| Celebs aside, rehab can work
Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab. It's not surprising, really. How serious can one be about overcoming addiction when one jumps back into the Los Angeles party circuit wearing an ankle bracelet designed to measure one's blood-alcohol content days after checking out of a chic substance-abuse treatment center? Lohan faces new charges of misdemeanor drunken driving, felony cocaine possession and driving on a suspended license following an incident early Tuesday morning. She had been out of rehab less than two weeks. It is not unusual to relapse in substance abuse recovery, celebrity or no. Actor Daniel Baldwin, who allowed ABC News' "Primetime" to tape various stages of his three-month drug-treatment program in Malibu, Calif., reportedly tried nine other treatment centers in his battle with addiction.
NIDA's Scientific Journal To Become Journal Of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that it is changing the name of its scientific journal Science & Practice Perspectives to the Journal of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, beginning with the November issue. The new title is designed to better reflect the journal's commitment to covering the exchange of ideas among researchers, clinicians, and others in the field of addiction science. NIDA will also increase the number of issues per year from one to two in order to accommodate the sizeable portfolio of scientific literature being produced in the growing field of drug abuse and addiction research. This peer-reviewed NIDA publication is the most widely distributed journal on addiction science.
The Journal of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice will also be included in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) database, significantly expanding the reach and influence of its contributors' findings and insights.
(From the last 12 hours)
SACRAMENTO—The California Medical Board is abolishing a controversial diversion program that has allowed many drug- and alcohol-addicted doctors to continue practicing medicine while secretly undergoing rehabilitation. Five separate audits of the program have found dramatic gaps in its enforcement, including about one in four random drug tests that were not performed and tests that failed to catch ongoing drug use. The audits also criticized the use of "work site monitors"—fellow employees and sometimes subordinates who shadowed the doctors at work but sometimes lied to cover up the doctors' addiction problems. "Most of the public would be horrified to know that the medical board, whose job it is to protect patients, runs this program—which protects doctors who have substance abuse problems," said Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, author of a 2004 audit of the diversion program.
Cousins sorry generation spokesman
WHEN the AFL can take a breath it will consider the Ben Cousins affair and what damage it has done to football. Presently, something other than football always jumps up and demands the game's attentions. Not all of them have been critical, some trivial. The range has been broad. From rule changes to police tapes; from vilification of women to bared bums in nightclubs; from groundless drug claims to thoughtless retorts from a former footballer in the media; from coaches walking out to coaches being shown the door. Through all of this, Cousins' fight with drugs has been the constant. From the start of the season, it will be there at the end. There was his news conference in a white top with a neckline that plunged so deep it would have offended Pamela Anderson.
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