| Dive into seafood at annual festival
READINGTON -- The 11th annual Anderson House Seafood Festival fundraiser will be held from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 11-12 at Deer Path Park on West Woodschurch Road. A donation of $5 per adult is suggested and children 12 and under are free. Last year's event raised over $45,000 to support the Anderson House residential treatment program for women recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction. The festival, held rain or shine, attracts more than 5,000 visitors from the tri-state area. Seafood lovers will enjoy lobsters and crab cakes provided by King's Supermarkets and a variety of entrees including fish and chips, fried and blackened shrimp, clams and scallop kabobs from Argyle Restaurant and Jonathan's Harbor. There will be plenty of choices for non-seafood lovers too.
Addiction Treatment Costs Shift Sharply to Taxpayers, Report Finds
A study funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that 77.4 percent of treatment in 2003 was paid for by Medicaid, Medicare, and other federal, state and local sources, up from 50.4 percent in 1986. Meanwhile, the private sector's share of the treatment cost burden slipped from 49.6 percent in 1986 to 22.6 percent in 2003. Private insurers, who paid 29.6 percent of treatment costs in 1986, were only paying 10.1 percent by 2003. Total dollars paid by private insurers for addiction treatment fell from $2.8 billion to $2.1 billion during the same time period. Fewer patients were paying for treatment out of their own pocket, as well: in 1986, 13.8 percent of treatment was self-paid, but that fell to 8 percent in 2003. The findings are in line with a 2004 study by Medstat that showed a decline in addiction benefits utilization among privately insured workers as well as falling treatment expenditures by insurers between 1992 and 2001, said Ronald J.
Proteolix starts clinical trial of multiple myeloma drug
Proteolix Inc. enrolled the first patient in a mid-stage clinical trial of its drug carfilzomib, intended as a treatment for multiple myeloma. The South San Francisco drug company is running the test with the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium at 10 centers associated with the consortium. Centers participating in the Phase II trial include Emory University, the Mayo Clinic, the University of Michigan and Washington University. Patients enrolled in the study will have relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma -- meaning their cancer has reappeared after they were treated with at least two other FDA-approved therapies and that their cancer is restant to treatment. .
D-Making of D-Mac
LITTLE ROCK -- A small, portable fan blows cold air through the cramped living room, providing a comfortable breeze as Mini Muhammad points to photographs of her 12 children."When I first had all those children -- those first six children -- we lived everywhere," Muhammad said, laughing.The framed pictures line two adjacent walls. Together, they resemble a long timeline that spans Muhammad's seven sons and five daughters, as well as a decade-long drug addiction that came to an end five years ago.One son, in particular, looks familiar.He is Muhammad's 10th child, the one whose big ears can be seen in a class picture from elementary school. But gradually he gets older in the progression of photographs and his face looks more defined in the family portraits that hang on the walls.His body also changes, from that of a wiry kid to the chiseled physique seen on nearly a dozen magazine covers this summer and in an autographed action shot hanging above one of his mother's living room sofas.
Court to sentence Doherty for drug possession
London, Aug. 7 (ANI): A court may sentence rock star Pete Doherty to imprisonment for possessing drugs at his next appearance before it. The vocalist for the band 'Babyshambles' pleaded guilty to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine as well as two driving charges on July 3, when he appears at West London Magistrates' Court. Judge Davinder Lachlar, who was presiding the hearing, deferred sentencing Doherty on the condition that he went into rehab to tackle his addiction, and did not commit any more offences before his case came up again. She, however, made it very clear that Doherty might go into custody if he failed to take up a place he had been offered on a detox programme. She also told the singer that she was considering all sentencing options, reports the Daily Express.
Smokeless Tobacco More Effective than Cigarettes for Delivering Dangerous Carcinogens into the Body
It may not be inhaled into the lungs, but smokeless tobacco exposes users to some of the same potent carcinogens as cigarettes. In the August issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, researchers at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center report that users of smokeless tobacco are exposed to higher amounts of tobacco-specific nitrosamines -- molecules that are known to be carcinogenic -- than smokers. .
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