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By the time he met Wilson, he had a Beverly Hills clinic and a celebrity clientele.

Dr.

Solon D.

Samuels, a former director of Gateways, told the Los Angeles Times in 1988 that Landy was a maverick who has "done things that no other psychologist has done in treating the psychotic and the drug addict." Wilson seemed to fit the clinical profile to a distressing degree.

He rarely got out of bed or talked to anyone.

He went weeks without brushing his teeth or taking a shower, believing that "blood would gush out of the sink faucet and snakes would spring out of the shower head," he wrote in his 1991 memoir "Wouldn't It Be Nice." His mind was so wasted on drugs - including cocaine, LSD and heroin - that he even tried to give them to his two young daughters.

His first session with Landy took place in Wilson's bedroom closet, the only place Wilson said he felt safe.

Landy gradually gained Wilson's trust and helped him regain enough physical and mental health that the pop idol performed at the Beach Boys' 15th anniversary concert on Dec.

31, 1976.

Landy, however, had been fired earlier that month by Beach Boys manager Steve Love, largely in a dispute over fees.

He was rehired six years later, after Wilson had regressed again into drugs and obesity.

The 24-hour therapy was resumed from 1983 to 1986, during which time Landy said he was paid $35,000 a month.

In 1987, he entered a business and creative partnership with Wilson called Brains and Genius to share profits from...

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Says Arshiya Sethi, UN’s communications consultant, “The important thing to note here is that these drugs can be used on both men as well as women.

One has to make both sexes aware of the vulnerabilities that they may face.” The campaign will touch upon how a victim can protect himself or herself from being a victim of date drugs.

Adds Sethi, “The consumption of date rape drugs can render a victim physically helpless and may even put him or her in a mental state where he or she is unable to refuse sex and may not even remember what happened.” One of the alarming things is the fact that most of these drugs have no colour, smell or taste and is difficult to detect when mixed into a flavoured drink.

Traces of these drugs may not be found in a routine toxicology screen or blood test.

Suggestions from the ‘I Decide’ campaign Do not accept drinks from strangers Keep your drinks with yourself all the time Do not share drinks Do not drink from punch bowls or open, common containers Have at least one friend who does not drink around Be the first to rate this article!

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One was of a raw egg in a frying pan; the other was the egg after it had been fried.

The first picture was labeled: "This is your brain." The second picture was labeled: "This is your brain on drugs."Like many other drugs, permanent brain damage can occur in methamphetamine users, changing their way of life, even if addicts manage to stop using the drug.

When Graham and Greenlee counties held their first meth conference and forum in February, a recovering addict named Rhonda was a member.She told audience and other panel members that she has noticed a drop in her mental capacity."Before I started using meth, I used to be able to read the comics and laugh at the jokes," she said.

"Now, I read them, but someone has to explain them to me."Two studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry revealed there are long-lasting brain changes caused by the drug, including an unexpected increase in cellular activit...