Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t This Needle Heals – February 15, 2020 - While out with his drinking buddies one night, they offered Jensen a hit, and he “was immediately hooked,” he said. “It was nothing like anything I’d done before,” Jense... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020meth
Being the child of an alcoholic means the trauma stays with you for years Until it Doesn’t – February 15, 2020 - Anyone who has lived through alcoholism will know that reasoning with a constantly drunk individual is not an easy task. My overriding memories from my teenage years are of inci... Read More...Alcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
Sackler Scions Sell Manhattan Mansion & Flee to Switzerland in the Midst of More Opioid Deaths So much death in their eyes... – February 10, 2020 - It seemed to be the best option, at least, for Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler, the more society-facing members of the Purdue Pharma-founding family, widely ... Read More...Feb 18 2020opioidsoxycontinPurdue Pharma
NBA has obstacles to hurdle with mental health awareness Finally Getting an Assist – February 15, 2020 - The players’ association hired Dr. William Parham to be its inaugural director of health and wellness in 2018, partnering with Keyon Dooling, who shared his heart... Read More...Feb 18 2020Mental Health
Cody Simpson credits Miley Cyrus and sobriety for inspiring new music Couple In Love – February 15, 2020 - Cody Simpson’s new music is inspired by the sober lifestyle he and girlfriend Miley Cyrus have adopted. The couple began dating last October, following the Slide Awa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Courtney Friel’s Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News New Book Recommendation – Feb. 2020 - “Love Courtney’s voice—she’s fun, funny, frank and candid! No doubt Tonight at 10 will help many people struggling with addiction.”-Ben Stein, editorial columnist at The Wa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Q&A with Barbara Nicholson Brown Stick with the Winners! – February 12, 2020 - Barbara Nicholson Brown is publisher of Together AZ newspaper in Scottsdale AZ. Together AZ is a valuable source of information online and in print for anyone to access f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Amanda Bynes’s Sobriety Timeline The Bynes That Tie – February 16, 2020 - …struggling with drug abuse, she’s slowly taken back her life. In 2018, Bynes did an in-depth interview and photoshoot with Paper magazine, divulging her journey t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2020
Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing Dilaudid Drugstore (Cowboy) Vending Machine – February 10, 2020 - The idea of providing potentially deadly opioids to addicted people via a vending machine might sound actively counterproductive on its face. But with a heroi... Read More...Feb 18 2020fentanylHeroin AddictionOverdose
Nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions in Los Angeles will be dismissed Free at last...thank God almighty – February 13, 2020 - “The dismissal of tens of thousands of old cannabis-related convictions in Los Angeles County will bring much-needed relief to communities of color that dispr... Read More...Feb 18 2020marijuana
Clinic uses device to take away addiction withdrawal symptoms Better Than Suboxone? – February 13, 2020 - The patient must keep the device on for five days. After that, Reed said the patient’s more likely to continue to sobriety. “They’ll laugh or they get te... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehab
Leigh Steinberg’s comeback continues with Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl MVP Touchdown in Sobriety – FEBRUARY 13, 2020 - It’s wonderful,” said Steinberg, who added that Mahomes is the kind of player and person he has always sought to represent, someone of high character and strong work ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryExperience Strength and Hope AwardsFeb 18 2020Recovery
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