April 17, 2018 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

April 17, 2018 • Vol. 5, No. 38

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Five drinks a week could shorten your life

So Can 50 – April 13, 2018 - A study published in a medical journal, The Lancet, revealed that drinking 100g of alcohol a week increases risk of mortality. Full VIDEO @ CNBC.com... Read More...

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iPad is Far Bigger Threat to Children Than Anyone Realizes

Here Come the ‘techno-tots’ – April 2018 - Ten years ago, psychologist Sue Palmer predicted the toxic effects of social media. Now she sees a worrying new danger … When the little girl pointed at the sweets at the check... Read More...

Artist’s Corner with Diana Raab

Artist's Corner – Diana Raab, PhD is a memoirist, poet, essayist, blogger, and speaker. She presents workshops in writing for healing and transformation. She has a PhD in Psychology with a concentration in Transpersonal... Read More...

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The Disappearing Doctor

Does CVS Do Transplants Now? – April 7, 2018 - Big corporations — giant retailers and health insurance companies — are teaming up to become your doctor … Is the doctor in? In this new medical age of urgent care centers ... Read More...

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Demi Lovato hits back at fan who questioned her sobriety: ‘I don’t have to defend anything’

She’s Back – April 13, 2018 - Demi Lovato has just celebrated six years of sobriety, however after a group picture including the star was posted online, she had fans questioning whether or not she was still sober. The 2... Read More...

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San Clemente Hires Law Firms to Tackle Producers

Sue the Bastards – April 5, 2018 - A contract was approved, by a vote of 3-2, by the San Clemente City Council at its Tuesday, April 3 meeting to hire Andrews & Thornton, Skikos Crawford Skikos & Joseph, and Rob... Read More...

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Women’s Stories of Assault, Fear, and Finding Friendship

Home Street Home – April 14, 2018 - A third of L.A.’s homeless population are women — and “once a shelter is full, it’s full.” … Every time Graciela Fernandez gets off the bus at Skid Row, she clutches her industrial-gr... Read More...

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How Profiteers Lure Women Into Unneeded Surgery

Doctors For Sale? – April 14, 2018 - “The work was lucrative. Doctors stood to make $14,000 a day.” Just like that, she had stumbled into a growing industry that makes money by coaxing women into having surgery — somet... Read More...

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Family Trying to Escape Blame for the Opioid Crisis

You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide – APRIL 10, 2018 - Much as the role of the addictive multibillion-dollar painkiller OxyContin in the opioid crisis has stirred controversy and rancor nationwide, so it has divided members... Read More...

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Congress searches for prescription to help fight growing opioid epidemic

War on Death – April 11, 2018 - WASHINGTON – The opioids epidemic that is ripping apart lives across the country appears to be uniting Republicans and Democrats in Congress. “I know of no other issue right now that comm... Read More...

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We scorned addicts when they were black. It is different now…

White Privilege – April 12, 2018 - We have been here before — a raging epidemic of addiction that destroys lives, families and communities. Who was on the front line in the 1990s, when the drug was crack and the addicts... Read More...

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Woman Searches for Answers after Her Brother Dies in Sober Living Home

Death in Stockton – April 12, 2018 - Al Senella, president of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives, said incidents at sober living homes are hard to deal with. For one, he says even though s... Read More...

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A Drug to End Addiction? Scientists Are Working on It.

Absurd or Amen? – APRIL 15, 2018 - Scrambling for ways to contain America’s out-of-control opioid crisis, some experts in the field are convinced that one bit of good advice is to just say no to the enduring “just say n... Read More...

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‘I didn’t know I had a drinking problem until I decided I did’

Sobriety Starts at 60 – April 12, 2018 - On June 22, 2007, I had my last drink. Thanks to my faith in God and Alcoholics Anonymous I am still currently a sober, grateful alcoholic. I am 10 years, nine months, one week a... Read More...

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While the opioid crisis has gained attention, meth has quietly destroyed lives

Staying Up – April 15, 2018 - Eric R. Miller’s story could be one ripped from the pages of a cheap crime novel, a young life that started with struggle and strife, in foster homes at the age of 7. Before he was 20, he h... Read More...

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Deaths Linked To Elephant Tranquilizer More Than Double Across West Virginia

West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains ... Take Me Home Country Roads – April 15, 2018 - Overdose deaths linked to heroin cut with a potent opioid meant for tranquilizing elephants more than doubled last year across West Vi... Read More...

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Administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana

Breathing a Sigh of Relief – APR 13, 2018 - The Trump administration is abandoning a Justice Department threat to crack down on recreational marijuana in states where it is legal, a move that could enable cannabis busin... Read More...

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Google will resume accepting ads from treatment centers following rampant abuse

Use Clean Advertising – April 16, 2018 - Google plans to resume accepting advertisements from alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers following a lengthy period of review, Reuters reports. Google originally strippe... Read More...

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Did Drinking Give Me Breast Cancer?

Now That’s a Disease – May/June Issue -The science on the link is clear, but the alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it. I thought I’d done everything right: breastfeeding my children, a careful diet, plenty of... Read More...

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Podcast Episode 16: Pia Mellody with Alanis Morissette

MEDIA: Podcast – April 13, 2018 - n this episode, Alanis talks with Pia Mellody about codependence and addiction recovery as well as parenting and creating functional relationships. Full Story @ Alanis.com... Read More...

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CA bills would crack down on shady rehab practices

Broke or Brokering? – April 12, 2018 - Southern California is a hub for substance abuse treatment facilities. It’s a lucrative industry – and patient advocates say this has led to unsavory practices … Treatment faciliti... Read More...

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Experts push for opioid treatment, against medical marijuana at ASAM

American Society for Addiction Medicine – April 14, 2018 - SAN DIEGO - Support for drugs like Suboxone, Vivitrol and methadone was one of the rallying cries at the annual American Society for Addiction Medicine conferen... Read More...

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WATCH: A look inside ‘Heroin Alley’

Doing the Right Thing – April 15, 2018 - It’s not everyday that you hear about a neighborhood, plagued with drug sales and use, coming together and saying: “We have had enough, no more!” That’s exactly what’s happening ... Read More...

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Florida woman caught with cocaine in purse blames the wind

Sounds Like One of Us – April 8, 2018 - The answer for the cocaine in her purse, a Florida woman allegedly said, was blowing in the wind. Kennecia Posey, 26, was arrested in March on drug possession charges in Fort Pie... Read More...

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Americans going abroad for illegal heroin treatment

Going to Any Lengths – April 11, 2018 - As America’s opioid and heroin crisis rages, some struggling with addiction are turning to a drug illegal in the US. Jonathan Levinson went to one clinic offering the treatment in... Read More...

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Local lawmaker authors bill to stop patient brokering…

Modern Day Traders? – April 13, 2018 - As the opioid epidemic increases in California, more and more fake facilities are preying on desperate patients. These so-called rehab centers are taking advantage of patients whil... Read More...

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They lost their son, then started an agency to help addicts navigate treatment

A Higher Calling – April 14, 2018 - Founded by Avi and Julie Israel of Buffalo, Save the Michaels transitioned last year into an agency for addicts in need as well as their families, designed to help them navigate a con... Read More...

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Pharmacist who ran oxycodone ‘pill mill’ gets 15 years

Justice in Jersey – April 13, 2018 - Until he got busted, Michael Ludwikowski was your go-to guy if you had a fudged oxycodone prescription. Customers came to him with prescriptions that were obviously “washed” or “blea... Read More...

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Busting the myth that doctors are to blame for the opiate overdose crisis

OPINION from CANADA – April 10, 2018 - Illicit fentanyl was the cause of the earliest deaths that the panel looked at. Now, Egilson said, the toxicology reports show that fentanyl is found in 80 per cent of those who ha... Read More...

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20 Lies Addicts Say to Justify their Addiction

Rationalization Nation – April 14, 2018 - Angel came into counseling knowing that something was wrong but not knowing what it was. After being married for seven years, he noticed his wife became more secretive and dista... Read More...

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