| Man shares burden for addicts
My name is Edward Fortson and my mission has been to assist people who need help to recover from drug addiction. In July of 2000 God burdened my heart to help establish a Christian Rehabilitation Center in Northeast Arkansas. I researched different organizations and toured a facilities in Tuscumbia, Ala. called Restoration Ranch. This center was a division of Mission Teens, Inc. which operated nine different centers across the country. At the time I believed that establishing a center was what I was being led to do. In December of that same year I started to actually work with the people who needed to go into the centers. I worked with a young woman in jail and helped her get into a center. I had a lot to learn and no clear guidance or handbook on how to do this. I have learned about centers, the jail systems, court systems and even the prison systems.
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LONDON: Days after she went into hiding following her latest DUI arrest, Lindsay Lohan has checked into a rehab centre in Utah.
This is the third time that beleaguered starlet has turned to a rehabilitation programme for alcohol and drug addiction.
Reports said that the Mean Girls star will be undergoing a one month intense programme at Cirque Lodge drug and alcohol rehab facility in Sundance, reports the Sun .
On August 3, Lohan was spotted heading for Kennedy airport with her younger sister Ali.
Her father Michael Lohan had confirmed that she was staying with her mum, grand mum and four siblings in Long Island.
Lohan, who has also been charged of possessing cocaine, is due to appear in court on August 24.
More teens raiding the medicine cabinet
U.S. drug czar John Walters was in town on Friday visiting Austin Recovery, a drug treatment center in Northeast Austin. Walters thanked Austin Recovery for standing on the frontlines in the war against drugs. He also spoke about one of the most dangerous emerging drugs among teenagers: the ones in your medicine cabinet. "They get into the medicine cabinet and take pills that are either no longer being used or are left around," John Walters of the National Drug Control Policy said. The government says prescription addiction is at an all-time high among teens. If the teens are lucky, they may wind up in treatment before the problem gets worse. .
Alcohol, Tobacco And Genetics
Alcohol and smoking can be harmful, if not deadly. While the desire for these substances can be due to environmental cues, genomic factors also play an important role. The etiology of these desires is multifactorial and a result of complex interactions with the environment.
Adoption and twin studies have shown that the use of these substances is likely to be inherited. Such studies have provided evidence that one's sex can influence the genetic factors for alcohol and tobacco use.
In an attempt to find the genomic determinants underlying alcohol and tobacco use, researchers examined 120 families (approximately 900 individuals). The researchers identified an area relating to alcohol and tobacco use on chromosome 1. They found another area relating to alcohol on chromosome 3.
Lindsay Lohan arrested for drunken driving, cocaine
Los Angeles - Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested early Tuesday in Santa Monica, California for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, US media reported. Lohan had completed treatment for alcohol addiction at a rehabilitation facility earlier this month and had been sporting a device to monitor her blood alcohol content. She was apprehended after reportedly chasing another car driven by the mother of her former personal assistant, E-online reported. In addition to recording an elevated blood alcohol level, police found a small amount of cocaine in Lohan's pockets. The 21-year-old posted 25,000 dollars bail and is to appear in court August 23. Lohan had been arrested in May for drunken driving before beginning six weeks in the Promises rehab facility.
Government Suing Strawberry
Darryl Strawberry is having more legal trouble.The government has filed a lawsuit against the troubled baseball star, seeking to collect nearly a half-million dollars in unpaid taxes.The complaint filed here Friday was years in the making. Strawberry was indicted in 1994 on federal tax evasion charges and pleaded guilty the following year.He was sentenced to six months home confinement and ordered to repay $350,000 in taxes.In all, with penalties and interest, the government said Strawberry owes $481,656.86 as of May 31.A Justice Department spokesman said he could not comment on why the lawsuit was being filed so long after Strawberry's indictment or whether the former baseball player had previously paid any of the back taxes he owed.No attorney was listed for Strawberry in court filings and calls to several lawyers who previously represented him were not returned.The IRS and federal prosecutors investigated Strawberry in 1994 for failing to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income from autographs and memorabilia.
Study: 1 In 12 Workers Using Illegal Drugs
One in 12 full-time workers in the United States acknowledges having used illegal drugs in the past month, the government reports. Most of those who report using illicit drugs are employed full-time, with the highest rates among restaurant workers, 17.4 percent, and construction workers, 15.1 percent, according to a federal study released on Monday. About 4 percent of teachers and social service workers reported using illegal drugs in the past month, which was among the lowest rates. The new study finds many substance abusers work in fields in which they have high potential to harm themselves and others, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. Among those surveyed, construction workers and miners were most likely to admit heavy alcohol use nearly two in 10 workers, adds Cordes. "Their decisions, their inaction, their mistakes could cost you money, could cost a life any number of things could happen if someone's impaired," said Elmore Briggs, clinical director of Kolmac Clinic.
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A former Pennsylvania prison inmate who had been arrested last September in Cocke County while in possession of firearms was sentenced on Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court to 156 months (13 years) in federal prison. An indictment returned last year by a federal grand jury here charged that Luis Francisco Sanchez Jr., 28, after having been previously convicted of a felony, "did knowingly possess ... a Daewoo, model K2, 5.56mm rifle; a Herbert Schmidt/EIG, model E-15, .22 caliber revolver; and a Fabrique Nationale pistol." Those firearms, according to a court document called an agreed factual basis, were found in Sanchez's possession last Sept. 10 by THP Trooper Kevin Kimbrough after a traffic stop of Sanchez's car for speeding. Trooper Kimbrough, who was recently named the THP's statewide "Trooper of the Year" for his participation in a federal-state investigation of official corruption and drug trafficking in Cocke County, had stopped Sanchez's car on Interstate 40 for speeding.
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