5 children found in home where 4 adults overdosed WATCH – NARCAN TO THE RESCUE – July 20, 2021 - Five children between the ages of 2 and 10 were found inside a Sylvan Beach home Tuesday morning after police and firefighters responded to an overdose call. S... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 27 2021Overdose
Mena Suvari Reveals Sexual Abuse and Drug Addiction WRITTEN WITH STRENGTH – July 21, 2021 - As Suvari tells PEOPLE, that was also an act — an effort to hide the truth about the trauma she’d been living through. In her new memoir The Great Peace: A Memoir,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 27 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Megan Fox’s Drunken Event that Led to Her Sobriety CHAMPAIGN DREAMS AND SOBRIETY REALITY – July 21, 2021 - “I’m pretty sure I’m a doppelgänger for Alan Alda,” E! Online reported that Fox said of herself in an interview with Giuliana Rancic, the former E! Live f... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 27 2021RecoveryRehab
City kid’s mental health better with exposure to countryside WE NEED A STUDY TO FIGURE THIS OUT? – July 20, 2021 - Currently, the mechanisms why humans receive mental health or cognition benefits from nature exposure is unknown. Scientific research on the role of ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 27 2021Mental Healthteenagers
How the Sacklers Got Away With Murder? MILLIONAIRE KILLERS GO FREE – July 14, 2021 - Though they are widely reviled for profiting from a public health crisis that has resulted in the death of half a million Americans, they have used their money and ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 27 2021life expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Is Gut Health is Linked to Mental Health? FOLLOW YOUR GUT...IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION – July 20, 2021 - Have you ever had a “gut feeling” about a situation? Or maybe you get butterflies in your stomach when you’re nervous? You may even feel like yo... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionJuly 27 2021life expectancyMental HealthObesity
Ed Buck’s defense accused of ‘despicable victim shaming’ in fatal meth overdose trial EVIL INCARNATE – July 23, 2021 - “Every time he stuck that needle into someone else’s arm, he was playing God,” she said. In closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors the evidence against Buck was overwhelming... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 27 2021methOverdose
Former Baltimore Raven running back Lorenzo Taliaferro dead at 28 TOO SOON, TOO YOUNG, TOO SAD – July 20, 2021 - Taliaferro, 28, died in December of what was described as a heart attack. A spokesperson with the York County Sheriff’s Office said Taliaferro was transport... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 27 2021life expectancyMental HealthOverdoseTrauma
Doctors treating depression see promise in ketamine WATCH – ANYTHING TO STOP DRIBBLING – July 21, 2021 - Generic ketamine isn’t specifically approved as a depression treatment, but U.S. doctors are often allowed to prescribe Food and Drug Administration-approved medi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietydepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 27 2021Recovery
Quote of the Week – Jean Shinoda Bolen “There is a potential heroine in every woman.” ― Jean Shinoda Bolen ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 27 2021Mental Healthquote of the week
The ‘war on drugs’ was always about race WAS THE DRUG WAR ACTUALLY A SUCCESS? – July 21, 2021 - But where the “failed war on drugs” rhetoric goes from nonsensical to offensive is when Democrats speak as if the race disparity in drug-related arr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 27 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
Former R.I. state senator opens up about his own addiction in Congressional hearing IT’S AN INSIDE ‘JOB’ – July 21, 2021 - By 30, Coderre said, he had risen in his career to become the executive director of a large non-profit agency. “On the outside, everything about this man’s life looked ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 27 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Instagram ‘pushes weight-loss messages to teenagers’ THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF “PUSHERS” – July 20, 2021 - Algorithms are pushing teenage girls who even briefly engage with fitness-related images towards a flood of weight-loss content, according to new research whic... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phonediet sodaDrug Abuse and AddictionEating DisorderinternetinterventionJuly 27 2021Mental Healthteenagers
How Business Can End the Addiction Epidemic by Leslie Glass HONEST, OPENMINDED AND WORKING – July 13, 2021 - The extraordinary effort to combat and end the COVID pandemic included a massive public information drive to educate and inform people about the disease and how ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionJuly 27 2021life expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Podcast ‘Champagne Problems’ helping people live an alcohol-free life WATCH – SOBER LISTENING – July 13, 2021 - “If you are talking to someone who drinks consistently, maybe doesn’t even have any problems, but you are talking about alcoholism, there is always a wall that goes up,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCompassioninternetinterventionJuly 20 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Adolescent misuse of prescription opioids may lead to heroin use in adulthood LOCKS ON EVERY MEDICINE CABINET? – July 13, 2021 - Opioid misuse and overdoses are a major problem in the United States. One factor that may be leading to the rate of heroin dependence is the growing pop... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinteenagers
More Americans are receiving addiction treatment, but racial gaps persist BACK OF THE METHADONE LINE? – July 13, 2021 - The results, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, provide insights that policymakers and medical providers can act on to improve acce... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
John was headed for ‘death or penitentiary.’ Then he got the opportunity he needed WATCH – AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT – July 16, 2021 - Lifestyle leading to ‘death or penitentiary’ At home growing up, it was just Asher and his dad, who was addicted to drugs — his mother and brot... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021RecoveryRehab
#Floridaman wanted for 53 counts of patient brokering, busted in The Bahamas YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF FLORIDA, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE FLORIDA OUT OF THE MAN – July 15, 2021- A Palm Beach County drug testing lab and 10 South Florida treatment centers worked together to fraudulently bill m... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021Rehab
More women are dying in jail ENDLESS TEARS – July 15th, 2021 - Experts told The 19th that the numbers underscore the need to not only assist women’s needs inside the jails, but to also implement systemic reforms, services and progra... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021life expectancyMental HealthsuicideTrauma
NY OASAS launches “Connections” Campaign to combat addiction BOOTS ON THE GROUND? – July 16, 2021 - The campaign is designed to empower individuals impacted by addiction to use their connections to friends, family members, health professionals, and other organizations, t... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
BRC Healthcare Expands Into Tennessee With Acquisition of Four Nashville Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities LOOK WHO’S TAKING OVER – July 13, 2021 - President and CEO of Nashville Recovery Center, Ryan Cain added, “Since 2019 the Nashville Recovery Center has helped over 25,000 people step out of addiction and... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How ERs Fail Patients With Addiction LISTEN – THE FAMILY AFTERWARD – July 15, 2021 - On March 11, 2020, though, Suzanne grew worried. Jameson, 30 at the time, was slipping in and out of consciousness and saying he couldn’t move his hands. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionJuly 20 2021life expectancyOverdoseRecoveryTrauma
Suspects Used ‘Call Centers’ to Sell Heroin WATCH – WHAT’S WRONG WITH INSTAGRAM? – July 13, 2021 - Two Southern California call centers that facilitated illegal drug deliveries distributed at least $2 million worth of heroin before a federal grand jury i... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021
Biden picks West Virginia’s Rahul Gupta as drug czar ’CAUSE W. VIRGINIA WAS A BEACON OF PREVENTION – July 13, 2021 - The Biden administration is tapping Rahul Gupta as its top drug policy official, charging the former West Virginia public health commission... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Tip that cops were having sex with woman with SUD triggered FBI probe TO DISHONOR AND PERV – July 23, 2021 -That tip arrived in early 2018, Special Agent Daniel Wright said during the sixth day of the corruption trial of former Detective Christopher Collare. Collare and anothe... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021Mental HealthRecovery
The man who came in from the cold AND CHICAGO DOES GET COLD – July 16, 2021 - But that winter it also cost him the last roof over his head. It was only then, faced with homelessness in the frigid cold of February as his health deteriorat... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessinterventionInterviewJuly 20 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Baker Lake man starts Alcoholics Anonymous group SO DID BILL AND BOB – July 16, 2021 - The move was particularly important following the community’s April liquor plebiscite, in which not enough residents voted for regulating the sale of alcohol to change the ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 20 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Deaths Related To Alcohol And Drugs Are SOARING In State Prisons LISTEN – EVERYONE IS ON DEATH ROW – July 17, 2021 - JENKINS: Essentially treating one illicit drug with another - not the way doctors would have treated him, but Olivares-Pelayo credits his friends with ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021OverdoseRecoveryRehabTraumaWar On Drugs
Recovering addict questions Suboxone’s ability WATCH – LITTLE HIT VS BIG HIT – July 16, 2021 - She feels after five years she should be at the point of getting off Suboxone and being done with the daily sickness. Joehlin says she even feels pressure to get ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 20 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab