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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.

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.

Drug abuse stabilises

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VIENNA. — Efforts to eradicate the world's drug problem are paying off as cultivation, production and abuse appear to have stabilised worldwide, the UN said in its 2007 World Drug Report published yesterday.

"Recent data show that the run-away train of drug addiction has slowed down," said the head of the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, in a statement published with the report.

"For almost all drugs — cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines — there are signs of overall stability, whether we speak of production, trafficking or consumption," he said, adding he hoped this trend would continue.

The area used for coca cultivation worldwide dropped by 29 percent between 2000 and 2006, and by 52 percent in Colombia alone.

'Primetime' goes to rehab with Baldwin

Daniel Baldwin opened up about his cocaine addiction in a series of confessional video diaries, taped at various stages of his treatment, that were to be shown Tuesday night on ABC News' "Primetime."

Baldwin, brother of actors William, Stephen and Alec Baldwin, allowed "Primetime" to chart his progress through a three-month drug treatment program at Renaissance Malibu, in Malibu, Calif. He taped more than 19 video entries for "Primetime."

"I've been very thorough in my recovery, and identified where I am powerless," the 46-year-old actor said. "And I'm truly powerless over cocaine. There's no question about that in my life." Last year, police said they found Baldwin and another man in a Santa Monica motel, along with cocaine and drug paraphernalia.

CLIA Waiver Submitted For Rapid HIV Test Employs StatSure's 'Barrel' Technology

StatSure Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SSUR - News) is pleased to announce that its patented, "barrel- test" format for the detection of antibodies to HIV-1/2 in human whole blood, serum, and plasma has completed the trials needed for a CLIA waiver application and that the results have been submitted to the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for their review. The Company believes the results of these trials were consistent or superior to those of other rapid point of care products that have received a CLIA waiver. The HIV 1/2 product is marketed and distributed worldwide by Inverness Medical Innovations (Amex: IMA) under its Clearview(R) brand as "Clearview COMPLETE HIV 1/2". If CLIA waiver were granted for this product, it would greatly expand the available market for this product in the U.S.

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LONDON: Days after she went into hiding following her latest DUI arrest, Lindsay Lohan has checked into a rehab centre in Utah.

This is the third time that beleaguered starlet has turned to a rehabilitation programme for alcohol and drug addiction.

Reports said that the Mean Girls star will be undergoing a one month intense programme at Cirque Lodge drug and alcohol rehab facility in Sundance, reports the Sun .

On August 3, Lohan was spotted heading for Kennedy airport with her younger sister Ali.

Her father Michael Lohan had confirmed that she was staying with her mum, grand mum and four siblings in Long Island.

Lohan, who has also been charged of possessing cocaine, is due to appear in court on August 24.