| 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.
Loan sharks preying on gamblers
The Salvation Army is calling for tougher measures to stop loan sharks preying on gamblers at casinos. Addiction Services manager, Lynette Hutson says people receiving treatment from the Salvation Army for problem gambling report being able to get loans on casino premises. She says loan sharks actively market themselves to vulnerable people and letting them into casinos is like letting a fox into a chicken coop. .
Culture Club: Lohan can rise above her rehab woes
Rehab for Hollywood's hottest celebrities is more like a stop at the Starbucks drive-through on the way to buy the latest Prada bag. That is especially true if that bag is big enough to store a weekend supply of cocaine and booze. Right, Lindsay? By now you've heard all about Lindsay Lohan's latest run-in with police officers, who apparently stopped the fresh-out-of-rehab pop star for what appeared to be drunken driving. Then they apparently found a little cocaine in her pocket. I'm sure she was just holding it for someone else, especially since her assistant had just severed ties and there was nobody else to keep it. These days rehab does seem like a joke, especially for the Hollywood elite. People like Lindsay, Nicole and Britney announce they are taking a step back from life to hit a Malibu treatment center to return a few weeks later in no better shape than before.
Gramercy Clinics, Leaders Reach Pact on Addicts
An agreement reached yesterday by local leaders and drug rehabilitation centers in Gramercy Park will put constraints on recovering heroin addicts who loiter or commit crimes in the neighborhood, the Manhattan district attorney's office said. The deal will require the neighborhood's four methadone clinics, which serve 1,950 patients, to refuse treatment to patients who are arrested once or caught loitering multiple times in the neighborhood, the program director from the district attorney's office, Leroy Frazier, said The clinics will work with the three police precincts that cover the area between East 14th and 28th streets to enforce the measure, the district attorney's office said. The president of the Flatiron/ 23rd Street Partnership, Jennifer Brown, who lobbied for the agreement, said some patients from the clinics come to the neighborhood and conduct illegal activities on a daily basis.
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