O is for opioids: ‘Sesame Street’ to tackle addiction crisis C is for Compassion – October 10, 2019 - Salia explains that addiction is “getting attracted to something so you keep doing it over and over again. It makes people feel like they need drugs and alcohol to feel OK.” S... Read More...Oct 15 2019
Trip to Johns Hopkins’ New Psychedelic Research Center Tasty Looking – October 12, 2019 - Psychedelic research, while promising, still has a long way to go to make up for the lost time that was collateral damage of the culture war of the 1960s. Both Grob and Nichols poin... Read More...Oct 15 2019
My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction Shuffle Bored – October 14, 2019 - In February, 2017, I stepped off a plane in Tampa, drunk and dope-sick. I was twenty-four, and for the past eight years I had been shooting up heroin, cocaine, and all manner of pi... Read More...Oct 15 2019
Man Grows Breasts On Risperdal Side Boob Effect – Oct. 9, 2019 - Murray’s award is the largest to date among more than 13,000 lawsuits against the company — claiming that Risperdal caused a condition called gynecomastia in boys, involving enlargem... Read More...Oct 15 2019
SCREENAGERS: Next Chapter – Must See Film PARENTS & THEIR CHILDREN - A Must See! Monday, October 14 @ 5pm, Laemmle NoHo (2018) UPDATED version - Explores the impact of social medial and screen time on young people’s mental and emotional well being. ... Read More...Oct 15 2019
Toad Venom Big Hit Among Psychedelic New Yorkers Leap Frog – September 28, 2019 - Users, such as Pall, score the extremely rare resin by hiring foreign shamans, often from Mexico, who travel throughout the US distributing it at ceremonies that cost $200 to $500 a h... Read More...Oct 15 2019
Elton John’s ROCKETMAN on the BIG SCREEN in Los Angeles – This Friday at 8pm Tickets $10 2019 LA REEL Recovery Film Festival – New York Times: The film casts Taron Egerton as the flamboyant Mr. John (who has said he is retiring). The clip serves up familiar-feeling scenes of stadium concerts, recording s... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Fentanyl deaths spurs OD prevention program in SF residential hotels Safe Proofing Residences – Sep. 30, 2019 - Friends have dragged Nic Atamaniuk back from the edge of death from drug overdoses at least 30 times in the past few years. Each time, they gave him a shot of Narcan, ... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Ways to Process the Death of a Friend in 12-Step Recovery Grief and Gratitude – Oct. 1, 2019 - Once a sober friend is gone, the best way to process that loss is to celebrate the positive. Rather than focusing on the loss, talk about what that person gave to others and their... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Can We Please Stop Describing Sober People as ‘Clean’? OPINION – September 29, 2019 - How we talk about addiction and substance use matters. It affects our understanding of these conditions and how we view people who have them. Language like “junkies” and “drunks” ... Read More...Oct 8 2019
DEA on massive opioids production: So What? Governmental Population Control? – Oct. 2, 2019 - The agency’s production quota for oxycodone, for instance, jumped about five times between 2002 and 2013. The agency cut the quota by 25 percent in 2017. But by then,... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Doc Gets 40 Years For Prescribing More Than Half A Million Opioid Doses With Perfect Handwriting – October 2, 2019 - He was also convicted on hundreds of counts of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance without a legitimate medical purpose or beyond the bounds of medical pr... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Federal judge rules safe injection site can legally open in Philly City of Brotherly Life – OCTOBER 02, 2019 - he Department is disappointed in the Court’s ruling and will take all available steps to pursue further judicial review,” Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said in an e... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Man died after ingesting ‘8-ball’ of cocaine while being booked in jail INSANITY ON EVERY LEVEL – October 4, 2019 - A 26-year-old San Ramon man ingested an eighth of an ounce of cocaine, which caused him to have seizures and a fatal heart attack as he was being booked in the ... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Overcoming Addiction: Better Late Than Never Or Now or Never? – October 1, 2019 - I began experimenting with opioid painkillers early in high school. I never thought about the long-term impact or consequences it could have later down the road. As addicts, we ha... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Police: 70 cases now under investigation involving clinic You Call This Healthcare? – Oct 3, 2019 - Lakeview Behavioral Health was still in operation on Thursday, despite a recent patient death, and now 70 allegations of wrongdoing. Gwinnett County Police told CBS46 The Bul... Read More...Oct 8 2019
A Warning About Benzodiazepines The V is for Valhalla? – Oct. 4, 2019 - A recent study from the University of Michigan found that over 30.6 million U.S adults reported using a Benzodiazepine last year. As the use of benzodiazepines, such as Xanax... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Sia reveals she suffers from rare neurological disease Making Suffering Comfortable – October 5, 2019 - The songstress, 43, previously opened up about her health issues to Billboard in 2013, sharing that she was once addicted to prescription meds while suffering from alc... Read More...Oct 8 2019
‘Recovery Pod’ is First-Of-Its-Kind Drug Treatment Spectacular Idea – October 4, 2019 - The pod is made up of 10 dormitory-style cells. Men and women are housed separately where they can receive counseling and medical treatment while going through withdrawals. ... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Why I don’t believe in ‘Sober October’ Yes, It’s an English OPINION – Oct. 5, 2019 - These PRs wonder in their emails if I have thought about writing a piece on the trend for going alcohol-free, because, if so, here are some case studies I could use in my... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Stop The Stigma forum focuses on the neuroscience of addiction Stop Calling Them “Druggy Buggies” – Oct. 4, 2019 - “Truly it is about raising awareness and educating our community about mental health and substance abuse issues,” said Dr. Elfie Neber of the GFC-MSU Psychology Dep... Read More...Oct 8 2019
10 Dead within 26 hours in one Ohio county Why? – September 30, 2019 - The most common cause of death in Franklin County is fentanyl overdose, Ortiz said. The typical overdose victim in the county is a white male between 30 and 40 years old, though the ... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Scottish Police oppose naloxone overdose kits: ‘not our job to save lives’ What would Craig Ferguson say? – Oct. 5, 2019 - Training to use the drug – available in injectable form or as a nasal spray – is complete in less than two hours and is it held by many hostels and homeless day centres... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Recovery Through A.A. Meetings COLLEGE DIPLOMAA? – October 5, 2019 - During the meeting, members pulled out a book about alcoholism entitled “The Big Book” by William “Bill W.” Wilson and promptly turned to chapter five. For 20 minutes, each indiv... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician’s Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope, and Recovery MEDIA: Book Recommendation – October, 2019 - Then while in recovery from active addiction, he lost a colleague to suicide, further revealing the extent of the secrecy and broken systems contributing to an evolv... Read More...Oct 8 2019
Why were millions of opioid pills sent to a West Virginia town of 3,000? Money Means More Than Lives? – Oct. 2, 2019 - Twenty minutes’ drive to the north, the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in the village of Kermit, population 280 and falling, was outstripping them both ... Drug distributors delivered... Read More...Oct 8 2019
A Former College Athlete’s Life Completely Changed After Giving Up Alcohol No More Keggers – October 1, 2019 - When Billy Murphy, a former college basketball player at Lafayette College, realized he had an issue with alcohol, he didn’t want to admit it. On paper, Billy was thriving. H... Read More...Oct 8 2019
“Emergency Poet” Opens Literary Pharmacy to Support Mental Wellbeing Word Play for Sobriety – Oct. 2, 2019 - Literature academics from Keele University are opening an innovative “Poetry Pharmacy” to dispense literary “first aid” as a way of bringing the therapeutic benefits of p... Read More...Oct 8 2019
1 Million People Acquire Sexually Transmitted Infections Everyday It’s a Crowded Planet – October 5, 2019 - As bad as sexually transmitted diseases sound, their prevention is not very complex. There are two approaches that may be used to control this fast spreading epidemic. First ... Read More...Oct 8 2019