Bobby Brown Enters Rehab

Bobby Brown enters rehab
Filed under: alcoholic rehabilitation

Los Angeles (CNN) — Singer Bobby Brown checked into a "confidential rehabilitation center" last week for treatment "relating to alcohol use," his spokesman said Thursday. Brown, 43, agreed to enter a 90-day alcohol treatment program when he pleaded no …
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Country Liberal alcohol policy attacked as dangerous
Filed under: alcoholic rehabilitation

Apart from the so-called mandatory rehabilitation prison farms, the CLP's policy also calls for the possible scrapping of restrictions on alcohol sales, and social clubs with poker machines could be reinstated in some communities. But one doctor has …
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Troubled Times For Russia’s “House Of Hope” (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

A rehabilitation center near St. Petersburg offers the country’s only free recovery program modeled on the 12-step plan of Alcoholics Anonymous. But the House of Hope, sponsored partly by musician and opposition activist Yuri Shevchuk, has run into financial trouble, and its staff fear interference from the authorities. Produced by Alexander Kulygin of RFE/RL’s Russian Service, with reporting by Anastasia Kirilenko