Addiction Recovery News 10/2006 (Page 3)

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A Brooklyn judge stepped off the bench yesterday to speak with a homeless alcoholic defendant about God and the importance of undergoing rehab. The highly unusual action by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Abraham Gerges came during a routine... (Oct 5, 2006)

Rehab World owners Rolando and Diane Gersava celebrated the clinic’s sixth anniversary with a silent auction that raised more than $500 to benefit Fayette Cares. (Oct 5, 2006)

The fur is flying in a battle over a local woman's animal rehab house. (Oct 5, 2006)

It used to be that politics was the last refuge of scoundrels. Now it's rehab. Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley, who is being investigated for sending sexual e-mails to young male pages, checked himself into a rehabilitation facility after he resigned Friday from Congress. (Oct 5, 2006)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is licensing the rights to explore the potential of compounds discovered at the Troy, N.Y., university to a Cambridge, Mass., biotechnology company. (Oct 5, 2006)

No wonder appetite suppressants don't work. It turns out that obese people can be as addicted to food as junkies are to their drugs (Oct 5, 2006)

BALTIMORE, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Baltimore health officials have begun an initiative to allow primary care physicians to prescribe the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine to heroin addicts. (Oct 5, 2006)

Las Vegas attorney Joseph Caramagno was scheduled to appear in court Thursday on charges that he showed up for a previous court hearing while intoxicated. But for now, his day in court is on hold. (Oct 5, 2006)

Starting in January 2007, the federal Medicaid program will pay for screening and brief intervention (SBI) programs for alcohol and other drug addiction. (Oct 5, 2006)

No wonder appetite suppressants don't work. It turns out that obese people can be as addicted to food as junkies are to their drugs (Oct 6, 2006)

As political dominos line up and the investigation into former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's salacious Internet messages continues to capture national attention, the central figure in the scandal remains in a treatment facility with limited contact with the outside world. (Oct 6, 2006)

London, Oct 6: Pakistan police have arrested a cleric for luring 113 British drug addicts to a private jail in the northern part of the country on the pretext that he had a spiritual cure for their addiction. (Oct 6, 2006)

Celebrity rehab (Oct 6, 2006)

No wonder appetite suppressants don't work. It turns out that obese people can be as addicted to food as junkies are to their drugs (Oct 6, 2006)

Those who attended Tuesday's parent/community forum on teen drug and alcohol use heard addresses from legal, law enforcement and medical experts about young people's dangerous behavior in Forsyth County. (Oct 6, 2006)

Finding refuge in one of seven bunk beds in a dormitory room, Diana Pochini says she got a good night's sleep at the new women's homeless shelter that opened this week in downtown Reno. (Oct 6, 2006)

The speed of Mark Foley’s departure after he resigned from Congress a week ago, speeding away to Florida in his convertible BMW in the wake of a cyber-sex scandal involving teenage congressional pages, marked a new standard for alacrity. (Oct 6, 2006)

PITTSBURGH (CP) - Rookie Evgeni Malkin will continue the rehabilitation program for his dislocated left shoulder and be re-evaluated in two weeks, the Pittsburgh Penguins said Friday. (Oct 6, 2006)

A Rochester man has been convicted on a federal drug charge. Terrance Sykes, 27, was convicted on one count of possession with intent to sell cocaine. He’s being held without bail. (Oct 6, 2006)

ANewton-based operator of senior-living complexes has begun managing the Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital and the New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn following a legal dispute between the properties' landlord and their previous operator. (Oct 7, 2006)

FRAMINGHAM -- A cocaine bust was thwarted Thursday because a drug dealer ran out of crack before he got to three people police were watching, but the three were arrested handing out pills designed to beat a heroin addiction. (Oct 7, 2006)

AURORA -- It's been more than a year for Doug. He's 16 now and living clean, but roughly 18 months ago, Doug failed a drug test while on probation and was looking at some serious jail time. (Oct 7, 2006)

Pictured are, from left, Linda Spiegel, Assemblyman William Scarborough, Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn, Carl Willemin, Gerald Hart, Assemblywoman Ann Margaret Carrozza and James Karkenny. (Oct 7, 2006)

Troubled singer Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles has been forced to postpone their UK tour to give the singer more time to recover from drug rehab treatment, his record company said today. (Oct 7, 2006)

Singer Pete Doherty has canceled the rest of a British tour with his band Babyshambles to give himself more time to recover from his drug addiction treatment, his spokesman said on Saturday. (Oct 7, 2006)

The rock group Babyshambles has had to postpone the rest of its British tour to allow frontman Pete Doherty more time to recover from treatment for drug addiction, his record company said. (Oct 7, 2006)

Babyshambles has postponed the remainder of its British tour to give frontman Pete Doherty more time to undergo drug rehab treatment. (Oct 7, 2006)

CNAs $500 Sign-On Bonus Ridgewood Nursing & Rehab, a 70 bed nursing facility, is now accepting applications for CNAs Various shifts. ... >MORE ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER Indian Hills Community College has an immediate opening for someone who will work with faculty & program directors to de ... (Oct 7, 2006)

LONDON: Singer Pete Doherty has cancelled the rest of a tour with his band Babyshambles to give himself more time to recover from his drug addiction treatment, his spokesman said today. (Oct 7, 2006)

LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Pete Doherty has cancelled the rest of a tour with his band Babyshambles to give himself more time to recover from his drug addiction treatment, his spokesman said on Saturday. (Oct 7, 2006)

The band Babyshambles has postponed the remainder of its British tour to give frontman Pete Doherty more time to undergo drug rehabilitation treatment, his record company said Saturday. (Oct 7, 2006)

Babyshambles Cancels U.K. Tour to Give Frontman Pete Doherty More Time in Drug Rehabilitation (Oct 7, 2006)

CONTROVERSIAL singer Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles have been forced to postpone their UK tour to give the singer more time to recover from drug rehab treatment. (Oct 8, 2006)

Cancer, drug addiction, neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, immune system defects, visual pathologies, heart disease. A tiny insect, the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is providing an excellent model system to unravel these diseases and many others. [click link for full article] (Oct 8, 2006)

World experts meet at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona on October 5-7 to present the latest findings in cancer, neurodegeneration and drug addiction research using the tiny Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.Cancer, drug addiction, neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, immune system defects, visual pathologies, heart disease. [click link for full article] (Oct 8, 2006)

Floyd Turner NEW ALBANY – Floyd Hunter Turner, 91, died Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at the Union County Health and Rehab Center. He was born Feb. 28, 1915, in Pontotoc County to the late Wade L. Turner and Lyla Tutor Turner. He was a taxidermist and an artist. (Oct 8, 2006)

Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles have been forced to postpone their UK tour to give the singer more time to recover from drug rehab treatment. The announcement comes after the singer reportedly had a "bust-up" with his supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss after a Babyshambles gig in London. (Oct 8, 2006)

CHARLESTON -- Mitch Shick has a chart made up of colored squares: A few of them are red, but most by far are green. Green is good. The chart shows the weekly progress of the participants in Coles County’s drug court program. (Oct 8, 2006)

Efrain Rivera is charged with possession of narcotics, essentially the same crime Bridgeport Mayor John M. Fabrizi has acknowledged committing. But he finds himself in far different circumstances. (Oct 8, 2006)

• Rapper Jadakiss arrested for 2nd time on gun charges • Farrah Fawcett stays positive despite cancer diagnosis • Doherty’s band postpones tour for his drug rehab • Jamie Lee Curtis closes book on acting to focus on family • ‘Whale Rider’ actress, 16, expecting baby with boyfriend (Oct 8, 2006)

For two years a Carson City family thought the worst about their missing son and father, especially after a man allegedly bragged about killing him. But their anguish ended two weeks ago when he was discovered alive, and fresh out of rehab in Reno. (Oct 8, 2006)

In an amazing story of brutal callousness in the Paras Foundation Drug De-addiction Centre, an investigation found inmates being tortured and abused. (Oct 8, 2006)

LONDON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The rock group Babyshambles has postponed its British tour to give front man Pete Doherty time to recover from his recent drug rehab treatment. (Oct 8, 2006)

MUZAFFARABAD: President Pervez Musharraf pledged on Sunday within two or three years the government would complete rebuilding quake-hit areas and assured that the corruption would be dealt firmly.Addressing the commemoration here, President Pervez Mushar .... (Oct 9, 2006)

Singer Pete Doherty has cancelled the rest of a British tour with his band Babyshambles to give himself more time to recover from his drug addiction treatment, his spokesman said on Saturday. (Oct 9, 2006)

(pr-inside) Troubled rocker PETE DOHERTY has axed the remaining dates of his current UK tour after failing to fully regain his strength in rehab. (Oct 9, 2006)

Robin Williams could teach Congress a thing or two about handling a potential PR disaster, considering how he dealt with his August announcement that he entered Oregon's Hazelden Springbook for alcoholism treatment. Talk about great timing. Mel Gibson's DUI arrest overshadowed Williams' news. (Oct 9, 2006)

Last week, Eric Clapton said he would consider playing his song, “Cocaine” in concert again. He stopped playing the song after a rehab stint because he thought playing it would be hypocritical. (Oct 9, 2006)

CHARLESTON -- Mitch Shick has a chart made up of colored squares: A few of them are red, but most by far are green. Green is good. The chart shows the weekly progress of the participants in Coles County’s drug court program. (Oct 9, 2006)

PETRON Corporation and its partner Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation, Guimaras, and Department of Education (DepEd) signed an agreement on Saturday for a literacy program that is part of the long-term rehabilitation of the province. (Oct 9, 2006)

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