Overdoses rise in South Florida

Too many sunsets – Sept. 13, 2020 - Florida reported 5,621 overdose deaths, a 14% increase from January 2019 to…

4 years ago

Revamped OxyContin hasn’t stemmed ODs

No, really? – Sept. 12, 2020 - The surge of painkiller abuse that started in the 1990s has long been…

4 years ago

Is Marijuana Addictive?

Does a bear hibernate in the woods? –  July 8, 2019 - A brain-imaging study last year found the brain’s…

4 years ago

YoungBoy – Never Broke Again – Drug Addiction

WATCH – Musical Interlude –  Sept. 10, 2020 – YoungBoy - Never Broke Again - Drug Addiction more@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=138&v=QN4-PNNQ2rQ&feature=emb_logo

4 years ago

Q&A with LARA Recovery founder, Angelo Lagares

Stick with the Winners! – Sept. 4, 2020 - LARA’s mission is to create Recovery Community Organizations in Spanish that…

4 years ago

Kevin Kennedy on overcoming addiction (with silent Clare!) Live for Brighton UK

WATCH – British TV star tells it like it was – August 28, 2020 - Coronation Street’s Kevin Kennedy discusses…

4 years ago

Marijuana use is on the rise in older adults

Act your age, not your THC level – August 31, 2020 - The researchers said one of the reasons they…

4 years ago

Family’s tragic destruction over $10 of heroin

As High as Death – Sept. 11, 2020 - “Your family is destroyed over $10 of heroin,” Mulford concluded. Assistant…

4 years ago

8 Encouraging Apps for Overcoming Addiction

Tap before you pick up –  Sept. 12, 2020 - Pocket Rehab is filled with familiar tools, but all of…

4 years ago

Quote of the Week – George Bernard Shaw

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” —George Bernard Shaw

4 years ago

Remembering 9/11’s first recorded victim

New York lost a very good man –   Sept. 9, 2020 - “He was truly something special. He had…

4 years ago

Hazelden Betty Ford CEO to be Stepping Away

Passing the First Lady’s baton – September 9, 2020 - Mishek, the third-longest-serving leader in the organization’s 71-year history and…

4 years ago

Foundation works to put naloxone in recovery homes

Save-A-Life –   Sept. 1, 2020 - The U.S. surgeon general and state governments have encouraged wide distribution of the…

4 years ago

Each Day Sober Slowly Helps Alcoholics’ Brains Recover

Neuroplasticity comes slowly – Sept. 2, 2020 - The more recently they’d had their last drink, the greater the disruption…

4 years ago

Road to recovery leads to becoming rabbi

Torah and Coffee – August 27, 2020 - In an unofficial way, Stern’s ministry began at the homeless shelter in…

4 years ago

Company to Launch LSD-MDMA Combination Clinical Trial

Purple Haze Rave? –   August 31, 2020 - As anyone who has been to Shakedown Street knows, the drug…

4 years ago

Port St. Lucie resident bikes 46 miles to celebrate sobriety

WATCH – Loving sobriety on two wheels –   Sept. 4, 2020 - His personal journey turned into a call…

4 years ago

I Thought Jail Would Help Me Get Clean. I Was Dead Wrong.

Prisons are Dangerous –   Sept. 3, 2020 - This semi-normal life, combined with my White skin and the fact…

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