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June 2, 2026 • Vol. 13, No. 42

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‘Shoot me up with a big one’: The Ketamine Timeline of the Last Days of Matthew Perry

MAGIC to TRAGIC – May 27, 2026 - The 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution that followed came to a close Wednesday with the sentencing of his personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, who bought him the drugs, gave him ... Read More...

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Social Media Addiction | Why Can’t you Focus Anymore? (They’re watching you)

VIDEO – MY NEW ADDICTION – May 30, 2026 - Why is social media so addictive? It’s not an accident, and it’s not just you overusing it. In this video, we break down how the world’s biggest social media platforms use hy... Read More...

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Kathryn Burgum Turned Her Sobriety into a White House Mission

NOT SHY ABOUT ANYTHING – May 30, 2026 - Kathryn Burgum is the White House’s senior adviser for addiction recovery — and for her, it’s a searingly personal issue. She is the wife of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, ... Read More...

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WHO Urges Governments To Protect Youth From Addiction to All Nicotine Products

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS – May 29, 2026 - Worldwide, at least 40 million children aged 13–15 use tobacco products, and young people’s use of e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches continues to rise. World No Tobacco Day ... Read More...

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AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos

WHOSE WORLD IS IT NOW? – May 26, 2026 - The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever. Countless coders spent the holidays in basements and dens, mad... Read More...

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Root Cause of Addiction – Urban vs Rural / Right vs Left – LETTER

CITY / SUBURB – May 30, 2026 - Finding ways to give kids meaningful attention and guidance when it’s missing in the family setting is sorely needed and applies of course to all families whether single or two parent. ... Read More...

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Person of the Week: Renee Baribeau

Cara Delevingne on Sobriety–Coming Out as a Lesbian

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1 in 8 Mothers Drink During Pregnancy

HOW MANY FATHERS? – May 19, 2026 - The idea of drinking during pregnancy sounds like a generational punchline: Someone’s grandmother drank beer to fatten her fetus, another had a nightly martini to get a healthy amou... Read More...

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Childhood Junk-Food Diet Rewires the Brain

THEY ARE WHAT THEY EAT – May 23, 2026 - “What we eat early in life really matters.” said Dr. Cristina Cuesta-Martí, the study’s lead author. “Early dietary exposure may leave hidden, long-term effects on feeding beha... Read More...

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How Diet Soda Impacts Your Liver

AND THE METALLIC TASTE? – May 25, 2026 - What about diet soda? Is it any better for the liver than regular soda? According to the hepatologists, diet soda doesn’t negatively impact the liver as much as regular soda d... Read More...

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U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Falling — But the Numbers Still Tell a Serious Story

TRACKING THE NUMBERS – May 26, 2026 - New federal data suggests the nation’s drug overdose crisis may be easing somewhat — at least compared to the devastating peaks seen in recent years. According to the la... Read More...

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Actor William McNamara Opens Up About Going Sober

REEL REAL SUCCESS – May 27, 2026 - The 61-year-old actor discussed how much his life changed following his role in 1988’s Stealing Home with Jodie Foster. He went on to garner some 165 film and television credits but... Read More...

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Woman Says Trying Cannabis at 12 Led to 18-year Addiction

SMOKERS BEWARE – May 28, 2026 - Joanna Warner, 43, was taken on shoplifting trips by her alcoholic father from age seven and began drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis aged 12. Her father passed away when she was 17... Read More...

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Ministry Helping Former Inmates Find Redemption

DOING GOD’S WORK – May 29, 2026 - After spending more than two decades trapped in drugs and incarceration, Spivey is using his past to help others find what he calls “true freedom.” Spivey is the founder and CEO of O... Read More...

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Different Alcoholic Beverages Impact Human Lifespan

INTERESTING – May 26, 2026 - Swap a glass of wine for a bottle of beer. Same evening, same amount of pure alcohol, same number of drinks by any standard measure. Public health guidance on alcohol has spent years conv... Read More...

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Turning Grief into a Lifeline for Thousands

BEING OF SERVICE – May 29, 2026 - Points of Light is proud to share the following uplifting and inspiring story. However, we acknowledge that portions of this story may be difficult for some readers. We encourage you... Read More...

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The Recovery Community on Dewey Avenue

MUSCLES IN SOBRIETY – May 2, 2026 - Time ticks down to the end of the minute-long session as the class works out through eight different stations during their Cardio Crew class at ROCovery Fitness on Dewey Ave. Class... Read More...

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Treating Addiction with an Addictive Drug: The Ketamine Paradox

GOOD OR BAD? – May 29, 2026 - Conclusions: Ketamine represents a promising but still experimental intervention for both refractory depression and selected SUDs. Its clinical use depends on careful patient selection, ... Read More...

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Limitations of Naloxone in Reversing Overdoses

DIER BEWARE – April 2026 - “Our study shows that the current doses of naloxone may not be sufficient to reverse overdoses caused by newer synthetic opioids,” said study lead author Maarten A. van Lemmen, Ph.D., of th... Read More...

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Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend

FILM RUN DOWN – May 29, 2026 - Charles Jackson’s most famous novel, The Lost Weekend (1944), is emblematic of this changing landscape of alcohol-forward literature. Billy Wilder’s film adaptation in (1945) scrutiniz... Read More...

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Leonard Cohen – Democracy Is Coming (Back) to the USA

VIDEO – SONG OF THE WEEK – 2,642,982 views - It’s coming to America first - The cradle of the best and of the worst - It’s here they got the range - And the machinery for change - And it’s here they got the spiritual... Read More...

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How Katie Herzog Drank Her Way to Sobriety

AUDIO – EASY DOES IT – May 26, 2026 - That story is in her new book, Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol. And she joins us from On Point station Blue Ridge Public Radio in Ashevi... Read More...

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Hayden Panettiere Praises Paris Jackson for Being an Addiction Survivor

ALIVE AND WELL – May 30, 2026 - Paris, who is the daughter of late pop star Michael Jackson, spoke about the “ugly behavior” she typically engaged in when she hit the bottle. The behavior is really ugly. It’s really ... Read More...

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Tom Holland Created New Drinks for Zendaya Because She Didn’t Like Beer

CHEERS! – June 1, 2026 - Tom Holland is paying tribute to two very important women in his life: his mother, and longtime love Zendaya. The 30-year-old Spider-Man actor debuted a new line of shandy style drinks und... Read More...

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Sonny Rollins Knew Not To Die Young

NEVER MISSED A NOTE – May 29, 2026 - How is it that the “Saxophone Colossus” Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren’t jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that’s a myth that Rollins and others ... Read More...

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The Alcohol-Sugar Double Whammy Coming Soon

HOW SWEET IT IS – May 29, 2026 - Highly sweetened, flavored alcoholic drinks, often marketed in brightly colored portable containers, may deserve greater attention from hepatologists because they combine concentrated... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Judy Crane

“We do a huge injustice when we point our finger and make judgment about behaviors rather than recognizing the innate goodness of most human beings.” – Judy Crane ... Read More...

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Book Excerpt – HIGH: From Cannabis to Clarity by Leonard Lee Buschel

HIGH-lights – Once I was back home, selling the hash was no problem, until I was dealing my last quarter ounce to some guys in a friend’s basement in the Kensington and Allegheny neighborhood of Philadelphia. I... Read More...

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Publisher Turns 27* and is subject of a piece in Shout Out LA

A PUFF PIECE ON AN EX-POTHEAD – August 2, 2021 - Occasionally the gang and I would wait at the news stand for the ‘bulldog’ edition, dropped off at 11pm. An early edition of the morning Inky, nickname for the Phila... Read More...

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Robert Downey Sr., Filmmaker and Provocateur, Is Dead at 85

A MAN OF HIS TIME, A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME, A MAN FOR ALL TIME – July 7, 2021 - The film, though probably a financial success by Mr. Downey’s standards, made only about $2.7 million. (By comparison, “Butch Cass... Read More...

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Writers In Treatment: Melding Recovery, the Arts, and Information

The accident that led to a Film Festival November 12, 2020 - For the past twelve years, Leonard Buschel has been an instrumental force in adding flavor and culture to the recovery community by filling ... Read More...

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Leslie Jordan Fan Mail

“Who knew when Leonard started his recovery bulletin years ago, how pertinent and necessary it would become in the days of hunkering down from the Covid 19 virus. When one has exhausted all the available online... Read More...

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