SUD Execs Say Ozempic & MAT Injectables & AI Likely to Shape 2025

EVERYONE MAKES MONEY – Dec. 11, 2024 - John Driscoll, president and CEO of Caron Treatment Centers “In 2024, we’ve…

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Quote of the Week by Leo Tolstoy

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” – Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910 

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Alcohol Deaths Doubled Since 1999

VIDEO – LIVER DIE – Dec. 2, 2024 - The main causes of alcohol-related death were cardiovascular disease — primarily…

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A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

READING MATTERS – St. Martin’s Press - Challenging both the idea of the addict’s “broken brain” and the notion of…

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Jersey Shore’s Mike Sorrentino: ‘9 years clean and sober’

VIDEO – THE PROMISES COMING TRUE – Dec. 3, 2024 - He celebrated the major moment on social media with…

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Phones in Spain Might Carry Health Warnings

LIKE CIGARETTES? – Dec. 4, 2024 - Proposals include banning digital devices for kids under three and restricting their use…

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Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16

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Music Therapy Helps People With Young Onset Dementia

AUDIO – AND DEPRESSION TOO – Nov. 29, 2024 - It’s estimated more than 400,000 Australians are living with dementia,…

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Overdose Survivors: Medical and Mental Challenges

LIFE GOES ON – Dec. 4, 2024 - Surviving overdose is a major sentinel event with significant short- and long-term…

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Staying Sober This Holiday Season

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Two Flight Attendants Pulled Off the Job After Failing Sobriety Test

GET YOUR OWN DRINK – Dec. 3, 2024 - Two Delta flight attendants were kicked off their route after failing…

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Your Deadly Diet?

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Eleven Predictors For Dementia

DON’T FORGET THEM – Dec. 5, 2024 - This analysis identified lifestyle factors such as lack of exercise, obesity and…

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Holidays Bring Challenges for People Battling Addiction

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Vermont’s Largest Rehab No Longer Accepts Patients on Methadone

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Scientists Learn from Coked Up Rats

RAT RACE – Dec. 5, 2024 - A new study of lab rats who were given cocaine is shedding new light…

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The “Reemergence” of Carfentanil

AVOID AT ALL COST – Dec. 6, 2024 - ...for the most part fentanyl analogs are sometimes a bit more…

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Best Movies of 2024

BETTER THAN ON TV – Dec. 4, 2024 - Here are The Associated Press’ Film Writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey…

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Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – OCT. 26, 2024 - 160,430 views  Premiered Laurie Anderson and more come together in a…

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Person of the Week: Tio Hardiman

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Dec. 10, 2024 - Tio Hardiman, Executive Director for Violence Interrupters, NFP, Two Time Gubernatorial…

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‘Corrupt practices’ by Drug-Treatment Provider Endangered Public

GO TELL IT TO THE JUDGE – Nov. 29, 2024 - Rainier Recovery, which runs centers in Lakewood, Gig Harbor…

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Addiction Recovery Care Closes More Facilities

ANOTHER TWO BITE THE DUST – Dec. 5, 2024 - Addiction Recovery Care (ARC) has temporarily closed at least two…

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Many View Substance Abuse as Health Issue – But In Many States It’s a CRIME

JAIL’S CHEAPER THAN REHAB – Dec. 6, 2024 - The American Medical Association’s annual report on the overdose crisis, released…

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Lily Allen never ‘had sex’ with anyone ‘not drunk’…

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What New Trump Administration Could Mean for Addiction Treatment by Adi Jaffe Ph.D.

INCARCERATION FOR ADDICTS – Dec. 5, 2024  - Trump’s “Agenda 47” proposes an aggressive stance against drug trafficking and addiction,…

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My friend was popular & promising artist – how did he end up on the streets of Portland – addicted & dangerous?

IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE? – Nov. 30, 2024 - When I first met Evan B Harris he was fizzing with…

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BREAKING NEWS! ACADIA HEALTHCARE: CORRUPT AS SIN

ANYTHING FOR A BUCK – “That business has been built on deception, a New York Times investigation found.” Dec. 7,…

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Investigation of Deaths at San Francisco’s Largest Publicly Funded Rehab

VIDEO – WHO IS AT FAULT? – Dec. 3, 2024 - Chronicle photographer Gabrielle Lurie and reporter Maggie Angst spent…

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What Is Brain Rot?

BEYOND DENMARK? – Dec. 1, 2024 - Brain rot is defined as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or…

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Breaking Down Stigmas Around Addiction

TO EACH HIS OWN – Dec. 4, 2024 - Stigmas can result in poor mental health, physical harm, lack of…

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