Category Archives: Substance Abuse
Prison Minister Ready to Help Lohan
Prison Minister Ready to Help The ‘Troubled’ Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan needs faith-based regeneration Long time prison minister Marty Angelo again offers his help to troubled actress. Hollywood – 12/3/12 “Liz and Dick” movie star Lindsay Lohan was offered another chance at turning her life around after she was arrested for punching a woman in a New York City nightclub and also charged on the same day with three misdemeanors in California. Prison Minister and author Marty Angelo has reached out to Lohan for a fourth time trying to convince the troubled star to enter and complete a one year …
Recent interview in Greece blues mag
Please check out my recent interview in Greece blues magazine Producer/manager Marty Angelo talks about The God, Hendrix, Raven, Grass Roots, George Harrison, music business, and the connection Disco – Rhythm & Blues. Michalis Limnios BLUES blog @ GR on February 13, 2012 “I really always equated disco with rhythm and blues. If it had a dance beat… it was called disco, during disco’s heyday. Before that… it was rhythm and blues through and through.” Marty Angelo: Once Life Matters Marty Angelo worked in the entertainment business from 1965 to 1980 as a television producer, record promoter, disk jockey, restaurant/nightclub …
Dr. Conrad Murray Sentencing – FAIR?
I was recently asked in a radio interview if I thought Dr. Conrad Murray received a fair sentence in causing the death of singer Michael Jackson. I think it could have been a lot worse for him and am sure Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor would have given him more time if the law allowed it. Dr. Murray will wind up serving no longer than two years out of the four-year prison sentence he received. Dr. Murray was truly at fault for Michael Jackson’s death. He should have been monitoring Jackson while he was administering the sleep drug …
Angelo Responds to Murray Conviction and Lohan Family Woes
Celebrity/Prison Minister Marty Angelo Responds to Conrad Murray Conviction and Lohan Family Woes Often known as “The Controversial Prison Minister,” Marty Angelo blames Michael Jackson’s death in 2009 on both Jackson and his doctor Conrad Murray. LOS ANGELES, CA – //PRWEB// – November 17, 2011 - It is not every day that a prison minister gets the chance to speak at a social event yet alone receive a special award. Therefore, Marty Angelo didn’t know what to expect when he was invited to deliver this year’s keynote address on Nov. 11th at the annual prison ministry banquet of the Shadow Mountain Community Church in …
Response to Dr. Conrad Murray’s Verdict
Prison Minister Responds to Dr. Conrad Murray’s Guilty Verdict Controversial Prison Minister Marty Angelo blames Michael Jackson’s death on both Jackson and Murray Los Angeles, November 8, 2011 The old saying goes, “Two wrongs never make a right” certainly pertains to the recent guilty verdict brought down on Dr. Conrad Murray who administered the deadly drug Propofol to singer, Michael Jackson. The defrocked doctor was handcuffed in court and taken away to the Los Angeles County Jail to await his sentence on Nov. 29, 2011 for involuntary manslaughter. Angelo issued the following statement: What happened to Michael Jackson was …
Teen Challenge’s Answer to Drug Problems
Teen Challenge’s Proven Answer to the Drug Problem A Review of a Study by Dr. Aaron T. Bicknese “The Teen Challenge Drug Treatment Program in Comparative Perspective” Introduction The number of federal dollars appropriated for drug treatment has steadily climbed over the past twenty-five years, from $120 million in 1969, to $1.1 billion in 1974, to $3 billion in 1996 (1). This dramatic rise in spending has occurred even though the current group of illicit drug users is half the size of the same group in 1979 (2). Because of this mushrooming of funds in the face of a smaller …
Forty-Nine Percent of U.S. Students Binge Drink
Forty-Nine Percent of U.S. Students Binge Drink By Emily Brown and James M. O’Neill March 15, 2007 (Bloomberg) — Forty-nine percent of U.S. college students indulge each month in binge drinking or drug use, abusing them at rates far higher than in the general population, according to a report. About 1.8 million students met the medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence in 2005, 2 1/2 times the national level, as they sought to relieve stress, improve mood or enhance performance, said the report, released today by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. The risky …
Startling look in the life of American adolescents
New Report – Startling look at substance abuse on an average day in the life of American adolescents Number of Adolescents Using Marijuana on an Average Day Vastly Exceeds Half of the Number of All Students Registered in New York City Schools On an average day, nearly 1.2 million teenagers smoked cigarettes, 631,000 drank, and 586,000 used marijuana, according to the latest data, in a first-of-a kind report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The report, which highlights the substance abuse behavior and addiction treatment activities that occur among adolescents on an average day, draws on …
California prison drug treatment called waste of money
Inmates relax in a room designed to be a gym at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, California. California prison drug treatment called waste of money The state overseer of the corrections system says the $1 billion spent since 1989 on programs has failed to lessen the recidivism rate. By Jenifer Warren, Times Staff Writer – February 22, 2007 SACRAMENTO — California’s $1-billion investment in drug treatment for prisoners since 1989 has been “a complete waste of money,” the state’s inspector general said Wednesday, and has done nothing to reduce the number of inmates cycling in and out of custody. One …
Should Subject Abuse Treatment Programs be called Faith Based, Christian Based, or Secular Based?
Throughout my 28+ years of Christian ministry, I have been exposed to numerous methods used in treating thousands of substance abusers. It was only in recent years that the term, “faith-based” came into being. I was always concerned of its’ exact definition. I wondered why it was not just called “Christian-based.” Are we that afraid to attribute anything to Jesus Christ anymore? Calling substance abuse treatment “faith-based” instead of “Christian-based” opened up a door that I feel helped usher in what nowadays is a common running thread that blends many secular sounding “buzz words” with what the Bible clearly calls …