Monday, April 18, 2005

Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehab News

REHAB RIPE FOR REALITY TV (Monterey County Herald)

It's creepy -- and compelling -- to watch clean-cut Josh, a 20-year-old expectant father, talk about death as he shoots heroin into his foot after a month in rehab.

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Notes: Another rehab start for Escobar (MLB.com)

OAKLAND -- Kelvim Escobar will make one more rehab start, manager Mike Scioscia said Saturday.

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Notes: Berkman eyes rehab return (MLB.com)

CINCINNATI -- The Houston Astros, coming off a seven-day, six-game road trip, will be home for only four days before they leave again for another two-city trek to St. Louis and Pittsburgh.

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Firefighter Injured In Jump From Burning Building To Leave Rehab (NY1 News)

A Bronx firefighter forced to jump out a four-story building in January is expected to leave a rehab center this weekend. The FDNY says firefighter Jeffrey Cool will be released from Helen Hayes Hospital in Rockland County Saturday.

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Rehab troupe encourages residents of nursing home (News Leader)

S omething's going on. The women at Birch Gardens nursing home got their hair done on Wednesday. By 6 o'clock the residents were wheeled or walked to the lobby where more than a dozen young men and women wearing red T-shirts, jean and sneakers stood in groups, giggling, talking about their day.

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Clear Channel venue rehab effort nearing $140 mil. mark (BizJournals)

Clear Channel Communications Inc. has agreed to invest some $35 million as part of an overall effort to convert a neglected 1920s-era Philadelphia theater into a showplace for Broadway plays, the ballet, concerts and other events.

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Huron House rehab program slated to move (Times Herald)

As work progresses on Acheson Ventures' Desmond Landing redevelopment project along the St. Clair River, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in downtown Port Huron can expect to get a new address.

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A lofty rehab plan boosts Downtown (Journal Times Online)

Making progress toward reviving Racine's Downtown sometimes seems like a two-steps forward, one-step back process, so we'll take the good news this week that the old Badger Uniforms complex is headed for rebirth as a 79-unit condominium/townhouse project.

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The junkies at Camp Recovery seem like the kids next door (San Francisco Chronicle)

Before wrapping up his new documentary feature, "Rehab," Oscar- winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki showed a rough cut to a class at UC Berkeley. "The students were really disappointed," says Okazaki. "They felt it was false because the addicts in it...

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Hendricks Begins Rehab After Mild Stroke (AP via Yahoo! News)

Orioles bullpen coach Elrod Hendricks is working to shake the effects of a mild stroke, and the chances for a complete recovery are favorable — thanks to some quick action by team trainer Richie Bancells.

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