| Pete Doherty Uses Meditation To Kick Drugs
Troubled British rocker Pete Doherty is using meditation to kick his drug habit and help him focus on Babyshambles' current U.K. tour. The 28-year-old singer completed a six week stint in rehab this summer to treat his heroin addiction, and is now using martial arts to help cure his addictions. His band mate, drummer Adam Ficek, says, "You won't believe it but Pete is actually meditating next door, right now. I've got him into it. I do a lot of Tai Chi... Stranger things have happened in the world of Babyshambles." -More Pete Doherty News (This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network) .
New clinic in Toccoa serves those who abuse drugs
TOCCOA, Ga. To help those who are addicted to drugs, a doctor just has opened the first clinic of this type in Toccoa. Don Pittard said narcotic addiction is a chronic, relapsing, incurable medical disease of the brain. His goal is for the clinic is to help those who are addicted return to a normal lifestyle. "These people can't quit," Dr. Pittard said. If they could, there would not be a need for clinics to treat those addicted to narcotics, he said. History has shown that drug abuse has always been a problem in our country, he said, and it has become more prominent in today's society. "The incidents of drug abuse is progressing, and we have to do something about it," he said. Which is why he opened the Pittard Clinic at 1654 Falls Road. It's the first treatment center of its kind in northeast Georgia.
A Drug to End Drug Addiction
What if science made a pill to protect us from addiction keeping us from smoking cigarettes, getting fat or abusing drugs and alcohol? According to encouraging results from several lines of study, it seems that day may be closer than we thought. Researchers in labs around the world are now developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Within "one to 10 years, and closer to one year," says Dr. Frank Vocci, director of treatment research and development at the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), scientists may produce a vaccine against cocaine one of the more promising areas of research that can potentially help millions of addicts, two million in the U.S. alone. .
Consulting life's experiences: Drug rehabilitation counselor draws on ...
It is hard to find many individuals who will say their job saved their life, but Marvin Horn, drug rehabilitation counselor at Russellville's Freedom House, credits his workplace for just that.
A self-proclaimed alcoholic, Horn was not shy to tell The Courier how Freedom House not only helped him to beat his own addictions, but has also provided him with a fulfilling career.
Horn first entered treatment at Freedom House in January 1985 and has now been involved with the rehabilitation center for more than 20 years. At age 43, he enrolled at Arkansas Tech University, where he received a bachelor's degree in rehabilitation. Horn has also done some graduate work at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in rehabilitation science.
When asked to describe what he does at Freedom House, Horn quickly explained his job in one sentence.
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