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Is Medical Marijuana Part Of The Problem With Increased Drug-Related Road Fatality’s In California

prc — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:11:49 +0000

Friends don’t let friends drive… drugged.

While drunk driving has been on the decline, drug-impaired driving has increased over at least the past four years, according to figures released Tuesday by the California Office of Traffic Safety.

Three out of every 10 people killed on California roads in 2010 tested positive for legal and/or illegal drugs, according to the news release.

Drivers high on prescription drugs, marijuana or other drugs often go under-reported because drug testing is expensive and there is no established legal limit.

PRC's Shelly Sprague Talks About The Recent Study on Comfort Food and Addiction.

prc — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:43:08 +0000

After the recent release of a study on the similarities between confort food consumption and drug addiction, Dave Malkoff from CBS, stopped by the center to get an opinion.

In the interview, Shelly Sprague says:

“Is a potato chip equal to a dose of heroin? No…The brain is flooded with a certain level of dopamine…that creates high levels of euphoria. Addiction is a physical dependency that you will become violently ill if you do not take this substance. That is addiction. I don’t care how many bags of potato chips I eat, I’m not going to become violently ill if I don’t have another bag of potato chips.” (Read Entire Article)

Twitter Question

prc — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:12:42 +0000

College Girl: I would like to become a drug/alcohol counselor and would like to know what type of degree I would need to work in a place like PRC, thank u.

Social PRC: I happened to come across this link to the University of Phoenix Press Release. You should contact them and see what they can offer.

Read about the University of Phoenix advanced nursing and educational specialist degree programs here.

PRC Offers to aid DMX with Substance Addiction

prc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:25:39 +0000

When DMX was sentenced to six months in jail for violating his probation, the Pasadena Recovery Center has come forward to help him with substance abuse.

Reality Wanted (Press 1/8/10)

prc — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:41:43 +0000

Celebrity Rehab 3 popped off last night and the show has me hooked! Dr. Drew has the task of aiding a slew of celebrities in their quest for freedom of addiction. Well, except for former NBA Champion Dennis Rodman; he’s only there by an order of the court…
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Hitting Bottom (Press 1/30/09)

prc — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:35:20 +0000

The New York Times – Dec 30, 2009
Last spring, at the Pasadena Recovery Center, while staff members were doing their morning rounds, three men sat behind the closed door of a dim in-patient bedroom. Members of a video production team, they were monitoring live feeds on glowing screens in a part of the Los Angeles drug-and-alcohol unit…
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Jessica Sierra – Life Lessons Learned (Press 3/12/08)

prc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:44:00 +0000

Examiner – Dec 17, 2009
Jessica Sierra has a lot to celebrate these days. Besides giving birth to a healthy baby boy Dec. 5, she can now say she has been sober for two years; and two years is no small feat…
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VH1 Season 3 Cast Announced (Press 6/3/09)

prc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:39:53 +0000

June 03, 2009

VH1 has once again partnered with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a third season of the hit reality series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. The series, consisting of eight one-hour episodes, is slated to premiere in early 2010.

Similar to the first two cycles, the third season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew will follow the real-life experiences of celebrity patients undergoing detoxification and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center. The show will follow Mackenzie Phillips (One Day At A Time), Heidi Fleiss, Dennis Rodman, Mindy McCready (country music singer), Lisa D’Amato (America’s Next Top Model), Mike Starr (Alice in Chains), Kari Ann Peniche (ex-Miss United States Teen) Joey Kovar (Real World Hollywood), and Tom Sizemore.

The series will chronicle the patients’ intensive 21-day program with both group and one-on-one therapy and non-traditional therapies like art and music. Returning to the show to help Dr. Drew are drug counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague who have each spent years on both sides of the rehab fence. Dr. Drew is also bringing in some additional prominent physicians to help him give the patients supplementary one-on-one care.

Closure on "Celebrity Rehab" (Press 3/12/08)

prc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:35:29 +0000

In June of 2007, Dr. Drew Pinsky gathered a group of down-and-out quasi-celebrities of the sort we’ve been watching on VH1 for years: one-hit wonders, child stars and veterans of other reality series. Thursday marks the reunion of six of the eight “Celebrity Rehab” cast members with Pinsky and…

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Detox for the Camera. Doctor's Order! (Press 2/3/08)

prc — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:32:46 +0000

On the first episode of the VH1 reality series “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew,” Jeff Conaway arrives for in-patient treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center in California slumped over in the passenger seat of a car, caressing an open bottle of Dom Pérignon…(read more)