the destruction and devastation caused by drug abuse. (Jul 8, 2006)

SALT LAKE CITY When Dr. Steven R. Edgley talks to his rehab patients about life after stroke and the ongoing battle to regain skills or learn new ways to do things, he speaks with a gentle authority that’s hard-earned. (Jul 8, 2006)

Minnesota Vikings receiver Koren Robinson knows he'll always be under scrutiny while living life as a recovering alcoholic. These last few days, however, have been a little over the top. More Vikings News (Jul 8, 2006)

Minnesota Vikings receiver Koren Robinson knows he'll always be under scrutiny while living life as a recovering alcoholic. These last few days, however, have been a little over the top. More Vikings News (Jul 8, 2006)

DRUG addicts would have their treatment withdrawn unless they agree not to have children until they beat their habit, under plans being considered by Scottish Labour. (Jul 9, 2006)

Vikings Wide receiver Koren Robinson told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Friday that he strongly denies any wrongdoing and denied the fact that he had relapsed into substance abuse. (Jul 9, 2006)

Fraser A. Lang of Block Island received the Seventh Annual Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) Journalism Award at the RSA's annual meeting in Baltimore June 28 for "continuing excellence in educating addiction health professionals about new research on alcoholism and other drug problems." (Jul 9, 2006)

Partnership for a Drug-FreeNC, Inc. (PDFNC) has rolled out a new website for North Carolinians.DrugFreeNC.org provides accurate substance abuse information for parents,teens, teachers, and adults. Visitors to the site can learn about thedisease of addiction, the real facts about substances and how they are usedand abused, and guidance for finding help for someone who needs it. [click link for (Jul 9, 2006)

Area law enforcement officials and local addiction experts are alarmed at the rise in teenagers’ abuse of prescription drugs. They say more kids are popping random pills stolen from their parents’ medicine cabinets or purchased online or from friends. (Jul 9, 2006)

ATLANTA — Rusty Begnaud can expect between four to eight weeks of rehabilitation at the Shepherd Center once he is stabilized and he is released from the catastrophic care hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. (Jul 9, 2006)

North Carolina-based ProjectPrevention, which offers a cash incentive of $300 to drug addicts and/oralcoholics to receive long-term or permanent birth control, will bring its30- foot motor home to Sacramento and San Francisco over the weekend. Thegroup will arrive in Sacramento around noon on July 8, 2006, for the thirdstop in a 16 city nationwide RV tour. [click link for full article] (Jul 9, 2006)

Neighbors saw the guy bolting from the back of a graffiti-stained, abandoned house as he shouted the word that soon would ring out on drug corners across the country. (Jul 9, 2006)

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