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	<title>Doug Thorburn on Early-Stage Alcohol and Drug Addiction</title>
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	<description>Doug Thorburn discusses early-stage alcoholism and other-drug addiction.</description>
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		<title>Sneak preview, next TAR: Steven Slater</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Runner-up for top story of the month: 
Flight attendant Steven Slater, 38, who was described by his attorney, friends and family as a likeable sort who did his job well, until he didn’t and used a JetBlue plane’s emergency chute to leave his job—permanently, with two cans of beer in hand. Slater claimed a gash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governing under the influence is more common than you think. The City of Bell, City Manager Robert Rizzo and his cronies.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[1 - Top Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Governing Under the Influence: the City of Bell and its Grotesque(ly Overpaid) City Manager, Robert Rizzo
In a classic 1987 article entitled “Governing under the influence; Washington alcoholics: their aides protect them, the media shields them,” Steven Waldman wrote what was, for the time, not only a tell-all on Washington, DC alcoholism but also one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick&#8211;one who should be headed for rightful justice and the other for whom justice was served.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Runners-up for top story of the month:
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the jury for whose corruption trial is sadly still deliberating as of the date of release of this issue of TAR. Blagojevich, whose misbehaviors were first chronicled in the January 2009 TAR Top Story, with brief snippets in the May 2009 and July 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Laura Richardson is cleared of wrongdoing. Oh, by other Congresspeople. (That explains that!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[1 - Top Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under watch:
In an early 2009 piece on white collar crime, The Economist magazine suggests there may be some truth in something those who have read my books would predict: “Many [Club Fed and other white collar] prisoners suddenly discover, post-conviction, that they had a drinking problem….” I would add that those who don’t figure this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mass murderer is outed (for a change); a 12-year-old disenables her mother; Mike Tyson stays sober (but he needs to go further).</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alcoholic victims of the month:
Two people died and four were wounded before a gunman, Robert Reza, turned the weapon on himself at a fiber optics plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Reza’s live-in girlfriend, who had told co-workers she feared for her safety, was among those injured in what was obviously an extreme case of domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long to Fr. Jack Shirley and the politically incorrect cartoonist John Callahan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[1 - Top Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it takes an addict:
Several months ago it dawned on me I had not heard from my dear Internet friend Fr. Jack Shirley for some time&#8230;.and I was afraid of what I&#8217;d find so didn&#8217;t look. In writing this issue of TAR, I ran across one of his wonderful posts to me (he supplied me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proof of no alcohol in the system before a DUI offender can start the car is a great idea, except for the fact that alcoholics, ingenious manipulators that they are, will likely find ways to circumvent the system.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[6 - Public Policy Recommendations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DUI offenders must test breath before driving, but will it work?
Under a pilot program set to begin in July in Los Angeles County and three other California counties, motorists convicted of DUI will be required to install an ignition-interlock device that will prevent vehicles from starting if a BAL greater than .03 percent is detected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandma is denied access to granddaughter. Who&#8217;s the addict?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[3 - Dear Doug...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I need an appointment to see my granddaughter. Help!
Dear Doug:
After having babysat my granddaughter for much of the past three years I was no longer needed for the job. Now my daughter is doing everything she can to keep my grandchild from me. She either doesn’t return my calls or says she is too busy; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joran van der Sloot wasn&#8217;t known to be violent? Look deeper. Even if you don&#8217;t find it, he&#8217;s an addict; therefore, anything is possible.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[4 - Alcoholic Myth of the Month]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“[Joran] van der Sloot’s past (sic) wasn’t known to be violent.”
So wrote Frank Bajak in an Associated Press piece on the 22-year-old who was arrested for the murder of Stephany Flores, whose body was found in a Peruvian hotel room with her neck broken, one eye dangling from its socket and her bloodied face so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting victim doesn&#8217;t feel getting shot due to alcoholism; he wouldn&#8217;t have gotten shot were it not for same.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Thorburn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[5 - Amazing Alcoholic Antics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Story from “This is True” by Randy Cassingham, with his “tagline:”
“UNDEAD II: Tracy Durham, 48, had a party at his place in Peoria, Ill. ‘I was drunk,’ he says. He won&#8217;t say who was over for the party, but he remembers telling a friend his girlfriend was ugly. As Durham took another swig from his [...]]]></description>
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