Opioid crackdown forces pain patients to taper off drugs

From One Extreme to the Other –  September 10, 2019 - “He’s moaning, he’s groaning, he’s yelling out in pain,”…

5 years ago

Philip Esformes sentenced to 20 years for $1.3 billion Medicaid fraud

Smart Business Man is No Angel –   SEPT. 13, 2019 - “His fraud involved thousands of patients, 16 nursing…

5 years ago

Head of mental health services at University of Pennsylvania dies by suicide

Obituary: He Was There To Help – Sept. 10, 2019 - The department he headed, Counseling and Psychological Services, describes…

5 years ago

Tennessee court says Big Pharma can be sued as drug dealers

Makes Scarface Look Like an Amateur –   Sept 12, 2019 -  Court: Big Pharma drug dealers “Drug manufacturers cannot,…

5 years ago

ACLU Sues Bureau of Prisons for Denying Prisoner Buprenorphine

Cold Cold Turkey –  SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 - The ACLU filed suit in the US District Court for the District…

5 years ago

‘I’m free’: Actor Mackenzie Phillips among guests at festival celebrating sobriety

Staying On Message – Sept. 14, 2019 - Greta Waples, one of the organizers of the event, spoke to CBC…

5 years ago

Vitamin E Suspected in Lung Problems Among People Who Vaped Cannabis

Too Lazy to Roll a Joint? –   September 5, 2019 - When it is “inhaled deep in the lung,…

5 years ago

The Lumineers Trace The Cycle Of Addiction

New (Important) Music –   September 13, 2019 - “You know they talk about addiction. It’s a progressive disease. It’s…

5 years ago

Recovery Gave Me the Purpose I’d Been Trying to Find Through Alcohol – by Olivia Pennelle

Mission Assisted Treatment –  September 14, 2019  - I’ll never forget the last time I drank or my state of…

5 years ago

Attorney General: Opioid makers have ‘blood on their hands’

Where the Bottom Line is a Corpse –   Sept. 14, 2019 - “This is what people need to know,”…

5 years ago

Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik Opens Up About His Sobriety

Testimony – Sept. 14, 2019 - Johnny Rzeznik has been sober for nearly five years now, but the journey wasn’t…

5 years ago

‘The Rehab Booth’ hopes to connect drug addicts with resources

An Addiction Call Box –   Sept. 14, 2019 - “We’ve already got a few phone calls and we even…

5 years ago

Scientists Unveil Weed Breathalyzer

DON’T EXHALE –  September 5, 2019 - The university’s Star Lab, led by Alexander Star, began developing the box-shaped device…

5 years ago

Demi Moore, talks sobriety, miscarriage

She’s Got Game – Sept. 12, 2019  - In retrospect, what I realized is that when I opened the door…

5 years ago

Why best album of century is Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black

Spirit Don’t Ever Die –  Sept. 13, 2019 - A rare instance of critical acclaim chiming with public taste, it…

5 years ago

Inside the Drug Industry’s Plan to Defeat

“then President Obama signed it into law” – Sept. 13, 2019 - The new information is emerging through the efforts…

5 years ago

Drug companies seek removal of judge in landmark opioid case

Desperate Measure –  September 14, 2019 - “Defendants do not bring this motion lightly,” the lawyers wrote in a filing…

5 years ago

OxyContin Maker Files For Bankruptcy Protection

Morally Bankrupt Too! –  Sept. 15, 2019 - The information, in records an unnamed financial institution produced in response to…

5 years ago

Google’s new addiction recovery website is more useful than Google search

Thank You Ryan Hampton – Sept. 12, 2019 - Google used to famously refuse to put anything but a logo,…

5 years ago

Tackle the epidemic, not the opioids

SUD Whack-A-Mole – September 9, 2019 - The epidemic arose in the 1990s in areas that had experienced economic decline,…

5 years ago

12-Step Programs Effective says American Psychiatric Association

Success Based Evidence –   Sept. 03,2019 - Spiritual or religious based programs, such as those based on the principles…

5 years ago

How millennial Boy Scout built a fentanyl empire

The American Dream –   Sept. 14, 2019 - For three weeks this summer, those suburban millennials climbed onto the…

5 years ago

‘Jackass’ Star Steve-O Celebrates Decade of Sobriety with Shocking VIDEO

Trigger Warning Video – September 13, 2019 - Jackass star Steve-O has never been shy about his many years of…

5 years ago

Alec Baldwin’s Battle with Alcoholism & Drug Addiction

He Plays a Great Alec Baldwin – Sep 15, 2019  - The Beetlejuice and Hunt for Red October actor actually…

5 years ago

Are You Triggered By Sober September?

Time To Go On The Water Wagon – September 10, 2019 - If Sober September or Dry January bring up…

5 years ago

Quote of the Week

"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." —P.D. Ouspensky

5 years ago

Sacklers Transferred $1B From Pharma Accounts To Themselves

Blood Money Safe in Switzerland –   September 13, 2019 - “Records from one financial institution alone have shown approximately…

5 years ago

Teen now has lungs like 70-year-old

Vape Like There’s No Tomorrow – September 12, 2019 - The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday that…

5 years ago

Purdue Pharma Settles Opioids Case

Breaking News - Slap on the Wrists –   Sept. 11, 2019 - Often when a company goes into Chapter…

5 years ago

Newborn Babies Cry for Drugs

Pharmaceutical Infanticide? – Sept. 7, 2019 - Every 15 minutes in America, a child is born after a prenatal exposure…

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