Overdoses rise in South Florida Too many sunsets – Sept. 13, 2020 - Florida reported 5,621 overdose deaths, a 14% increase from January 2019 to January 2020, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And in parts of ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionOverdoseSept 15 2020
System of Addiction Treatment Requires Reimagining Recovery No one way? Or no any way? – Sept. 11, 2020 - Further still, when a life event, such as a death in the family, divorce, etc. demands real clinical care, they simply increase a patient’s dosage. The aforement... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 15 2020
Mighty Ducks Star Shaun Weiss (not a hockey player) celebrates 265 Days of Sobriety with New Teeth Is there a chip for 8.8 months? – Sept. 10, 2020 - Shaun Weiss was arrested again at the beginning of the year over burglary charges and drug charges. He was placed in jail and The Mighty Ducks fan community ra... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoverySept 15 2020
Revamped OxyContin hasn’t stemmed ODs No, really? – Sept. 12, 2020 - The surge of painkiller abuse that started in the 1990s has long been linked to OxyContin, which launched in 1996. Unlike the original drug, the revamped version was found to limit a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanyloxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 15 2020
Is Marijuana Addictive? Does a bear hibernate in the woods? – July 8, 2019 - A brain-imaging study last year found the brain’s neural circuitry is alteredin young adults with cannabis dependence, especially for those who start in adol... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionmarijuanaSept 15 2020
YoungBoy – Never Broke Again – Drug Addiction WATCH – Musical Interlude – Sept. 10, 2020 – YoungBoy - Never Broke Again - Drug Addiction more@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=138&v=QN4-PNNQ2rQ&feature=emb_logo ... Read More...Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 15 2020
Melissa Etheridge channels heartbreak Foundation made of love – Sept. 10, 2020 - “It was a long journey. In the end, there’s a small amount of peace knowing he’s not in pain anymore,” Etheridge said Thursday on “Today.” “Of course, we miss him. My wife a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerlife expectancynonprofit organizationRecovery AdvocateSept 15 2020
Q&A with LARA Recovery founder, Angelo Lagares Stick with the Winners! – Sept. 4, 2020 - LARA’s mission is to create Recovery Community Organizations in Spanish that will ultimately reduce health disparities among the Hispanic communities. Angelo Lagares has w... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 15 2020
The Opioid Crisis Has Intensified During Coronavirus Pandemic WATCH – It’s M.A.T. or DIE says Wall Street Journal – Sept. 8, 2020 - When Covid-19 struck, the U.S. was already in the grip of an expanding drug-overdose crisis. It has only gotten worse since then. Counties in s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsSept 15 2020
Jon Hamm Opens Up Like ‘Never Before’: Sobriety, Love, And Loss Mad Man No More – Sept. 13, 2020 - The insider explains that booze “became a problem as he and Jen were going through their own issues” and “neither one cause the other, but they didn’t help either.” Though the... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRehabSept 15 2020
Kevin Kennedy on overcoming addiction (with silent Clare!) Live for Brighton UK WATCH – British TV star tells it like it was – August 28, 2020 - Coronation Street’s Kevin Kennedy discusses his battle with addiction and explains the signs to look out for. more@Express ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 15 2020
A look at Matthew Perry’s journey who kicked his own addiction, helped others recover You got to have... – Sept. 6, 2020 - Then this year in July, he was spotted in public in Beverly Hills with a cigarette on his lip, shortly after his breakup with girlfriend Molly Hurwitz. The actor looked quit... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 15 2020
Black-owned sober bar remains a lifeline to sobriety in tense times Where everyone knows your first name only? – Sept. 8, 2020 - Texas began reopening its bars May 1, but instead of joining the many Texas bar owners packing customers in shoulder-to-shoulder, Marshall decided t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 15 2020
Marijuana use is on the rise in older adults Act your age, not your THC level – August 31, 2020 - The researchers said one of the reasons they embarked on the study was a concern that the effects of cannabis in older adults might be different from what younger ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionmarijuanaSept 15 2020smoking
Why did the justice department let Purdue off the hook for the opioid crisis? Fortunes are at stake? – Sept. 8, 2020 - The opioid epidemic is not over. Even as Covid-19 rages, opioid-related deaths continue to devastate communities across our states. In New Hampshire, overdose deaths rose in A... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 15 2020
Family’s tragic destruction over $10 of heroin As High as Death – Sept. 11, 2020 - “Your family is destroyed over $10 of heroin,” Mulford concluded. Assistant State’s Attorney Anastasia Prigge acknowledged Taylor’s addiction, but said prosecutors were frustrat... Read More...Drug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionSept 15 2020
Eating Disorders Thrive In Anxious Times, And Pose A Lethal Threat LISTEN – Dying To Be Thin – September 8, 2020 - For most of her 34 years, Stephanie Parker didn’t recognize she had an eating disorder. At age 6, she recalls, she stopped eating and drinking at school — b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdiet sodaEating DisorderMental HealthObesityRecoveryrelapseSept 15 2020
8 Encouraging Apps for Overcoming Addiction Tap before you pick up – Sept. 12, 2020 - Pocket Rehab is filled with familiar tools, but all of them are done very well and fit together cohesively. That includes smart sobriety searches, recovery trackers, in... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoverySept 15 2020
Quote of the Week – George Bernard Shaw “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” —George Bernard Shaw ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the weekSept 15 2020
Remembering 9/11’s first recorded victim New York lost a very good man – Sept. 9, 2020 - “He was truly something special. He had certain charisma and charm.” He remembers Judge’s wit and how he liked to crack a joke. “Even when I asked him to marr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaSept 15 2020
Hazelden Betty Ford CEO to be Stepping Away Passing the First Lady’s baton – September 9, 2020 - Mishek, the third-longest-serving leader in the organization’s 71-year history and architect of the historic 2014 merger of the Hazelden Foundation and the Betty F... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 15 2020
Foundation works to put naloxone in recovery homes Save-A-Life – Sept. 1, 2020 - The U.S. surgeon general and state governments have encouraged wide distribution of the drug in recent years, but recovery organizations in closest contact with people dependent o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRehabSept 8 2020
Each Day Sober Slowly Helps Alcoholics’ Brains Recover Neuroplasticity comes slowly – Sept. 2, 2020 - The more recently they’d had their last drink, the greater the disruption in activity between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and striatum, a brain network associated... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRehabSept 8 2020
Road to recovery leads to becoming a rabbi Torah and Coffee – August 27, 2020 - In an unofficial way, Stern’s ministry began at the homeless shelter in Minneapolis where he stayed, and where he also began to work. He would help at mealtimes, and saw the heart... Read More...Addiction RecoveryRecoveryRehabSept 8 2020
Company to Launch LSD-MDMA Combination Clinical Trial Purple Haze Rave? – August 31, 2020 - As anyone who has been to Shakedown Street knows, the drug cocktail of LSD and MDMA is referred to as “candyflipping.” But for JR Rahn, the founder and co-CEO of psychedel... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionPsychedelicsSept 8 2020
Navigating sobriety as a teen: ‘They told me I was going to die’ WATCH – No one has to die – Sept. 4, 2020 - This time was different, though. When Leahy was going through patient intake at the hospital, he told the doctors what he had taken — the remnants of a bottle of liquid Per... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousDrug Abuse and AddictionOverdoseRecoveryRehabSept 8 2020teenagers
11-Year-Old Boy Helping Others After Losing Mother WATCH – And the young shall lead us – Sept. 2, 2020 -“I didn’t really grow up with my mom as much as I’d hoped,” Preston told KDKA’s Kym Gable. “I lived with my grandma most of my life. The reason why is she s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 8 2020
Port St. Lucie resident bikes 46 miles to celebrate sobriety WATCH – Loving sobriety on two wheels – Sept. 4, 2020 - His personal journey turned into a call to help others. Over the nearly 50 mile bike ride, he raised $900 for Treasure Coast Hope for the Homeless. Livin... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 8 2020
I Thought Jail Would Help Me Get Clean. I Was Dead Wrong. Prisons are Dangerous – Sept. 3, 2020 - This semi-normal life, combined with my White skin and the fact that I lived in an under-policed suburban neighborhood, allowed me to evade criminal justice involvement ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoverySept 8 2020
Matt Brown Tells Fans Never ‘Give Up’ or ‘Surrender’ After Sobriety Update Staying in the Groove – Sept. 2, 2020 - “Hey y’all guys, this is my newest piece, I hope you like it,” the reality star, 37, wrote in his caption. “Also I just put out a YouTube video where you can watch me draw a co... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 8 2020