| Is Rehab A Quick Fix Or Image Saver?
Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested this morning on suspicion of driving drunk. Police say they also found cocaine in one of her pockets. Lohan just finished a stint in rehab. This made Action News wonder how effective celebrity rehab is, and if the stars are using it as an excuse to clean up their image. Dr. Mel Pohl at the Las Vegas Recovery Center says he feels for Lohan. "I know that anybody who has addiction is suffering, they're suffering badly", Pohl says. Lohan is among a handful of other celebrities who have made visits to prominent rehab centers, many in Malibu so called "star farms". But Pohl wonders if she is getting the proper treatment there. "Programs that offer respite and only respite are not doing a service to their clients. I think that recovery has to be offered as part of treatment".
A family addiction: Group designed to lend support to those affected by drug users
Debbie couldnt deal with her daughters heroin addiction anymore. Thats when we didnt have any kitchen plates because I threw them all out of the cupboard one by one, she said. She was killing herself, and she just couldnt see it. Debbies daughter, Jenna, now 20 and from New Philadelphia, began using drugs when she was in high school. Her parents were alerted to the problem when Jenna was arrested on misdemeanor charges when she was apprehended by police with other people in a car out of state. Two of the people in the car were caught with more than 50 bags of heroin, but the charges against all of them eventually were dropped. There also were signs that something wasnt right with Jenna. Her parents knew she was driving back and forth to Pittsburgh every day because they found Pittsburgh speeding tickets in her car.
Ledesma: Much ado about truancy
DAVAO City Councilor (and soon to be Vice Mayor) Mabel S. Acosta should have stood her ground on her "Anti-Truancy Ordinance." The fact that some non-government organizations (NGOs), human rights advocates (again?) and some guilt-burdened parents felt that the TRUANT brand will stick and might cause a stigma to their children only proved that even by the name alone the proposed ordinance is already effective.
Why should the parents worry if they dutifully look after their children? By the look of it, parents are more worried about the impact of the local law on themselves than their concern about their children's future. Although, I have not read the ordinance I surmised it will prove to be an effective tool to keep the children in school.
Have a visit at the hundreds of internet cafes and video games in Davao City and discover for yourself how many children are absenting from schools and cutting classes.
Next Safety Announces Stunning Advance in Nicotine Delivery
In a study of 30 test subjects, participants achieved much higher nicotine blood levels at faster rates than those possible from smoking cigarettes, without receiving any of the deadly carcinogens. Each subject inhaled less nicotine than typically inhaled from smoking one cigarette: with greater psychoactive effects. .
2006 pot bust got ball rolling
This area's first prescription drug sweep began with a marijuana bust in June 2006."I arrested a guy on marijuana and found out he was a big pill guy," said the lead investigator on the case, an undercover agent with the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Narcotics Task Force.He decided to begin investigating prescription drug trafficking, and he soon found out what the fellow meant by "big." Before long the agent had so many contacts in the pill world that "I couldn't keep up with the buys," he said. "If I dropped everything every time a buy came up, I wouldn't do anything else."Pill dealing varies a bit from other narcotics trafficking, he said. There's nothing to import, nothing to grow, and nothing to mix up in a personal lab. Instead, dealers get their pills in a variety of ways, including stealing from medicine cabinets, faking illnesses to get prescriptions, forging prescriptions, breaking into pharmacies, or selling their own legitimate prescriptions and then reporting them stolen to get refills.
Majority Of Seniors Now Have Drug Coverage, U-M Study Shows
More than 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older now have prescription drug coverage, compared to more than 75 percent who were covered in 2004, according to a University of Michigan analysis. And poor seniors are as likely to have coverage as the rich.
The analysis compares drug coverage among a nationally representative sample of 10,175 older Americans who were interviewed both in 2004 and in 2006, when the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit started. The report was presented in Washington, D.C.
The interviews are part of the on-going Health and Retirement Study, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR) and funded primarily by the National Institute on Aging,
"Despite widespread complaints that the Part D plan is complex and confusing, our findings suggest that older Americans have been able to make good choices," said U-M economist David Weir, who directs the ISR Health and Retirement Study.
Researchers: New understanding of autism is near
Attorney David Gould and his wife, Lauretta Murdock, the founder of a school in New Hyde Park, were not prepared for the phone call they recently received.
It was from a neighbor, someone they had never met. The caller was frightened. The Gould's 16-year-old son, Bryan, had casually entered the neighbor's house through an unlocked door, startling the home's occupants.
"We were so lucky. God were we lucky," said Gould, of Port Washington. Bryan was oblivious to the panic. At a time when home invasions are in the public consciousness - and homeowners might be armed - Gould feels fortunate his neighbors sensed something different about Bryan and were able to coax him to give them his home phone number.
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Gateway Regional Medical Center to go tobacco-free
In the wake of recent legislation that banned smoking in nearly all public indoor places, Gateway Regional Medical Center has announced its campus will go tobacco-free come November."We've been smoke-free on the inside for sometime," said Todd Hofmeister, director of business development and chair of the Tobacco Free Committee at GRMC. "And with several area hospitals going tobacco-free, we thought to ourselves we should do the same."Anderson Hospital in Maryville went tobacco-free last year, along with Alton Memorial Hospital, St. Anthony's Hospital in Alton, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville.The center will implement the tobacco ban, which includes smoking cigarettes and cigars, and chewing tobacco, on Nov. 15 of this year, coinciding with the Great American Smoke Out, an annual event when all smokers are encouraged to quit for a day.At that time, the two smoking shelters on the campus, located outside of the Emergency Room entrance and near the Behavioral Health Building, will be dismantled.
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