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Courtney Love in Drug Overdose Incident LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock singer Courtney Love was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday night after complaining of feeling faint, but she was discharged soon after, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Love, 41, was attending an entertainment industry gathering at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel when she felt ill, publicist Jill Fritzo said in an e-mail message.
"She was at a party, felt faint, went out for air, a friend called an ambulance for precaution, they took her to the hospital and she was released immediately," Fritzo said.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said officers called to the Roosevelt shortly past midnight took a crime report under the name of "Courtney L," but she declined to give further details, saying the report was confidential.
A city fire department spokeswoman, Melissa Kelly, said fire personnel responded to a drug overdose call at the Roosevelt at one minute after midnight and transported someone to the hospital.
Kelly said her records did not indicate who the victim was. She added city police were routinely notified of any drug overdose reported to the fire department. Word of the incident surfaced a day before a hearing was scheduled in Los Angeles Superior Court for a report on Love's status in a court-ordered drug treatment program.
Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, told Reuters his client was making "fantastic" progress in her rehabilitation program and had repeatedly passed drug tests since March.
"As far as I know, she's doing well in her program, continuing forward in her treatment and has tested negative for drugs," he said.
Love was sentenced in February to three years' probation and anger management counseling after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor assault for attacking a woman at the home of an ex-boyfriend last April.
She also pleaded guilty to possessing a forged prescription and the painkiller oxycodone, for which she was sentenced to 18 months probation and ordered to continue in rehab.
She was initially placed in drug treatment after pleading guilty in May of 2004 to a charge of being under the influence of cocaine. In October that year, she pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for hitting a man in the head with a microphone stand at a New York nightclub.
