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In a state where more attention is being paid to alternatives to incarceration for drug offenses, the program Love is seeking to enter appears to be gaining in popularity. Several independent agencies handle DEJ cases, and a comprehensive set of statistics does not exist, said a spokesperson for the Los Angeles county courts. But a limited set of statistics suggests the program is flourishing. According to David Davies, a bureau chief with the Los Angeles County probation department — which handles many of the DEJ cases — 5,215 people were admitted into the program in 2003, compared with only 2,745 in 2002. There are currently 8,515 active DEJ cases in the probation system, Davies said. Although experienced drug users may qualify for DEJ programs by virtue of their unblemished criminal records, treatment advocates are concerned that such programs don't really help more serious drug users. In a September 1992 article in Vanity Fair, for which 20 industry sources were interviewed on her drug abuse with her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Love painted a disturbing portrait of her addictions while pregnant with daughter Francis Bean Cobain. ''We went on a binge,' she says, referring to a period in January when Nirvana was in New York to appear on Saturday Night Live. 'We did a lot of drugs. We got pills and then we went down to Alphabet City and Kurt wore a hat, I wore a hat, and we copped some dope. Then we got high and went to S.N.L. After that, I did heroin for a couple of months.''
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