Demi Lovato Says Struggles With Eating Disorder Led to Sobriety Slip and Overdose

Addition is Addiction –  February 18,  2020 - “I think when you have certain people around you that are telling…

4 years ago

‘Living Proof:’ Portraits Share Stories of Addiction and Recovery

Reality In Your Face –  February 20, 2020 - We are honored that they would step forth and share their…

4 years ago

AA Shares New Video: “Young & Sober in A.A.: From Drinking to Recovery”

AA’s First Commercial –  Feb. 21, 2020 - Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of people who have had a…

4 years ago

Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Debunked

Who Can’t You Trust? –  Feb. 19 2020 - Last June, the authors, Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the…

4 years ago

Teaching Kids How to Reverse an Overdose in Dystopian Present

Teach Your Children Hell –  Feb. 23, 2020 - In Carter County, where 56,000 people live in a cluster of…

4 years ago

Doctors Received $1.5 Million in Free Lunches From Pharma Companies

Free Meals for Dead Bodies –  Feb. 21, 2020 - That’s a dangerous practice,” Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said. Farley…

4 years ago

Public Radio’s “Back from Broken” – stories of addiction, struggle & recovery

Good Radio –  Feb 21, 2020 - The podcast will consist of 10 episodes released every other Friday and focus…

4 years ago

Has social media become socially acceptable addiction?

Just Like Coffee –                Feb. 18, 2020 - Galen joined Know Your Value…

4 years ago

Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty.

More than a comeback! –  Feb. 18, 2020 - Affleck, Oscar-winning writer, director of the Oscar-winning “Argo,” better actor than…

4 years ago

Quote of the Week

“Just try new things, don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar!” –Michelle Obama

4 years ago

It’s time to get real about heroin addiction. It’s time to decriminalize this drug!

Decriminalize Heroin! –  February 19, 2020 - I CAN SAY without a shred of doubt that the most stigmatized people…

4 years ago

How Juul gets kids addicted to vaping: it’s even worse than you think

Drug Dealing on the Internet –  Feb. 14, 2020 - This isn’t the first time a company selling nicotine products…

4 years ago

‘Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it’: Adderall presents esports with an enigma

eAddiction – Feb. 13, 2020 - “Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it,” former Call of Duty World…

4 years ago

Alcohol deaths in women on the rise

Higher and Higher –  February 15, 2020 - A recent study shows that deaths associated with alcohol use among women…

4 years ago

We need to rethink “tough love” as response to addiction

Just Love –  FEBRUARY 2, 2020 - When I reached out for help, I went to my ex-boyfriend, the only…

4 years ago

Addiction Memoirs are Genre in Recovery

Sharing is Good –  Feb. 13, 2020 - Hitting Bottom “Stray” is a literary coming to terms with her parents’…

4 years ago

Man credits selling bouquets on Chicago streets for his recovery :‘Selling flowers helped me survive’

Sharing Beauty Enhances Sobriety –  FEB. 14, 2020  - In the attempt to recover from alcoholism, Flores, 56, began to…

4 years ago

Fruits of their labor: Restaurant celebrates love and recovery

Are you hungry? –                   February 14, 2020 - Employees, or students as…

4 years ago

Coronation Street actor helps addicts in Brighton

A couple of swells – Jan. 31, 2020 - Kennedy Street has helped other projects set up their own social…

4 years ago

Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t

This Needle Heals –  February 15, 2020 - While out with his drinking buddies one night, they offered Jensen a…

4 years ago

Being the child of an alcoholic means the trauma stays with you for years

Until it Doesn’t – February 15, 2020 - Anyone who has lived through alcoholism will know that reasoning with a…

4 years ago

Sackler Scions Sell Manhattan Mansion & Flee to Switzerland in the Midst of More Opioid Deaths

So much death in their eyes... –  February 10, 2020 - It seemed to be the best option, at least,…

4 years ago

NBA has obstacles to hurdle with mental health awareness

Finally Getting an Assist – February 15, 2020 -  The players’ association hired Dr. William Parham to be its inaugural…

4 years ago

Cody Simpson credits Miley Cyrus and sobriety for inspiring new music

Couple In Love –    February 15, 2020 - Cody Simpson’s new music is inspired by the sober lifestyle he…

4 years ago

Courtney Friel’s Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News

New Book Recommendation –  Feb. 2020 - “Love Courtney’s voice—she’s fun, funny, frank and candid! No doubt Tonight at 10…

4 years ago

Q&A with Barbara Nicholson Brown

Stick with the Winners! – February 12, 2020 - Barbara Nicholson Brown is publisher of Together AZ newspaper in Scottsdale…

4 years ago

Amanda Bynes’s Sobriety Timeline

The Bynes That Tie –  February 16, 2020 - …struggling with drug abuse, she’s slowly taken back her life.  In…

4 years ago

Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing Dilaudid

Drugstore (Cowboy) Vending Machine –  February 10, 2020 - The idea of providing potentially deadly opioids to addicted people via…

4 years ago

Nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions in Los Angeles will be dismissed

Free at last...thank God almighty –  February 13, 2020 - “The dismissal of tens of thousands of old cannabis-related convictions…

4 years ago

Clinic uses device to take away addiction withdrawal symptoms

Better Than Suboxone? –  February 13, 2020  -  The patient must keep the device on for five days. After that,…

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