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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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‘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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Are We Prescribing Antidepressants Wrong?

IS THERE A RIGHT WAY? – Dec. 21. 2021 - That’s not to say we shouldn’t use antidepressants at all – in many instances, they save lives and work well. But the authors of the new review, which appears in the Briti... Read More...

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Focusing More on Recovery, Not Relapse

THERAPISTS CAN HELP – Dec. 23, 2021 - The Bottom Line: Flexibility in Treatment Is Key. Each of these individuals came from a different demographic background. Still, if their therapists had been working from ... Read More...

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