Dealing With Sobriety During Isolation Excellent Advice! – March 19, 2020 - Though the centers are primarily closing, the hotlines are still open. There are volunteers available to talk to you over the phone if you are having a difficult time. The beauty... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 24 2020
Oregon Takes a Big Step Toward Decriminalizing All Drugs 49 States to Go – March 2, 2020 - If the bill passes and small-scale possession of all drugs is decriminalized, it would be a historic first for the nation. The legality of drugs would then resemble the situati... Read More...March 17 2020
Mother sues hospital over drug test False Positive – March 11, 2020 - It is the second such lawsuit filed against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center since 2014 and one ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020
Demanding Answers: Drug Treatment Facility Near School? New York, New York – March 9, 2020 - Politicians promised the property would never be sold to a drug treatment facility. But months later, one Bronx resident learned, the deal was done anyway. On Monday, CBS2’s... Read More...March 17 2020Rehab
Drinking 14 alcoholic drinks per week associated with lower cognitive scores And Higher DUI Scores – March 12, 2020 - This study analyzed 3021 participants aged 72 years and older, who were free of dementia. Each participant underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological battery of 10 tests, du... Read More...Alcohol AddictionMarch 17 2020
Teen develops a novel patent to prevent the spiking of drinks The Last Straw – March 11, 2020 - So, at 16, while in her junior year at Oxbridge Academy, Benarde invented a product, cleverly titled the NightCap,... Read More...March 24 2020teenagers
As opioid crisis grinds on, film offers insights into fighting addiction Leave it in Park – March 13, 2020 - This hypothesis is the unifying theme of Rat Park, a documentary examining three vastly different approaches to drug policy: in the U.S., Portugal and the Philippines. Today, amid ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMarch 24 2020
I’m a Marijuana Addict, and I’m Okay With It Self Medicating Depression? – March 3, 2020 - In my younger days, I never imagined I’d ever touch the stuff, though I grew up with marijuana at home. My father has suffered all his life from demons he can’t se... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020marijuanapot
Looks Like I Picked the Right Year to Stop Drinking So Is Every Year – March 13, 2020 - Despite the headline on this piece (a reference to the meme from the 1980 disaster-comedy ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionMarch 17 2020
Magnetic Stimulation Is Helping Treat Addiction Edward Sharpe? – March 12, 2020 - “We’ll ask them how much do you crave heroin right now? They’ll give us a score on a 0-100 scale.” James Mahoney, PhD, a neuropsychologist at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
Founder of ‘CLEAN Cause’ wants to help others recover from addiction Drinks for all my friends... – March 10, 2020 - “We give where you swig,” he described. “That idea is very simple. You drink clean in northern California, the funds go back based on the volume generated in sal... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
What is Alcoholics Anonymous and what do they do? They Change Lives. – March 13, 2020 - The 12 steps have been adapted by other support groups, such as Gamblers Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous to help people recover from various addictions, and the term “12... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousMarch 17 2020
Osher Günsberg says he wouldn’t be around today if he hadn’t gotten sober Back from the Edge – March 14, 2020 - Ten years ago, I took this photo. It was the first day I woke up and said “That’s it. I can never drink like that again” and meant it,’ Osher explained. I’d been trying to ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 17 2020
Faces of Addiction: God delivered man from drugs, alcohol and suicide Grace – March 14, 2020 - He cried, “God, why won’t you let me die?” God whispered back, “Because you haven’t done what I sent you there to do yet.” Slack was among several recovering addicts to speak during a F... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionMarch 17 2020Rehabsuicide
Andrew Gillum, Who Ran for Florida Governor, Is Entering Rehab I would too if someone OD'd in my hotel room – March 15, 2020 - Mr. Gillum apologized to his family, friends “and the people of Florida who have supported me and put their faith in me over the years.” I also know... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 17 2020Rehab
‘Lost in Ghost Town’ – Drug Memoir with a Redemptive Finish MEDIA: Book Feature – MARCH 11, 2020 - The timeline bounces back and forth between his childhood, starting at age seven, to his adult life in Venice, California. Growing up, he writes, his father was gone a lot... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMarch 17 2020
Protect your mental health during corona times What Me Worry? – March 12, 2020 - We might not notice it during the first few days, but slowly our sleep patterns change, our eating habits shift, and we start experiencing negative thoughts and cynicism a little m... Read More...CoronavirusMarch 17 2020Mental Health
Curiosity Is A Superpower: Use It To Combat Addiction At Your Attention – March 11, 2020 - No matter your addiction, Brewer doesn’t want you to quit cold turkey. Rather, he wants you to go about your regular routine, just be completely conscious whi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
Keepin’ It Friel with ‘American Fix’ author Ryan Hampton Lois Lane & Clark Kent? – Mar. 11, 2020 - Ryan Hampton is an author and activist. He is the author of the book American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis-and How to End It. Ryan opens up about h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
‘A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic’ MEDIA: Film Review – March 12, 2020 - We first meet our heroine, Saki Tadokoro, as a young girl running down a steep river bank to greet her soused father (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) who is partying with his baseball... Read More...Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMarch 17 2020
A doctor’s radical treatment for pregnant addicts? Get them clean And Love Them – FEB. 26, 2020 - Towers didn’t need a drug test to confirm Lenderman, 14 weeks pregnant, was in the throes of opioid addiction, and this morning still showed the effects of having used the drug t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 17 2020RecoveryRehab
The Buddhist Approach to Addiction Treatment One Minute at a Time – March 13, 2020 - When one has negative feelings and experiences, their natural instinct is to escape the situation with an addiction. Mindfulness teaches us how to interrupt ourselves an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
David Arquette on Wrestling, Addiction, and Losing Luke Perry It’s Complicated – March 13, 2020 - You mention Luke Perry, who died a few months after that match. How did that loss impact yo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 17 2020Rehab
The mental health cost of containing the Coronavirus outbreak Stay Connected – March 13, 2020 - “I do think it’s important to just normalize people’s experience of what’s happening,” said Lewis.... Read More...CoronavirusMarch 17 2020Mental Health
4 charged after pill mill scheme worth $2M busted in Philadelphia Brotherly Love of Money – March 12, 2020 - One of the tenants who spoke to investigators said she did not receive treatment from Okolo, but that he wrote prescriptions for medications in her name without her p... Read More...March 24 2020Philadelphia
12-step programs more effective at maintaining sobriety Promises Not Promotion – MARCH 11, 2020 - In fact, the evidence suggests that 42 percent of all study participants engaged in AA remained completely abstinent one year after starting treatment, compared to 35 ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousMarch 17 2020Rehab
‘The only thing missing are the hugs’: How people fight addiction amid Coronavirus social distancing Common Sense and Vigilance – March 13, 2020 - Lowell Cauffiel, a true crime author, screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, attends 12-step support meetings there and said he hasn’t seen a drop in atten... Read More...CoronavirusMarch 17 2020
How many body-brokering cases have been prosecuted under new law? Zero, nada, zilch, none, nil, gornish – March 12, 2020 - “There is no excuse for their failure to prosecute these cases, particularly when we desperately need an all-hands-on-deck approach to this crisis.” Si... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020opioids
Not Even 9/11 Could Shut Down AA Meetings. Coronavirus is Different. Sobriety comes first, no matter what – Mar. 13, 2020 - The woman said she would still have phone call check-ins and small pot-luck gatherings with her fellow group members if face-to-face meetings ended, but that it ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCoronavirusMarch 17 2020
Quote of the Week “There is a realm where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.” —Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel ... Read More...March 17 2020quote of the week