Addiction: The New Retirement Threat

Taking ‘bout My Generation – March 22, 2019  - It’s been a tortuous journey. At one point, the 55-year-old drove…

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PGA Tour suspends Garrigus after positive pot test

Weed Sends Golfer into the Rough – Mar, 22, 2019 - The tour announced Friday that Garrigus, whose only PGA…

5 years ago

Health Experts Push To Decriminalize Addiction Treatment Drug

INSANITY – MAR. 22, 2019 -  It’s been six years since Scott Pavek stopped using opioids. But he wanted out…

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Compassion Not Contempt: Interview with Maia Szalavitz

LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS! – Mar. 18, 2019 - The number one cause of addiction stigma is the fact that drugs…

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Scientists Have Cured Alcoholic Rats by Shooting Lasers at Their Brains

Too Bad for Rat Taverns – March 22, 2019 - “What is so exciting about these findings is that we…

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Overdose Death Doctor Loses Latest Appeal

Make Him the Prison Proctologist – Mar. 20, 2019 - Hsiu-Ying “Lisa’’ Tseng was convicted in October 2015 of three…

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TEN DRUGS: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW – March 22, 2019 - as Thomas Hager, a historian of medicine and science, explains in…

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Trigger Warnings May Not Do Much

Don’t Look Now – March 22, 2019 - “Although people were distressed by the negative materials we showed them, they…

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Former DEA official now working for OxyContin maker

Double Agent – March 20, 2019 - Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, is one of the…

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Elton John Biopic Expected to Get R-Rating for Sex, Drug Scenes

Move Over Bohemian Rhapsody – March 22, 2019 - Rocketman, Paramount’s Elton John musical, is expected to be rated R…

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War on Opioid Abuse Is Striking the Wrong Target

War = Murder – March 21, 2019 - Patients in pain have become collateral damage in the war on opioids.…

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Drug Companies Are Making the Opioid Crisis Worse

Risky Business – March 14, 2019 - Marketing to physicians is only one of the strategies employed by opioid manufacturers.…

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Wendy Williams’ Husband Speaks Out About Her Sobriety: ‘It’s Family Process’

House is Not a Home – March 22, 2019 - After Williams, 54, revealed on-air Tuesday that she’s been living…

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Drug rehab made millions off patients’ relapses, PA. attorney general charges

An Industry With No Defense  – March 25, 2019 - The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office charged Jason Gerner, the cofounder…

5 years ago

Wendy Williams’ Heroic Televised Disclosure

Rigorous Honesty – March 19, 2019 - Williams said the only other people who knew that she was staying at…

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A real link between opioid use and people not working

Duh? – March 12, 2019 - States that prescribe more opioids per 100 people tend to have fewer people in…

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New recovery program shows users are more likely to stay sober if they help others

“It is better to give than to receive” -JC – March 3, 2019 - The National Institute on Drug Abuse…

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Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery

It’s a Family Affair – February 27, 2019 - The presence of one or more family members using long-term opioids…

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Local documentary on drug addiction helps others

Go Make a Movie – March 14, 2019 - Kaitlin said she graduated last year from Lycoming College and continues…

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Michael Bloomberg is giving Michigan $10M to fight opioid crisis

Does what you fight get stronger? – March 14, 2019 - “The opioid crisis is a national emergency that calls…

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Julia Roberts on drug addiction in her new film

VIDEO – March 14, 2019 - Hollywood actress Julia Roberts discusses her new film Ben Is Back and wants to…

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‘Kensington Blues’ gives devastating portrait of addiction in Philly

Not a Pretty Picture – March 16, 2019 - The 2017 toll was a record for opioid deaths in the…

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Demi Lovato Speaks Out About Apparent Overdose for the First Time on What Would Have Been Her 7-Year Sobriety Anniversary

Keep Coming Back – March 15, 2019 - he Grammy-nominated singer, 26, would have celebrated seven years of sobriety on…

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Addiction specialist urges Japan to treat over-gaming as mental disorder

Tetris Forever – MAR. 14, 2019 - “This isn’t just about Japan, it’s happening all over the world,” Higuchi said…

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How Plunging into Sobriety Makes You Better Person

The Water’s Fine! – March 15, 2019 - You’ll see Your Health Improve! When you’re wrapped up in the throes…

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These Tech Companies Aim to Cure Pain Without Pills

Better Living Through Technology – March 16, 2019 - A Jeep accident in Yemen at age 19 left him in…

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Legalizing Marijuana, With Focus on Social Justice, Unites 2020 Democrats

The Candidate I’d Most Like to Do a Bong Hit With – March 17, 2019 - Senator Cory Booker of…

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Is Pain A Sensation Or An Emotion?

Feelings Aren’t Facts, or Are They? – March 16, 2019 - With more than 47,000 Americans dying of opioid overdoses…

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A look back at the Obama administration’s handling of the fentanyl epidemic

Nodding on the job? – March 13, 2019 - The 11 experts pressed the officials to declare fentanyl a national…

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The IRS Targets Drug Policy Reformers

4/15’s a Bummer for 4/20 – March 17, 2019 - (T)hat language arguably covers organizations that advocate legalization of marijuana…

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