| Helping Alcoholics Curb their Addictions
When it comes to breaking addictions, women may have a tougher time than men. Researchers are working on two new studies on treatments for alcoholism. For years, Jascia Redwine said, she had difficulty just getting through a day without giving in to a craving which would eventually lead to six to eight beers before bedtime. “Starting around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, my brain would be telling me, ‘You need to drink you need to drink.' That was all I could think about," she said. Now, since taking a medication called "Topamax" as part of a clinical trial, she has been sober for 24 months. “The craving just completely went away," she said. Addiction psychiatrists who were part of the national trial on Topamax said not everybody shared Redwine's success, so they are still looking for people to participate in follow up studies.
Help groups
ACES, the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, helps families trying to get their child support and offers support group meetings. Information/assistance, (800) 738-2237. Alcoholics Anonymous, 24-hour answering hot line, 525-5795. Biomedical Intervention for Autism in Springfield Support Group, meeting, 7-9 p.m. fourth Monday each month, 1112 Rickard Road. Discussion of Biomedical Interventions and DAN! Protocol for autism spectrum disorder, including but not limited to autism, Asperger syndrome, PDD-NOS and ADHD. Breast Cancer Support Group, social 6 p.m. today, Dublin Pub, 2513 S. MacArthur Blvd. For reservations or more information, call 757-7684. Caffeine Support Group and Sugar Busters, meeting, 7-8 p.m. Mondays, St. John's Hospital Prairie Heart Institute, Classroom 5P10, fifth floor clinic area.
Cousins in Sydney detox clinic
Ben Cousins checked into the exclusive Sydney clinic for 48 hours of drug rehabilitation as he passed through the city on his way home to Perth. The clinic's other celebrity clients have included late stockbroker Rene Rivkin, Antonia Kidman's ex-husband, Angus Hawley, and former Supreme Court judge Jeff Shaw. Experts said that while at the clinic near the beach at Bronte, Cousins, 29, would have counselling to work out factors contributing to his drug addiction. James Pitts, head of Odyssey House, Australia's largest drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, said the challenge would be when Cousins returned to Perth and his old haunts. A source close to Cousins claimed the footballer had intended to stay at the The Summit Medical Centre in Malibu - where he spent nearly a month earlier this year - for another three weeks, but was given the all-clear after two days.
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Queens of the Stone Age were ejected from their own show at a Californian rehab centre last week. The gig, a light-hearted breeze through six of the act's songs, immediately took something of a wrong-turn when Homme and co. opened their set with ‘Feel Good Hit of the Summer'. Security staff at the clinic were left unimpressed by the song's opening refrain of “nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol… c-c-c-c-c-cocaine". So, the band were promptly “manhandled" from the building, runs the NME.com report; presumably booted onto the streets of LA. The band are soon to head over for a UK tour - we've already published the dates here; but we may as well reiterate. With support coming from Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, QOTSA will play the following shows: November
23 Brighton Dome
24 Liverpool Academy
25 Nottingham Rock City
26 London Brixton Academy
28 Glasgow Academy
29 Newcastle Academy December
1 Bristol Academy
2 Manchester Apollo
3 Birmingham Academy
4 Reading Rivermead Click for tickets to Brixton, Birmingham and the February Hammersmith Apollo show that's a part of this 2008 tour.
QOTSA Kicked Out of Rehab
(antiMusic) If you are playing a rehab it may not be that great of an idea to kick off your set with a song that contains the lyrics "Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol... c-c-c-c-c-cocaine". But that's just what Queens of the Stone Age did last at an LA rehab. NME has the story: Queens Of The Stone Age were forcibly removed from a California rehab facility last week. Josh Homme's desert rockers' plan to perform a six-song show for in-patients at an unnamed Los Angeles drying out clinic came to an abrupt and chaotic end when the band were cut off before the end of the first song and manhandled out of the building by heavy security, NME.COM has learned. The rehab show was intended as a light-hearted, intimate performance in their home city of Los Angeles .
Health & support calendar
Southcoast Blood Bank: Off the main lobby in St. Luke's Hospital. Walk-ins accepted 8 a.m.4 p.m. Monday-Friday, until 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturdays. Donors should be in good health, at least 18 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, have not recently taken drugs or alcohol, and have doctor's permission if over 70 years of age. For an appointment, call (508) 961-5320 or visit www.southcoast.org/bloodbank/. 101 Page St., New Bedford. Acushnet Council on Aging: Offers a Daily Contact Plan as a preventive safety measure for local shut-ins and resident seniors. Also, free blood pressure clinic for Acushnet residents ages 65 and older, 9-10 a.m. Wednesdays. (508) 998-0280. South Main Street, Acushnet. HealthFirst Family Care Center: Financial counseling available from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tri-State native starts drug screening business in Alaska
Tongass Substance Screening (TSS), a new company in Keokuk, is the third branch owned by Renee Schofield, a native of the Tri-State Area.The home office is in Ketchikan, Alaska, surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, about 1,000 miles from Seattle in the southeast corner of the 49th state. The office in Keokuk at 629 Blondeau St., Suite 201, offers drug testing for employers or individuals and DNA testing. It employs three people, Karen Miller, Kelly Baum and Denise Protsman, sister of Schofield.After more training, by about the first of the year, TSS Keokuk will offer background screening and pulmonary function tests.“Eventually we will get into trauma and crime scene clean-up," said Baum, senior collection technician in Keokuk.TSS Keokuk will also offer classes in CPR, first aid, customer service, a Signs and Symptoms for Supervisors class (training work supervisors how to spot alcohol or drug abuse) and DER - Designated Employee Representative Training (to teach employees how to be the designated person in charge of drug screenings).Schofield was working in medical records at a clinic in Ketchikan when the former owner of Tongass Substance Screening at the clinic asked her to help him out, according to TSS Ketchikan office manager Ginny Clay.“The business kind of fell into her lap.
Mortality Gap Widens with Rheumatoid Arthritis, No Longevity Increase in Decades
Mayo Clinic study says action needed. Most senior citizens have rheumatoid or other forms of arthritis Oct. 29, 2007 � Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune inflammatory disease that takes a progressive toll on the heart, kidney and liver as well as the joints, is a diagnosis that carries a high risk of early death. This sobering fact is well known. Less is known about whether longevity has improved for RA patients over the past few decades of remarkable improvements in longevity in the general population. .
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