April 16, 2019 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

April 16, 2019 • Vol. 6, No. 39

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Supporters Sue To Open Safe Injection Site In Philadelphia-Citing Religious Freedom

Life Is Holy – April 13, 2019 - Safehouse, in response, assembled a team of a dozen pro bono lawyers and earlier this month counter-sued the government in federal court in Philadelphia, setting up a dispute that legal e... Read More...

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To Address Addiction, Confront Racism in Our Health and Justice Systems

Injustice System – APRIL 8, 2019 - With the advent of Black Lives Matter and other grassroots movements, as well as increased media attention on the violent, disproportionate policing of black and brown communities, nat... Read More...

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Vitamin and mineral supplements…could cause harm

Easy to Swallow, Hard to Accept – April 9, 2019 - Researchers from Tufts University say they found no association between the use of dietary supplements and a lower risk of death. The study analyzed data from a larger h... Read More...

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Paul Greengard, Nobel Winner Neuroscientist, Dies at 93

Where’s Mama? – April 14, 2019 - his new insights into psychological diseases and earned him a Nobel Prize, and who used his entire $400,000 award to create an academic prize in memory of the mother he never knew, died ... Read More...

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I Should Have Been in Rehab

ESSAY: by Jane Galloway – April 10, 2019 - A couple of years ago I wrote the book I wish I had had when I was going through all of that- “The Gateways- the Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality- A Universal Path for Living a L... Read More...

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17.6 million Americans suffer from alcoholism

The Liquid Killer – April 6, 2019 - If alcohol is affecting your life and relationships — you find it’s hard to control how much you drink or you depend on alcohol to get through the day — you may be among the 17.6 mill... Read More...

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Meth Mania: From Biker Gangs to the Psych Ward, How Speed Came of Age in California

Bad Crank – April 5, 2019 - Kim is 47 now, and she has been chasing normal her entire adult life. But the more she kept using, the more what was normal slipped further and further away, until eventually, Kim stared thro... Read More...

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FDA Warns: Sudden Opioid Tapering is Harmful

What's wrong with this picture? – April 10, 2019 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received reports of serious harm in patients who are physically dependent on opioid pain medicines suddenly having thes... Read More...

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Barbara Marx Hubbard Peacefully Passed Away April 10th, 2019

In Memory – April 11, 2019 - Clear in her work, Barbara felt that if, as humanity, we could integrate newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities, we would have the ability to transform ourselves and our... Read More...

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The Validity of the “Fake-It-Till-You-Make-It” Philosophy

It Works If You Work It – APRIL 13, 2019 - Openness to Learning Score for group with high inner and outer confidence: 87 Score for unconfident group: 68 Score for outwardly confident group: 79 Ability to Set and Ac... Read More...

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Fentanyl-laced marijuana hits the streets of upstate New York

SCARY SHIT – April 12, 2019- Police in upstate New York are warning of a dangerous fentanyl-laced marijuana combination that was recently confiscated in a Walmart parking lot. According to an Associated Press report, th... Read More...

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When the NBA ended, Greg Oden descended into alcoholism

Nothing But Net – April 12, 2019 - The life of the No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA draft had been whittled down to nothing more than a shell of an existence. Oden huddled in a dark house nearly 10 years after that triumphan... Read More...

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How Alcoholics Anonymous got so popular?

New Book, Old Story – April 13, 2019 - On July 4, 1934, a 30-year-old New York-based writer and publicist named Marty Mann got staggeringly drunk at a party and fell from a balcony. She nearly died, fracturing her leg a... Read More...

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Ear acupuncture, another tool in recovering from addiction

A Better Needle – April 13, 2019 - Susan Murphy of Fall River, an AcuDetox specialist and a licensed mental health counselor, said studies have shown that people recovering from substance use disorder can benefit from e... Read More...

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Kratom: Popular herbal drug tied to over 90 fatal overdoses

Deadly? – April 13, 2019 - Kratom was a cause of death in at least 91 fatal overdoses in the United States from July 2016 to December 2017, and 152 tested positive for the substance in a postmortem toxicology during th... Read More...

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The New Proposed Federal Guidelines for Sober Homes are Disappointing

Going in Reverse? – APR. 12, 2019 - Sober homes have had a rough few years lately. They can be helpful for some folks recovering from addiction, providing drug-free environments where the newly sober can get away from o... Read More...

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The Ebby Thacher Family Legacy

They Had a Dream! – April 11, 2019 - Drinking to oblivion has no place in those four behavioral characteristics, so it became a lifestyle that helped Thacher stayed sober, even though the group’s purpose was not designe... Read More...

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The military leads all other professions in the number of days spent drinking per year

Weapons of Mass Distillation – April 5, 2019 - It should come as no surprise, then, that data pulled from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and analyzed by the Delphi Behavioral Health Group revealed that s... Read More...

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Demi Lovato, Ben Affleck & More — 11 Celebrities Who are Open About Their Sobriety

The Few, The Strong, The Proud – April 10, 2019 - During the 1990s, Robert Downey Jr. spent most of his drug addiction in the public eye, but has kept his sobriety since 2003. Lena Dunham celebrated one year of sobriety... Read More...

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Prosecutors Say Drugmaker Indivior Lied About Suboxone

Evidence Based – April 10, 2019 - “Indivior obtained billions of dollars in revenue from Suboxone Film prescriptions by deceiving health-care providers and health-care benefit programs into believing that Suboxone Film ... Read More...

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Politicians Are Warning Drug Companies Not To Cooperate With A Congressional Investigation

Not Dope – April 8, 2019 - The letter quotes Cummings as saying of his drug team: “If you follow the headlines, we have already seen the impact they have had… on stock prices with regard to drugs. I mean, it has been as... Read More...

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Arbitrator awards $8.8 million to man, blames Sovereign Health for overdose that led to seizure, brain injury

Good Luck Collecting – April 11, 2019 - “Our goal was justice for Zachary and we got it,” Gold said. In September 2014, after his discharge from a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt, Peterson checked into... Read More...

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Drug Addiction Used to End Political Careers, but That’s Finally Changing

The times are a-changing – April 4, 2019 - Today the 29-year-old office administrator is a candidate for Allegheny County Council, doing the door-knocking, hand-shaking work of someone seeking local office in the Pittsb... Read More...

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Nikki Sixx eager to spread awareness about opioid crisis with ‘The Heroin Diaries’ musical

Springtime for Opiates – MAR. 25, 2019 - Sixx has not announced when the musical will begin, but he’s working with organizers in an effort to spread his powerful message. The artist and his collaborators aim to bring th... Read More...

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Lena Dunham Celebrates 1 Year of Sobriety as She Opens Up About Her Past ‘Issue with Drugs’

Girls Gone Mild – April 10, 2019 - “Today I’m in the miraculous position of being one year sober. I’ve done a lot of cool things in this life, but none has brought me the peace, joy and lasting connections that being pa... Read More...

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