‘Living Proof:’ Portraits Share Stories of Addiction and Recovery Reality In Your Face – February 20, 2020 - We are honored that they would step forth and share their stories with the community and trust us to be a part of this work,” said Jennifer Muggeo, deputy director of ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
AA Shares New Video: “Young & Sober in A.A.: From Drinking to Recovery” AA’s First Commercial – Feb. 21, 2020 - Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of people who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, no cost, all gender, apolitical and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 25 2020Recovery
Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Debunked Who Can’t You Trust? – Feb. 19 2020 - Last June, the authors, Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the University of California San Francisco, stated in the original study that vaping and smoking cigarettes pose... Read More...Feb 25 2020Vaping
Teaching Kids How to Reverse an Overdose in a Dystopian Present Teach Your Children Hell – Feb. 23, 2020 - In Carter County, where 56,000 people live in a cluster of small cities and rural towns on the North Carolina border, nearly 60 people have died from opioid overdoses ... Read More...Feb 25 2020Overdoseteenagers
Doctors Received $1.5 Million in Free Lunches From Pharma Companies Free Meals for Dead Bodies – Feb. 21, 2020 - That’s a dangerous practice,” Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said. Farley says free meals by doctors offered by big pharma are, at least, partly to blame for the ... Read More...Big PharmaFeb 25 2020
Public Radio’s “Back from Broken” – stories of addiction, struggle & recovery Good Radio – Feb 21, 2020 - The podcast will consist of 10 episodes released every other Friday and focus on conversations with people of all walks of life – including some celebrities – who have dealt with st... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020Recovery
Has social media become a socially acceptable addiction? Just Like Coffee – Feb. 18, 2020 - Galen joined Know Your Value co-founder and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski and Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2020
Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. More than a comeback! – Feb. 18, 2020 - Affleck, Oscar-winning writer, director of the Oscar-winning “Argo,” better actor than you remember — and, yes, alcoholic, divorcé and proud possessor of a mythical back ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020
Quote of the Week “Just try new things, don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar!” –Michelle Obama ... Read More...Feb 25 2020quote of the week
It’s time to get real about heroin addiction. It’s time to decriminalize this drug! Decriminalize Heroin! – February 19, 2020 - I CAN SAY without a shred of doubt that the most stigmatized people in our society are those who use illicit drugs. ‘Junkies’, ‘dopeheads’ and ‘crackheads’ are some of the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Heroin Addiction
How Juul gets kids addicted to vaping: it’s even worse than you think Drug Dealing on the Internet – Feb. 14, 2020 - This isn’t the first time a company selling nicotine products has been accused of targeting children. Joe Camel, the cartoon mascot for Camel cigarettes, was the s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020juulRehabVaping
‘Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it’: Adderall presents esports with an enigma eAddiction – Feb. 13, 2020 - “Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it,” former Call of Duty World Champion, Adam “KiLLa” Sloss said. When asked if Adderall abuse at events was something he had ever witnessed ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020internetvideo games
Alcohol deaths in women on the rise Higher and Higher – February 15, 2020 - A recent study shows that deaths associated with alcohol use among women rose 85%. Why are more women drinking? Lydia Burr, the Director of Clinical Services at Hazelden ... Read More...Alcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
We need to rethink “tough love” as a response to addiction Just Love – FEBRUARY 2, 2020 - When I reached out for help, I went to my ex-boyfriend, the only person I’d been honest with about my relapse. I reached out to him because, although he did have boundaries (“I wo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehabrelapse
Addiction Memoirs are a Genre in Recovery Sharing is Good – Feb. 13, 2020 - Hitting Bottom “Stray” is a literary coming to terms with her parents’ substance abuse, as well as her own periods of heavy drinking, cocaine and sedative use. Her father is a ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Man credits selling bouquets on Chicago streets for his recovery :‘Selling flowers helped me survive’ Sharing Beauty Enhances Sobriety – FEB. 14, 2020 - In the attempt to recover from alcoholism, Flores, 56, began to sell bouquets in the same streets he once tramped, begging for alcohol or the money to bu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
Fruits of their labor: Restaurant celebrates love and recovery Are you hungry? – February 14, 2020 - Employees, or students as they call them, will go through a 12-week course to get their first level of certifi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Coronation Street actor helps addicts in Brighton A couple of swells – Jan. 31, 2020 - Kennedy Street has helped other projects set up their own social enterprises, feeding the homeless, organising dry gigs, and using crafting as therapy. Clare said: “Kennedy Str... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020RecoveryRehab
Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t This Needle Heals – February 15, 2020 - While out with his drinking buddies one night, they offered Jensen a hit, and he “was immediately hooked,” he said. “It was nothing like anything I’d done before,” Jense... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020meth
Being the child of an alcoholic means the trauma stays with you for years Until it Doesn’t – February 15, 2020 - Anyone who has lived through alcoholism will know that reasoning with a constantly drunk individual is not an easy task. My overriding memories from my teenage years are of inci... Read More...Alcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
Sackler Scions Sell Manhattan Mansion & Flee to Switzerland in the Midst of More Opioid Deaths So much death in their eyes... – February 10, 2020 - It seemed to be the best option, at least, for Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler, the more society-facing members of the Purdue Pharma-founding family, widely ... Read More...Feb 18 2020opioidsoxycontinPurdue Pharma
NBA has obstacles to hurdle with mental health awareness Finally Getting an Assist – February 15, 2020 - The players’ association hired Dr. William Parham to be its inaugural director of health and wellness in 2018, partnering with Keyon Dooling, who shared his heart... Read More...Feb 18 2020Mental Health
Cody Simpson credits Miley Cyrus and sobriety for inspiring new music Couple In Love – February 15, 2020 - Cody Simpson’s new music is inspired by the sober lifestyle he and girlfriend Miley Cyrus have adopted. The couple began dating last October, following the Slide Awa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Courtney Friel’s Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News New Book Recommendation – Feb. 2020 - “Love Courtney’s voice—she’s fun, funny, frank and candid! No doubt Tonight at 10 will help many people struggling with addiction.”-Ben Stein, editorial columnist at The Wa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Q&A with Barbara Nicholson Brown Stick with the Winners! – February 12, 2020 - Barbara Nicholson Brown is publisher of Together AZ newspaper in Scottsdale AZ. Together AZ is a valuable source of information online and in print for anyone to access f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Amanda Bynes’s Sobriety Timeline The Bynes That Tie – February 16, 2020 - …struggling with drug abuse, she’s slowly taken back her life. In 2018, Bynes did an in-depth interview and photoshoot with Paper magazine, divulging her journey t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2020
Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing Dilaudid Drugstore (Cowboy) Vending Machine – February 10, 2020 - The idea of providing potentially deadly opioids to addicted people via a vending machine might sound actively counterproductive on its face. But with a heroi... Read More...Feb 18 2020fentanylHeroin AddictionOverdose
Nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions in Los Angeles will be dismissed Free at last...thank God almighty – February 13, 2020 - “The dismissal of tens of thousands of old cannabis-related convictions in Los Angeles County will bring much-needed relief to communities of color that dispr... Read More...Feb 18 2020marijuana
Clinic uses device to take away addiction withdrawal symptoms Better Than Suboxone? – February 13, 2020 - The patient must keep the device on for five days. After that, Reed said the patient’s more likely to continue to sobriety. “They’ll laugh or they get te... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehab
Leigh Steinberg’s comeback continues with Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl MVP Touchdown in Sobriety – FEBRUARY 13, 2020 - It’s wonderful,” said Steinberg, who added that Mahomes is the kind of player and person he has always sought to represent, someone of high character and strong work ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryExperience Strength and Hope AwardsFeb 18 2020Recovery