CNN/CIR Rehab Fraud Investigation Prompts California Assembly Hearing
cnn.com: (CNN) — A California lawmaker has scheduled a hearing to examine disclosures of significant fraud in taxpayer-funded drug rehabilitation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN. Read the whole story at cnn.com. Contribute to this …
Read more on Huffington Post

California officials reviewing rehab centers in wake of fraud reports
2 LATExtra section, an article about taxpayer-funded drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers being investigated for fraud said that taxpayer money had been temporarily cut off for 29 firms that operate a total of 83 clinics. According to the California …
Read more on Los Angeles Times

Teens claim they were used as fake rehab clients
… board a van at her group home and go to rehab. Byers couldn't figure out why she had to take drug tests and sit in group therapy sessions on addiction at So Cal Health Services, a clinic tucked in an office park in Riverside, California. … So Cal …
Read more on CNN

A History of Lindsay in Rehab
The 27-year-old Lohan, with a steady stream of brushes with the law, has spent more time in Los Angeles courthouses and rehab facilities than on movie sets in recent years. With the completion of her sixth round of rehab … She was charged with theft …
Read more on Daily Beast

Lafayette rehab facility in Marblehead celebrates new horticultural therapy …
The Lafayette is a 65-bed family-based facility that provides long-term and rehabilitative care with a combination of expert clinical skills and a caring, dedicated staff. The new program, “Good To Grow,” was started by Lafayette Administrator George …
Read more on Boston.com

CMS to increase Medicare payments to SNFs, inpatient rehab facilities
“The marketbasket increase allows long term and post-acute care providers to focus on the important work of improving the lives of the seniors within their care.” Meanwhile, the CMS estimates that aggregate payments to inpatient rehabilitation …
Read more on ModernHealthcare.com

Jodie Sweetin Is Residing at a Rehab Facility … But It's Not What You Think!
The "UnSweetined" author, who wrote about her struggles with meth addiction in her 2010 memoir, revealed she is staying at the rehab facility in a studio apartment, but she is not receiving treatment. Instead, she works at the Los Angeles facility as a …
Read more on Yahoo! omg! (blog)

Former Ocala equine hospital set to become 'dude ranch' rehab center
Robert Miller, a South Florida businessman who owns the 86,000-square-foot building that was the former Kesmarc Equine Rehabilitation facility at 15530 W. County Road 326, Ocala, invited neighboring property owners over on Friday to discuss his plans.
Read more on Gainesville Sun

Sex trafficking rehab center to open in Larimer Co. after months of delays
Loren Fardulis, left, founder and CEO of Amy's House, talks with a gathering during an open house at the rehabilitation for female victims of sex trafficking on Feb. 18. The center northwest of Fort Collins is scheduled to open in early September after …
Read more on The Coloradoan

Question by oblivious: how did elliot smith die?

Best answer:

Answer by iijakii
Elliott Smith died on October 21, 2003 in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at age 34, from two stab wounds to the chest during an emotional fight with Jennifer Chiba. [16] According to her account, the two were arguing when she locked herself in the bathroom. Chiba heard him scream, and upon opening the door, saw Smith standing there with a steak knife in his chest. She pulled the knife out of him, after which Smith collapsed and she called 911. The time of death was listed at 12:18 PM. While originally reported as a suicide, the official autopsy report released in late December 2003 left the question of possible homicide open:
While his history of depression is compatible with suicide, and the location and direction of the stab wound is consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide. These include the absence of hesitation wounds, stabbing through clothing, and the presence of small incised wounds on the right arm and left hand (possible defensive wounds). Additionally, the girlfriend’s [Jennifer Chiba’s] reported removal of the knife and subsequent refusal to speak with detectives are all of concern.

According to the coroner’s report, the alleged suicide note, written on a Post-it, read, I’m so sorry – love, Elliot. God forgive me. The misspelling of “Elliott” was later acknowledged as a mistake on the part of the coroner. Robin Peringer, one of the singers few close friends towards the end of his life, says that Smith was a “cutter”, which would help explain the “possible defensive wounds.” Fritz Michaud, an engineer during the Basement sessions, claimed that “Elliott literally wouldn’t have been caught dead without his shirt on,” possibly explaining why the stab wounds penetrated his shirt (something extremely uncommonly seen in stabbing suicides).

His death has not been officially declared a suicide, and the investigation into his death continues, although almost no new information at all has publicly come to light since 2003.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Question by Maricopa County: Do you feel sorry for this illegal or was justice served?
He was one of 107 Mexican men who had started out that morning in shackles at the York County Prison and had been placed by immigration officials on a chartered plane at Harrisburg International Airport for a flight to the border. The journey was part of a now daily exodus that has made the south-central region of Pennsylvania a critical hub in the federal government’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants.

Now 37, Mr. Cruz had not been in his native country since crossing illegally more than two decades before. He was leaving behind his parents, siblings, a young daughter he hardly knew and a seven-year prison stint in Virginia that followed a 2002 night of binge drinking and a hit-and-run crash. He had no clothes except his brown prison jumpsuit and a pair of blue slippers.Mr. Cruz, who became a devout Christian during his time in prison, plans to continue his religious studies and spread the word of God as a Mennonite missionary in his homeland.When Mr. Cruz crossed the border as a teenager in the 1980s, it was “kind of easy,” he said last month while awaiting deportation. The United States had far fewer border patrol agents than it has today.

His parents were already living in Los Angles, and Mr. Cruz wanted to join them. Most of his four brothers and three sisters would make similar journeys.

After a decade living on the west coast, the family decided to move to Harrisonburg, Va., to get away from the growing dangers of gangs and crime in Los Angeles. In Virginia, Mr. Cruz found work in a poultry factory, where he put turkeys on hooks before they were slaughtered.

By then, Mr. Cruz’s older brother had developed a drinking problem. Mr. Cruz, a regular churchgoer, initially resisted such temptations. But he soon started drinking with his brother.

“It was just little by little,” he said. “Then I was an alcoholic.”

The pair also smoked marijuana, despite admonitions from their parents. Mr. Cruz attended rehabilitation programs, but he didn’t have any success until he left his family to live on his own in Phoenix.

There he met Rosario Mendoza, a devoted Christian who helped him recover from his addictions. She also persuaded him to reconcile with his parents and return to Virginia. Mr. Cruz brought Ms. Mendoza with him, and the couple had a daughter named Paula.

Mr. Cruz also reconnected with his old group of friends, and he again started drinking and using drugs.

In November 2002, an intoxicated Mr. Cruz tried to drive home after watching a boxing match. He struck a woman’s car and kept driving before crashing again. He woke up in the hospital with a broken shoulder and neck and chest injuries. He later learned that the woman in the car had been pregnant and suffered a miscarriage.

During his first night in prison, Mr. Cruz tried to hang himself with a sweater. Guards put him under suicide watch.

At the prison health clinic, a nurse gave him a Bible and told him, “I’ll be praying for you.”

Her words provided comfort. Mr. Cruz resolved to change. He pleaded guilty to criminal charges and accepted a 10-year prison sentence and the loss of his visa to stay in the United States, which his parents had helped him get a decade before.

At Green Rock Correctional Center in Chatham, Va., Mr. Cruz immersed himself in Christianity, attending Bible study and theology classes sponsored by Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. He served as a translator at weekend services for other Latinos in the prison.

Best answer:

Answer by Tom
No. I feel justice was served. He is, after all, an ILLEGAL immigrant.

Add your own answer in the comments!

Springville Journal editorial: They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said no
California drug and alcohol treatment center Michael's House reported that the United States is currently experiencing “some of the highest levels of drug addiction” in history. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, young people aged 18 …
Read more on Springvillejournal

16 Medi-Cal substance abuse treatment centers are under investigation
Sixteen drug and alcohol treatment centers that provide rehabilitative services to Medi-Cal patients are suspected of fraud and of hiring providers with felonies on their records, officials from the California Department of Health Care Services …
Read more on Los Angeles Times

Superior Court Judge Denies Medical Marijuana Collective Cultivation Defense
Taking full advantage of this ruling throughout the trial, San Diego County Deputy District Attorney, Jorge DelPortillo repeatedly objected to questions posed to witnesses about California's medical cannabis collective laws. Each time DelPortillo …
Read more on THE Weed Blog (blog)