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Report: Singer Amy Winehouse to undergo drug rehab in Israel
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Barzilai Medical Center 

Grammy Award winning recording artist Amy Winehouse is due in Israel "within weeks" to undergo a drug rehabilitation program, according to the London-based Jewish Chronicle newspaper.

The report quoted a senior official in the Israel Anti-Drug Authority, Eliezer Cohen, who said Winehouse will receive "medical care, which is a very short, intensive and effective treatment."

"They spoke to a renowned Israeli institution and an Israeli professor who conducts a very special and effective method," Cohen said. [Winehouse] has requested to come to him to do this method, since it's a method that is suitable for her."
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The Chronicle reported that the professor in question is Dr. Andre Waismann, whose "Accelerated Neuro-Regulation" method, whereby the patient undergoes an intense withdrawal period while under anaesthesia, produces a high success rate.

"All of my patients are discharged healthy and no longer dependent," Waisman, the head of the ANR clinic at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, told the Chronicle. "There is a misunderstanding about drug addiction. People think it is a social and psychological problem, but it's a neurological problem."

"Whether it's Amy Winehouse or anyone else, it is a privilege to be able to treat anyone who is opiate-dependent, and allow them to live a normal life," the Chronicle quoted him as saying.

Waisman introduced the technique 10 years ago, and offers the treatment to private patients from abroad for an estimated $12,700, according to the report.

Winehouse's hospitalization is expected to span three days, after which she is to be discharged to a hotel and encouraged to engage in physical activity to "enhance her mental state," according to the Chronicle.

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      1.   whine-hauz 21:52  |  tommY 23/05/08
      2.   Let her work in an Israeli old-age asylum for a month....... 00:15  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/05/08
      3.   I forsee a new celebrity trend 01:38  |  KM 24/05/08
      4.   So, how about treating drugged Hezbollah & Hamas freaks, too? 06:26  |  Analyst 24/05/08
      5.   they tried to make me go to rehag 06:31  |  hala 24/05/08
      6.   withdrawl with amnesia, 09:28  |  Rob of melbourne 24/05/08
      7.   Swiss Dino 10:06  |  Wenger 24/05/08
      8.   tomm y 10:08  |  Wenger 24/05/08
      9.   israeli quack medicine? 10:10  |  Philip 24/05/08
      10.   Best of Luck Amy 10:11  |  D. Torres 24/05/08
      11.   the man is a charlatan 10:37  |  MD 24/05/08
      12.   Not a psycho-social problem?? Mmmm is it a virus then? 11:30  |  Army MD 24/05/08
      13.   Never heard of her 11:44  |  Dror 24/05/08
      14.   they tried to make me go to rehab 12:23  |  beni 24/05/08
      15.   They sent me to Aish in Israel 13:22  |  Ronnie Wolman 24/05/08
      16.   Amy Winehouse is a creative genius 13:25  |  Ronnie Wolman 24/05/08
      17.   Drug addiction is more neurological and physiological 13:50  |  Dror 24/05/08
      18.   Amy`s comin for rehab with dough ,dough ,dough 13:51  |  Alan SA 24/05/08
      19.   Why call him a charlatan? 13:51  |  Dror 24/05/08
      20.   What does intensive detox entail? 13:55  |  Dror 24/05/08
      21.   Maybe she`ll sing while the Qassams hit? 13:56  |  Yossi 24/05/08
      22.   What does this mean? 14:09  |  Dror 24/05/08
      23.   # 7 Wenger, for once no irony at all....... 14:15  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/05/08
      24.   Rebirth by Amy Winehouse 14:24  |  Ronnie Wolman 24/05/08
      25.   Here´s what is being done 15:10  |  NO to drugs 24/05/08
      26.   Dror: it`s a rip off 15:27  |  Phillip 24/05/08
      27.   Amy makes Aliyah 15:39  |  Jack 24/05/08
      28.   To Amy 16:52  |  Billie 24/05/08
      29.   To Dror 17:09  |  MD 24/05/08
      30.   To Dror (cont`d) 17:15  |  MD 24/05/08
      31.   and finally... 17:20  |  MD 24/05/08
      32.   Olmert should undergo peace rehab instead 18:08  |  Jerusalem Jew 24/05/08
      33.   to swiss dino the liberal 18:19  |  zizi 24/05/08
      34.   What about the Rockets from Gaza? That will cure her 18:30  |  semsem 24/05/08
      35.   Make her join the IDF, she wears a cross, tattooed. 18:49  |  Avram 24/05/08
      36.   Ibogaine 19:03  |  Chris 24/05/08
      37.   there`s no hate like liberal hate 19:12  |  steve from raleigh 24/05/08
      38.   You don`t mind sluts like this 19:45  |  Rowan 24/05/08
      39.   Tortured Souls 20:23  |  Dror 24/05/08
      40.   Wow, I looked her up 20:59  |  Dror 24/05/08
      41.   Rowan Berkeley 21:29  |  Connie 24/05/08
      42.   don`t send her to tiberias hospital!!!!!! 21:33  |  michel!!! 24/05/08
      43.   Send her to Birobidzhan 21:59  |  Motke 24/05/08
      44.   attn: entrepnuers future in rehab centers for the stars in Israel 22:20  |  david 24/05/08
      45.   Shame on the haters here! 00:13  |  Moishe Pippick 25/05/08
      46.   Drugs Feel Good! That`s why 00:18  |  FOX 25/05/08
      47.   oh please 00:38  |  Ruby 25/05/08
      48.   100% patients of my patients are cured 00:40  |  Aphemia 25/05/08
      49.   This girl makes me throw up - sickening. 01:05  |  Dan 25/05/08
      50.   Patient`s right to confidentiality? 01:54  |  Sherlock Holmes 25/05/08
      51.   #38 female sexuality offends you, but supporting terror doesn`t? 02:15  |  McQueen 25/05/08
      52.   I hope she gets well soon, I like her :) 03:51  |  Elinor from Iran 25/05/08
      53.   `Cured` in three days - wrong! 04:21  |  Maureen Ann 25/05/08
      54.   Rapid Detox no magic pill 08:09  |  Neuroscientist 25/05/08
      55.   To MD in Jerusalem 08:48  |  Dror 25/05/08
      56.   Only ONE singer Amy to under drug rehab? 09:04  |  The Archives 25/05/08
      57.   Sounds a bit fishy 09:16  |  Ilan 25/05/08
      58.   Amy 09:25  |  Rachel 25/05/08
      59.   amy`s rehab 11:57  |  Lani 25/05/08
      60.   To MD in Jerusalem 12:38  |  OhMyBack 25/05/08
      61.   She Has Flirted with Her Jewish Identity, Maybe It Will Save Her 14:36  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 25/05/08
      62.   # 53 MAUREEN TAKE THE CURE AND DISAPPEAR ALREADY! 14:53  |  petra 25/05/08
      63.   DR # 29 HAVE YOU TRIED IT? 14:57  |  petra 25/05/08
      64.   # 31 DR. SOME DR`S DESERVE A BAD NAME. 15:04  |  petra 25/05/08
      65.   malpractice suits soar in America 15:41  |  petra 25/05/08
      66.   # 6 get educated please, idiot. 15:43  |  petra 25/05/08
      67.   # 26 were you his drug addicted patient? 15:47  |  petra 25/05/08
      68.   ##11, 29 to 31 Jerusalem MD 18:00  |  Ben Alofs 25/05/08
      69.   #38 03:19  |  Jane 26/05/08
      70.   to # 4 16:23  |  michael jackson 26/05/08
      71.   wrong info:nothing new! 16:35  |  Merre 26/05/08
      72.   philip of the UK 16:39  |  merre 26/05/08