Horrors of opioid addiction explored in LA writer’s memoir The Heart And Other Monsters – July 17, 2020 -The voice speaking above serves as a narrator throughout her sister’s ghastly descent into the hellacious pit of drug addiction is that of Los Angeles-based author Rose A... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 21 2020opioid crisisopioids
Centuries of Racism Have Created a Mental Health Crisis Among Black Americans Hate is a family disease – July 15, 2020 - After being taken to a field and told to “run,” he instead proceeded to kneel on the ground with his hands up. That didn’t stop a police officer from beating him to the grou... Read More...July 21 2020Mental HealthTrauma
Psychiatric nurse pens book on surviving homelessness and drug abuse WATCH – Park Bench to Park Avenue – July 15, 2020 - Brown shares his raw journey out of homelessness in a book titled “From Park Bench to Park Avenue.” The park bench refers to the many years of homelessness. T... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJuly 21 2020RecoveryRehab
Overdoses skyrocket: states slash treatment budgets Death Wish? – JULY 16, 2020 - The budget cuts — many spurred by state budget shortfalls wrought by the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic — will hit behavioral health services when they are needed most... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 21 2020Overdose
Telemedicine is a magnet for fraud and data theft Just Be Careful – JULY 13, 2020 - “Most telehealth practitioners do not receive formal information security and privacy training,” said Leming Zhou, a professor of health informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusJuly 21 2020RecoveryRehab
Opioids Are Still The King For Many Doctors NPR LISTEN – Loving Pills – July 17, 2020 - DR. GERY GUY: There’s still three times the amount of opioids being prescribed as there was in 1999, and there’s also substantial variation across the country. MANN: You... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 21 2020opioid crisisopioids
She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied EMPTY: A Memoir by Susan Burton – June 23, 2020 - “In many ways,” she writes, “my adolescence was typical. Prototypical, even. I was an awkward middle-schooler who transformed herself with the help of Seventeen magaz... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating Disorderfood addictionJuly 21 2020Recovery
Quote of the Week – John Lewis “Anchor the eternity of love in your own souland embed this planet with goodness."—John LewisFeb. 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020 ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 21 2020quote of the week
Ex-Rehab Mogul Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Patients From slime, to time - 53 years in State rehab – JULY 14, 2020 - Bathum was convicted in February 2018 of 31 counts, including forcible rape, sexual penetration by a foreign object, forcible oral copulation, sexual ex... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 21 2020Rehab
Johnny Depp diagnosed with ADHD, depression and chronic substance abuse We care because we love him! – July 8, 2020 - Depp told the court: “I was quite addicted to these roxycodone due to a stunt injury on a film in London. He previously told the court he went through a painful detox... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020
Pink Opens Up About Marriage Counseling WATCH – Talking with, not at... – June 22, 2020 - “Without Vanessa translating for me for the last 18 years, I mean, we would not be together,” the “What About Us” singer revealed. “We just wouldn’t because we are... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
I quit boozing when I was too drunk to hold my baby as hubby hosed vomit off me Sober showers from now on... – July 9, 2020 - She wrote on her blog, DrunkMummySoberMummy: “As I closed the curtains, a sudden flashback leapt at me from my blackout, an image of stumbling around in the bathroom with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
Increase in indecent exposure cases related to drug activity, police say Streaking Nnot Streaming – July 10, 2020 - Detectives watched one man in quick succession walk into and out of a room at the Travel Lodge, before scurrying across the highway, according to police. When the investigat... Read More...Drug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020
Chabad Intown Offers Hope and Recovery And blintzes too... – July 8, 2020 - Currently, meetings, classes, and events take place through the Zoom video conferencing app. With support from the Clinton Foundation, Schusterman, along with other rabbis and int... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020nonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Recovery Centers of America Appoints Two Leaders as New CEOS GROWTH IS WHAT COUNTS – July 7, 2020 - Michael Ogden has over 30 years of experience in the treatment of patients suffering from substance use disorder (“SUD”) including many leadership roles at behavioral health and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
$3.5 Million for Addiction Services at Adventist Loma Linda University MAT? – July 6, 2020 - SAC Health System operates the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) clinic with the onsite Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), which offers individual and group-based substance use counseling ser... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020Recovery
Kentucky’s Challenge Against Involuntary Commitment It’s for your own good. Clink! – July 9, 2020 - While all states have procedures for committing individuals to psychiatric care if they are perceived to be violent or in imminent danger of hurting themselves, until r... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020Mental Health
Bad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext talks about sobriety in ‘Sober’ WATCH – Say it with Song – July 10, 2020 - The song ‘Sober’ is the bands second single released off the album N.A.T.I.O.N. Vext talks about how he hopes this single inspires others struggling with sobriety to reac... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
American Rehab Chapter Three: A Venomous Snake LISTEN – Great podcast – July 11, 2020 - From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I’m Al Letson. This is chapter three of American Rehab: A Venomous Snake. Last time, we started telling yo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
Jonathan Sackler, Co-owner of Purdue Pharma, Dies Please send flowers to hell – July 6, 2020 - STAMFORD, Conn. — Jonathan Sackler, one of the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has died, the company confirmed. Sackler died June 30, according to a court fili... Read More...Big PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Purdue Pharma
Study links addictive smartphone use to altered brain activity Everything but actually talking – JULY 12, 2020 - “We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate cue-related activity in individuals with smartphone addiction, as defined by validated psycho... Read More...Addiction Recoverycell phoneJuly 14 2020Mental HealthSmartphone Addiction
15 deadly overdoses in 72 hours reported in one county American Nightmares Continue – July 12, 2020 - COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Franklin County Coroner’s Office has reported on Sunday that there have been 15 overdose deaths reported in the county in the last 72 hours. Dr. Ana... Read More...Drug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Overdose
Popular diabetes medication recalled Whoops! ... may contain a carcinogen – July 9, 2020 - Two more pharmaceutical companies have issued a recall for a medication used to control high blood sugar in people with Type 2 diabetes because it may contain a c... Read More...Big PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020
Ukeireru: Japanese Mindset May Be Happiness Key Acceptance is the... – July 12, 2020 - How do you apply the practice of acceptance in a more individualistic Western society? The book does not suggest that you become a group-oriented person. Instead, it makes you a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020Mental Health
‘Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo’ WATCH – Machete – July 11, 2020 - Many of the stories he shares in the documentary are compelling. Back in the day, when he was just a boy, his two role models in his life were John Wayne and his uncle Gilbert. The f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Rufus Wainwright is sober, battle-hardened & wrestling with demons Halleluiah! (Live at Fillmore) – July 8, 2020 - Wainwright’s Irish nanny wasn’t paying attention when he suddenly went underwater — “and was presumably saved by Betty Buckley,” he said, laughing. “Which is the sto... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
Gov. Cuomo cuts aid for recovery services “treatment programs are reeling with the news” – July 11, 2020 - Treatment providers say they were given no notice, and no explanation, for the surprising size of the cut or its timing by the administration of Gov. A... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
B.C. invests $16 million in recovery beds Canada Cares! – July 10, 2020 - “The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the existing challenges and risks for those living with mental health and substance use problems,” sayss Jonny Morris, CEO Canadian Mental Health ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Trial Confirms Antipsychotics Damage the Brain WATCH – Duh! – July 6, 2020 - “This randomized study in humans controls for confounders present in previous observational studies such as illness severity or other factors associated with illness that influence brain... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Mental Health
Elle King Talks Isolation, Sobriety and Self-Repair Working from home... – July 10, 2020 - I’m getting along with my family. Things are great between my father and I. I’m happily in love. I’m moving — hauling ass and getting the f–k out of Los Angeles for Santa Fe — I... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020