POP & ROCK

Soul singer James Brown will receive treatment for a drug dependency problem following weekend run-ins with Georgia and South Carolina police, Brown’s lawyer, Albert H. (Buddy) Dallas, said Wednesday in Augusta, Ga. Dallas said that the singer’s recent marital troubles and oral surgery sparked the singer’s problems. Brown had said he was turned away from an Athens, Ga., hospital on Tuesday for lack of space after he tried to admit himself. He acknowledged that he needed “help,” but refused to say whether his problems were drug-related. Dallas confirmed, however, that Brown will be treated as an outpatient for use of a drug he refused to identify. Brown was arrested Saturday after he carried a shotgun into an insurance seminar in Augusta, then led police on a chase across state lines into South Carolina, authorities said.