One Out of Four Children Have a Parent with Addiction Problem AUDIO – ALANON HERE WE COME – May 13, 2025 - “If one-quarter of kids in the U.S. have a parent with a substance use disorder, that tells us that every day in our clinics we are encountering many, if not dozens of fa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeatured ArticlesMental Health
Social Status Shapes Addiction Risk In Dopamine Circuitry IT’S SCIENCE – May 13, 2025 - A new study reveals how social rank influences addiction vulnerability by altering dopamine pathways in the brain. Low-ranking male mice showed stronger reward signals and weaker c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeatured ArticlesMental Health
Jamie Lee Curtis on How Sobriety ‘Shifted’ Her Perspective ‘About Everything’ VIDEO – ALWAYS FAMOUS – 2025 - Entertainment Tonight appearance. Jamie Lee Curtis explains how sobriety has 'shifted' her perspective while dishing about her new series, 'Scarpetta,' premiering in 2026. CONTINUE@E... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeatured Articles
Carnie Wilson Calls Beach Boys Dad Brian Wilson ‘the strongest person I know’ GOOD VIBRATIONS – May 6, 2025 - Wilson, the daughter of 82-year-old Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson, is vocal about her sobriety journey and hasn’t drank alcohol in more than 20 years. Wilson’s happy place is us... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeatured Articlesgrammy winner
Sober Cowboy’s Annual Rodeo Promotes Sobriety VIDEO – NO ‘LONE’ RANGER – MAY 13, 2025 - “With the things that we do for work, whether it’s on the ranch or the farms or even in the rodeo industry part of it, there’s lots of injury and pain and also isolatio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeatured Articlessobriety
Recovery Program Pairs Horses with Addiction Recovery NPR AUDIO – GIDDY UP – May 16, 2025 - As the sun rises over Taylor Made Farm several dozen men gather in a home, heads bowed, and deep in prayer. Each man is on a journey to rebuild a life shattered by drug and alco... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeatured ArticlesRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
35% More Kids Depressed From Being on Social Media We're All Kids – May 21, 2025 - Depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether depressed kids simply spend more time on social media? “There has bee... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phonedepressioninternetMental HealthSliderSmartphone Addictionteenagers
A ‘nightmare’: Teens Struggle with Vaping Addiction VIDEO – YOUTH MARKET – May 12, 2025 - Every year Alternative Products Expos happen at convention centers across the U.S., showcasing smoke shop wares from tobaccos and vapes to accessories and CBDs. Earlier thi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionteenagersVaping
Why Revenge Can Feel Like an Addiction DOPAMINE – May 12, 2025 - If you’ve been passed over for a promotion at work or had a romantic partner cheat on you, you know how much it can sting. You may replay these events over and over in your mind and think ab... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental Health
Trainspotting Helps Researchers Identify Brain Region Biased Towards Drug Cues ACTION IN SCOTLAND – May 14, 2025 - Researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder – shows synchron... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addiction
Bristol Myers Squibb to Pay Hawaii $700 Million For Blood Thinner Suit BIG PHARMA FAIL – May 9, 2025 - The lawsuit, filed in 2014 alleged that Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi failed to disclose that their drug was less effective in patients with certain liver-enzyme mutations more preva... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Media
Life after: the party WHAT A STORY – May 13, 2025 - Brandon Block – superstar '90s DJ and fabled hedonist – wasn’t about to let a trifling bit of lung disease stand between him and his drugs. Recovering in a hospital isolation unit, he ch... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addiction
Booze Has Negative Impact on People with ADHD VIDEO – FOCUS ON THAT – May 13, 2025 - Alcohol use disorder is a chronic condition marked by an inability to control alcohol consumption despite harmful consequences, resulting in significant distress or impairment. ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaintervention
The 42 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time WE ALL NEED A GOOD LAUGH – May 7, 2025 - A group of Vanity Fair’s writers and editors compiled a list of their own top 10 rom-coms. Then—after some number-crunching and establishing what met our unimpeachable r... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental Health
Shia LaBeouf Says Mel Gibson & Sean Penn & Josh Brolin ‘Kept Me Alive’ ONE DAY AT A TIME – May 8, 2025 - In 2022, LaBeouf and Gibson formed a friendship after Gibson, 69, introduced traditional Latin Mass services to LaBeouf while he was conducting research for his film, Padre Pio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
Addiction Isn’t Just About Brain Chemistry… IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND – May 8, 2025 - Consider someone addicted to alcohol, drugs, or a behavior like gambling. Why do they continue, even when they say they want to stop? It’s a question that highlights a fund... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMental Health
Cameron Mathison Lost His Home in L.A. Fires: His Sobriety Was Tested PASSING THE TEST – May 11, 2025 - “For me, it all comes down to serenity, peace of mind. And so when I feel that craving, that want, that need, that trying to satisfy an inner problem with an outer soluti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
Founder Transforms Lives in Missoula VIDEO – MAKING A DIFFERENCE – May 12, 2025 - At Crosswinds Recovery in Missoula, the path to sobriety is both clinical and deeply personal. The clinic, led by founder Stephen Ferguson, is making a significant impact... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 1,052,601,015 views since Aug 15, 2024 - Thank you Bruno and Lady Gaga for keeping the magic of music ALIVE.....On the part where Lady Gaga starts dancing is a pure example of... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winner
Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 66,467,971 views since Apr 3, 2020 - As a straight 30+ woman I’m not sure I’m the target audience for this song, but somehow it still resonates deeply. In the last several years I’ve stepp... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winner
Brantley Gilbert Credits Keith Urban With His Sobriety ONE DRUNK TALKING TO ANOTHER – May 16, 2025 - “I will say that Keith Urban became a friend of mine in a time when I was making a transition in life,” Gilbert says. “I honestly don’t know if I’d be sitting in th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
‘I had no idea that I was that far gone’: Leon Harris on viral incident that ended his TV career HONESTY IS BEAUTIFUL – May 16, 2025 - “It was gut-wrenching. It was like, ‘Oh, my God. I had no idea that I was that far gone,’” Harris said, adding that it made him think about how many other people he negatively im... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
‘I’m only 24 and will have no bladder’ KETAMINE – May 15, 2025 - A 24-year-old has opened up about how his party drug addiction destroyed his life. He was just a child when he was first introduced to the substance and now has life-changing health struggle... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductionintervention
Good Mental Health is Non-Negotiable in Life and Recovery RELAX A LITTLE – May 4, 2025 - By Ryan Hampton - May is here again. For many, it signals spring finally taking hold, warmer days, maybe the end of a school year. For me, and countless others in the recovery and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyMental HealthSlider
FDA Warns Seniors to Skip Vaccine for Travelers… BEWARE MOSQUITO – May 14, 2025 - In a health alert, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA said people 60 years of age and older should skip getting Valneva-developed Ixchiq vaccine us... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancySlider
How Sobriety Saved Her Fortune! SMART CHOICE – May 11, 2025 - In a shocking revelation, Paige Spiranac, the renowned social media sensation and former professional golfer, disclosed how her decision to abstain from alcohol not only saved her ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietySlidersobriety
Sugar is ‘extremely dangerous’ DIABETES ANYONE? – May 12, 2025 - We owe our sweet tooths to the Arab world of the 7th and 8th centuries. It was in the newly founded Baghdad where people started our ongoing love of sweet treats, gorging themselves ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictionSlider
Broken Heart Syndrome Still Deadly – Especially for Men VIDEO – SIRENS ARE REAL – May 15, 2025 - A large-scale U.S. study reveals that Takotsubo cardiomyopathy—also known as broken heart syndrome—continues to carry a high risk of death and severe complications, with... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental HealthSlider
Quote of the Week – Marcel Proust “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust, July 1871–Nov. 1922 ... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week
Beyond Belief Sobriety w/Author of HIGH! – Confessions of a Cannabis Addict VIDEO – IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD(S) – June 2022 - Things could have played out very differently for Leonard Lee Buschel. A powerful combo of early-childhood trauma, temperament, a “professional” opportuni... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
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
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
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