| Celebration to mark alcohol and drug addiction recovery
The 2007 Solano County Recovery Day Celebration will be held Saturday, Sept. 15 at City Park, Sacramento and Alabama streets in Vallejo. The celebration, to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., is part of a national initiative known as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, which is supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Recovery Month theme for this year is "Join the Voices for Recovery: Saving Lives, Saving Dollars." This year marks the 18th annual observance of Recovery Month, which celebrates people and their families in recovery from substance-use disorders and promotes the need for better awareness and financial access to treatment services. The value of providing access to treatment and Investing in treatment makes financial sense, and perhaps most importantly, helps people on a path of recovery, according to Recovery Month officials.
NY Seeks Smoking Ban at All Addiction Treatment Programs
Smoking would be banned at all addiction-treatment programs in New York State under proposed regulations from the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), the New York Times reported July 24. The agency is proposing that by next July all treatment programs will be smoke free -- the ban would apply to staff as well as patients -- and have initiated programs to help clients quit. Programs would have to offer nicotine-addiction treatment to all patients, and provide free services to those who don't have insurance. Those programs that fail to comply could lose their state certification. If the plan is implemented, New York would be the first state to require addiction patients to get stop-smoking services, and only the second (after New Jersey) to ban smoking at residential treatment programs.
Hospital announces new cancer care center
A local hospital will be able to offer cancer patients state-of-the-art care thanks to an unlikely partnership.When Anderson Hospital in Maryville opens its Comprehensive Cancer Care Center in September, cancer patients will have access to traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. But the center will also offer cutting-edge research and investigative therapies thanks to a partnership with Mary Crowley Cancer Research Centers.Based in Dallas, Mary Crowley is a national leader in cancer research. Mary Crowley focuses on non-toxic treatments, including gene-targeted therapies, cell-based therapies and vaccines, all of which do not harm patients' existing healthy tissue and system.The nearest Mary Crowley center is in Dayton, Ohio, and although nearby hospitals may provide cancer research or trials, Mary Crowley trials are highly innovated and unique.But with hundreds of hospitals from throughout the Midwest to choose from, why would Mary Crowley research come to Maryville? Edwardsville residents Allen and Linda Cassens are to thank.
Online gambling proponents want age verification software
Supporters say age verification through third-party databases could prevent underage gambling. Internet gambling advocates want the United States to follow a European model by allowing online gambling and using government information to verify that users meet age requirements. The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative announced Tuesday that it will push for age-verification technologies while promoting regulated online gambling. The group is battling to legalise online gambling in the Unites States and overturn the current ban on the practice. It supports US Rep. Barney Frank's Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act. The Massachusetts Democrat and his supporters argue that legalised gambling is easier to control than illegal gambling and therefore would be a better route for protecting Americans from underage gambling, addiction, and fraud.
Amy Winehouse: They Got Her To Go To Rehab
Amy Winehouse, the breakout singer who warbles about not going to rehab, apparently is now where she vowed in song she would not go, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mirror.The paper reports that Winehouse, and newlywed husband Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, agreed to go to rehab when their respective fathers nearly came to blows over their children's drug use.The paper says Winehouse, 23, admits to cocaine and heroin addiction. Apparently they smoke both drugs, according to the paper (quoting a friend of the couple's) but deny injecting either. Winehouse was recently sent to the hospital for exhaustion, but one report suggests she was really strung out from a combination of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, booze and the horse tranquilizer ketamine.The soulful Winehouse, who has taken the music world by storm, harkens back to a 60s-style singer reminiscent of Shirley Bassey.The couple are allegedly seeking treatment in the U.S.
Wacky day at the rodeo
CYPREMORT POINT - Boats dropped out like flies on a day of attrition late Friday and Saturday during the 54th annual Iberia Rod & Gun Club Saltwater Fishing Rodeo due to outboard motor trouble or Mother Nature.The majority of the boats and people probably could have handled the rain Friday. But it was a no-go with the high winds that whipped waves as high as 6 feet both days.The three-day fishing rodeo, which still boasts a large field of boats, mostly in the Inside Division, limps to a conclusion today. The scales close at 1 p.m. What a wacky second day of events that unfolded Saturday, some carrying over from the first day. Fishing aficionados could appreciate it. To wit: An Offshore Division boat made it out, far out, but got roughed up so bad it had to turn around. Sideline, a 28-foot custom-built aluminum hull skippered by Happy Buteaux and Nick Buteaux, both of Jeanerette, couldn't target red snapper, lemonfish and king mackerel as it wanted to do on the return trip from Green Canyon 52.The Buteauxs and C.J.
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