Busting Eating Disorder Stereotypes WATCH – SIZE DOESN’T MATTER – Sept. 8, 2021 - When plus-sized supermodel Tess Holliday opened up this spring about her struggle with anorexia, she also spoke about the backlash she received, saying, “I u... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 14 2021
Liz Fraser: My Life With An Alcoholic Partner AL-ANON ANYONE? – Sept 12, 2021 - At the height of his addiction, Mike was so saturated by alcohol and anxiety he was barely able to think or function normally. He was nervous, wired, aggressive and prim... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 14 2021
Quote of the Week – Judy Crane “We do a huge injustice when we point our finger and make judgment about behaviors rather than recognizing the innate goodness of most human beings” —Judy Crane ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMental Healthquote of the weekSept 14 2021
‘The Wire’ Actor Michael K. Williams Found Dead in NYC Apartment A STAR GOES DARK – Sept. 6, 2021 - A relative of the Emmy-winning actor talked to him Friday, and Williams was supposed to show up to an event Saturday but never made it, sources said. The relative went to Williams’... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionOverdoseSept 7 2021
Senator Edward Markey Decries Sackler Family Going Free for Murder STILL NO JUSTICE – Sept 2, 2021 - “A bankruptcy settlement should not absolve the Sacklers and their partners in crime from their culpability in the opioid epidemic. While funds to support on-going treat... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 7 2021
Keith McCants, ex-NFL Player Struggled Who with Addiction Dead at 53 TOO DAMN SAD – Sept. 2, 2021 -“Before was over with, I was consuming over 183 pills a week, not knowing the effects it had on my liver or my kidneys,” McCants said in a 2015 Vice Sports interview. He was neve... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 7 2021Super BowlTrauma
The Well-Blown Mind MEDIA: TWO BOOKS ON DRUGS – Sept. 23, 2021 - The doublethink created by this language exasperates Carl Hart, a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University. “In recent years, psychedelic drugs have b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 7 2021Trauma
Soberlockn’ Creates Safe Space For Music Lovers WATCH – WHARF RATS ARE REPRODUCING – August 28, 2021 - “It’s truly a remarkable experience to come to a live music festival and have the space to meet with other music fans that are also in recovery to share our ex... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
Canada’s Drug Policy — Not Drugs — Is Killing People OH CANADA, OH NO – August 31, 2021 - It’s mind-boggling communities across Canada must still organize for an annual awareness day to draw public and policymakers’ attention to poisoned street drugs ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 7 2021Trauma
Akron is center of fantasy role-playing game about AA PLAAY TO WIN – Aug. 31, 2021 - “I wanted to design a fantasy world based on 12-step culture,” said Travis Henry, 46, co-founder of Twelvefold Works Publishing in New York. “And since the path of recovery first... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 7 2021
Tim Choquette Runs Race for the Herren Project HELPING THE SOBRIETY TEAM – Sept. 1, 2021 - I didn’t just leave the drugs and drinking behind when I left Massachusetts to start over in Florida. I left all of my friends and family. One of my best frien... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
CEO of Long Beach Drug Treatment Provider Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison Island GO TO JAIL – Sept. 2, 2021 - Ciampa founded the non-profit Atlantic Recovery Services (ARS), later called Atlantic Health Services, in 1996 and served as its president and CEO until its closure in April 2013 f... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehabSept 7 2021
Michelle Heaton’s Searingly Honest Struggles With Alcoholism CONFIDENCE IN ABSTINENCE – Sept. 2, 2021 - Since going to rehab to try and help her get a handle on her life, the singer who rose to fame on the ITV talent show Popstars in the early noughties, said that... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewrapRecoveryRehabSept 7 2021
Soberlink’s Revolutionary Product Is Helping People Get and Stay Sober IT WORKS IF YOU USE IT – Sept. 2, 2021 - “If you or someone you love has struggled with addiction, you know that the stigma around the disease can make recovery all the more daunting,” said Brad Keays, C... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021
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