| Rehab Centers Take Issue with Media's Portrayal of Revolving Door Celebrities
Celebrities are doing it -- some successful, some not. Rehab success is due to attitude, programs offered and patience. The media make drug rehab appear to be unsuccessful as it relates to popular entertainment icons. This negatively effects the likelihood of potential patients entering into programs. North Palm Beach, Florida (PRWEB) October 22, 2007 -- The recent mischaracterization of Drug Rehab Centers as revolving door facilities prompts Florida treatment center CARE FLORIDA to distance itself from the rock-star agenda. Many recovery centers, when attended devotedly and vigilantly, can help with every kind of addiction problem out there. From drug and alcohol detox to help with gambling and eating disorders, these centers have programs to help with any addiction. However, the media make drug rehab appear to be unsuccessful as it relates to popular entertainment icons.
Fewer arrests at this year's FreakFest
Freakfest became Ticketfest and Arrestfest for fewer partiers this year than the past two years, according to statistics released today by the Madison Police Department. Friday and Saturday arrest and citation numbers show 181 people were arrested on a variety of charges, including three felonies and nine criminal misdemeanors. Police also handed out tickets for a total of 247 municipal ordinance violations. Some revelers were arrested for multiple violations. Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said 230 people were arrested in 2006 and 566 in 2005, the last year before police and city leaders fenced off State Street and charged admission for the Halloween event after partiers had gotten out of control in previous years. Only three arrested people were taken to the detoxification center this year, while 43 were jailed and 135 were arrested and released.
Health care-related risk
Breaking news! We are all getting older by the day. I know that the 60s are the new 50s, but chronologically you are what you are. If you restore a 1957 Chevy to showroom condition, it is still a 1957 Chevy. The U.S. life expectancy has risen to 77.6 years. Medical advances, better eating habits and more participation in exercise have all contributed to the upward trend. According to the 2004 Census, there are 36.3 million people over 65 in the United States, or 12% of the total population, up from 35 million in 2000. That figure is estimated to grow to 86.7 million by 2050. What does all this mean? It means that we will need to fix the Social Security mess, and it also means we will need more facilities that can accommodate the various levels of health care required by this growing number of seniors.
Brain-Circuitry Impairment May Underlie Difficulty In Modifying Drug-Taking Behavior
New measurements of brain activity in individuals addicted to cocaine confirm that addicted individuals have compromised sensitivity to monetary rewards.
"This altered sensitivity to reward may help explain why some drug-addicted individuals are unable to modify their drug-taking behavior, even in the face of well-understood negative consequences and/or positive incentives for behavioral change," said Rita Goldstein, who runs the neuropsychoimaging lab at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory where the work was done. Muhammad A. Parvaz, a Stony Brook University graduate student working with Goldstein, presented the findings at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego on November 7, 2007.
The researchers studied 18 current cocaine users and 18 age-matched control subjects.
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 .
Woman sentenced in fatal crash that killed mother and daughter
GRAHAM � For Karen L. Satterfield, the thought of celebrating Thanksgiving this year makes her shudder. The celebration she looked forward to with joy in the past is now a reminder of one of the most tragic chapters of her life. Satterfield, 49, lost both her mother and sister during a violent wreck the night of Nov. 22, 2006, the night before Thanksgiving. On Tuesday, almost a year after the accident, the woman responsible for their death, 43-year-old Amy Bullock Rudder, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony involuntary manslaughter in Alamance County Superior Court. �It has been a very hard year, incredibly hard,� Satterfield says. �We were very close. They were my best friends.� The last time Satterfield saw her sister Kennie Willoughby Frankle she was preparing food for their Thanksgiving dinner.
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