Painting Portsmouth, by Sam Quinones

Painting the Town Clean – August 12, 2018 - With the town blasted by this huge supply, and the sense…

6 years ago

HMP Acquires Vendome Group’s Behavioral Healthcare Unit

Progress and Perfection? – July 10, 2018 - HMP’s third acquisition in 18 months as part of a pivot toward…

6 years ago

Johnny Kline, dead at 86, Harlem Globetrotter Turned Drug Abuse Counselor

A Real Mensch – August 17, 2018 - “I was a stinking, drugged-out dope fiend,” Kline wrote in “Never Lose”…

6 years ago

American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis – and How to End It by Ryan Hampton

MEDIA: Book of the Month – August 2018 - Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid…

6 years ago

Elvis’ addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death

Even the Good Die Young – August 16, 2018 - But on this day 41 years ago, millions of music…

6 years ago

DEA Wants More Marijuana Grown and Fewer Opioids Produced In 2019. Really.

Who’s Smoking What? – August 16, 2018 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, added that…

6 years ago

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

MEDIA: BOOK for Gamblers – 2014 - Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll…

6 years ago

What is synthetic marijuana?

It’s Garbage – AUGUST 16, 2018 -No deaths were reported, but two people suffered life-threatening symptoms. Synthetic marijuana — also…

6 years ago

Deep brain stimulation might one day treat the worst cases of alcohol addiction

Science May One Day... – August 17, 2018 - That’s because once alcohol hooks you in, it becomes extremely difficult…

6 years ago

Fighting drug addiction in teens: What parents should know

Talking Helps – August 14th 2018 - The stress of school and pressures from friends might be factors that could…

6 years ago

An Overdose Left Him With Brain Damage. Now What?

The Needle and the Damage Done – August 18, 2019 - It was a Sunday afternoon, and in the cozy…

6 years ago

Epidemic: Two Recent Gifts to Fight Drug Addiction Are the Exception, Not the Rule

Meet the Hero and the Hypocrite – August 16, 2018 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the country’s largest public…

6 years ago

Hundreds attend opioid addiction protest in Stamford Friday

Purdue Pharma: Guilty as Charged – August 17, 2018 - A couple hundred protesters gathered outside of the Stamford headquarters…

6 years ago

US multinational buys into UK rehab centres as demand grows

Money Money Money – August 17, 2018 - The UK private rehab market is set to grow exponentially, one of…

6 years ago

Sister of man found dead gives tearful testimony after seeing ‘Oxy Doc’

Prescribing Death for New Yorkers – July 11, 2018 - The sister of a Staten Island man who died of…

6 years ago

Josh Gordon returns to Browns, vows to put sobriety first

Trying NOT to Score – August 18, 2018 - Gordon, who’s been in a treatment program at the University of…

6 years ago

Gov. declares September addiction ‘recovery month’

Set to Save Lives – August 16, 2018 - n March, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared addiction a crisis and…

6 years ago

Rash of overdoses show dangers of powerful synthetic drugs

FAKE DRUGS are Our Enemy – August 16, 2018 - On the same day that more than two dozen people…

6 years ago

Betty Ford Foundation Claims Groups Fraudulently Using Name

Freedom Healthcare Crooks – August 15, 2018 - Websites associated with Freedom Healthcare of America and Addiction Enders are using…

6 years ago

Will Self Interview: Rehab and Bristol’s “nasty” drug problem

For Our UK Fans: Totally Entertaining  – August 17, 2018 - “At a spiritual level it’s a disaster, it’s just…

6 years ago

Behind Aretha Franklin’s successful career was life of failed marriages and alcoholism

I Say a Little Prayer – August 17, 2018 - But Aretha’s life was far from sunshine and rainbows, and…

6 years ago

This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand

That's Very Rare – August 18, 2018 - Every year, thousands of people addicted to opioids show up at hospital…

6 years ago

Seven Things That Inevitably Happen to Your Personal Life When You Get Sober by Holly Glenn Whitaker

There is a Solution – August 17, 2018 - This year, I celebrated five years sober. It’s been over six years…

6 years ago

Purdue Pharma’s Sales Pitch Downplayed Risks of Opioid Addiction

Sackler Family - Guilty as Sin – August 17, 2018 - Two decades ago, Purdue Pharma produced thousands of brochures…

6 years ago

‘The devil’s aspirin’: why do so many celebrities like Elon Musk blame Ambien?

Such a Friendly Sounding Word...  – August 17, 2018 - “It is often a choice of no sleep or Ambien,”…

6 years ago

Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017

American Dream Denied – August 15, 2018 -  The death toll is higher than the peak yearly death totals from H.I.V.,…

6 years ago

76 people non-lethal overdose on K-2 at Connecticut park

Keeping it Unreal – August 15, 2018 - 71 people suffering from apparent overdoses were transported to local hospitals from…

6 years ago

‘Patrick Melrose’: How Benedict Cumberbatch Became an Expert in Addiction to Deliver His Career Best

Act As If – August 18, 2018 -Not only is Showtime’s five-part mini-series “Patrick Melrose” a superb cinematic adaptation of…

6 years ago

Margot Kidder’s Death Ruled Suicide

Bi-Polar Destruction – August 8, 2018 - “Superman” actress Margot Kidder’s death has been ruled a suicide, according to the…

6 years ago

Ant McPartlin pulls out of I’m A Celebrity to focus on rehab

Self Care Comes First  – August 9, 2018 - McPartlin first checked himself into rehab last summer, citing an addiction to…

6 years ago