Exploiting addicts?

Published January 10, 2011

Exploiting addicts?
LOS ANGELES – Leif Garrett didn’t want to go to rehab – or at least not “Celebrity Rehab.” “I didn’t want to have a camera stuck in my face while I was trying to kick,” said Garrett, the 1970s teen idol once as famous for his singing and acting as his mane of blond hair. “I thought, ‘It’s nobody’s freaking business.’ But I finall
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Path to drug rehabilitation full of tensions, hope
LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan has been five times. Charlie Sheen is also a regular. Someone tried to make Amy Winehouse go, but she said, “No, no, no.” Rehab is practically a rite of passage in Hollywood, and Lohan is its latest poster child. Her trips to treatment and travails once there – including an alleged altercation with a worker at Betty Ford Center a few weeks ago – have been well …
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Nail and Hair Samples Show Alcohol Consumption Over Last 90 Days
United States Drug Testing Laboratories (USDTL) launched two new tests for monitoring long-term alcohol exposure on Friday. Using fingernail and hair specimens, the new assay is the first and only test to report a donor’s alcohol exposure for the past 90 days reliably.
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