April 11, 2023 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

April 11, 2023 • Vol. 10, No. 35

Rob Lowe In “Recovery Club” With His Sober Son

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON – April 3, 2023 - “As any parent will tell you, the relationship that a teenager, 20-something, has with drugs and alcohol, it’s a precarious one,” Rob said. “All you can do is lead by exa... Read More...

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Designer Honors Sobriety Through Her Designs

VIDEO – OUR DESIGN FOR LIVING – April 5, 2023 - She spent her 20s working in fashion and soaking up Brooklyn’s social scene. “I was not able to turn it off, it eventually led me to be drinking at my jobs,” said M... Read More...

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Addiction Recovery and Relapse

IT CAN BE A PROCESS – April 3, 2023 - Though the statistics vary depending on the addiction, they show that between 40 and 85 percent of individuals relapse and return to using within one year of treatment. Mor... Read More...

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Running Club Welcomes Anyone Impacted By Addiction

VIDEO – ONE RUN AT A TIME – April 4, 2023 - “I’m in recovery myself. It’s been a couple of years plus, and it’s just been such an amazing experience. Just a sense of community I’ve never experienced,” said Boston Bu... Read More...

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Stress Awareness Month: How to Cope and Improve Health

APRIL SHOWERS? – April 4, 2023 - Stress is defined as physical, mental or emotional strain or tension, and long-term stress has harmful impacts on a person’s mental and physical health. It has many similar symp... Read More...

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Bad Sleep Doubles Risk of Killer Lung Disease

SNOOZE OR LOSE – April 4, 2023 - The Biobank study set out to see whether the poor sleep and insomnia people with asthma often report, has an impact on the risk of having asthma or not, and whether quality sleep redu... Read More...

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Exercise Addiction Isn’t a Myth

RUNNER’S HIGH – April 4, 2023 - There is abundant research on exercise addiction (EA), also called “exercise dependence,” in triathletes. One study of 1,285 triathletes found that 20% showed signs of EA, and th... Read More...

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Doctor Sentenced For Writing ‘medically unnecessary’ Opioid Prescriptions

VIDEO – NOT REALLY A HEALER – April 4, 2023 - A former Baton Rouge doctor has been sentenced after evidence at trial revealed he wrote “medically unnecessary” prescriptions for large amounts of opioids, authorities s... Read More...

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Bold Efforts to Improve Access to Treatment for Opioid Addicts

LET THEM IN – April 4, 2023 - Currently in the United States only three medications are indicated for the treatment of OUD. Buprenorphine is the only one that is routinely dispensed by community pharmacists with... Read More...

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Recovery High Schools Help Kids Overcome Addiction

HIGHER EDUCATION NOT HIGH – April 4, 2023 - The students attend Colorado’s only recovery high school — one of 43 nationwide. These schools are designed for students who are recovering from substance use disorder and ... Read More...

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Coolio Died From Fentanyl

AUDIO – A GANGSTER’S PARADISE IS HEAVEN? – April 6, 2023 -C oolio died due to fentanyl, his manager Jarel (Jarez) Posey confirmed to Variety. The rapper’s family said he also had traces of heroin and metham... Read More...

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On Trading Wine for Walking

VIDEO – ONE MILE AT A TIME – April 3, 2023 - Pamela Wampler was battling alcoholism when she discovered the Start TODAY walking group and decided to join, replacing her evening drinking time with walks with her husba... Read More...

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The Dismissive Attitude On Solving Addiction Crisis

OPINION – April 6, 2023 - Maybe it was because Kirby was so new to the process, or maybe he was just another Republican delegate in a supermajority that leadership could choose to ignore – and did. Part of w... Read More...

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Texas Has Declared War on Fentanyl and It’s Making the Same Deadly Mistakes.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF – April 4, 2023 - In his February State of the State address, Governor Greg Abbott made addressing the fentanyl crisis an emergency item in this year’s legislative session. Stating that Texas D... Read More...

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White Supremacists, Fentanyl and Meth

DRUG CULTURE IN RED STATES? – April 4, 2023 - The alleged leader of the drug trafficking organization is Jesse James Bailey. Bailey and his cohorts allegedly trafficked huge amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine... Read More...

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Getting Sober Drawing Rabbits

MOVE OVER BLINKY – Jan. 23, 2023 - The 1978 animated film Watership Down comes to mind. The film follows a group of animated rabbits on a bloody journey across the English countryside, and likely still lingers ... Read More...

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12 Artists Who Have Chosen Sobriety

VIDEO – AND THE WORK GOT BETTER – April 2023 - Anthony Kiedis is the life of the party no matter what’s in his system and thankfully the artist has been sober now for several decades. But when that was not the case, ... Read More...

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Has Lamar Odom Become Betty Ford: I Found My Purpose With Rehab Centers

VIDEO – LAMAR MAKES AN ASSIST – April 3, 2023 - Lamar Odom is sharing how he turned his pain into purpose by investing in drug treatment centers ... saying he couldn’t be happier to help others and save lives around... Read More...

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NBA To Banish Ban on Bud For This Season

LOTS MORE 3-POINT SHOTS, WHY NOT? – April 1, 2023 - The National Basketball Association will no longer test or penalize its players for marijuana use under its new and pending seven-year collective bargaining agreeme... Read More...

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Covid Vaccine Maker, Johnson & Johnson to pay $8.9 Billion for Knowingly Selling Talc Products That Caused Cancers

POWDERS CAN KILL – April 4, 2023 - The company announced the proposed settlement in a securities filing. J&J’s subsidiary LTL Management also refiled for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after its first attempt w... Read More...

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From Orgasms to Overdoses

AND BACK AGAIN – April 6, 2023 - he Lost Women of Science podcast is made for the ear. We aim to make our transcripts as accurate as possible, but some errors may have occurred nonetheless. In addition, important asp... Read More...

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Build a Better Brain Through Art

AUDIO – THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON ART – April 3, 2023 - “Creativity is making new connections, new synapses,” says Ivy Ross, vice president of hardware design at Google and co-author of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Tr... Read More...

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‘Alcoholic’ Dog Is First Canine Treated for Withdrawal

AND IT’S NOT A SAINT BERNARD – April 7, 2023 - While one dog later died, Coco managed to make a recovery after he was treated for alcohol withdrawal. Coco remained under sedation for four weeks to avoid sufferi... Read More...

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Jennifer Lopez Launches New Alcoholic Beverage called ‘Ben’s Next Relapse’?

BUT IT’S OK FOR DANNY TREJO? – April 6, 2023 - In an Instagram video Tuesday, Lopez announced her new brand of flavored spritz cocktails, called Delola. “I have been grinding nonstop for decades, and more and more, I... Read More...

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Guaynaa Reveals He Struggled with Drug Addiction, Now SOBER

VIDEO – AND MARRIED TOO! – March 31, 2023 - The “Si te Nota” singer did not reveal what drug he was addicted to. Guaynaa got clean when he was getting to know Pons, who sat with tears in her eyes as he told his... Read More...

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How Much Trauma from ‘staggering’ Church Sex Abuses?

VIDEO – WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT FRIDAY – April 5, 2023 - The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland. Some parishes, scho... Read More...

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‘Gaming is Proven to be as Addictive as Cocaine!’

VIDEO – SUPER MARIO BROS. CUT THEIR PERUVIAN – April 4, 2023 - ‘You are giving your kid access to stuff that is proven to be as addictive as cocaine, not everybody has active parents!’ ‘As much as I sympathise th... Read More...

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Most Realistic Portrayals of Alcoholism in Movies

VIDEO – LOST WEEKEND OF DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES – April 2023 - Drug and alcohol addiction is a topic that has been explored in cinema for decades. It is a sensitive subject that must be handled with care to depict th... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Kurt Vonnegut

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” – Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 ... Read More...

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