April 9, 2019 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

April 9, 2019 • Vol. 6, No. 38

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She lost her husband, her father and a pregnancy at 31. Now she’s helping others explore grief.

Life Goes On – April 6, 2019 - Sitting on her couch recently in Minneapolis, McInerny recalls those early days after losing Aaron. As she talks, she looks at a wall-size photograph of the two of them holding their young... Read More...

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Millennials Are Sick of Drinking

Control Issues? – APR. 2, 2019 - But sobriety, a term that generally refers to the total abstention practiced by people in recovery from substance-abuse problems, doesn’t quite tell the story. What some have been quick ... Read More...

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Even One Alcoholic Drink a Day Can Raise Risk of Stroke

A White Russian Roulette? – April 5, 2019 - “There are no protective effects of moderate alcohol intake against stroke. Even moderate alcohol consumption increases the chances of having a stroke,” said study co-author Z... Read More...

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Addiction expert Susan Ford-Bales to share story at Health Plan 2019 Symposium

In Her Healing Footsteps – April 6, 2019 - “We realized that she had a drinking and prescription drug addiction,” Ford-Bales said. “We came together as a family and did an intervention on her. We were lucky — she chose ... Read More...

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Sober living founder is Chamber of Commerce Woman of the Year

Doing it the right way... – April 5, 2019 - Dawn Holland, founder of an organization that provides sober living houses for women, was named Woman of the Year by the Bend Chamber of Commerce Thursday evening. Bend Chamb... Read More...

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What’s next for trying to legalize marijuana in New York?

Gee whiz, you mean it hasn't been? – April 5, 2019 - But after a bruising budget battle, Cuomo and the state Legislature left the issue undone as they scrambled to balance the state’s books, pass a congestion pricing pl... Read More...

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Executive Corner with Zach Dorfman

Stick with the Winners! – April 9, 2019 - In June of 2011, Zach successfully got sober. At just three and a half years into sobriety, Zach was diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder 1.In 2016, Zach moved to Jerusalem where he... Read More...

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Smoking pot vs. tobacco: What science says about lighting up

Cloudy Issue – Apr. 7, 2019 - While cigarette smoking is the top risk factor for lung cancer, some of scientific evidence suggests there’s no link between marijuana smoking and lung cancer. That’s according to a 2017 fe... Read More...

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California tests if addiction treatment can be incorporated into primary care

Of Course It Can... – 04/05/2019 - The scaling up of the “Hub and Spoke” system, particularly in rural areas, has presented challenges but also delivered results in locales like this Gold Rush-era city east of Sacrament... Read More...

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Study Suggests A Bottle of Wine Equals The Cancer Risk of 10 Cigarettes

Moderation is the Key – April 1, 2019 - “Our estimation of a cigarette equivalent for alcohol provides a useful measure for communicating possible cancer risks that exploits successful historical messaging on smoking,” ... Read More...

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FDA probes possible link between seizures and vaping

Link This! – April 3, 2019 -The FDA said that between 2010 and 2019 it received 35 reports of people, especially teens and young adults, experiencing seizures after using e-cigarettes. Severe nicotine poisoning can caus... Read More...

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New art exhibit showcases life after drug addiction

Showing The Message! – APR 07, 2019 - Two Brooklyn artists believe there is an aspect of the opioid crisis few people see - life after an addict has stopped using substances. That’s why couple and co-curators Graham Mac... Read More...

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Opioid addiction film delivers powerful message

87 people showed up... – Apr. 6, 2019 - Rebecca Wu, public affairs officer for the FBI St. Louis Division, said it was the first time the 2016 documentary, titled “Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict,” was ... Read More...

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The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs

Easy Does It – April 8, 2019 - She began taking twenty milligrams of Prozac, an antidepressant; when she still didn’t feel better, her dose was increased to forty milligrams, and then to sixty. With each raised dose, sh... Read More...

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‘I’m living proof?’: Wendy Williams releases PSA for drug addictions

It’s About the Message! – Apr. 7, 2019 - “Hi, I’m Wendy Williams Hunter,” she says at the start of the announcement. “My organization, The Hunter Foundation, recently launched a nationwide hotline to offer treatment res... Read More...

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FILM REVIEW: American Relapse by Burl Barer

Hunting for Heroin Addicts in Delray Beach – With a film such as AMERICAN RELAPSE, it is difficult to separate the technical and artistic quality of this documentary from the setting, the characters, and the film’s over... Read More...

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NY offers tax breaks for hiring recovering addicts

Doing The Right Thing – April 3, 2019 - Assemblyman Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay, sponsored the legislation. It was co-sponsored by Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury. “Anyone who has made the brave decision to begin their jo... Read More...

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‘Saving Jake’ is worthwhile read about drug addiction

Read It and Weep – Apr 6, 2019 - Jake started experimenting with alcohol and marijuana in college, then Oxycontin, which led to heroin. Burwell shares how her middle-class, smart, athletic son lost three years of his li... Read More...

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Protesters’ with supersized heroin spoon claim FDA did too little

Or Created It? – APRIL 5, 2019 -The group urged FDA to stop approving “dangerous” opioids and to instead encourage the development of more drugs to treat addiction. Many protesters decried the November approval of Dsuvi... Read More...

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US Post Office Honors an Icon

Save the Children – Born April 2, 1939 - As the critic Michael Eric Dyson put it, the man who “chased away the demons of millions … with his heavenly sound and divine art” was chased by demons of his own throughout his ... Read More...

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Poor diets deadlier than smoking

You Really Are What You Eat – Apr. 4, 2019 - Overall, poor diet is behind 16-percent of adult DALYs around the world. Variations in poor diets aside, the study points toward three dietary factors that greatly contribute... Read More...

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A Vision Board That Works

Helpful Humor – April 6, 2019 - Step 1: Set Your Intention How do you want to feel once this vision board takes effect? Use simple phrases that describe your post-vision board self. To inspire you, I’ll share intentio... Read More...

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Overdose prevention sites can help cities save lives

Only The Living Can Get Clean – APRIL 5, 2019 - The logic for overdose prevention sites is simple. Opioids kill by shutting down the brain’s respiratory center. Breathing slows, then stops. An individual who has overdos... Read More...

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Why it’s a problem if “Joker” connects mental illness to villainy

Not Funny Business – APRIL 4, 2019- Even though people with mental illness are less likely to commit violent crimes than the mean, and are more likely to be victimized by them, the news media regularly speculates as to ... Read More...

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It’s the devil, you know: Book review of “The Recovering”

Writer/Alcoholic/Recovering – April 5, 2019 - From the last drop to the daily struggle to keep sober, my sobriety was a gradual leveling off of emotions over time. It took a few years, not to mention a lot of support gr... Read More...

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15 arrested in drug lab kickback scheme

Urine Prison Now – April 2, 2019 - The task force coordinated its work with law enforcement in Pennsylvania, where 20 people have been arrested in connection with the scheme. Aronberg said it’s all part of the task forc... Read More...

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FBI announces 61 arrests of online opioid traffickers in coordinated Dark Web effort

BREAKING NEWS / VIDEO – MARCH 26, 2019 - “Law enforcement is most effective when we work together, and J-CODE is the global tip of the spear in the fight against online opioid trafficking,” FBI Director Christopher Wray... Read More...

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