EMERSON/GARFIELD – Community Frameworks will continue a series of classes designed to help potential homebuyers better understand credit, personal finances and mortgage lending on Tuesday at its office located at 315 W. Mission Ave.
“Financial Fitness” is a two-session, certificated course and will be from 6 to 8 p.m. The second session will be held next Thursday, 6 to 8 p.m.
Self-help homeownership informational meetings will be July 19 at 6 p.m. On July 27 and July 29, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., first-time homebuyers can take a class on mortgage basics.
The sessions are free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
To register or for more information call (509) 484-6733, ext. 117, or visit www.community frameworks.org.
Speaker to discuss caregiving
LOGAN – Marty Richards, an author, teacher and long-term care consultant, will present a workshop for caregivers, “Caresharing: Strengthening the Bonds to those Coping with Dementia,” on July 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Barbieri Moot Court Room at Gonzaga University School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati St.
Cost for the workshop is $35 for professionals and $15 for all others. A box lunch will be provided during the noon hour.
To register and for more information call (509) 473-3390 or visit www.alz.org/inland northwest. Registration deadline is Wednesday.
The program is presented by the Alzheimer’s Association Inland Northwest Chapter.
Fire Station 99
marks anniversary
SPOKANE COUNTY – Spokane County Fire District 9 will have an open house to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Fire Station 99, 9105 N. Whitehouse St., on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Attendees will have an opportunity to tour the station, meet the firefighters of Station 99 and enjoy ice cream. Kids can also get their picture taken in a firetruck and say hello to Smokey the Bear.
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His once-promising career in tatters, his family and finances ravaged by his drug addiction, former Party of Five star Jeremy London is now claiming he was kidnapped and forced to get high. Jacob Bernstein talks to addiction specialists about what to make of the tale.
The way Jeremy London later told it, it was one of the worst days of his life.
On June 10, while attempting to change a flat tire on his car, he was abducted by three men and taken on a 12-hour joyride, during which he was forced to smoke crack cocaine and distribute drugs and alcohol in a gang-infested part of Palm Springs.
“It’s been an absolute nightmare,” the Party of Five star said in a video statement provided to RadarOnline. “First of all, I want to say [the incident] actually did happen... I thought I was going to die. Thank God I made it out alive.”
He added: “I had a gun put to my head. I had my family threatened. We’re working closely with the Palm Springs Police Department to get the rest of the guys. There’s one guy in custody. There’s two more out there.”
“I think that when people are found with drugs, just as when they’re found with lipstick on their collar, they have all sorts of excuses.”
If he suspected people might be skeptical, that’s because they were.
Indeed, in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, the case has been a source of particular fascination and gallows humor. While to other segments of the population the story has seemed terrifying and bizarre, with recovering addicts there’s been a knowing nod—a remembrance of what it was like to minimize one’s problem and tell outrageous tales to keep from getting caught.
London’s personal history hasn’t exactly helped establish his credibility. He has a long history with substance abuse, and a neighbor recently told reporters that he’d been begging to wash their cars for cash. And London’s twin, Jason, said his brother’s story didn’t “add up.” He urged him to get “psychological help.”
Last week, Radar reported that London had recently lost custody of his child and was being regularly subjected to drug testing. A positive test could have terrible consequences for him. (His spokesman, Dominic Friesen, confirmed that actor is being tested, telling The Daily Beast, “Jeremy is currently undergoing drug testing for his custody case and has passed all thus far.”)
One recovering addict I spoke to had posted a status update on his Facebook page: “Look! It’s the old ‘They kidnapped me and forced me to take cocaine excuse.’ Yawn.” Another said, “I immediately thought of the Six Feet Under episode where the gay guy gets kidnapped and forced to do drugs. Anytime something sounds too much like a television episode, it’s suspect.” A third said, “I’m sorry, but that’s such a lie. I have a friend who told that same story. When she withdrew all the money from her grandmother’s bank account, she claimed she was kidnapped and that they stole it from her. She even said she was raped.”
Plus, this person pointed out, most people who resort to crime because of their drug use don’t want to share their goodies with resistant kidnap victims. “For someone to say they were abducted and forced to do drugs is absolutely ridiculous. Who the f--- is going to force you to do drugs? For what? It makes no sense.”
That skepticism was echoed by three out of three addiction specialists reached by The Daily Beast. Combined, they have more than 60 years’ worth of experience treating drug addicts; all three were listed recently in New York magazine’s recent Best Doctors issue.
In each case, the specialists said they wanted to avoid casting aspersions on a man they hadn’t treated, but that they'd never encountered a person who was forced to consume illicit substances against their will.
“I can’t recall anyone ever being forced to take drugs, though I’m sure in the history of humanity someone has been,” said Kenneth Rosenberg, an addiction psychiatrist in private practice on the Upper East Side and a member of the voluntary faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College.
“People experience peer pressure, but I myself haven’t ever encountered anyone who’s been forced to take drugs,” seconded Marc Galanter, a professor of psychiatry at New York University with a practice on the Upper West Side. “Often you see people in denial that are greatly at variance with reality. It wouldn’t be surprising for someone to make a statement that seems nonsensical.”
Added Carol Weiss of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, “I think that when people are found with drugs, just as when they’re found with lipstick on their collar, they have all sorts of excuses.”
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