How America Lost One Million People THEY AREN’T LOST - THEY’RE DEAD – May 13, 2022 - “It really should be a moment for us all to reflect on what sort of society we want to have,” she added. Experts say deaths were all but inevitable from a new... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeatured Articleslife expectancyTrauma
Inside Deadly Sales Juggernaut of the ‘Kingpin’ of Opioid Makers SELLING, BUYING AND DYING – May 10, 2022 - These doctors were among 239 medical professionals ranked by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals as its top prescribers of opioids during the height of the pain pill ep... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeatured Articlesopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Family Grieving After 15-year-old girl Dies VIDEO – HER FUTURE IS OVER – May 12, 2022 - A small-town South Carolina family found their daughter dead in her bedroom after she took a $3 pill that turned out to be fentanyl. Lana Hooker-Hashem was an honor s... Read More...Big PharmaFeatured ArticlesfentanylteenagersTrauma
The Must-Have Gear for Going Out This Summer! SAVE AN ADDICT – May 5, 2022 - Godvin sprang into action. With the help of a network of volunteers, she gave away naloxone (often referred to by its brand name, Narcan) at Atmosphere’s shows across the country... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeatured Articlesfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Tony Stark’s Substance Abuse Is Symptomatic of a Much Scarier Problem COMIC? – May 9, 2022 - Ever since he could, Tony struggled with substance abuse as he has tackled alcoholism in the past. But in the most recent Iron Man run, Tony’s life had gotten more complicated with his vi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeatured ArticlesinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
How Oscar Winner ‘The Lost Weekend’ Depicts Alcoholism GO WATCH A GOOD FILM – May 10, 2022 - One of the unfortunate side effects of how The Lost Weekend grapples with alcoholism comes in the more heightened aspects of Ray Milland’s Oscar-winning lead performance. ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeatured ArticlesinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Heartwarming Health News SOBRIETY NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD – May 12, 2022 - The 35-year-old shared a health update with his fans on Wednesday to mark three years of sobriety, revealing that despite a “particularly tough” year, he is proud ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Selma Blair Opens Up About Getting Drunk at Age 7 AUDIO – ALCOHOL NO MORE – May 11, 2022 - Selma Blair is not afraid to go there when it comes to sharing the ups and downs of her personal life — particularly in the wake of her 2018 Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
High School Students Tell How The Pandemic Changed Them OUT OF DIFFICULTY COMES GROWTH – May 14, 2022 - When school went online, Ruby, then a freshman, was self-conscious about showing her house on camera. She also had a hard time finding a quiet place to concentra... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusMental HealthRecoveryteenagersTrauma
Strings Attached to State Funds For Treatment in Jails YOU SHOULD CARE – May 10, 2022 - The $2 million grant program included in the state budget late last year specifies that the funds can be used to provide only one of the three FDA-approved medications for opioi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Medicated-Assisted Treatment Helped Man On His Road To Sobriety DOGS AND DRUGS – May 3, 2022 - He explained five keys to his journey to recovery and at the top of that list is relationships. That includes a good friend who cared for his two large dogs when Trolley was in t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRehab
LA Skid Row – Overdose ‘Epicenter’ with Methadone Miles Away BRING THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMED – May 11, 2022 - “The hardest part is to get there,” Elias said. “Soma — she has so much to do and she goes out of her way to help so many people. But she is only one person.” S... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
“Tragic Magic” and the Power of Transformation NO HOCUS POCUS HERE – May 12, 2022 - Such a strange mixture really, because there are so many moments of tragedy, moments of brutality and raw confessions from Sigute and that can be very tricky to balance with... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionMental HealthRecovery
Mother Knows Pain of Losing VIDEO – MOURN THE MOURNING – May 11, 2022 - She remembered the night she received the worst news of her life. “It’s a doorbell ring you never want to get,” Miniard said. “Two Jacksonville detectives were st... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictionInterviewOverdoseTrauma
Chemically Manufactured Sweeteners Damage the Intestines GOD BLESS SUGAR – May 12, 2022 - Artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame can interact with healthy bacteria in the gut. This can lead to increased adhesion of intestinal bacteria. Adh... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionRecovery
Jodi Galloway Is a Champion of Addiction Prevention IT TAKES COURAGE – May 9, 2022 - “She develops leadership skills that help young women find their voice and encourages them to make a difference in their communities and among their peer,” stated Busler. Ga... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
New Tool For Psychiatrists Encouraging Patients to Stop Smoking LUNGS ARE ALIVE – 2019 - Before taking the course, many residents noted other obstacles that prevent psychiatrists from addressing patients’ tobacco use. For example, patients with severe mental health i... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerinterventionnicotineRecoverysmoking
What’s the Best Way to Treat Addiction? THORNY FEEDBACK – May 12, 2022 - To the Editor: Maia Szalavitz claims that forced treatment for addiction doesn’t work. In our family’s tragic experience, neither does the friendly persuasion that she ad... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab
Mother and Daughter Share Their Journey Through an Eating Disorder WALKING HAND IN HAND – May 14, 2022 - By this point — at the recommendation of her counsellor — she had given the voice a name and started to speak to it. She called the voice “the bitch.” saying it tried to co... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Addiction is Not a Moral Failure A HORRIBLE LOSS – May 15, 2022 - Just weeks before her death, Lauren asked her father, Michael Cole, if he thought that someday, when he retired, he might help her in her quest to make sure people fighting subs... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRehab
‘They Were All Lawyered Up with Rudy Giuliani On Top’ THE CONSULTANT – A LOOK BACK @AUGUST 5, 2018 - Two months after the news conference announcing the terms of the settlement, the Purdue executives flew to Abingdon for their sentencing hearing. The RAPP parents ... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Medicating Back Pain Prolongs … Back Pain PHARMA PROLONGS SUFFERING – March 12, 2022 - “People overuse the term ‘paradigm shift’, but this is absolutely a paradigm shift,” Buchheit said. “There is this unspoken rule: If it hurts, take an anti-inflamma... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyRecoverySliderTrauma
Can Psychedelic Startups Solve Mental Health Crisis? VIDEO – THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS – May 11, 2022 - But recent studies showing great promise in psychedelics are prompting startups to develop new health drugs in the space. Venture capitalists are also taki... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehabSlider
Naomi Judd Died of Self-Inflicted Gun Shot SINGING WITH THE ANGELS NOW – May 12, 2022 - “We’re aware that although grieving the loss of a wife and a mother, we are, in an uncanny way, a public family,” Ms. Judd said. “So that’s really the impetus for t... Read More...Articles of InterestdepressionMental HealthSliderTrauma
The Rolling Stones’ Journey to Sobriety VIDEO – SISTER MORPHINE GO HOME – May 13, 2022 - DeCurtis told the outlet that there was also a significance behind the album’s title as the “Exile” part means they were tax exiles. The band fled England to avo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSlider
How Film and TV Depict Alcohol Abuse GO WATCH A GOOD FILM – May 9, 2022 - Sofia Black-D’Elia’s performance as Sam is remarkable for capturing the all-over-the-map mood swings of her character’s early sobriety. As Sam’s sponsor keeps telling her, s... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehabSlider
Paulo O’Brien talks with Leonard Buschel about his book, HIGH: Confessions of a Cannabis Addict VIDEO – ADDICTS’ LIVES MATTER – 2022 - Leonard Buschel is the author of the new book, HIGH: Confessions of a Cannabis Addict. He is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, and he is the founder of Writers ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabSliderWriters In Treatment
Pete Doherty On Managing “to get out of the addictive cycle” VIDEO – BECAUSE ADDICTION IS LAME – May 15, 2022 - Doherty explained more about how he had “managed to somehow keep on the straight and narrow”, and said that his experience of lockdown in Normandy “completely ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSlider
Quote of the Week – Carl Sagan “When the unfertilized egg is expelled each month, has someone died? Should we mourn all those spontaneous miscarriages?” ―Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: (Nov. 9, 1934 - Dec. 20, 1996) ... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week
Book Excerpt: HIGH Confessions of a Cannabis Addict by Leonard Lee Buschel HIGH-lights – Jan. 30, 2022 - 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 Phil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Experience, Strength and Hope Awards Honors Leigh Steinberg & Courtney Friel THE RECOVERY EVENT OF 2021 – The 11th Annual, at the Skirball Cultural Center, returned Wednesday, December 15, honoring Leigh Steinberg, author of The Agent and the in... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionExperience Strength and HopeExperience Strength and Hope AwardsLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalWriters In Treatment
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...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionLeonard Buschelnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
True Works of Genius: Global Sober Books THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS – April 13, 2021 - Peter T. has authored eight books, and very few folks know his full name. Such is a life and a lifestyle shaped by Alcoholics Anonymous. In early 2020, j... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyExperience Strength and HopeExperience Strength and Hope AwardsLeonard Buschelnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalWriters In Treatment
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...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery Advocate