Celebrity Rehab starts in October

One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I’m having a good time.

-Nancy Astor

We are super excited to get season 4 of Celebrity Rehab. Season starts October 11th and there is already fireworks that Radaronline.com is reporting..

Janice Dickinson and Frankie Loms are the mismatched Odd Couple of the new season of Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

The two — Janice is a 5′10″ model and Frankie is the barely 5′ tall mom of R&B star Keyshia Cole — have been thrown together in the Pasadena Recovery Center, and the results have been explosive.

“There are already fireworks going off between them,” a source tells RadarOnline.com. “They’re constantly calling each other ‘crazy’ and their backgrounds are so different, neither understands where the other is coming from.”

One thing the ladies have in common is a history in reality TV. Janice has done several shows while Frankie starred in the short-lived BET series, Frankie and Neffie.

It will all make for good TV though, the source says, assuming the women can survive living together.

Season 4 of Celebrity Rehab is expected to premiere in October on VH1.

NPR reported today that supervisors in San Francisco are considering what’s being billed a “nickel a drink” fee to pay for the cost of dealing with alcohol abusers.

“San Francisco has a huge homeless population –- and those who drink heavily cost a lot to take care of.” says the report.

“A steady stream of alcoholics shows up at San Francisco’s Sobering Center run by the Public Health Department. They don’t drop in. They are dropped off — by paramedics, police officers and a fleet of mobile assistance patrol vans.”

The proposal advises a charge of .076 cents on every ounce of alcohol sold in San Francisco. it’s expected that consumers would pay about a nickel more a drink. (read entire story)

Do you think this is a good resolution?

Two teens where arrested last month on counts of tending to a pot farm near Los Padres National Forest , the Associated Press reported.

The story says, A 16-year-old Mexican National told authorities a smuggler had helped him across the border in Arizona about two weeks earlier, and he was then taken directly to the grow site and forced to work. He was arrested with three older growers on July 27.

A 17-year-old suspect was also arrested July 20 in an area near the rural town of Ojai, but he declined to speak with investigators.

Ventura County sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Horne said he was concerned such forced labor of young migrants could become a trend on marijuana plantations. (Read more)

-It’s disheartening to see how drugs can so many people and in so many ways. Mothers don’t want to see their children end up in jail or die in a confrontation with police after being recruited by drug trafficking criminals that force them into labor and criminal behavior. This global drug dependency has to stop, if only we could eradicate it.

PRC

New Regulations in China intended to prevent internet addiction in teens, began to take effect from Sunday.
These regulations, issued by the ministry of culture limit the game timings, require that surfers use their real name and identification numbers, and dictates that games be free of content that lead to imitation of behavior that violates social morals and the law.

Internet addiction disorder is not widely accepted and is believed to have been the result of a hoax, but Asian countries are now taking matters into their own hands, after seeing the effects that uncontrolled use of this media may caused.

National as well as Interational attention grew last year following a series of deaths at boot camps for internet addicted youth. In South Korea, a man was sentenced to two years in prison after he and his wife allowed their three-month-old daughter to starve to death while they raised a virtual child.

New studies also show that internet addicts appear to have more than double the risk of developing depression over time.

Officials declared yesterday that Kaisha Poulson, 25, was charged with killing her 2-month-old infant.

“The mother was breast feeding the child and passed the methamphetamine to the child resulting in the death of the child,” said Scott Israel of the Fayetteville Police Department in Georgia where the incident took place.

On March 7, Poulson woke up and she found her baby not breathing and she went running to neighbors to call 911. When Police showed up,she was charged in June with possessing the drugs GHB and Morphine.

CBS  interviews Tanya Young Williams, the estranged wife of former NBA star Jayson Williams.
Williams was sentenced to five years in prison for the fatal shooting of his limo driver in 2002.

Tanya, who survived his violent behavior, now talks about the alleged Mel Gibson’s threats, and the deadly combination of drugs, alcohol and psychosis.

On the set of Celebrity Rehab at the Pasadena Recovery Center .

PRC staff has a softball game against the cast.

Looking forward to season 4!!!

The former O.C. star admitted to hitting “rock bottom” when she was placed on involuntary psychiatric hold last summer, following the cancellation of her TV series The Beautiful Life.

The meltdown, which Barton blamed on botched dental surgery, came two years after she was charged with driving under the influence, stemming from a December 2007 arrest in Los Angeles.

But the actress is determined to turn her career around and clean up her act – and she’s starting her health kick by giving up booze.

She says, “I’m being healthy and working hard. I have had lots of offers coming in and as well as reading through scripts, I’m also designing my own range of bags.