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Noelle Bush Graduates from Drug Court
August 14, 2003

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Saying it was "quite a challenge," Noelle Bush, daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has successfully completed her drug-court program, the Orlando Sentinel reported Aug. 9.

Bush, 26, agreed to attend a drug-rehabilitation program in lieu of a prison sentence. She was in the Orange Circuit drug-court program for 16 months.

Bush was transferred to the Orlando program in January 2002 after she was arrested by Tallahassee police for trying to obtain the anti-anxiety drug Xanax using a fake prescription.

During her recovery attempt, Bush relapsed and served time in the Orange County Jail. She was first sent to jail for two days in July 2002 after unauthorized prescription drugs were found in her possession at the Center for Drug-Free Living.

Bush went back to jail a second time for 10 days last fall, when police found crack cocaine in her shoe at the Mercy Drive women's residential center.

As a result of her drug-court graduation, Bush will not face any other charges stemming from her January 2002 arrest.

Orange County's drug court has a 76-percent successful completion rate.

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