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Dr. David Sack - L.A. Business Journal
April 19, 2010
Remaking Promises
By Alexa Hyland
Promises Treatment Centers became famous for its Hollywood clientele,
including starlets Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. But when those
stars suffered relapses, the sordid news was splashed over the tabloids
and made Promises famous in an unwanted way.
Indeed, Promises got a reputation as a high-dollar Malibu getaway for wayward celebrities rather than as a serious drug and alcohol treatment center.
So when David Sack acquired the treatment program and its Malibu and West L.A. campuses in 2008, the psychiatrist had a big job: rehab the rehab centers.
Job 1 was to cut down those high-profile episodes of backsliding. “People do relapse,” Sack said. “And if I’m a celebrity and I relapse, it’s all over the tabloids. When treating celebrities, you are associated with their successes and failures.”
Erin Brockovich - BBC News
Families agree Corby poison waste settlement
By Paul Baker
George Taylor is 18 and like many other teenagers of his age, except that most of his right hand has been removed after a series of tumours.
In an historic judgement, a court decided these had been caused by his pregnant mother's exposure to toxic waste as it was being removed from a former steelworks in the Northamptonshire town of Corby.
George and 18 other children will now share an out-of-court settlement reached with Corby Borough Council, which carried out the clean-up.
Corby steelworks closed in 1980 and the industrial sites were bought by the local authority for regeneration.
Before any building work could begin, the site had to be cleared and thousands of tonnes of contaminated land was removed.
However, the clearance operation was badly managed.

