News Entertainment Business Nightlife BEVERLY HILLS Emmy Gifting Suite Host Volume 16 Issue 10 2012 Beverly Hills Housewives TIMES Adrienne Maloof SLASH Plays Poker For Charity Star Studded Motion Picture Beverly Hills Event Mena Suvari Building Dreams and Inspiring Passion Founders of The Los Angeles Film School The Longevity Center Awards Gala Diana Derycz-Kessler & Paul Kessler Berry Gordy Founder From the Editor SUzANNE TAKOWSKy PuBLISHer Suzanne Takowsky STEPHEN TAKOWSKy [email protected] newSLette/SPecIaL eventS MICHAEL NAUgHTON MNAUgHTONz 13@ yAHOO .COM edItorIaL dIrectorS The Medicine Abuse Project ADELA gREgORy — SOCIAL ANTHONy PHILLS — DIgITAL MEDIA aims to prevent half a million teens HARVERy MACKAy — FINANCIAL ADRINA MEKERTICHIAN — BEAUTy from abusing medicine within five years. NATALIyA jOy PRIETO — FASHION jILDA SHERNOFF — ENTERTAINMENT MANDARA TAKOWSKy — ART WHAT ABOUT YOUR CHILD? NIKO TAKOWSKy — SOCIAL NETWORKINg ELIzABETH TENHOUTEN — BEAUTy MarKetInG & SPecIaL eventS How can we talk to children about the What’s In Your What are prescription drugs? NATASHA ALEXANDROVNA Medicine Cabinet? horrors of prescription drugs when kids DORA COHEN They are drugs prescribed for see parents and the rest of the grown-up LAUREL DESSER Here’s an eye opener. Drug overdose world use them? From TV commercials DANICA HACKINg surpasses car crashes as the leading YOU not your CHILD to the line-up in our medicine cabinet, contrIButorS cause of accidental death in the United Vicodin, OxyContin, Concerta, Valium, society accepts the use of prescription DR. SHEILA FORMAN States. Deaths totaling 452,780 and Xanax, Adderall, Nembutal, Mebaral, drugs as “normal” and few parents talk DENNIS FREEMAN "serious outcomes" equaling 2,816,297 RICHARD gREENE Ambien, ProSom, Ambien, Sonata, Ritalin , with kids about the risks. Teens view occurred from 2000 to 2010 states the ELIzABETH KUCHINICH Lunesta... the most abused prescrip tion prescription drugs as prob lem solvers FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System CAROLE LIEBERMAN , MD drugs. If used as directed, prescription for adults and for them. Stats show that BARRIE LyNN for prescription drugs . In 2007 a death medicine can improve health; misused both adults and teens see prescrip tion MILES MELLOR occurred every 19 minutes and p rescrip- the effects are deadly. Prescription drug drugs as safer than street drugs. But MICHAEL MOONEy tion painkillers are the biggest cause. RALPH NADER abuse occurs when a person other than the nothing is further from the truth. Teens— Look at the celebrities who have died ; NOMI PRINS person the pres crip tion was intended for abusing prescription medicines experi - CHRISTINA ROHR their deaths shocked the worl d. And the takes the drug and generally takes a larger ence dramatic increase in blood pressure CONgRESSMAN RON PAUL saddest realization came when the dose than prescribed. A nother cause of and heart rate, organ damage, difficulty jACqUELINE SAINT ANNE coroner’s office returned verdicts of SHARON WyNTERS death is when one drug is taken to counter- breathing, seizures, addiction and death. “accidental drug overdose by mixing VANESSA VERDE act the effect of another drug. Taking an Teens abusing over-the-counter cough medications” ... IT’S THAT BAD! upper-stim ulant to balance out a downer- medicine experience fast heart beat, high ProductIon art dIrector All ages, but especially children are depress ant . Accidental deaths from mix - blood pressure, diarrhea, seizures, panic, ERNESTO CUEVAS at risk as prescription drug abuse rises . ing pres cription meds kills millions . Where drowsiness, confusion, dizziness, blurred Please support The Medicine Abuse weB MaSter can your child get prescription drugs? 65 % vision, impaired physical coordination, jAMES LONgHINI Project sponsored by The Partnership of teens abusing prescription drugs get coma and overdose. Overdosing, espe - jAMES .A.LONgHINI @gMAIL .COM at Drugfree.org. Its campaign to save our them from the medicine cabinet of family cially on prescription pain relievers can be children launched in September and its coPy/GraPHIcS and friends. From any house he/ she goes fatal. Prescription opioids (pain relievers) weB account SuPPort multi-year national action campaign has to with a bath room with a medicine cab inet and other prescription medicines are NIKO TAKOWSKy teamed with some 60 strategic, federal or bedroom with a dresser drawer holding addictive and present life risks and life - and cor porate partners to lift the veil on PHotoGraPHerS medication— like for instance your house . long pattern of dependency. SIGNS... AL KHOSRAVI : gOLDENCOLOR .COM deaths by prescription drug abuse. The It take two seconds to see a bottle of pills, Medicine Abuse Projec t is committed to VINCE BUCCI open it and take some. Teens tra ffic drugs • One minute your child is happy, then DENNIS FREEMAN save a half a million teens from abusing among themselves; giving or selling withdrawn, depressed, or in a rage. PAT KRAUSE medicine within the next five years. With pills of their own, or that they’ve stolen. • Does your child need additional MAXINE PICARD EDWARD SIMMS medicine abuse at epidemic proportions Only a tiny percentage gets them from mo ney for vague reasons? and no regard for race, geographic or doctors, pharmacists or on the internet. • Have you seen your child stagger socio- economic boundaries, this project Unsolicited Material Is NOT Returned or have noticed slurred speech? 9903 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 479 begins at home with parents. With us. • Has your child given up old friends? Beverly Hills, CA 90212 When you visit The Medicine Abuse How do you know if your child 310.446-1617 • Any changes in the pupils of your 310-993-7400 Project at the Drugfree.org website, you’ll is taking your prescription drugs? child's eyes, redness or bloodshot? be shocked at the information; about the • Has your child given up tidiness www.bhtmag.com Research by The Partnership at www.beverlyhillstimesmagazine.com role parents play in the prescription drug and personal hygiene? Drugfree.org and other national studies problem killing our kids. Not just parents , • Has your child become dishonest? show one in five teens say they’ve used but grandparents, uncles, aunts and our • Openly smoking cigarettes? BHT assumes no responsibility for a prescription drug without a prescrip- contents, claims and reserves the right neighbors and friends. Imagine how you’d • Are alcoholic beverages or prescrip - tion meant for them. Reasons: to party, to decline ads, content, photographs feel to find out you were your child’s tion medicines suddenly missing? drug dealer? The Drugfree.org web site get high, manage life. Kids abuse stim - submitted. All rights reserved. ulants like Ritalin and Adderall for energy No reproduction. stats are boggling . Millions of paren ts Visit The Medicine Abuse Project at the and an ability to focus when studying or using prescription meds are raided by Drugfree.org website. This NEW parents taking tests and abuse pain relievers like FOR ADVERTISING their kids. Parents don’t communicate the guide to preventing pre scrip tion med - OxyContin and tranquilizers like Xanax to Information risks of prescription medicine abuse to icine abuse will help you help your chil - cope w ith academic, social or emotional press kit online kids as often as they talk about street dren, and maybe you’ll learn a few things www.bhtmag.com drugs. Most of the time both parents stress and prescription ampheta mines about yourself you never knew. l and kids see prescription meds as safe. to lose weight, or steroids to bulk up. 10 // bhtmag.com // UCLA LONGEVITY CENTER HONORS SIDNEY POITIER, JANE & TERRY SEMEL, STEVE RECHNITZ DR. PETER WHYBROW and SHLOMO RECHNITZ Photos: Vince Bucci Quincy Jones, Morgan Freeman, Sidney Poitier Dr. Peter Whybrow, Jane & Terry Semel Kerry Weems, Steve Rechnitz, Shlomo Rechnitz & Dr. Gary Small, Director of the UCLA Longevity Center Longevity Center , a non -profit Brothers. Jane Bovingdon Semel, founder dedicated to enhanc ing and extending of ijane inc., a non-profit production co., produc tive & healthy lives with researc h produced, Face The Issue public service and education honored supporters at the announcements addressing public health 2012 ICON Awards gala at the Beverly issues of today’s youth. She’s a Board Hills Hotel. Natalie Cole performed and of Visitors membe r at the David Geffen comedienne /KFI radio personality Lisa School of Medicine. The Semels endowed Ann Walter emceed. Dr. Louise Horvitz the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Timothy Noonan co-chaired. “Each and Human Behavior at UCLA. The ICON of our honorees is a true icon of health y Award for Visionary Leadership in and active living,” said Longevity Center Science and Medicine was presented Director Dr. Gary Small, a memory and to Dr. Peter Whybrow, Director of the Alzheimer’s disease expert and best- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and sell ing author. “We are honored to cele - Human Behavior at UCLA, Judson Dr. Gary Small with Berry Gordy Patti Davis brate these remarkable individu als for Braun Dis tinguished Professor and UCLA Dean A. Eugene Washington their generosity, commitment and myriad Executive Chair of the Dep artment of contributions to our community.” Psychiatry/Bio behavioral Sciences at Quincy Jones present ed the ICON the David Geffen School of Medicine/ Award for Artistic Excellence to Sidney CEO of the Resnick Neuro psychiatric Poitier. Vice Chancellor UCLA Health Hospital at UCLA. Shlomo and Steve Sciences/D ean David Geffen School of Rechnitz received the ICON Award for Medicine at UCLA, A. Eugene Wash ington Visionary Leadership in Business and presented the ICON Award for Visionary Philanthropy presented by Kerry Weems, Leadership in Science and Medicine to Vice President and Manager for Health Jane & Terry Semel & Dr. Peter Whybrow. Solutions Sector at General Dynamics Chairman and CEO of Windsor Media, Information Technology. The Center’s Semel was Chairman/CEO of Yahoo! Inc. endeavors improve lives every day.