Potential Gene Therapy Could Combat Cocaine Addiction The Future is Sober – February 15, 2020 - The results are promising enough that the FDA has approved plans to proceed with human clinical trials. Beginning more than 20 years ago, scientists have worked to engineer a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Gene Therapy
Savannah doctor sentenced to 20 years in federal prison 4.6 million doses - Nobody Noticed? – Feb. 14, 2020 - Dr. Frank H. Bynes Jr., 69, of Savannah, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $600,000 in restitution. Bynes was found guilty in ... Read More...Feb 18 2020opioidsoxycontin
Winchester, Virginia suing Big Pharma for $67 million How Much Are Humans Worth? – February 14, 2020 - A mountain of evidence has been released in the last decade supporting allegations that Big Pharma flooded the market with opioid painkillers while downpl... Read More...Big PharmaFeb 18 2020
The Story The Pharmacist Can’t Tell It’s All Here – Feb. 16, 2020 - Watching The Pharmacist, I kept getting caught between the series’ fealty to the conventions of a Netflix true-crime binge—the raspy, ominous score; the suspenseful cliff-hanger... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Boys, 12 being treated for online porn addiction WE had to walk 2 miles uphill to get porn – February 16, 2020 - ...today kids of 12 can just click on to these porn sites and they are there in the middle of this extreme stuff.“ In the last five years I have n... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020GamingSexual Addictionteenagers
Courtney Love celebrates 18 months of sobriety Sharing the Good News – February 2020 - Love used her unplanned acceptance speech to celebrate her sobriety, love for London, and to remind audiences that her accolade is well deserved. “I had the honour today ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020Recovery
Quote of the week “Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” —Henry Miller ... Read More...Feb 18 2020quote of the week
Dueling Lawsuits Between Malibu Rehab Centers Rehab Wars – February 12, 2020 - Taite and Cliffside filed a countersuit exposing that Prentiss’s network of unbranded referral websites had been used for... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2020MalibuRehab
Noah Centineo opens up about his sobriety From stoned to success – February 12, 2020 - Once you wade through all those descriptions, you learn that Centineo recently shaved his head, exposing a scar he got at the age of 6 in a trampoline accident; he’s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Attorney Appeals to West Hollywood Mayor to Preserve ‘Log Cabin,’ a Haven for Recovering Addicts The Hollywood Bowl of Recovery – Feb. 3, 2020 - Veteran music-business attorney Dina LaPolt has appealed to West Hollywood Mayor John D’Amico and other officials to preserve the “Log Cabin,” a building that for years... Read More...Feb 11 2020RecoveryRehab
Things You Only Know If You’re Long-Term Sober It Gets Better and Better – Jan. 31, 2020 - My own sobriety date, four years ago last week, coincides with an attempted dry January – embarked on, ironically, to prove I didn’t have a problem – gone disastrousl... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020Recovery
What are methadone and buprenorphine? Good To Know – Feb. 2020 - You may have heard about methadone and buprenorphine, but what exactly are they and what do they do? Is medication assisted treatment really helpful for those with opioid dependency? Why ca... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineFeb 11 2020meth
Thanks for celebrating women’s sobriety, but don’t call us ‘alcoholics’ Lush for Life? – FEBRUARY 6, 2020 - As women in recovery, we were pleased to see “Clearing a path to sobriety” (Feb. 1) on local efforts to expand gender-specific treatment options for women. Many struggle with hist... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 11 2020Mental Health
Vaping execs tell lawmakers that e-cigarettes are not meant for young people Only Young Addicts – February 5, 2020 - Under questioning from Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), the oversight subcommittee chairwoman, the executives admitted that nicotine is addictive and that using their produc... Read More...Feb 11 2020nicotineVaping
Number of Homeless Students Rises to New High It Has Come To This! – February 3, 2020 - It was the highest number recorded in more than a dozen years, and experts said it reflected a growing problem that could negatively affect children’s academic pe... Read More...Feb 11 2020homelessRehabteenagers
How sobriety changed my sex life No Hangovers – February 3, 2020 - Most people assume that sex after sobriety is probably boring at best, awkward and clunky at worst, but that it gets better with time. That’s what I assumed, too. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 11 2020
Social Life Without the Buzz? It’s the ‘Sober Curious’ Movement Boozeless – February 3, 2020 - Member Cori Clark says it’s a social gathering that allows for more authenticity “because you’re not distracted by what you’re drinking.” Clark, a recovering alcoholic, says that ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020Recovery
Increase in alcohol-related deaths in U.S. is jarring One more for the road... – February 4, 2020 - “I agree that it’s hard to imagine, consuming 10 drinks a day,” Cook told the Washington Post. But, “there are a remarkable number of people who drink a couple of s... Read More...Alcohol AddictionFeb 11 2020
A Widow, Not A Wife: ‘Smacked’ Explores An Ex-Husband’s Secret Addiction NPR Fresh Air! – February 4, 2020 - “I tried to listen for a heartbeat and I couldn’t hear one ... I ran out of the house because I was afraid,” Zimmerman says. When the police and EMTs arrived, they identified... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 11 2020
Supermodel Sobriety with Jennifer Gimenez Straight Up! – FEBRUARY 5, 2020 - She also appeared on the reality shows Celebrity Rehab and Sober House. Jennifer just celebrated 14 years of sobriety, but for many years she abused drugs and alcohol, an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 11 2020Recovery Advocate
Florence Welch celebrates six years of sobriety She’s Gotta Not Have it – February 5, 2020 - She then captioned the painting of a red heart, “I send love to anyone on day 1. I love you. I’m with you.” Friends and fans congratulated the singer on her mileston... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 11 2020Recovery
Justin Bieber gets candid about mental health struggles and addiction The Bieb’s Battle Within – February 03, 2020 - Bieber’s marijuana abuse was only one addiction he was fighting. At one point, he admits to sipping the codeine cough syrup and soda combination known as lean, popping p... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020Mental Health
Catastrophe’s Delaney 18 years sober 12th Step work – February 5, 2020 - Thank you to everyone who’s helped me along the way. Delaney previously attributed his sobriety to helping him cope with the death of his 2-year-old son, Henry, two years ago... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 11 2020Recovery
Q&A with Mitch Prager Stick with the Winners! – February 2, 2020 - This fueled his passion to teach those suffering from substance use disorders how to enjoy life without alcohol or drugs. Previously, Mitch was a resort hotel general mana... Read More...Feb 11 2020
Baby boomers driving surge in hospital admissions for alcoholism Dying for a drink? – February 6, 2020 - Meanwhile, the industry body the Alcohol Information Partnership predictably downplays the problem, describing this huge number as a “minority of problem drinkers.” This ... Read More...Alcohol AddictionFeb 11 2020
Emory, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation form ‘Addiction Alliance’ Solution Based – February 7, 2020 - “I was ready to give up. I just wanted to die. My family, my employer – CNN and Tom Johnson, refused to give up on me,” Moyers said. “This community saved me.” S... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020RecoveryRehab
San Francisco to open tent ‘sobering’ center for meth users It has come to this! – February 6, 2020 - HealthRight 360, one of the largest San Francisco drug treatment providers, will run it. A driver with a van will be posted outside the center to pick up people show... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020homelessmeth
There are Now 14,000+ Treatment Facilities Healing is Available – February 4, 2020 - Reforms are pending. Private equity firms are investing. This new study examines the nature of the business, types of rehab, reasons for the renewed growth of addict... Read More...Feb 11 2020Rehab
Diane Keaton on her brother’s struggle with alcoholism in new memoir Family First – February 5, 2020 - “When I look b... Read More...Alcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 11 2020Trauma
In ‘Smacked,’ a tale of addiction behind a veneer of success MEDIA: Book Review – Jan 30, 2020 - Zimmerman begins “Smacked” with her dramatic discovery of Peter’s corpse in his “architectural trophy” of a house, “all sharp angles and sunlight.” Though divorced, they are bonded... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 11 2020