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4 Softball Team Members Found Dead After Overdose

SOFTBALL TRAGEDY – October 22, 2025 - Four members of the same softball team were found dead from apparent drug overdoses inside a Fullerton apartment. The Fullerton Police Department’s Communication Center received ... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025OverdoseTrauma

Private Treatment Centres Put Patients in Danger

AUDIO/VIDEO – OH CANADA – Oct. 24, 2025 - Quebec and Alberta are only provinces that provide some regulation for all private facilities. After past struggles with alcohol, she was battling prescription drug addiction... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Treatment Center Feels Impact of State Crackdown on Sober Living Fraud

WATCH – VIDEO ONLY – Oct. 15, 2025 - Local treatment center the Haven feels impact of state crackdown on sober living fraud. See Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45g2ATJOCk ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Embattled Kentucky Treatment Center Sold to Ethema Health

AUDIO – GUILTY AS SIN – Oct. 22, 2025 - One of Kentucky’s largest for-profit residential addiction care treatment providers, which has been the subject of an FBI investigation for more than a year, is being sold. Add... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

LGBTQ+ Youth’s Mental Health Getting Worse

ACCEPTANCE IS THE KEY – Oct. 20, 2025 - As political rhetoric in the last couple of years has boiled over on issues such as teaching about LGBTQ+ identity in schools, transgender students playing on sports teams and ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediagayMental HealthOct 28 2025

Doctor’s Journey Sparks A Movement

THANK GOD – Oct. 16, 2025 - Dr. Christopher Schenewerk’s personal battle with alcoholism transformed both his life and medical practice. After voluntarily entering rehab on Nov. 8, 2018, he has remained sober for ove... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025Recovery

What Lack of Sleep Does to Your Health

WATCH – IT AIN’T GOOD! – Oct. 24, 2025 - Missing sleep impacts your heart, metabolism, and mental health. It raises risks of heart disease and obesity. Lack of rest also triggers anxiety and emotional burnout. Expert... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental HealthOct 28 2025

Ghostbusters

HAPPY HALLOWEEN – 15,058,060 views Since Jun 9, 2016 - For the 32 Anniversary of my number one favorite movie of all time. I re edited my Ghostbusters Music Video in HD. “Do you have any hobbies?” ... “I collect spor... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025

Michael Jackson – Thriller – flashmob

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 2,911,324 views Since Nov 13, 2012 - Alumnos del taller de Danza del Instituto de Ciencias, junto a NBD presentan este flashmob. See Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ImZBHY... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winnerOct 28 2025

Person of the Week: Shireen Janti

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Oct. 28, 2025 - Shireen Janti has been a force in the field of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency for over 36 years. Her credentials include becoming a (CPC) Certified Professional ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaInterviewOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate

Anthony Hopkins on Quitting Booze & Finding God

THE SILENCE OF THE DRINKS – Oct. 25, 2025 - In his new memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” which will be published on Nov. 4, the 87-year-old shares the details...But I was drunk and driving my car here in California in a blac... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyOct 28 2025

10-Year-Old Was Using Smart Phone Just Before She Killed Herself

TECH DEATH – Oct. 24, 2025 - The mother of a 10-year-old girl who died by suicide earlier this year said she now regrets giving her daughter a smartphone at an early age, especially for use at night. “She de... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneOct 28 2025Smartphone Addiction

Antidepressant Side Effects

WHICH SIDE? – OCT. 23, 2025 - Doctors have long known that antidepressants come with side effects for cardiovascular and metabolic health. The end result is something akin to a “sports league table” for 30 different ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionOct 28 2025

For Sale in California Stores Nitrous Oxide Is Ruining Lives Forever

AUDIO – TOO EASY – Oct. 20, 2025 - ...as her boyfriend drove while repeatedly inhaling nitrous oxide from a two-liter canister. At roughly 100 mph, Mr. Loudermilk lost consciousness, the effect of the anesthetic d... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 28 2025Trauma

‘It’s scary to think I could have died’

LONG STRANGE TRIP – Oct. 17, 2025 - Coming back from fentanyl addiction. Kayla first tried fentanyl as a troubled 18-year-old, growing up in the US state of North Carolina. ”I felt like literally amazing. The voices ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOct 28 2025

Fewer Than Half of Drug Overdose Survivors Go to the Hospital

INDEPENDENT ADDICTS – Oct. 23, 2025 - The researchers found that 25.7 percent of participants had experienced at least one NFOD in the prior year. During the most recent NFOD, use of naloxone was reported by 82.1 per... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 28 2025Overdose

Antidepressant Craze Won’t Cure Gen Z Sadness

WHAT WILL? – Oct. 20, 2025 - The author G.K. Chesterton once said that “meaningless does not come from being weary of pain; meaningless comes from being weary of pleasure.” This truism seems particularly apt in the a... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionOct 28 2025

Filipino Influencer Star Dies at 19

TWO NATIONS MOURN – Oct. 24, 2025 - It’s with deep sadness that we share the unexpected passing of our daughter and sister, Emman,” her family wrote on Instagram. “She brought so much joy, laughter, and love into our... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025suicideTrauma

The 10 Darkest Movies About Addiction and Alcoholism

THE HORROR – Oct. 15, 2025 - Many movies have successfully portrayed the reality of alcohol use disorders and other addictions. While many of these movies focus on the fact that these are illnesses that can be succes... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025

Celebrity TV chef Andrew Zimmern Talks Addiction & Sobriety

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL – Oct. 24, 2025 - At one time, Andrew Zimmern, an Emmy and four-time James Beard Award winner, TV/media personality, chef, writer and passionate global citizen, used people, was addicted to heroi... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyOct 28 2025

Can Marijuana Help You Sleep?

NO MORE MELATONIN – Oct. 21, 2025 - Cannabis contains dozens of compounds such as cannabidiol (CBD), which does not cause the “high” typically associated with marijuana, and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which does hav... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediamarijuanaMental HealthOct 28 2025

Quote of the Week – Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens, November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910 ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025quote of the week

Governor Signs Bill to Study Psychedelics for PTSD & Better Mental Health

CRAZY NOT TO – Oct. 16, 2025 - The nonprofit organization Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) is a big believer in the power of psychedelic therapies such as ibogaine, which co-founder and former Navy SEAL ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental HealthOct 21 2025Psychedelics

Connecticut Residents Debate Hillbilly Heroin / Kratom Ban

AUDIO – NOT GOOD – Oct. 16, 2025 - The vast majority of the more than 100 testifiers during Wednesday’s marathon seven-hour hearing agreed that 7-OH, which researchers have estimated could be 15 times as potent as mo... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionOct 21 2025

Celebrating Husband Jason Ritter’s Sobriety: ‘12 Years of Accountability’

AND NO HANGOVERS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Lynskey wrote, “12 years of accountability, of showing up, of answering the phone, of driving home safely, of quiet nights, of loud fun nights, of laughing and laughing, of be... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyOct 21 2025

Ben Fuller: What Almost Cost Him 6 Years of Sobriety?

VIDEO – A STAR STAYS BRIGHT – Oct. 16, 2025 - Fuller was nominated for Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year for his collaboration with Carrie Underwood on his song “If It Was Up To Me.” Underwood later m... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyOct 21 2025

FILM: Daughter’s Searing Portrait of Family Addiction and Mental Illness

VIDEO – MOVIE REVIEW – Oct. 8, 2025 - Film-maker Myrid Carten, who holds the camera much of the time as well as directing, exposes here the open wound that is her relationship with her mother Nuala, who has both bipo... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 21 2025

Recovery Center to Stop Providing Pipes to Drug Users

VIDEO – GOOD IDEA – Oct. 9, 2025 - According to the Howard Center, it helps people and communities by providing services to address mental health, substance use and developmental needs The organization provides le... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 21 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Why People Use or Get Addicted to Cannabis?

JAZZ OR ROCK? – Oct. 13, 2025 - The tendency to use cannabis is associated with genes linked to impulsive behavior, obesity, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other traits. 24 states legalized recreatio... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionmarijuanaOct 21 2025

Cannabis Use Links Genetics to Psychiatric, Cognitive and Physical Health

GOOD JEANS COUNT TOO – Oct. 13, 2025 - The study found that lifetime cannabis use was associated with two genes. The first was Cell Adhesion Molecule 2 (a gene involved in cell assembly and in signaling between nerve... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediamarijuanaOct 21 2025