Barbara Streisand’s Assistant Caught With Meth and Cocaine

Posted by admin on June 18th, 2009 filed in Health

Barbra Streisand’s personal assistant, Tina Fortenberry, was busted on drug charges in Malibu. Fortenberry was arrested after police discovered cocaine, methamphetamines and a weapon in her car, police told the New York Daily News.

Cops pulled over Fortenberry, 52, on Pacific Coast Highway because of expired tags. Fortenberry was driving on a suspended license and going to the post office on an errand for her boss, police said.

Searching her car, they allegedly found cocaine and metamphetamines. She was released on bond and is set to appear in court in July.

Methamphetamine addiction typically occurs when a person begins to use it because of its powerful enhancing effects on mood and energy, weight loss and appetite suppression, among its other psychological and physical effects. Over time effectiveness decreases, and users find that they need to take higher doses to get the same results and have far greater difficulty functioning and experiencing pleasure than they did before, which unlike cocaine persists indefinitely due to neurotoxicity produced by methamphetamine in long-term recovered addicts.

Many young people with drug abuse problems are counseled to seek help before something serious like this happens to them. For many young men and women, the solution is a long term drug rehab or some sort of drug treatment programs. There are even specialized drug rehabilitation centers.