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…

5 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…

5 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,…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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,…

5 years ago

Leigh Steinberg’s comeback continues with Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl MVP

Touchdown in Sobriety – FEBRUARY 13, 2020  - It’s wonderful,” said Steinberg, who added that Mahomes is the kind of…

5 years ago

Potential Gene Therapy Could Combat Cocaine Addiction

The Future is Sober – February 15, 2020 - The results are promising enough that the FDA has approved plans…

5 years ago

Savannah doctor sentenced to 20 years in federal prison

4.6 million doses - Nobody Noticed? – Feb. 14, 2020 - Dr. Frank H. Bynes Jr., 69, of Savannah, was…

5 years ago

Winchester, Virginia suing Big Pharma for $67 million

How Much Are Humans Worth? –  February 14, 2020 -  A mountain of evidence has been released in the last…

5 years ago

The Story The Pharmacist Can’t Tell

It’s All Here –  Feb. 16, 2020 - Watching The Pharmacist, I kept getting caught between the series’ fealty to…

5 years ago

Boys, 12 being treated for online porn addiction

WE had to walk 2 miles uphill to get porn –  February 16, 2020 - ...today kids of 12 can…

5 years ago

Courtney Love celebrates 18 months of sobriety

Sharing the Good News –  February 2020 - Love used her unplanned acceptance speech to celebrate her sobriety, love for…

5 years ago

Quote of the week

“Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it…

5 years ago

Dueling Lawsuits Between Malibu Rehab Centers

Rehab Wars –                  February 12, 2020 - Taite and Cliffside filed a…

5 years ago

Noah Centineo opens up about his sobriety

From stoned to success –  February 12, 2020 - Once you wade through all those descriptions, you learn that Centineo…

5 years ago

Attorney Appeals to West Hollywood Mayor to Preserve ‘Log Cabin,’ Haven for Recovering Addicts

The Hollywood Bowl of Recovery – Feb. 3, 2020 - Veteran music-business attorney Dina LaPolt has appealed to West Hollywood…

5 years ago

Things You Only Know If You’re Long-Term Sober

It Gets Better and Better –  Jan. 31, 2020 - My own sobriety date, four years ago last week, coincides…

5 years ago

What are methadone and buprenorphine?

Good To Know – Feb. 2020 - You may have heard about methadone and buprenorphine, but what exactly are they…

5 years ago

Thanks for celebrating women’s sobriety, but don’t call us ‘alcoholics’

Lush for Life? –  FEBRUARY 6, 2020 - As women in recovery, we were pleased to see “Clearing a path…

5 years ago

Vaping execs tell lawmakers that e-cigarettes are not meant for young people

Only Young Addicts –  February 5, 2020 - Under questioning from Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), the oversight subcommittee chairwoman, the…

5 years ago

Number of Homeless Students Rises to New High

It Has Come To This! –  February  3, 2020 - It was the highest number recorded in more than a…

5 years ago

How sobriety changed my sex life

No Hangovers –     February 3, 2020 - Most people assume that sex after sobriety is probably boring at best,…

5 years ago

Social Life Without the Buzz? It’s the ‘Sober Curious’ Movement

Boozeless –  February 3, 2020 - Member Cori Clark says it’s a social gathering that allows for more authenticity “because…

5 years ago

Increase in alcohol-related deaths in U.S. is jarring

One more for the road... –  February 4, 2020 - “I agree that it’s hard to imagine, consuming 10 drinks…

5 years ago