How Business Can Become Recovery-Friendly by Leslie Glass NESPRESSO MACHINES FOR EVERYONE – Sept. 1 2021 - Sobriety should be honored and celebrated because, to use the lowest common denominator, it’s just good for business. When people seek treatment for their addic... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
“My Friend Fox” A Memoir of Emotional Healing VULPINE VALIDATION – Sept. 1, 2021 - “I knew this was a moment that was outside the mundane...this fox just appears and pulls me off the edge, away from that precipice.” The powerful encounter with he... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 7 2021
How One Alcoholic Drink Raises Risk Irregular Heartbeat WATCH IT – THE POWER OF BOOZE – Sept. 2, 2021 - “This demonstrates that whenever we consume alcohol, it is presumably having a nearly immediate effect on the electrical workings of our hearts,” Gregory Marcus,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
Exhibition in Portsmouth Marks 75 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous WE DON’T NEED NO BITTERS – Sept. 3, 2021 - ‘AA started from a meeting between two seemingly hopeless alcoholics in 1935. Today AA has approximately three million members worldwide and the success of AA in Grea... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
Party Town: How Alcohol-Centered Culture Impacts Mental Health PARTY ’TIL YOUR SOBER – Sept. 3, 2021 - “I just grew up around drinking,” Howes said. “Most of my aunts and uncles are all alcoholics … That’s something I took up with them. They were allowing me to drin... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabSept 7 2021
Pamela Rickard Running to Raise Awareness RECOVERY IS ETERNAL – Sept. 3, 2021 - When I walked out of that jail on Dec. 31, 2006, the seeds had been planted that would ultimately grow into my desire to help those fighting similar battles and to show th... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
In the Drug Archives ADDICTED TO WRITING ABOUT DRUGS – Sept. 3, 2021 - “I’m attracted to topics that cross boundaries and genres,” he says, and stories about drugs—who takes them, and how they experience them—offered avenues... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
‘Munchausen by Internet’ self-diagnosing mental health issues on TikTok THE DOCTOR IS ALWAYS IN – Sept. 4, 2021 - As mental health awareness improves, there comes a troubling trend of young people diagnosing themselves with a mental illness, which can be a mood, personality, or an... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 7 2021
Family Kills 600,000 Americans and Gets No Jail Time THE RICH GET RICHER – Sept. 5, 2021 - On Wednesday, the court approved a deal for the dissolution of the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, which kicked off the opioid epidemic two decades ago with its i... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 7 2021
Lala Kent: My Sobriety Comes First JUST LIKE CLARK – Sept. 3, 2021 - The blonde beauty - who now has six-month - old daughter Ocean with TV producer Randall - admits she couldn’t have put down the bottle without the unwavering love and su... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
Comedian Fuquan Johnson And Two Others Die From Drug Overdose, Model, Comedian Kate Quigley WATCH – REGULATE IT! IT'S NOT COCAINE ANYMORE Sept. 6, 2010 - Laurie Perez reports from Hollywood where the comedy community is struggling with the loss of well-known comic Fuquan "Fu" Johnson who, along with two oth... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseRecoverySept 7 2021Trauma
Judge Approves Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy that Protects Sacklers from Jail and Lawsuits WATCH – CROOKS OFF THE HOOK – Sept. 1, 2021 - Drain said it was clear the wrongful marketing of the company’s opioid products contributed to the country’s addiction crisis, which touched every corner of the co... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 7 2021
Veterans with PTSD Can Benefit From Equine Assisted Therapy FOR CLINICIANS ONLY – August 31, 2021 - The study found that manualized EAT-PTSD shows promise as a potential new intervention for veterans with PTSD. It appears safe, feasible, and clinically viable. These pr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021Trauma
Doctor Tried To Use Hells Angels To Kill Witness In His Opioid Fraud Trial THEY’RE BIKERS NOT PIKERS – August 31, 2021 - However, the unnamed informant later alerted the FBI, who then had an undercover agent pose as an assassin to meet up with Braylovsky to clarify his intentio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 7 2021
Kids Allowed 5 Mental Health Days From School HAPPY DAY – Sept. 2, 2021 - Under a bill signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last month, students who decide to take a mental health day will not be required to provide their school with a doctor’s note and will ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 7 2021teenagersTrauma
Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Deals Death on Long Island NO COMING BACK – August 31, 2021 - On the North Fork, the dead were not hardened addicts but mostly recreational users, police said, seeking a fleeting high. Behind the brief descriptions in the police reports... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 7 2021Trauma
National Recovery Month 2021 WHEN ONE MONTH IS NEVER ENOUGH – Sept. 1, 2021 - Now in its 32nd year, Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those in recovery, just as we celebrate improvements made by those who are managing other heal... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
Philip Morris Wants to Sell Medicine To Treat Cigarette Caused Lung Disease LISTEN – FROM SELLING DRUGS TO SELLING MEDICINE – Sept. 2, 2010 - All cigarette companies know the industry that established their fortunes is fading, as smoking rates decline worldwide. Most are investe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerinterventionlife expectancynicotineSept 7 2021smoking
Former Priest Celebrates 19 Years of Sobriety WATCH – “A SAINT AND A SINNER,” BY STEPHEN DONNELLY – Sept. 1, 2021 - “What is a man’s life worth if he’s judged solely by his worst days?” National Recovery Month answers the question Donnelly posed in “A Sai... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
Imagine Dragons Dives Into The Darkness NO MORE CHASING – Sept. 2, 2021 - “I’m finding it hard to love myself,” he sings on ”My Life.” On “Lonely,” he offers: “These days, I’m becoming everything I hate.” The song ”Dull Knives” has Reynolds’ almost ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietygrammy winnerInterviewMental HealthRecoverySept 7 2021
Quote of the Week – Bette Midler “I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.” —Bette Midler ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietygrammy winnerquote of the weekSept 7 2021
UNSETTLED by RYAN HAMPTON MEDIA: NEW BOOK TO BUY – Sept. 3, 2021 - A page-turning and poignant memoir that draws back the curtains in the fight to bring the fraudulent peddlers of OxyContin to justice. Beth Macy, bestselling a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 7 2021
Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow Raises $2.2M BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS – August 26, 2021 - It is a plant-based, gluten and allergen-free meal that has his three favorite breakfast go-tos — oats, protein and vitamins, plus minerals and Omega-3 fatty acids. C... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Blackfoot Helping Blackfoot Recovery Camps WATCH – NATURE HEALS – August 26, 2021 - Mills describes the project as “Blackfoot helping Blackfoot.” The camps will be led by Blackfoot people and include traditional healing and ceremony. He hopes to hav... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
California to Pay Addicts to Stay Sober DOUBLE WINNERS – August 26, 2021 - Meanwhile, a similar proposal is moving through California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature. It’s already passed the Senate with no opposition and is pending in the ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Biggest Robert Downey Jr. Moments That Transformed His Life TAKING THE RIGHT ‘STEPS’ – August 25, 2021 - After a few small parts in movies, Downey got what seemed like his big break in 1985. That year, “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels assembled an en... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
New NY Governor Makes Marijuana Industry High Priority PROHIBITION ENDING – August 25, 2021 - A wholesale tax will be charged based on potency — a cent per milligram on edibles, eight-tenths of one cent on concentrated cannabis and a half-cent per milligram on flo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaRecoverysmoking
Nurse Shares Story of Recovery at South Jersey Ministry PLEASE WATCH – REAL HEROES – August 25, 2021 - “I had tried to commit suicide numerous times. I had been in and out of programs. I had lost my nursing license. There was nowhere for me to go,” she said. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabsuicideteenagers
Understanding Connections Between Substance Use and Other Life Problems AWARENESS IS THE FIRST STEP – August 25, 2021 - Delivered virtually, Hazelden Betty Ford’s RecoveryGo® online solutions bring our world-class outpatient addiction and mental health care, recovery support... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Man Walking 700 Miles to Help Fight Addiction ONE MILE AT A TIME – August 26, 2021 - The 54-year-old is walking from Okeechobee County to Snow Camp North Carolina. After 40 years of addiction, he’s been sober for nearly five years. He’s walking t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab