| Pioneer in Treatment of Addictions Dies
Dr. Theodore Rust Clark, world-renowned for his work in the field of addictions, died Friday from complications of heart disease. Colleagues of Clark called him a "guru" who helped his patients through kindness, firmness and caring. "He was instrumental in the hospital's drug-rehab program," said Mary Silverman, director of the Department of Behavioral Services at FirstHealth Hospital. "Every-thing we are working on here is an offshoot of what he created all those years ago." Silverman and Connie Williams, both longtime colleagues and friends of Clark, said they spoke with Clark recently. .
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.
Courtney Love Poses Nude for Harpers Bazaar
Courtney Love has posed nude for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar with the caption "I'd rather go naked than wear fake Chanel". The pictures come at a time when industry observers have been critical of her sudden weight loss, pointing the finger at an eating disorder. Love claims her weight loss has come from diet and hard work. In the interview Love talks about fashion, weight loss and her upcoming album 'Nobody's Daughter'. She says her next album will be the first time she has ever written sober. The widow to Kurt Cobain has had a long history with drug abuse. Her addiction has been very public dating back to the early 90s when she first shot to fame both as wife of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and as lead singer for the band Hole. .
Health officials alarmed by spike in state's fatal prescription drug overdoses
Nearly every day, the state medical examiner performs an autopsy on at least one Utahn who died of a prescription-drug overdose.
Gripped by what Todd Grey says is a prescription-drug-overdose "epidemic," Utah now loses more people each year to lethal combinations of drugs - such as methadone, oxycodone and fentanyl - than it does to car crashes.
"The joke at our office now is, if there isn't at least one case of suspected drug OD [every day], people go, 'What's wrong? Who's pulling a trick on us?' '' he said.
Alarmed by an 859 percent spike in such overdose deaths since 1991, the Utah Department of Health announced Tuesday it has formed a partnership with several other state agencies to investigate, over the next two years, the state's consumption of painkillers and the underlying causes of the problem - and then formulate a prevention plan.
Quincy’s drug problem
Police seized this crack cocaine (foreground), approximatley 20 grams, on July 18 fron a Quincy residence. Also seized were crack cocaine pipes and an eyeglass case holding steel wool (commonly used to hold a rock of crack cocaine inside the end of a glass crack pipe) and marijuana roaches. .
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