Addiction Recovery News 12/2006 (Page 2)

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Rebecca Kelly used to run from her problems. Now, she runs in an effort to solve them. Kelly took her first drink at 14, soon entering the first of what would be many rehabilitation stints. She's been forced to live on the streets, once got kicked in the face by a male attacker, been completely broke more times than she cares to remember. (Dec 3, 2006)

NEW YORK - Methamphetamine - once considered the drug of choice in the backwoods - is moving up in society. Experts say methods for "cooking'' the drug have become less noxious over the past decade, making meth labs a friendlier fit for apartment buildings like the one on Manhattan's East Side, where federal agents announced a bust last week. "Back in the day, cooking meth was a very smelly (Dec 3, 2006)

Joe Paterno says he intends to lead the Nittany Lions from the sidelines at the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1 and coach for at least another couple years (Dec 4, 2006)

Joe Paterno won't let a broken left leg slow him down or knock him out of football. (Dec 4, 2006)

Tis the season to shop, but doctors say compulsive shopping is year-round. KXAN NBC Austin's Sonta Henderson found a shopper who puts that struggle into perspective. (Dec 4, 2006)

A Paducah ministry needs your help to give men with troubled pasts a new outlook on life. Paducah Lifeline Ministries helps men going through tough times get over problems like drug addiction. (Dec 4, 2006)

Laura Randall used her experience investing in houses to help start a renovation lending division at K Bank. (Dec 4, 2006)

City officials soon will unveil big plans to rehab a central Sioux Falls neighborhood just west of downtown. In a word, it's called redevelopment. Hats off to the mayor and city officials for starting now to stop blight from spreading in central Sioux Falls, and for dreaming big about revitalizing one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. One word of warning: Take care not to drive out the current (Dec 4, 2006)

Golden Slipper Club & Charities entered into an agreement to sell the Golden Slipper Health & Rehabilitation Center in Northeast Philadelphia to a Marlton, N.J., company. (Dec 4, 2006)

Not long ago, hospital rehabilitation for major procedures such as hip replacement surgery was the norm before the patient went home. That is quickly changing. (Dec 4, 2006)

So, large chunks of the crowd at a campaign kickoff arrived en masse from a North Philadelphia drug rehab center and they did not seem to know much about the businessman-turned-mayoral-hopeful. A rent-a-crowd? No way, staffers on Tom Knox's campaign said last week. The candidate, whose brother died after drug troubles, is a longtime supporter of the center. (Dec 4, 2006)

So, large chunks of the crowd at a campaign kickoff arrived en masse from a North Philadelphia drug rehab center and they did not seem to know much about the businessman-turned-mayoral-hopeful. A rent-a-crowd? No way, staffers on Tom Knox's campaign said last week. The candidate, whose brother died after drug troubles, is a longtime supporter of the center. (Dec 4, 2006)

The next time a 20-year-old scholarship player at Penn State moans and groans about having to rehab, say, a pulled hamstring, he should consider the resilience and work ethic of the spry senior citizen in charge of the Nittany Lions' tradition-encrusted football program. (Dec 4, 2006)

If Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse has his way, a drug once thought to be a breakthrough in heroin addiction treatment will be off the list for patients in the county treatment court program because of abuse. (Dec 4, 2006)

Utahns struggling with substance abuse have welcomed a new online tool for overcoming their drug dependence. A two-month-old Web site, which points addicts to therapy locations and offers advice on escaping addiction, already has amassed more than 300,000 hits. "We were floored by that," said Jack Tanner, director of the Utah Behavioral Healthcare Network, which launched the site in (Dec 4, 2006)

MORRISTOWN -- If you asked Gregory Griffin nine months ago what he thought he'd be doing with his life, working at a restaurant and applying to culinary school would not have made the list. (Dec 4, 2006)

WORCESTER - Sovereign Bank has contributed $150,000 toward the renovation and restoration of the former Loew's Poli Palace Theatre on Southbridge Street. (Dec 4, 2006)

The story of Chase Ford's devastating injury and his remarkable recovery were detailed in a front-page story in The Courier-Journal in June. Tomorrow, Chase, his mother and the doctor who eventually put the little boy back on his feet at Jewish Hospital's Frazier Rehab Institute are scheduled to tell their stories on ABC's "Good Morning America." (Dec 4, 2006)

HAYWARD — The life and death of Fuzia Mina Evans is both inspirational and tragic. For years Evans struggled against drug addiction, and in the last two years it appeared she was winning the battle. (Dec 4, 2006)

Subtitle The rocker won't be spending the Yuletide season in the slammer after all... Subject Matter Pete Doherty Body Pete Doherty has been fined for five counts of drugs possession and been disqualified from driving for four months. The Babyshambles man, who is still receiving treatment for drug addiction, appeared at Thames Magistrates Court this morning (December 4) and (Dec 4, 2006)

Iran - Russia - Cherkesov Director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Cherkesov, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Monday to discuss with Iranian officials mutual cooperation in campaign against illicit drugs. (Dec 4, 2006)

Pete Doherty has been fined on five counts of possessing drugs, including grade A drugs crack cocaine and heroine, relates Reuters. Pete Doherty, 27, who has been having treatment for his addiction, appeared recently at Thames Magistrates Court in London. The ex-Libertines frontman was ordered to pay £770 and was disqualified from driving for four months. The singer, who pleaded guilty at an (Dec 4, 2006)

Alkermes Inc. said Monday results are positive from a recent exploratory study of the company's injectable extended-release naltrexone treatment for opioid drug-abusers. (Dec 4, 2006)

German Agro Action/Welthungerhilfe, an international NGO working agriculture and development projects in Ethiopia said on Friday it was to start a rehabilitation project with an out lay of 2 million and four hundred thousand Birr for flood victims in Kelafo and Mustahil districts of the Somali Regional State. (Dec 4, 2006)

Lindsay Lohan, no stranger to the Hollywood party scene, has recently been seen out on the town with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. But now the 20-year-old ‘Mean Girls’ actress has confessed she’s been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. (Dec 4, 2006)

Nicole Kidman has been reunited with husband Keith Urban after he checked out of rehab. (Dec 4, 2006)

Biotech drug developer Alkermes Inc. said Monday that its experimental opioid addiction treatment blocked the effects of opioids for nearly a month. (Dec 4, 2006)

Three Days Grace frontman Adam Gontier returned to Toronto's CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) facility on November 29 when his band played an intimate show at the place where he recovered from his own addictions. (Dec 4, 2006)

Marijuana is not a "gateway" drug that predicts or eventually leads to substance abuse, suggests a 12-year University of Pittsburgh study. The study, which found that young men who chose to initiate their drug use with marijuana were no more likely to go on to abuse drugs or alcohol than those who smoked or drank first, calls into question the long-held belief that has shaped prevention efforts (Dec 4, 2006)

Scientists in Italy are reporting development of a method for more accurate estimates of the amount of illicit drug use in a community -- by directly determining the amounts of a wide variety of illicit drugs in wastewater collected at sewage treatment plants. (Dec 4, 2006)

(AP) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Biotech drug developer Alkermes Inc. said Monday that its experimental opioid addiction treatment blocked the effects of opioids for nearly a month. (Dec 4, 2006)

Troubled country singer Keith Urban has completed his stint at a rehabilitation facility and has reunited with his wife of five months, Nicole Kidman. (Dec 4, 2006)

(December 4, 2006) -- Contrary to reports, Keith Urban is still in rehab for alcohol abuse, Access Hollywood has confirmed. "At this stage in (Keith's) treatment patients are occasionally allowed to leave for short periods of time. Keith is not out of rehab and is not back home in... (Dec 4, 2006)

FAIRFIELD COUNTY — The Fairfield County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Board, 1560 Sheridan Drive, will hold a board meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday. (Dec 4, 2006)

Country music star Keith Urban has been in the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, California, being treated for alcoholism since October 19. The couple was spotted Sunday at the Polo Lounge in Los Angeles. (Dec 4, 2006)

DEER PARK - A Webster Avenue home that had created some controversy in the community is up for sale. (Dec 4, 2006)

Singer Keith Urban has left rehab, according to US Weekly magazine. Urban, who is married to actress Nicole Kidman, was being treated for alcohol abuse. (Dec 4, 2006)

SALT LAKE CITY----National Hyperbaric Rehab Center, Inc. announced today that its president, Jerry Gines, will be interviewed on SubPennyRadio.com at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, December 6. (Dec 5, 2006)

Urban Released From Rehab (Dec 5, 2006)

A non-nicotine drug specifically designed to help smokers quit is now available in the UK. (Dec 5, 2006)

LATEST: Country star KEITH URBAN's rehab release has been prematurely announced, according to his publicist. The singer checked himself into counsell (Dec 5, 2006)

KEITH URBAN checked out of rehab this weekend and reunited with his wife of five months, Nicole Kidman for brunch in Los Angeles, Us Weekly reports. The country star and his actress... (Dec 5, 2006)

Despite a report published on Us magazine's Web site, Keith Urban's publicist says the singer has not been released from a California rehab center. (Dec 5, 2006)

National Hyperbaric Rehab Center, Inc. ("NHRC") (Pink Sheets: NHYB) announced today that its president, Jerry Gines, will be interviewed on SubPennyRadio.com at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, December 6. During the interview, Mr. (Dec 5, 2006)

My Calc III professor once told me that mathematics would one day solve all humanity's problems. "Scientific or social, clean energy to drug addiction - one day their equations will be found and they will be solved." He was serious. Although seldom stated so bluntly, this attitude underlies the thinking of many scientists and laypeople alike. (Dec 5, 2006)

Country singer Keith Urban is out of rehab and has reunited with actress Nicole Kidman, his wife of five months, according to UsMagazine.com, the Web site for Us Weekly magazine. (Dec 5, 2006)

Country singer Keith Urban is out of rehab and has reunited with his wife of five months, actress Nicole Kidman, Us Weekly reports. The couple had brunch Sunday at the Polo Lounge in Los Angeles. (Dec 5, 2006)

I understand what it is like to be addicted, but I don’t understand what causes addiction. My best guess is that obesity, alcoholism and drug addiction are part of your genetic makeup. (Dec 5, 2006)

The publicist for Keith Urban denies an Us Weekly report that the country singer is out of rehab. (Dec 5, 2006)

Country star Keith Urban's rehab release has been prematurely announced, according to his publicist. (Dec 5, 2006)

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