Alaskan fatalities from alcohol-related diseases plunged when levy was raised
Chicago Tribune Nov 15, 08 3:52 AM CST
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Higher liquor taxes may reduce deaths related to alcohol consumption, the Chicago Tribune reports. A new study examined Alaska’s alcohol tax rates over a 30-year period in conjunction with deaths from alcohol-related diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver. When taxes were raised, such deaths decreased by as much as 29%.
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Californication star 'successfully completes treatment'
People Oct 7, 08 5:57 AM CDT
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Ex X-Files actor David Duchovny has checked out of rehab for sex addiction after "successfully completing treatment," said his attorney. The 48-year-old star of Californication is ready to begin work on a new movie, reports People . Duchovny has been married to actress Téa Leoni since 1997. They have two young children.
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Doc to the star directs substance facility
ABC News Aug 25, 08 9:56 AM CDT
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California officials are investigating three deaths and a rape at a Pasadena hospital that's home to a rehab facility run by physician-to-the-stars "Dr. Drew" Pinsky. The deaths occurred at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, where Pinsky is co-director of the chemical dependency program. Two of the patients died of drug overdoses in the substance abuse facility, the Los Angeles Times has reported.
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After another boozy weekend, singer enters facility near incarcerated husband
Sun (UK) Aug 20, 08 10:35 AM CDT
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Amy Winehouse has checked herself into another rehab clinic, this one just a quick drive from the English countryside prison where husband Blake Fielder-Civil is serving out the remainder of a 27-month sentence, the Sun reports. “If she can get clean and still see Blake it can only be good,” the 24-year-old singer’s dad said.
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3-hour stint related to parole violation following DUI arrest last year
Us Magazine Jul 19, 08 12:52 PM CDT
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Reality TV starlet Khloe Kardashian is free today after spending 173 minutes in a California jail for a parole violation, Us Weekly reports. For those keeping track, her stay was more than twice as long as Nicole Richie’s last year at the same detention facility.
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Rolling Stone seeks help after boozy jaunt to Ireland with teen waitress
Independent (UK) Jul 17, 08 5:24 AM CDT
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Rapidly aging rocker Ronnie Wood has checked back into rehab—his seventh time—for help with his drinking problem, the Independent reports. The 61-year-old Rolling Stone returned to the UK to straighten out, apparently in a bid to save his marriage. He had fled to Ireland with a 19-year-old Russian cocktail waitress. Woods had been drinking two bottles of vodka daily and his troubles were "all booze-connected," said a source.
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Not mental illness, and not drugs, silly tabloids
E! Online May 28, 08 10:37 AM CDT
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Contrary to reports of broken-hearted hard-partying, Kirsten Dunst went to rehab for a far simpler problem—a good old fashioned case of the blues, Marc Malkin writes for E! Online. "I didn’t go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse, I went there for depression," the Spider-Man star says.
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Aerosmith dude
checks into celeb
rehab center
E! Online May 22, 08 3:21 AM CDT
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has checked into a California rehab facility, E! Online reports. The singer is being treated for undisclosed substance abuse at the center where Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab was filmed. The dad of actress Liv Tyler had been clean for over 20 years since his wild '70s and '80s heyday, but he reportedly fell off the wagon during a rocky stretch in his relationship with gal pal Erin Bradley.
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Accidentally strangled trying to escape cuffs in Phoenix holding cell
CNN Mar 27, 08 5:14 AM CDT
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The family of a New York woman who died in a holding cell at a Phoenix airport is suing the police department and city for $8 million, CNN reports. Carol Gotbaum became agitated after missing a flight last September and cops put her alone in a cell where she accidentally strangled herself as she tried to escape her handcuffs. Gotbaum, the stepdaughter-in-law of a New York City official, had been traveling alone to Tucson to enter an alcohol rehabilitation center.
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Eating disorders increasingly blending with substance abuse, experts say
New York Times Mar 2, 08 11:57 AM CST
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Drunkorexia isn't an official medical term, reports the New York Times, but the disorder is on a growing list of afflictions that combine societal acceptance of substance abuse and pressure to be thin. Drunkorexics, who are typically college-age women, shun food to prevent weight gain and to offset the calories they consume in alcohol.
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Herbie Hancock in surprise win for best album
Los Angeles Times Feb 11, 08 4:18 AM CST
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Troubled Brit Amy Winehouse was the big winner at last night's Grammys, taking five awards for her album Rehab and beaming in to perform via satellite from Britain, where she's in rehab. The upset of the night was 67-year-old Herbie Hancock's win for best album.
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No, it's not the punch line of a joke about rehab and reality TV
Daily Mirror (UK) Feb 8, 08 4:10 PM CST
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If Amy Winehouse wanted peace and quiet after her rehab stint, she may have miscalculated. The troubled diva will move into a guest cottage at the Osbournes' mansion, home to the famously quirky Black Sabbath rocker and his reality-TV-star family, the Daily Mirror reports. Kelly Osbourne is well qualified to help her troubled friend, says a source: "She has been there before with her dad."
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Celebrity websites atwitter with rumors,
but facility denies it
E! Online Feb 7, 08 10:26 PM CST
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Rumors are swirling that another Hollywood A-lister has entered rehab, reports E! This time it's Kirsten Dunst, who reportedly is being treated at the famed Cirque Lodge in Utah. A spokesman for the facility denies that Dunst is there (or ever has been). However, People magazine quotes an unnamed friend as saying the Spider-Man actress is indeed there and "not doing well."
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Says she spends more time alone to avoid
bad influences
People Feb 4, 08 6:00 PM CST
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In her first interview since rehab, Lindsay Lohan called herself "a good person" who's trying to rid her life of nasty influences—but admitted she won't dis the club scene entirely, People reports. "There are friends that have been hard to hang out with because they've gone down a different path," she said. But she finds it hard because "I'm the kind of person who wants to trust everyone."
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Troubled pop singer checks herself in after damning footage released
E! Online Jan 24, 08 5:33 PM CST
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Though her hit song may deny it, Amy Winehouse is going to rehab, E! reports. The Grammy-nominated singer today checked herself into an undisclosed drug-treatment facility a day after police began investigating a video in which she inhales from a smoking glass pipe. No word yet whether Winehouse, 24, will still perform at the Grammys in Los Angeles next month.