Audit: LA County Failed To Properly Regulate Drug Treatment Clinics
Authorities have failed to properly regulate drug treatment centers in Los Angeles County that receive Medi-Cal funding, according to an audit released Friday by the county's auditor-controller, the Center for Investigative Reporting reports. Medi-Cal …
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Gallo Research Center issues grant to discover new medication to treat alcohol …
The UCSF-affiliated Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center has issued a second round of grants under its U.S. Army-funded research program intended to accelerate the discovery and development of new medications to treat alcohol and substance abuse …
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Center takes on substance abuse
WINNEBAGO – Substance abuse is a problem affecting increasingly younger children, says Naomi Ochsendorf, program director at the Adolescent Treatment Center in Winnebago. To help combat the trend, the center will observe Red Ribbon Week from Oct.
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Elliott Smith died on October 21, 2003 in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at age 34, from two stab wounds to the chest during an emotional fight with Jennifer Chiba. [16] According to her account, the two were arguing when she locked herself in the bathroom. Chiba heard him scream, and upon opening the door, saw Smith standing there with a steak knife in his chest. She pulled the knife out of him, after which Smith collapsed and she called 911. The time of death was listed at 12:18 PM. While originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in late December 2003 left the question of possible homicide open:
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide, and the location and direction of the stab wound is consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide. These include the absence of hesitation wounds, stabbing through clothing, and the presence of small incised wounds on the right arm and left hand (possible defensive wounds). Additionally, the girlfriend’s [Jennifer Chiba’s] reported removal of the knife and subsequent refusal to speak with detectives are all of concern.

According to the coroner’s report, the alleged suicide note, written on a Post-it, read, I’m so sorry – love, Elliot. God forgive me. The misspelling of “Elliott” was later acknowledged as a mistake on the part of the coroner. Robin Peringer, one of the singers few close friends towards the end of his life, says that Smith was a “cutter”, which would help explain the “possible defensive wounds.” Fritz Michaud, an engineer during the Basement sessions, claimed that “Elliott literally wouldn’t have been caught dead without his shirt on,” possibly explaining why the stab wounds penetrated his shirt (something extremely uncommonly seen in stabbing suicides).

His death has not been officially declared a suicide, and the investigation into his death continues, although almost no new information at all has publicly come to light since 2003.

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LA County audit finds failures in oversight of drug rehab clinics
Los Angeles County authorities have let problem drug rehabilitation providers run away with millions of dollars in public money and failed to follow through on threats to stop funding errant clinics, according to a new report by the county auditor …
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Maghaberry prison to get drug rehabilitation unit
Prisoners in Maghaberry jail are to have access to a drug rehabilitation unit that will provide intensive help for those with addiction problems. Prison Service officials said the specialist unit would be the first in the UK when it opens next year. Up …
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Colin Farrell Talks Drinking, Drugs and Rehab
Colin Farrell is once again opening up about his hard-partying past, but unlike other actors, the Irish stud admits his addiction started long before he began his career in Hollywood. The 37-year-old star revealed on The Late Late Show that his …
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Is There a Need for “Country Club” Rehabs?
A licensed UCLA MSW graduate and personal trainee of Dr. Patrick Carnes, he has developed clinical programs for The Ranch in Nunnelly, Tennessee, Promises Treatment Centers in Malibu, and The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles. Mr. Weiss has …
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Addictions Experts from Promises Treatment Centers and The Ranch Speak at …
The esteemed panel of speakers includes David Sack, MD, CEO of Elements Behavioral Health and Promises Treatment Centers, who will address “Of Meth & Men: Neurobiology of Impulse Control” on Friday, Oct. 4 from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m., and Karen Brownd, MA …
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Center Helps People with Addiction, Anxiety
Educated at Yeshiva University in New York City, Shari Corbitt is a licensed psychologist, and has been the clinical director of Sierra Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., and vice president of Promises Treatment Centers in Malibu. Corbitt is now focusing on her …
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Above It All Treatment Center Drug Rehab in California Extends Programs and …
Above It All Treatment Center – a drug and alcohol rehab center in the mountains above Los Angeles, CA – is continuing its drive towards excellence, quality treatment, and successful rehabilitation of patients by rolling-out a number of new features …
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Amid fraud allegations, rehab doctor OKs treatment without seeing patients
(CNN) — A Southern California doctor with a history of run-ins with regulators has approved treatment for more than 1,550 patients at publicly funded drug rehabilitation clinics now under investigation for fraud. Dr. Howard Oliver acknowledged that he …
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Slips on Drug Reform
California state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) wrote the bill in hopes to combat overcrowding in state prisons. The bill have placed more emphasis on drug treatment, probations, or community service as resolutions to the crime, as opposed to …
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Above It All Treatment Center Drug Rehab in California Extends Programs and …
Above It All Treatment Center – a drug and alcohol rehab center in the mountains above Los Angeles, CA – is continuing its drive towards excellence, quality treatment, and successful rehabilitation of patients by rolling-out a number of new features …
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Amid fraud allegations, rehab doctor OKs treatment without seeing patients
The Medical Board of California accused one rehab clinic doctor in Burbank of overprescribing drugs at his private practice, giving large amounts of Vicodin to a woman addicted to the popular painkiller. A South Los Angeles doctor, now in prison …
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