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After hitting rock bottom, Ryan Leaf is mounting a ...
Divorced, he spent time in rehab in British Columbia late ... And he wants to help others struggling with drug ... up to receive e-mail alerts on breaking news from The Vancouver ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

VIFF 2010: Canadian Images films announced
Three addicts in a rehab clinic come to discover that they ... B.C. Court of Appeal rules against use of a drug-detecting ... Site Map © 2010 Vancouver Free Press
Source: Georgia Straight

Lindsay Lohan admits flaws, says career is not over
Read Vancouver Sun for current health news.,Lindsay Lohan has ... released on Tuesday, but downplayed alcohol or drug ... she was addicted to alcohol and drugs, and went to rehab ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Secondary ticket sales for Aerosmith are showing signs of a decline
"Technically speaking, after the gig in Vancouver (on ... Tyler went into rehab to fight his addiction to ... the edge for most of its existence but survived drug ...
Source: Ticket News

Swimming laps up new funding
... medals the snow sports won at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver ... the same standard of support with coaching, massage, rehab ... month suspension for the use of a mislabelled asthma drug.
Source: The Australian

Government of Canada Helps Boost Biofuel Industry Quebec investment helping to position Canada ...
MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 09/14/10 -- Today, Canada strengthened its position as an up and coming clean energy superpower with a Government of Canada investment that will support the production of biodiesel ...
Source: PR Inside

After hitting rock bottom, Ryan Leaf is mounting a comeback ...
Divorced, he spent time in rehab in British Columbia late ... And he wants to help others struggling with drug ... up to receive e-mail alerts on breaking news from The Vancouver ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Lindsay Lohan tweets that she failed drug test
Read Vancouver Sun to get more information on lifestyles.,Actress Lindsay Lohan confirmed ... two weeks in jail in August, followed by 22 days of a three-month residential drug rehab ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Leading Addiction Treatment Center in Canada ...
The First Step Alcohol & Drug Rehab Treatment Center offers addiction treatment programs at exclusive facilities in Montreal, Vancouver, and the Caribbean. In ...
Source: YAHOO!

Reformed Hells Angel helps teens avoid gangs
VANCOUVER - Joe Calendino's two cellphones ring non-stop ... hearing the hard truth, the 44-year-old entered drug rehab ... we loved him all the time, even when he was on drugs.
Source: Calgary Herald

Prison watchdog warns of crowding, violence
And it's undermining the rehabilitation efforts," Sapers told a ... "Given the high rates of mental illness, drug addiction ... Edmonton; Halifax; Montréal; Ottawa; Toronto; Vancouver
Source: Metronews.ca

Celebrities, drugs, booze and dangerous liaisons
Vancouver Sun is your online source of news on ... on his life with the Stones and his drug use in his new autobiography 'Life.'
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Ont. rejects cellphone warning labels
$240K seized in Windsor drug bust A man and a woman face a string of charges after almost $240,000 worth of drugs were seized by ... to resign at a news conference in Vancouver on ...
Source: CBC Olympics

Sask. man's 2nd murder trial set
Walker believed the man had been supplying drugs to his ... on his decision to resign at a news conference in Vancouver ... where inmates wait years for access to rehabilitation programs.
Source: CBC Olympics

Demi Lovato Enters Treatment for 'Emotional and Physical Issues'
Read Vancouver Sun for current ... is not being treated for drug use, but a “physical altercation” with a female on her tour served as a catalyst for her entrance into rehab.
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Reformed Hells Angel helps teens avoid gangs
VANCOUVER - Joe Calendino's two cellphones ring non-stop as ... hearing the hard truth, the 44-year-old entered drug rehab ... him we loved him all the time, even when he was on drugs.
Source: Calgary Herald

Resto rehab: Marc Thuet stirs things up on Conviction Kitchen ...
Resto rehab: Marc Thuet stirs things up on Conviction ... Thuet run a restaurant staffed by ex-convicts in Vancouver for ... convicts, one of their kitchen workers overdosed on drugs ...
Source: Financial Post

Official: Charlie Sheen in psych care after woman calls police
Vancouver; Calgary; Edmonton; Toronto; Ottawa; Montréal; Halifax ... Half Men," has had past problems with alcohol and drugs ... jail time, instead sentenced to 30 days in a rehabilitation ...
Source: Metronews.ca

BUYINS.NET: CVG, AWR, XNPT, LGF, ALXA, CSCX ...
Astellas and GSK filed new drug applications for ... was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Vancouver ... heart rhythm, and ECG waveform data during rehabilitation ...
Source: TMCnet

Warrant Issued for Randy Quaid's Wife
PETA's Rehab Tab Offer to Lindsay Lohan. People for the ... the Quaids' arrest in September they fled to Vancouver and ... Ledger died in 2008 from an apparent drug overdose ...
Source: MyFox Philadelphia

Ex-pat criminals seek transfers
Vancouver lawyer John Conroy, who specializes in the ... behind the treaty is that it promotes inmate rehabilitation ... Lohan wants to open rehab clinic
Source: Regina Leader-Post

Lohan wants to open rehab clinic: Mother
Read Vancouver Sun to get current news on ... month back to the drug and alcohol rehab until January, after failing a random drug ... show on Monday that she hoped the rehabilitation ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

One Big Idea: Supervised drug use on the Downtown Eastside
Science fiction writer Spider Robinson suggests Vancouver make drugs available to anyone who wants them under controlled, safe conditions
Source: Globe and Mail

BUYINS.NET: CVG, AWR, XNPT, LGF, ALXA, CSCX Expected To Be Down ...
Astellas and GSK filed new drug applications for ... was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Vancouver ... heart rhythm, and ECG waveform data during rehabilitation ...
Source: TMCnet

On a rainy, dark night, bad luck ran a red light
Vancouver's food cart chefs. Why would a kudo-magnet chef quit a ... Her rehab will take three months. “I don’t know how ... Seven plead guilty to drug charges in Seattle; Carole James ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Hutchinson went from con to CEO
But behind the doors of his Vancouver home, alcoholism ... had turned to a life of crime — gangs, guns and drugs, he ... Preliminary inquiry runs over in jailhouse drug smuggling ...
Source: The Chronicle Herald

Jackie Kennedy film still a go
... Swedish directors Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein. Shooting begins in the spring in Vancouver ... Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide
Source: Toronto Sun

The Globe and Mail
Calgary; Halifax; Montreal; Toronto; Vancouver; More cities ... ages – either self-serving puffery or cautionary rehab ... dark forces in his life (“I have to admit that the drug ...
Source: Globe and Mail

B.C. woman found guilty of first-degree murder in husband’s ...
Ruby Ann Ruffolo, 54, of Saanich, B.C., on Vancouver Island ... Lovato 'doing well' in rehab 'Bruno' 'attack' case dropped ... stop car for speeding, find $180,000 in suspected drug ...
Source: Toronto Sun

BC cruise industry shows resiliency during 2010 season; growth ...
Drug Rehab - Drug rehab and drug rehabilitation resources and information provided for the public ... Port Metro Vancouver welcomed more than 575,000 passengers on 177 calls, 44 of ...
Source: Canada Free Press

CTF outraged over tax-cut flip-flop
Drug Rehab - Drug rehab and drug rehabilitation resources and information provided for the public ... planner and four years writing a daily financial markets column in the Vancouver ...
Source: Canada Free Press

Narconon Director Asks, "Could the 1996 Olympic Games Have ...
... deterrent, compared to the urgency of the craving for drugs. Only thorough, effective drug rehabilitation ... narconon, drug rehab, drug prevention, atlanta metropolitan; Read more ...
Source: 24-7PressRelease.com

Gates frustrated by plantar fascia injury
Vancouver; Calgary; Edmonton; Toronto; Ottawa; Montréal; Halifax ... you have that two-week rest and you still have to rehab ... Cholesterol drop with new drug
Source: Metronews.ca

Rebuilding bridges
... LaBrash is one of several men in a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation ... re learning to live without the crutch of drugs ... Now 35, he’s been in rehab at Vision Quest ...
Source: Abbotsford News

Worley wins by blink of an eye
Vancouver gold medallist Rebensburg was second, 0.01 seconds behind, while fellow-German ... Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide
Source: Toronto Sun

Leafs road show needs a boost
Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide ... Vancouver cop charged with assault; Meningitis scare in Hamilton; SUV hits, kills man then ...
Source: Toronto Sun

Fire rips through large, vacant building
Vancouver; Calgary; Edmonton; Toronto; Ottawa; Montréal; Halifax ... was the former home of the Halifax County Rehabilitation Centre. ... Hollywood plots get hooked on drugs
Source: Metronews.ca

Calendar of Events
Vancouver scoliosis support group, offering information and support for children ... Drug Rehab Resource, information and referral service for drug and alcohol addiction ...
Source: Burnaby Now

Lindsay Lohan intimates say she quit porn star role
Read Vancouver Sun to get current news on entertainment in ... probation for her August 2007 no-contest plea to drug ... and is continuing to focus on getting better in rehabilitation in ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Afghan-Canadian doctor opens Afghanistan’s first heart clinic
Vancouver Sun; Edmonton Journal; Calgary Herald; Regina Leader ... There is also a rehabilitation room with stationary bikes ... special reports about diseases, conditions, drugs ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Kucera not sure he will return this season
... his season and left him a spectator at the Vancouver Olympic Games. After a long, sometimes painful year of rehabilitation ... Hollywood plots get hooked on drugs
Source: Metronews.ca

Missing women probe spent $124 million bringing Pickton to justice
Lindsay Lohan Let Out of Rehab for a Turkey Binge ... dozens of women, many of them prostitutes from Vancouver ... 16,635 on Andy Bellwood for services including drug rehabilitation ...
Source: Dose.ca

Hyundai to donate 7 Tucson vehicles to support minor hockey
Drug Rehab - Drug rehab and drug rehabilitation resources and information provided for the public ... Vancouver (Dec 3-5) - Langley Event Centre; Edmonton (Dec 10-12) - West Edmonton ...
Source: Canada Free Press

Lindsay Lohan Let Out of Rehab for a Turkey Binge
... ca.,Linday Lohan was granted a 15-hour pass from rehab to ... Movie Review: Love & Other Drugs; Movie Review: Burlesque ... and is continuing to focus on getting better in rehabilitation in ...
Source: Dose.ca

Blues hit the road to take on Oilers
The Blues will also make a stop in Vancouver and are 4-7-2 as the guest. ... Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide
Source: Toronto Sun

Luongo blanks Blackhawks
Glass pounced on a loose puck outside the crease to put Vancouver on the board at the 11 ... Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide
Source: Toronto Sun

Salem: Sex, drugs and Dr. Drew
Dr. Drew's back with celeb rehab, but finds Canucks in ... “Lindsay is a straight-up drug addict. I look forward to a ... “For the past four months we've been on in Vancouver, Toronto ...
Source: Toronto Star

Moose ready for duel with Barons
... to the American Hockey League club on Thursday by the Vancouver ... “It’s been a long rehab and it’s good to be back ... Airport drug ring smashed: RCMP; 8. Jolie downplays film ...
Source: Winnipeg Sun

Universities launch Canada's first military-health ...
The Province (Vancouver) Vancouver Sun; Edmonton Journal ... of the Forces and a professor in the school of rehabilitation at ... 'Virtual' rehab on deck for wounded soldiers, others
Source: Calgary Herald

Return fires up Bolduc
But after two months of extensive rehab, the centre from ... the Manitoba Moose after he was re-assigned by the Vancouver ... Harper stands by our man in Afghanistan; Airport drug ring ...
Source: Winnipeg Sun

Toyota Canada Inc. reports November sales
Drug Rehab - Drug rehab and drug rehabilitation resources and information provided for the public ... TCI’s head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary ...
Source: Canada Free Press

Prosecution argues former Regina woman be given rare status of ...
Vancouver Sun; Edmonton Journal; Calgary ... self-harm, gang involvement and drug and alcohol abuse. She watched her parents shoot drugs ... be allowed to continue her rehabilitation ...
Source: Regina Leader-Post

Canadian-built Toyota Corolla delivers on 40-year legacy of proven ...
Drug Rehab - Drug rehab and drug rehabilitation resources and information provided for the public ... TCI’s head office is in Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Calgary ...
Source: Canada Free Press

Canadian and Israeli researchers team up to find new cures for ...
Vancouver Sun is your online source of news on Vancouver ... 'Virtual' rehab on deck for wounded soldiers, others ... Disgraced former VPD officer pleads guilty to drug ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Heil can’t wait to see light again
Kearney, who won gold to Heil's silver in Vancouver 2010, finished with 24.09 points to ... Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide
Source: Toronto Sun

Oilers are finding ways to win
"Everyone who's played against Vancouver here in the past knows what the rivalry is like ... Online High School; Wholesale Fashion; Drug Rehab Treatment Ontario; Golf Guide
Source: Toronto Sun

Lighter side with Cam Hutchinson
The team also said during his rehab he will definitely ... Vancouver doctor Jack Taunton named as chair for football's drug task force
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Miley Cyrus, a bong, and a birthday: She's smokin'
Vancouver Sun; Edmonton Journal; Calgary Herald; Regina Leader-Post ... According to a 2007 U.S. survey on drug use and health ... Examples included whether she might attend rehab, or be ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Sexomnia claim laughable: Crown
... sexual encounters, yet she flew into Calgary from Vancouver to ... Booth St. shooting death gallery; Cute panda rehab ... 29 charged in Ont. drug lab bust; Bernard Madoffs elder son ...
Source: Calgary Sun

'Baywatch' star wants oil tanker ban
... about the tankers that enter and exit the Port of Vancouver. ... Booth St. shooting death gallery; Cute panda rehab ... Pfizer recalls lung drug after two deaths; Rolaids recall ...
Source: Calgary Sun

Are you practicing safe storage?
Drug Rehab - Drug rehab and drug rehabilitation resources and information provided for the public ... Patrick is a Vancouver, BC based freelance tech writer who specializes in ...
Source: Canada Free Press

A danger to themselves and others
Vancouver Sun is your online source of news ... especially when it comes to drug and alcohol detoxication and rehabilitation. ... There need to be more detox and rehab ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

What’s behind Hollywood’s affliction addiction?
Calgary; Halifax; Montreal; Toronto; Vancouver; More cities ... Anne Hathaway, for her role in Love and Other Drugs as a ... hope for rehabilitation, (c) denial of rehabilitation, and (d ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Seeing ‘forest for the trees,’ opens door to new HIV treatments
Vancouver Island South ... with long-term HIV that had become resistant to drug ... able to locate the specific genes resistant to drugs.
Source: Abbotsford News

Hamilton sees another value in comeback
Hamilton was still suspended from baseball, had been estranged from his family and gone through at least eight stints in drug rehab by early 2006 when he ... the tattooed slugger was already caught up in the drugs that would contribute to being off the ...
Source: Metronews.ca

The Failure to tell Right from Wrong: The Possible Collapse of Western Civilization
I am convinced that Western liberal democratic civilization will fall, not because of conquest from outside it, but because its citizenry has ceased understanding right from wrong. Cultural and moral relativism, political correctness and moral equivalency ...
Source: Canada Free Press

A Motorcycle Helmet: Use It or Lose It?
They also reduce the need for ambulance service, hospitalization, intensive care, rehabilitation and long-term care that results from motorcycle crashes. Moreover, it points out that helmets do not increase the likelihood of other injures. While many ...
Source: 24-7PressRelease.com

Win Win: An above-average study of an average guy
Into town comes Leo’s grandson Kyle (Alex Shaffer), an apparently troubled teen with a mass of dyed blond hair, a back of freshly inked tattoos, and an addicted mother left behind in a rehab clinic ... at least until the drug-addled mom pops up with ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Sheen adds a Toronto show
Sheen — who was fired from his hit show Two and a Half Men after nine years earlier this month — is known for his fondness for prostitutes and drugs, failed rehab attempts and ... portion of the tour will wrap in Vancouver on May 2 with a final ...
Source: Toronto Sun

Lindsay Lohan opts to stand trial on theft charge
Lohan, 24, who has been in and out of rehab and jail for the past three years for drug and alcohol addiction, has said she is not guilty of walking out a Los Angeles store in January without paying for a $2,500 gold necklace. The "Mean Girls" actress was ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Taking nothing for granted
An injectable drug called Avonex — one of six ... suggested she not try anything — to injectable drugs, oral medications, and a trips to a spinal rehabilitation hospital. "Of all my treatments, the rehab hospital seemed most effective because I noticed ...
Source: Dose.ca

Lohan's dad arrested
Michael Lohan has had several run-ins with the law and spent time in prison. He is due to appear in the upcoming season of TV reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew getting treatment for anger management.
Source: The Vancouver Sun

More than just another funny face: Jackass star born with “hunger for attention”
That self abuse continued too, when the cameras weren’t rolling, party boy Steve-O becoming notorious for his drug and alcohol intake ... of his apartment building He eventually landed in rehab where, he says, “I wound up taking an honest look at ...
Source: Windsor Star

Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal decisions ‘patently unreasonable’: judge
VANCOUVER — A judge has overturned two decisions made by ... Instead, he received a $12,433 lump sum payment after rehab for his injuries, which included a protruded disc, causing chronic pain. The amount reflected a pension award equal to 2.5 per ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

10 highlights from the first 125 years
For years, the building stood abandoned in a neighbourhood plagued by poverty, homelessness and drug ... London Drugs. In addition to business acumen, the Louies are renowned for their extensive community involvement. It was the party that put Vancouver ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Our business: 10 significant people, enterprises or events
For years, the building stood abandoned amid a neighbourhood plagued by poverty, homelessness and drug ... of London Drugs. In addition to business acumen, the Louies are renowned for their extensive community involvement. Throughout most of Vancouver ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Toyota Canada Inc. reports March 2011 sales
In April, 38 new Scion Dealerships will open for business in urban centres across the country making Scion a true “coast-to-coast” brand and joining the 46 Dealerships already in operation in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Source: Canada Free Press

Seeing another side of Dr. Drew Pinsky
He is a familiar media presence with the success of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab." Yet the VH1 hit has effectively pigeonholed ... he would have trauma survivors on the show when an earthquake hits; or a recovering drug abuser when a celebrity such as Charlie ...
Source: Metronews.ca

Time to leave the psychiatric Dark Ages
Any intelligent person should know after a very quick Internet search that the purpose of psychiatric drugs is to change the chemical ... crowding and lack of any decent programming for offender rehabilitation, psychiatric or otherwise, and you have ...
Source: St. John's Telegram

TELUS extending support of Japanese relief efforts
VANCOUVER, March 30 /CNW/ - TELUS is extending its support of relief efforts in Japan to the end of April. Through to April 30, TELUS consumer customers can continue to make free long distance calls to Japan on their wireless devices and home phones ...
Source: Canada Free Press

Lindsay Lohan avoids criminal charge in Betty Ford quarrel
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors Tuesday decided against filing a battery charge against Lindsay Lohan that might have sent the troubled actress to jail over a confrontation at California’s Betty Ford Center rehab clinic ... a random drug test required ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Britney Spears bounces back with new album (video)
There is little doubt her fans will ensure brisk sales -- Spears has sold nearly 70 million albums, according to label Jive Record -- and her music is making headlines again instead of personal meltdowns, a custody battle and rehab stints. Spears kicked ...
Source: Windsor Star

McDonald's murderer granted day parole
He cannot associate with anyone with a criminal record and must abstain from drugs. The board said that prior to the ... of this form of release will allow him to gradually continue his rehabilitation, the board said. Muise could receive full parole ...
Source: Cape Breton

Stoned drivers a growing concern
We need to have rehabilitation programs,” Beirness stressed. “We need to have a comprehensive strategy to deal with the drugs-and-driving problem ... for driver interviews last spring: 569 in Vancouver, 708 in Saanich, 528 in Abbotsford, 500 ...
Source: Fort Francis Times

Keith Urban says love got him sober
The country singer -- who has two daughters, Sunday Rose, two, and three-month-old Faith, with the actress -- checked into a clinic to be treated for drug and alcohol abuse ... he was terrified his stint in rehab would destroy his marriage to Nicole ...
Source: CTV

Jury prospects asked if they are Michael Jackson fans
The lawyers also wanted to know if they had friends or family members who were ever addicted to prescription drugs, and if they themselves had been in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. In addition, prospects had to disclose if they were ever ...
Source: CTV

Sheen’s kindness saves charity prize
Sheen was recently fired from the hit CBS show, which is on hiatus. Sheen’s dismissal followed a year in and out of drug rehab, and an excessively documented implosion into spectacular madness which, among many other things, included rants against the ...
Source: Metronews.ca

Layton still supports injection site
The Conservatives want to put an end to Insite, a medical facility where chronic drug users can safely shoot up and stay clear of criminal charges. It first legal safe injection site in North America and operates in Vancouver's Downtown East Side.
Source: Amherstburg Echo

Ainge tackling life as recovering addict
In his piece, Ainge detailed his struggle with drugs and alcohol since he was 12 ... "I'm a literally crazy, tatted-up drug addict," said Erik Ainge, who hasn't trimmed his hair since rehab; his once close-shaved head covered by neck-length locks.
Source: Metronews.ca

Gary Hyland, Sask. poet and arts activist, dies at 70
His funeral will be held Friday in Moose Jaw, where Hyland made his home until the illness forced his move to Regina's Wascana Rehabilitation Centre last year. Barclay said Hyland's love of Saskatchewan, its people and of his wife Sharon and their two sons ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Decision in Alberta on animal rehab called “backwards”
The recent decision by the Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) to ban certain animals from rehabilitation shelters is a “backwards way of thinking,” according to Angelika Langen, who operates the Northern Lights Wildlife Society. According ...
Source: Abbotsford News

Flyers forward Scott Hartnell among NHLers growing beard for charity
She did it and I've never seen anyone work as hard as her and put as much dedication in her rehab." The stroke came without warning ... Boston's Patrice Bergeron, Detroit's Daniel Cleary, Vancouver's Dan Hamhuis and Tampa's Martin St. Louis are among ...
Source: Brandon Sun

Five drinks a day? No big deal, U.S. teens say
"You're seeing this weakness in this generation of teens' attitudes around drug and alcohol use," says Steve ... That led to cocaine and other drugs and eventually landed him in rehab for several stays. Now 22 and in college, Aguero says he's been sober ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Sheen stages comeback Couric eyes talk show
The new style kept Sheen from going on boring, meandering rants about his recent life of personal and career turmoil and kept him on target with his off-the-cuff, telling comments on Hollywood stardom, past drug use ... final stop in Vancouver on May ...
Source: Canada East

'All-candidates' forum proceeds in Courtenay with three of six hopefuls
Despite the absence of Vancouver ... that focus on rehabilitation and gradual re-integration into society. It also advocates a toughened stance on organized crime, added Moen, who suggests tax dollars from the legalization of soft drugs could be spent ...
Source: Abbotsford News

Salem: Been there, Sheen that
A couple of years and one rehab stint later, he also supposedly emerged a changed ... be joining the Sheen tour in Vancouver as an opening act. Too bad. That’s actually kind of brilliant. Sick, but brilliant. But still not worth your hard-earned 100 ...
Source: Toronto Star

Newer oral contraceptive as safe for gall bladder as older birth-control pills: UBC-VCH research
All oral contraceptive drugs carry a ... Evaluation at Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and an assistant professor in the Dept. of Medicine at UBC. "This study should give women some reassurance that the drug is as safe as other contraceptives ...
Source: EurekAlert

CDRD-BC Cancer Agency Collaboration Leads to Licensing of Cancer-Fighting Drug Irinophore C
VANCOUVER ... Drug Research and Development (CDRD) and the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) announced that Champions Oncology, Inc., a public US company engaged in the development of advanced technology solutions to personalize the development and use of oncology ...
Source: Newsblaze.com

After a life of misery, redemption: Dying man makes amends
VANCOUVER - Patrick Terence Barker weighed just 68 pounds when ... He loved to smoke, drink and do drugs. Pat lived two years longer than the most optimistic doctor had predicted back at Christmas 2008. And what is surprising is that he died the way ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Repeaters: Clever concept, but light on the thrills
Repeaters , a small but interesting thriller from Vancouver director Carl Bessai with a script ... are three young addicts in a grim drug-rehab facility in Mission, B.C. Given their first day pass, they attempt, on the advice of their counsellor, to ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Deborah Meredith: Conservatives making a difference on human trafficking
I am the Conservative candidate for Vancouver Quadra, and ran for the first time ever ... One person can make $250,000 per year from marketing one girl—so much safer than trafficking in drugs. In January the Quadra Conservatives sponsored a community ...
Source: Georgia Straight

Repeaters aims to break cycle
We’re still waiting for the breakout audience hit from Vancouver. Opening next Friday is the thriller Repeaters, the latest from the prolific Bessai (Normal, Fathers&Sons). It’s a conscious swing for the genre fence, about three young drug rehab ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Loughner case hinges on uncertain science
21 date in a Phoenix federal courthouse to determine whether he has recovered or is making enough progress to continue the rehabilitation. Physicians will seek to administer drugs such as Abilify ... Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C. "One concern ...
Source: Seattle Times

Amy Winehouse back in rehab
“They’re trying to make me go to rehab and I said…” Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has once again checked into a rehabilitation center ... According to The Vancouver Sun , she wants to make sure she’s ready for this summer, when she will perform ...
Source: The Celebrity Cafe.com

Is CBC's Jim Hughson a Canucks’ homer?
“Take that, Ben Eager,” CBC play-by-play announcer Jim Hughson exclaimed as the San Jose forward’s penalties sabotaged the Sharks in Game 2 of the NHL Western Conference final against Vancouver ... talked openly of drug use in the NHL.
Source: Globe and Mail

Wednesday’s Morning Mashup: Lenny Dykstra tries to spring Dwight Gooden from ‘Celebrity Rehab’
Dwight Gooden said that during a recent taping of the reality TV show “Celebrity Rehab,” former Mets teammate Lenny Dykstra ... 3 — Stanley Cup finals appearances in Vancouver history, with the Canucks earning the third berth Tuesday after a double ...
Source: WEEI

Transplant gives Fargo native, UND med student new outlook on being a doctor
Carlson spent the next 12 days hospitalized in recovery, taking immunosuppressant drugs so her body wouldn’t reject the foreign heart. She moved March 13 to Gift of Life Transplant House in Rochester, where she’s staying during rehab. Three to five ...
Source: Grand Forks Herald

3 posts categorized "2000 Sydney Olympics"
But its Vancouver ... of drugs over several years, but that testimony never will be used against her (or found false) in court. The judge who sentenced Jones in January, 2008 said he did not believe she was telling the whole truth about her drug use ...
Source: Chicago Tribune (blog)

Harm Reduction: Keeping Them Alive for the Miracle
Some of the harm reduction resources which can help people survive their addictions until they recover include the following: SAFE INJECTION FACILITIES Insite, located in Vancouver ... Moreover, drug users who use Insite to inject drugs are 70% less ...
Source: Associated Content

Grease star Jeff Conway dead from drug overdose
VANCOUVER — Jeff Conway ... saying he fell into a coma after a drug overdose. He admitted to being addicted to cocaine, alcohol and painkillers in 2008 on the TV show, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
Source: The Vancouver Sun

OSCE, Asian partners to cooperate to strengthen transnational security
He said the OSCE can help combat organized crime, terrorism, humanbeing trafficking, illicit trafficking in drugs, corruption and money laundry. The OSCE is a pan-security body whose 56 participating states span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
Source: Xinhua News Agency

The real crime would be shutting Insite down
There’s an epidemic of drug addiction in Vancouver. Thousands of addicts have gravitated to the Downtown Eastside where the weather is mild and the drugs are plentiful ... dead people are difficult to get into rehab. There’s no talking to dead people.
Source: Metronews.ca

Lindsay Lohan’s monitor goes haywire
The U2 frontman and his assistant were walking in West Vancouver, British Columbia ... Amy Winehouse is all better now. A week in rehab is all it took and now she's "raring to go," said her spokesman Chris Goodman. If you believe that, there's this ...
Source: msnbc.com

Help isn't there, say harm reduction advocates
"I support the idea of Insite [Vancouver's safe ... within the residential rehabilitation sector [in excess of 25 per cent a year]," he writes in his book, Controversies in Drugs Policies and Practise. "Are we providing drug treatment services in order ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Prime Suspect, Real Housewives come to Shaw TV
Real Housewives Vancouver is planned for the Slice specialty network, bringing the plastic surgery and over-the-top dilemmas of a bevy of West Coast beauties. Slice also will create Intervention Canada , a new version of the drug and alcohol rehab reality show
Source: CBC Olympics

Freestyle ski champion Del Bosco returns to competitive cycling
Racing on behalf of North Vancouver-based Cove Bikes ... t put down the bottle or say no to the drugs. A 10-day stint in jail proved the inspiration Del Bosco needed to get help and check himself into rehab. After a few slips along the way, Del Bosco ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Learn who wins 'Next Superstar' tonight
He's married, has two kids, has been through alcohol-and-drug rehab. And he's got a shot at winning the first ... First, game five of the best-of-seven series returns to Vancouver; that's where the Canucks swept the first two games with the Boston Bruins.
Source: Reno Gazette

Students learn lesson on the street
a peer-mentoring drug awareness program run by volunteer police officers with the Vancouver Police Department. The intent of the program is for teens to see first hand the effects of drugs, and to relay that information back to their peers. According to Const.
Source: Abbotsford News

International Capsules: NBC locks up U.S. Olympic TV rights through 2020
Doubts were also raised whether Comcast would put up big money after NBC lost more than $200 million on the 2010 Vancouver Games and projections ... But Hamm has been diligent in his rehab and quickly regained most of his strength. He is able to do giants ...
Source: Brownsville Herald

Narconon Exposes A Solution To Oxycontin Addiction With New Video
On March 25, 2011, Abbotsford police, near Vancouver BC, responded to yet ... and as Quality Supervisor for the detoxification and rehabilitation services. Narconon is a network of independent drug rehab centers that has been providing drug-free and ...
Source: OfficialWire

On the health-care horizon
Integrated care will become key, creating a need for new disciplines such as geriatric rehabilitation aides with skill sets ... One example, Angus says, is Vancouver General Hospital, which deals with a large Asian population and is combining Eastern ...
Source: Metronews.ca

Homeless World Cup tournament more than a series of games
They either have to be homeless (under their country's definition of homeless) for a year; an asylum seeker; attending a substance rehabilitation program ... as something that needs to end in Vancouver, raising awareness through sport is great," Robertson ...
Source: Georgia Straight

Vancouver's Insite drug injection clinic will stay open
In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that not allowing the clinic to operate under an exemption from drug ... rehabilitation. The clinic does not supply any drugs. Insite has supervised more than one million injections, according to the Vancouver ...
Source: CBC Olympics

Harper gets tougher on pot growers than child rapists
Harper's U.S.-style war on drugs ignores our southern neighbour's expensive failed ... That's just not true." Ethan Baron is a Vancouver Province columnist.
Source: Winnipeg Free Press

Update on the latest in sports:
The final NHL game tonight has the Vancouver Canucks hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins ... The team had been hopeful he'd return after the bye week, but he had a setback in his rehab. BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) Hank Williams Jr. and ESPN each are ...
Source: KGUN 9

Insite wins fight to stay open
Vancouver ... drug prohibition." Insite, which opened in September 2003, provides sanitary conditions for addicts while they inject drugs, medical supervision to help monitor for overdoses, clean needles and counselling for those seeking rehabilitation.
Source: Calgary Herald

'I live this life in pain'
Sometimes, when the pain drugs don't reach her, Lous Heshusius lies on the floor ... The chronic pain clinic at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital has a 3 1/2-year wait list of about 1,300 patients. In Calgary and Ottawa, the wait time to see a pain doctor ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Tories picking on pot
Harper's U.S.-style war on drugs ignores our southern neighbour's expensive failed ... Ethan Baron writes for the Vancouver Province.
Source: Windsor Star

Quebec opens door to setting up safe-injection sites
What we do know is that it will not be one big single clinic like Insite (in Vancouver ... Mr. Mary said opening drug-injection sites in Montreal will mean addicts would receive injections safely instead of taking drugs in back alleys, public spaces ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Favorite people: Lindsay Lohan back in court, with prosecutors seeking jail time
At the same time, the probation department says she's in compliance regarding community service and her father says she needs to go to rehab for a year ... got into a fistfight outside a bar in Vancouver (the one in Canada), according to ...
Source: Oregonian

Narconon Drug Rehab – Public Safety
“The Narconon detox and rehab program offers the most effective medical and holistic detox and rehab process in Canada.” - June 7, 2011 – Narconon Canada Website: 2003 – 2011 Narconon Vancouver Society. “…study was done by L. Ron Hubbard on the ...
Source: Examiner

Ryan Leaf writes book
He spent 3½ months in drug rehab in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is off the painkillers now, he said. He plans to start a foundation to raise money to treat and prevent addiction. In June, Leaf had surgery to remove a benign tumor from his brain stem.
Source: Montana Standard

In Our View: Cheers & Jeers
Cheers: To many small, good things happening in Downtown Vancouver. Mayor Tim Leavitt saw several ... Just down the street, the Kiggins Theater has reopened after a much-needed rehabilitation. On Washington Street, the old Koplan’s Furniture ...
Source: Columbian

How to Survive “GRAVE ENCOUNTERS”
It was a huge set on a mountaintop in Vancouver. We went up there ... I don’t know too much about the project, but I believe it’s about a drug rehab clinic and pertains to vampires as well. So I might be playing some kind of orderly within the facility ...
Source: FANGORIA

Former Washington State QB Ryan Leaf writes about Rose Bowl season
He spent 3½ months in drug rehab in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is off the painkillers now, he said. He plans to start a foundation to raise money to treat and prevent addiction. In June, Leaf had surgery to remove a benign tumor from his ...
Source: Sporting News

Canada Mandatory Minimum Crime Bill Set to Pass [FEATURE]
rehabilitation and reintegration to one that puts vengeance first." "The Conservatives are completely divorced from the reality of what's going on," said NDP Deputy Leader Libby Davies (Vancouver East) during a 10-minute House of Commons speech ...
Source: Drug War Chronicle

Ryan Leaf writes book about Washington State years
He spent 3½ months in drug rehab in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is off the painkillers now, he said. He plans to start a foundation to raise money to treat and prevent addiction. In June, Leaf had surgery to remove a benign tumor from his ...
Source: Oregonian

Insite supporters celebrate top court’s ruling to keep it open
Vancouver ... drug prohibition.” Insite, which opened in September 2003, provides sanitary conditions for addicts while they inject drugs, medical supervision to help monitor for overdoses, clean needles and counselling for those seeking rehabilitation.
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Pills a potent problem
2,500: The number of U.S. teenagers every day who use prescription drugs to get high for the first time. 2006: Since then, deaths in Washington from unintentional drug overdoses ... Jim Moeller, D-Vancouver, who has worked as an addiction ...
Source: Columbian

Fantastic Voyage redux: Medicine’s future is smarter implants
Along with two vascular surgeons from Vancouver General Hospital ... Dr. Takahata is also working on a wireless implantable drug-delivery device. Controlled by radio-frequency power, the micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) implant is just 1 centimetre ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Arden mixes laughs with heartbreak
Then there were the drug and alcohol struggles of older brother Duray ... At age 20, Arden was viciously assaulted physically while busking in Vancouver's Gaston area, which steered her away from busking for good. What turned her life around was a fateful ...
Source: Jam! Showbiz

Get ready to vote: District of North Vancouver
The 30-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department drew on his experiences in the city’s Downtown Eastside to build his platform for the district: more police accountability, more detox and rehab for drug addicts and better community planning.
Source: North Shore Outlook

Washington State Proposing Legal Marijuana, with Conditions
Don’t forget the mandatory drug rehab you’ll have to attend ... Let’s just say I’d look forward to crossing the river into Vancouver a bit more if it passes, but only if someone else drives. Washingtonians, you do have another choice with Yes ...
Source: Opposing Views

Swimming Cool in Chinatown
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Vancouver's Chinatown is next to the Downtown Eastside, an area that struggles with poverty, drugs and prostitution. But it's also increasingly coveted for its history and edgy charm. The Keefer, a bar on the ground floor of ...
Source: Wall Street Journal

Cleveland couple accused of giving away toddler
CLEVELAND - Police say a Cleveland couple tried to give their 2-year-old daughter to a neighbour, telling him they were going to drug rehabilitation. Officers say they received an anonymous tip Thursday that Gavin Aldridge and Courtney Followay had given ...
Source: Metronews.ca

'There was a monster out there': witness tells inquiry
VANCOUVER — Sex workers were vanishing from ... But when they reported the disappearance to Dickson, he said that Drew was in a rehabilitation centre trying to recover from a drug addiction "and didn't want contact from her old friends, fearing she ...
Source: Calgary Herald

Keystone — and other irritants — hang over Harper-Obama meet
The so-called 'Three Amigos' summit also looks to be going ahead one amigo short: Mexican President Felipe Calderon cancelled his planned appearance following the death of a key figure in Mexico's bloody war against drug cartels. Finance Minister Jim ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

North American leaders' meeting cancelled after Mexican minister perishes in helicopter crash
Baird, in a statement, said Mora was "a leader in the fight against drug trafficking and he will be sorely missed." Officials in the Prime Minister's Office said it remains uncertain whether the Canadian and American leaders will hold their own bilateral ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Rules could leave pain patients in a world of hurt
The 61-year-old Vancouver resident has fibromyalgia ... The state is facing two public health crises: prescription drug overdoses and addiction, and lack of access to pain care. The rules respond to the first crisis at the expense of the ...
Source: Columbian

Pills a potent problem
2006: Since then, deaths in Washington from unintentional drug overdoses have surpassed auto deaths ... State Rep. Jim Moeller, D-Vancouver, who has worked as an addiction counselor for more than 25 years, sponsored the bill.
Source: Columbian

Coroner: Amy Winehouse died from too much alcohol
The 27-year-old Winehouse had fought a very public battle with drug and alcohol abuse for years ... resulting in such songs as "Rehab." In June, Winehouse abruptly cancelled her European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely ...
Source: Metronews.ca

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