Man vs. Epidemic: The Origin Story of Pill Man MAKING A DIFFERENCE – Dec. 28, 2021 - The road to recovery was riddled with several obstacles, according to Huntley, including another episode with a different form of opioids: methadone. Used as a medicine to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 4 2022methopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Ketamine May Quickly Ease Tough-to-Treat Depression WATCH – WORKS FAST TOO – Dec. 27, 2021 - The new review, published recently in the British Journal of Psychiatry Open, pulls together all published research on ketamine as a treatment for psychiatric disorders... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 4 2022RecoveryRehab
Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain’s Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life A GPS TO FIND YOUR WAY HOME – Dec. 14, 2021 - “Everyday Trauma is an engaging book that informs the reader about the brain and bodily processes underlying emotional trauma, as well as effective treatments for the c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJan 4 2022Mental HealthTrauma
How to Embrace Mindful Drinking FOR NORMIES ONLY – Dec. 23, 2021 - Mindful drinking, by contrast, means “bringing awareness to your behaviors in terms of your decision to drink alcohol”: for example, tallying how many cocktails you consume i... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 4 2022Recovery
After 15 Years of Sobriety, Cold Feet’s John Thomson Has Been Showered with Love and Support EVERY DAY IS FOR REJOICING – Dec. 30, 2021 - After 15 years of sobriety, Cold Feet’s John Thomson has been inundated with support. After celebrating a major milestone, COLD FEET star John Thomson was shower... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewJan 4 2022RecoveryRehab
IS ADDICTION SINFUL? DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU ARE DRINKING – Dec. 30, 2021 - Especially when wellness is diminished, whether through disease, age or addiction, we come to see the importance of the gifts of life and health. As beings who God... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 4 2022Recovery
Limits on Virtual Addiction Treatment May Soon Return THIS IS A SIN – Dec. 30, 2021 - Absent evidence of abuse, says Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., telehealth should continue for medically-assisted opioid treatment. “We’ve now had 18 months to have telehealth exp... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Man Charged with Hiding Woman’s Corpse After Drug Overdose HE WON’T BE ABLE TO HIDE IN PRISON – Dec. 28, 2021 - An affidavit shows Erik L. Averbeck, 44, has been charged with Hiding a Corpse in Winnebago County. On Dec. 15, a Fox Crossing detective was contacted by the ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 4 2022OverdoseTrauma
EDITOR’S CHOICE FILMS OF 2021 LOVED to LOATHED – Jan. 1, 2022 - I've seen most of these in the theater, a couple at home. Missed last year's list. You can imagine why. (Ratings based on personal reaction, opinion, enjoyability and my ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJan 11 2022Leonard BuschelREEL Recovery Film FestivalWriters In Treatment
Q&A with author and founder of Speakertunity, Jackie Lapin STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Dec. 31, 2021 - Jackie Lapin is a leader in helping leaders, authors, coaches, speakers and entrepreneurs connect with their next followers around the globe. An expert at aiding them ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetInterviewJan 4 2022
Edie Falco Gave ‘Nurse Jackie’ Writers a Deeply Personal Ultimatum REAL LIFE EDUCATION – Dec. 31, 2021 - It’s hard to imagine that this talented, hardworking actor ever struggled with alcohol abuse. But Falco shared with The Guardian that she’s battled addiction since her col... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 4 2022life expectancyOverdoseRecovery
Dopamine Dressing Will be 2022’s Biggest Trend GOOD ON SALADS TOO – Dec. 24, 2021 - “She believed the colour yellow made her look ‘washed out’ due to being caucasian,” Dr Karen says. “She then reported back that the colour not only lifted her spirits, bu... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Israeli Pharma Giant Teva is Found Guilty in Opioid Trial MONEY WILL NOT BRING THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE! Dec. 30, 2021 - Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israeli-based company that produces generic and branded opioids, and a handful of subsidiary companies were found liable in a ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 4 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Modern Economy Is Built On Addiction AND WE LOVE IT – Dec. 27, 2021 - It’s a behaviour that seeks to medicate fear, sorrow, boredom, regret, anomie, heartbreak, or the existential heebie-jeebies: take your pick. That desire — the desire to take y... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Ohio Legalizes Sports Betting WATCH – NO ONE SCORES – Dec. 28, 2021 - When sports betting was legalized last week in Ohio, 2 percent of all sports betting tax money was also allocated toward problem sports gamblers. That will be abou... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetJan 4 2022Mental HealthSuper Bowlvideo games
From Sober Shaming to Wine Time HEALTHY DISCUSSION – Jan. 1, 2022 - Shockingly, ONS statistics report that it was also responsible for almost 9,000 UK deaths in 2020 alone. So why is it still so heavily ingrained in everything we do? ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJan 4 2022RecoveryRehab
Are Video Games Really Addictive? YOU KNOW THEY ARE – Jan. 1, 2022 - When china’s government censors books, bars “effeminate men” from television or spoon-feeds Communist Party dogma to schoolchildren, liberals agree that its behaviour is shoc... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneGaminginternetinterventionJan 4 2022Mental HealthSmartphone AddictionSuper Bowl
Lil Xan: Music Industry is the Worst Place for People Battling Addiction WATCH – IS THERE A GREAT PLACE? AA MEETINGS? – Dec. 30, 2021 - The music industry has been under fire lately, and for good reason. In an Instagram Live session from yesterday, rapper Lil Xan not only accused his ma... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 4 2022RecoveryRehab
National Addiction Treatment Center to Pay $4.5 Million in First-Of-Its-Kind Settlement of Laboratory Self-Referral Violations & Claims of Unnecessary Drug Tests BUSINESS AS USUAL? – Dec. 30, 2021 - These allegations against CleanSlate were originally made in a case filed in April 2017 under the whistleblower (or qui tam) provision of the False Claims Act by a former e... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 4 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
These High-Achievers Share Mental Health Struggles ‘That’s making me better’ – Dec 31 2021 - Last month, five-time NBA All-Star Kevin Love told CNBC Make It that he started using mental health struggles as fuel to win basketball games as early as high school. But t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma
Paul Weller Turned to Therapist for Sobriety Advice ROCKER ROCKING SOBRIETY – Dec. 31, 2021 - The 55-year-old rocker recalled how his now-wife Hannah gave him an ultimatum to stop boozing, but he was initially reluctant to quit completely. Recalling the morn... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Quote of the Week – Betty White “People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends, I need a Ouija board.” – Betty White (1922-2021) ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJan 4 2022life expectancyquote of the week
‘I give because I know what it’s like to have nothing’ REAL ANGELS OF CHRISTMAS – Dec. 28, 2021 - Lynne Corry arrived at Samaritan Daytop Village in 1997 with her newborn son and monkey on her back in the form of drug addiction. Located on 119 West 106th Street, the Yo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionInterviewJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
My Sobriety Isn’t A Trend Or A New Year’s Challenge IT IS ONE DAY AT A TIME – Dec, 27, 2021 - Like those 6.5 million folks trying Dry January this year, my own sobriety also began as a challenge. And while I’m grateful for my personal journey, I wish I was more... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionInterviewJan 4 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Why Do We Sleep? ALLAN RECHTSCHAFFEN Dies at 93 – Dec. 17, 2021 - Allan Rechtschaffen, an indefatigable sleep researcher at the University of Chicago who tested the effects of sleep deprivation, studied dreaming, narcolepsy, n... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 28 2021Mental Health
Treatment Center Operator Pleads Guilty to Patient Brokering IT’S NO VACATION – Dec. 19, 2021 - A man in charge of operations at a West Palm Beach addiction treatment center pleaded guilty this week to patient brokering more than 30 people. In a case dating back to late 2... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 28 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab
DE Maxx Crosby Made The Pro Bowl After Being In Rehab TOUCHDOWN! – Dec. 21, 2021 - He said that alcoholism runs in his family and that he struggled with drinking and partying throughout high school and college. During his rookie season, his alcohol consumption be... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 28 2021RecoveryRehab
Changes in Brain Hinder Addiction Recovery in HIV-Positive Patients CAN THIS BE TRUE? – Dec. 20, 2021 - Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain responses of cocaine addicts and patients with HIV while participants played a game that involv... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 28 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
To Beat The Opioid Crisis, We Must Change The Rules Of The Game LEGALIZE THEM – Dec. 2021 - Twenty years later, we have just witnessed a historically high annual mortality rate of 100,000 dead from drug overdoses, mostly opioids, and it’s likely an undercount. In what seem... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 28 2021Drug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Weed May Mess With Your Meds ONE DRUG AT A TIME – Dec. 16, 2021 - The investigators found that the major THC metabolites inhibited key CYP enzymes, including several that serve key roles in the liver. And all three cannabis chemicals, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 28 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanapotRecoveryRehabsmokingweed