Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office MEDIA: Whacked Non-Fiction – Feb. 11, 2020 - It remains a bit of a mystery how the 28-year-old Peres, who was working as a correspondent in Paris, got the head job at a major Condé Nast title, and an even bigg... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Vicodin
This Is What Happens When You Take 550 Doses of LSD At Once Not Recommended! – Feb. 21, 2020 - A trip can sometimes last 12 hoursor more, pumping up heart rate, intensifying colors and sounds, and altering the perception of time. Because the LSD molecule, which mimics s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020
Food Addiction is Real – And Overcoming it Isn’t Easy No Joke – Feb. 22, 2020 - If you said yes to any of these questions, you, or someone you know, might be suffering from food addiction. What’s food addiction? It’s an addiction to junk food that’s as stron... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
Three women with addiction-prone pasts open recovery center Healing Headquarters – Feb. 20, 2020 - “We decided to sign up. We said, ‘Oh, heck -- why not? What are we doing? We’re not doing much. Sure, we’ll do it,’” Collins recalled. “That started this journey.” That journ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020RecoveryRehab
They Fell in Love Helping Drug Users. But Fear Kept Him… Spoiler Alert - He Dies – February 24, 2020 - “He was just this really sweet, no-nonsense person who was committed to justice and equity,” she says. “Even though he was suffering in many ways, he had a very ca... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
Ben Affleck – how sobriety made him happier Sober To The Core – February 22, 2020 - The actor spoke openly about his family’s history with addiction and said that five years from now, he hopes people will say that he’s “sober and happy” and seeing his ki... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020Rehab
One man’s journey – addiction & the power of his poetry Black Words Matter – February 19, 2020 - After 13 trips to detox and an equal number of arrests, Kearse “hit rock bottom” on the roof of his mother’s house in a failed suicide attempt. Today Kearse is Vice Pres... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020Recovery
Addicts & Alcoholics to Spend $31.17 Billion on quitting by 2027 Steps, Stock Markets and Meds – Feb. 20, 2020 - For the addicts of drugs like opioids, the addiction initiates with receiving medications with relatives & friends who have been prescribed with... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Rehab
Smartphone Addiction Has Same Effect On Brain As Drug Use Siri, I can’t quit you – February 18, 2020 - Grey matter in the brain is vital, as it contains a majority of neuronal cell bodies and includes the regions that are associated with muscle control, speech, and se... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020Smartphone Addiction
Amanda Bynes & fiancé announce 1-year sobriety in apology video So Open – February 21, 2020 - “I’m sorry to everyone whom I called ugly on Twitter,” Bynes said. “I was feeling so ugly at the time and it was really hard for me to express myself at the time because I wa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020
Many pitfalls of universal drug screening for new mothers She lost her baby to a bagel – February 19, 2020 - This policy, known as universal screening, proactively screens all new mothers regardless of whether drug use is suspected. Those who favo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
Demi Lovato Says Struggles With Eating Disorder Led to Sobriety Slip and Overdose Addition is Addiction – February 18, 2020 - “I think when you have certain people around you that are telling you certain things that you should look a certain way, it makes it harder,” she says. “I was i... Read More...Celebrity SobrietyEating DisorderFeb 25 2020Rehab
‘Living Proof:’ Portraits Share Stories of Addiction and Recovery Reality In Your Face – February 20, 2020 - We are honored that they would step forth and share their stories with the community and trust us to be a part of this work,” said Jennifer Muggeo, deputy director of ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
AA Shares New Video: “Young & Sober in A.A.: From Drinking to Recovery” AA’s First Commercial – Feb. 21, 2020 - Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of people who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, no cost, all gender, apolitical and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 25 2020Recovery
Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Debunked Who Can’t You Trust? – Feb. 19 2020 - Last June, the authors, Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the University of California San Francisco, stated in the original study that vaping and smoking cigarettes pose... Read More...Feb 25 2020Vaping
Teaching Kids How to Reverse an Overdose in a Dystopian Present Teach Your Children Hell – Feb. 23, 2020 - In Carter County, where 56,000 people live in a cluster of small cities and rural towns on the North Carolina border, nearly 60 people have died from opioid overdoses ... Read More...Feb 25 2020Overdoseteenagers
Doctors Received $1.5 Million in Free Lunches From Pharma Companies Free Meals for Dead Bodies – Feb. 21, 2020 - That’s a dangerous practice,” Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said. Farley says free meals by doctors offered by big pharma are, at least, partly to blame for the ... Read More...Big PharmaFeb 25 2020
Public Radio’s “Back from Broken” – stories of addiction, struggle & recovery Good Radio – Feb 21, 2020 - The podcast will consist of 10 episodes released every other Friday and focus on conversations with people of all walks of life – including some celebrities – who have dealt with st... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020Recovery
Has social media become a socially acceptable addiction? Just Like Coffee – Feb. 18, 2020 - Galen joined Know Your Value co-founder and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski and Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2020
Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. More than a comeback! – Feb. 18, 2020 - Affleck, Oscar-winning writer, director of the Oscar-winning “Argo,” better actor than you remember — and, yes, alcoholic, divorcé and proud possessor of a mythical back ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020
Quote of the Week “Just try new things, don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar!” –Michelle Obama ... Read More...Feb 25 2020quote of the week
It’s time to get real about heroin addiction. It’s time to decriminalize this drug! Decriminalize Heroin! – February 19, 2020 - I CAN SAY without a shred of doubt that the most stigmatized people in our society are those who use illicit drugs. ‘Junkies’, ‘dopeheads’ and ‘crackheads’ are some of the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Heroin Addiction
How Juul gets kids addicted to vaping: it’s even worse than you think Drug Dealing on the Internet – Feb. 14, 2020 - This isn’t the first time a company selling nicotine products has been accused of targeting children. Joe Camel, the cartoon mascot for Camel cigarettes, was the s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020juulRehabVaping
‘Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it’: Adderall presents esports with an enigma eAddiction – Feb. 13, 2020 - “Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it,” former Call of Duty World Champion, Adam “KiLLa” Sloss said. When asked if Adderall abuse at events was something he had ever witnessed ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020internetvideo games
Alcohol deaths in women on the rise Higher and Higher – February 15, 2020 - A recent study shows that deaths associated with alcohol use among women rose 85%. Why are more women drinking? Lydia Burr, the Director of Clinical Services at Hazelden ... Read More...Alcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
We need to rethink “tough love” as a response to addiction Just Love – FEBRUARY 2, 2020 - When I reached out for help, I went to my ex-boyfriend, the only person I’d been honest with about my relapse. I reached out to him because, although he did have boundaries (“I wo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehabrelapse
Addiction Memoirs are a Genre in Recovery Sharing is Good – Feb. 13, 2020 - Hitting Bottom “Stray” is a literary coming to terms with her parents’ substance abuse, as well as her own periods of heavy drinking, cocaine and sedative use. Her father is a ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Man credits selling bouquets on Chicago streets for his recovery :‘Selling flowers helped me survive’ Sharing Beauty Enhances Sobriety – FEB. 14, 2020 - In the attempt to recover from alcoholism, Flores, 56, began to sell bouquets in the same streets he once tramped, begging for alcohol or the money to bu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
Fruits of their labor: Restaurant celebrates love and recovery Are you hungry? – February 14, 2020 - Employees, or students as they call them, will go through a 12-week course to get their first level of certifi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Coronation Street actor helps addicts in Brighton A couple of swells – Jan. 31, 2020 - Kennedy Street has helped other projects set up their own social enterprises, feeding the homeless, organising dry gigs, and using crafting as therapy. Clare said: “Kennedy Str... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020RecoveryRehab