Woman banned from Walmart after riding cart while drinking wine from Pringles canIt's OK at Costco, if you have 100 cans – Jan. 12, 2019 - Officers responded to a call around 9 a.m. about a suspicious person in the store’s parking lot, the Times Record News reported. Investigators found the woman at... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Meth’s resurgence spotlights lack of meds to combat the addictionNo Meds, No Treatment, No Hope? – Jan. 13, 2019 - But unlike the opioid epidemic — for which medications exist to help combat addiction — medical providers have few such tools to help methamphetamine users survive and r... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Drug addiction is a serious epidemic, why don’t we treat it like one? by Becky FloodContagious? or Not? – Jan. 9, 2019 - Drug addiction is an intergenerational disease, just as prevalent in the family tree as cancer or diabetes. In fact, studies found that animals exposed to prenatal stress tend to exh... Read More...Jan 22 2019
The Tricky Ethics of Transplants for AddictsGo For It – JAN 19, 2019 -How many of you think we should do liver transplants for alcoholics?” About half the hands were slowly raised, while the other members of the class looked around nervously. These were third-yea... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids joined forces with Center on AddictionANTI-ADDICTION ADVOCACY – Jan. 2019 - Center on Addiction was founded in 1992 by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Carter administration and Chief Domestic Advisor ... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Marketing opioids to doctors tied to increased overdose deathsPopulation Control? – January 18, 2019 - Researchers used three measures of opioid marketing: number of payments to doctors, marketing value in dollars, and number of physicians receiving marketing. The analysis found a... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Fentanyl test strips are effective in reducing overdose riskPlease Use One – JANUARY 19, 2019 - During the first stage of the study, each participant received 10 fentanyl test strips, which work like an over-the-counter pregnancy test. A single-use strip is dipped into water con... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Mom rolled onto, suffocated 1-year-old son after overdoseCollateral Damage – Jan. 20, 2019 - Authorities said it appeared King had rolled over onto the boy and suffocated him. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The mother has been charged with endangering the welfar... Read More...Jan 22 2019
‘I’m trying not to die right now’: Why opioid-addicted patients are still searching for helpLive To Get High To Live? – 01/20/2019 - “There has never been a system that demands quality of care for treatment of substance use disorders,” said Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, whi... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Severe Juuling Addiction Lands Teen In RehabNo More Inhaling – January 20, 2019 - “He went from being a straight-A student to an F student,” Luka’s mother, Kelly Kinard, said. “(It was) a very rapid decline in grades. His behavior became explosive. He was very an... Read More...Jan 22 2019
3 Drug-Free Ways to Optimize In-the-Moment HappinessLike Drug Free Magic – Jan. 20, 2019 - For their recent study, Hoeppner and her team surveyed 531 adults who self-described themselves as seeking or being in recovery from problematic substance use. The participants for... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Former homeless, disabled woman steps in to help good SamaritanHelping the Helper – JANUARY 17, 2019 -”When I met her, I said, ‘Over my dead body, you’re not going to be on the street, don’t worry.’ She cried, and I told her ‘I’ll take you under my wing, don’t worry,’” Biton-Jackso... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Acupuncture may help those battling addictionBetter Needles – January 18th 2019 - Derek Johnson, a licensed acupuncturist with UC Medical Center, says that acupuncture therapy uses tiny needles which are placed into pressure points to promote the body’s own healin... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Why Are so Many Women Dying from Drug Overdoses?Doses Are Too High – January 16, 2019 - “Everyone wants a simple answer about why this is happening, but it just doesn’t exist,” said Dr. Michael Genovese, a clinical psychiatrist and chief medical officer at Acadia Hea... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Study Links Drug Maker Gifts for Doctors to More Overdose DeathsMarketing Death/Smoking Gun – Jan. 18, 2019 - A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. The authors, from B... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Too Much Learning In Schools ‘Is Harming Mental Health’Missing the Mark – January 16, 2019 - Researchers interviewed teachers who had been on long-term sick due to mental health problems, as well as school leaders who had experience of dealing with mental health problems am... Read More...Jan 22 2019
S.N.L.: Reason John Mulaney Helped Pete Davidson Make a Triumphant ReturnGood News – JANUARY 20, 2019 - Mulaney mentioned on Saturday night that he wanted to show Davidson—who briefly left S.N.L. in 2017 to get sober—how to have some substance-free fun. Though Mulaney hasn’t made his past s... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Mental capacity changes give care homes too much powerDetained in the UK – January 17, 2017 - The problem has become more acute as demand for care home places rises. There are around 300,000 people over 65 in residential care in the UK; many suffer from dementia. Restricti... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Kate Moss, 45, continues to show dazzling perks of sobrietyModel of Moderation – January 18, 2019 - ‘Kate is like a new woman and a much better version of herself. She is focused, professional and glowing with health...’Everyone is amazed at how well she has done in not drinki... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Eels in Thames become hyperactive after Londoners on cocaine pee in waste waterNo Unagi for Me – Jan. 20, 2019 - They found the fish “appeared hyperactive” compared to eels kept in cocaine free waters. While the powder may be increasingly popular with the country’s elite - an estimated 3.64% of th... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Creating While Clean: Trey Anastasio, Jason Isbell, Ben Harper & Others Discuss SobrietyMusic of the Spheres – Jan. 15, 2019 - In the modern pop-culture tradition, being a musician has often come with a series of default lifestyle expectations, ones of indulgence and recklessness, larger-than-life living, ... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Lena Hall on ‘Falling Apart,’ and finding herself through sobrietyActing As If – January 18, 2019 - A: I think, for me, my emotional ups and downs were becoming so extreme that I was not recognizable to myself. My downward spiral started around when I was 30, which was a time of disco... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Ant McPartlin opens up about his battle with alcohol dependency and drug addictionDeep Drama – Jan. 19, 2019 - Ant McPartlin breaks silence on drink drive arrest to The Sun and reveals how new lover Anne Marie Corbett saved his life in world exclusive interview Ant McPartlin weighs in on ‘girl code’... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Even a little marijuana may change teen brainReality Damage – Jan. 14, 2019,- “Most people would likely assume that one or two uses (joints) would have no impact, so we were curious to study this — and especially to investigate if first uses may actually produce b... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Kickbacks for North Palm Beach center totaled nearly $250,000Money Over Lives – Jan. 14, 2019 - According to a Palm Beach Gardens Police report dated last Wednesday, Mylett was the co-owner of Reliance Treatment Center, a licensed substance abuse center on U.S. 1 in North Palm Be... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Sackler Family In 100,000’s of DeathsAmerican Terrorists Killing Our Youth – January 16, 2019 - The two physicians and several others, who became Purdue’s most frequent prescribers in Massachusetts, eventually lost their licenses but not before authorizi... Read More...Jan 22 2019