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Lindsay Lohan Released from Drug and Alcohol Rehab Early

August 25, 2010 By Addiction News Leave a Comment

Lindsay Lohan ( photos ) was released Tuesday from her court-ordered drug rehabilitation program at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, RadarOnline reported. Lohan signed her discharge papers from the facility on her 22nd day of treatment and left the building by the back door, where a limousine was waiting, the Web site said. The 24-year-old star of "Freaky Friday" and "Mean Girls" spent nearly ...

Training The Brain To Think Ahead In Addiction

January 28, 2011 By Addiction News Leave a Comment

The growing numbers of new cases of substance abuse disorders are perplexing. After all, the course of drug addiction so often ends badly. The negative consequences of drug abuse appear regularly on TV, from stories of celebrities behaving in socially inappropriate and self-destructive ways while intoxicated to dramatization of the rigors of drug withdrawal on "Intervention" and other reality ...