| Youth drug center gets $100K
Steven Santilli had stolen his mother's jewelry and blazed through three high schools in four years, but his nadir as a drug addict was this: On his 19th birthday, he passed out in a friend's driveway after mixing alcohol and Ecstasy.
"Not that it was a wake-up call," he said. "I woke up and did drugs the next day."
Santilli, 20, is learning to vanquish addiction at the Phoenix Academy of Long Island, a long-term residential youth drug treatment center in East Hampton.
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Nicotinic receptors may be important targets for treatment of multiple addictions
For years, scientists have known that some people are biologically more susceptible to drug addiction than others, but they have only been able to speculate why. In the August 15, 2007 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of Chicago report on a study that may help answer this question. They discovered that rats most likely to self-administer addictive drugs had a particular receptor in the brain that is more responsive than the same receptor in rats least likely to self-administer addictive drugs. This receptor, known as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), increases excitability within in the brains reward centers. In the animals that were more likely to take addictive drugs, the effects of these receptors were much stronger, leading to more profound excitation of the cells and pathways associated with reward.
Web Site Offers the Recovery Rolodex, a Free Addiction-Recovery Resource Guide Full of Advice and Tips
AddictionRecoveryBasics.com announces the release of the Recovery Rolodex, a free 97-page collection of the best tips and articles about dealing with the challenges of addiction recovery. The Recovery Rolodex is available for download at www.AddictionRecoveryBasics.com. .
Innocent children struggle with the after-effects of mothers who drink
REGINA (CP) - Midori Harth knows she can be impulsive and easily taken advantage of by people with ill intentions. "Yeah, if I want to do something, I go and do it," she says with a teenaged smile, sitting in a coffee shop in a trendy Regina neighbourhood. The 19-year-old once found herself in trouble when a friend asked her to cash a bogus cheque at a bank machine and take out $200 before it bounced. She ended up having to pay the money back when the poorly planned scheme was quickly discovered. Then the same person, who couldn't get a cellphone because of her bad credit, got Harth to sign the contract and give her the phone, promising to pay her back by going on welfare. The company reluctantly took the phone back when Harth's mother found out and raised a fuss.
Lohan Family Has Problems East and West
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Ah, Long Island - land of Amy and Joey, birthplace of the bellicose Baldwin brothers, where Lizzie Grubman plowed her SUV through a nightclub parking lot and Billy Joel slammed three cars into assorted inanimate objects. Tabloid fodder, all - but with the Lohans of Merrick, the media mania is multiplied by three. Daughter Lindsay seems headed for her third rehab stint this year following a California arrest on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession. Back home, "momager" Dina and rehab-prone dad Michael shuttle between Long Island courthouses, trying to end their two-decade marriage as cameras flash and videotape rolls. Their last court appearance drew more than two dozen paparazzi, camera crews and reporters, all for a divorce case once thought settled two years ago.
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