Benzos ‘element’ of overdose epidemic Meet Dr. Downs – January 20, 2020 - Doctors often prescribe them to relieve acute anxiety, agitation or to help someone sleep. Taken over the long term, they can become addictive. In older adults, the drugs have been... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Comedian takes on mental illness It’s a Laughing Matter – January 17, 2020 - It’s just comedians are much more likely to talk about it.” Bamford says she would love to talk to people who don’t have the financial/cultural resources to handle il... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) Endorses Legalizing Drugs No need to move to Portugal – January 19, 2020 - She was responding to a voter who asked whether her plan to end the war on drugs centered on more harm reduction and treatment or if it involved moving to “legalize a... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Alcoholic deaths have doubled every year since 1999 Dying for a drink? – Jan. 13, 2020 - Nearly half of alcohol deaths were due to liver diseases or overdoses linked to alcohol alone or alcohol and other drugs. The other half included, among many factors, car cr... Read More...Jan 21 2020
From Division 1 to dead: How opioids claimed the life of a once-promising player Fentanyl From Hell – January 13, 2020 - Lunn’s death at age 37 brought a tragic end to a promising life. His basketball prowess and magnetic personality brought him no shortage of opportunity. He attended an elite pr... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Before deadly plane crash, sobriety brought these 4 together So SAD – Jan. 17, 2020 - For Mikel Peterson, Jan. 11 was supposed be a chance at a better life. Since he was a teenager in Billings, Peterson, 35, had struggled with addiction. Within the last few months his older si... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Americans are binge drinking themselves to death Suicide on the Rocks – January 17, 2020 - Their research indicates that alcohol is even deadlier than illicit drugs, including opioids, which claimed the lives of about 70,000 in 2017, according to the Centers ... Read More...Jan 21 2020
US Drug Overdose Deaths Drops for First Time Since 1990 Good Sign – January 18, 2020 - Carroll commended some local officials for trying to look past incarceration as a means to solve the epidemic, and instead looking for ways to offer treatment. Instead of arrestin... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Astronauts and addiction: Ending the stigma Healing Inner Space – January 16, 2020 - Aldrin said he was marginalized and shunned by NASA and the Air Force when he revealed his struggles with alcoholism and depression. It was not until 2007, when NA... Read More...Jan 21 2020
5 arrested in $3.2 million Southern California sober living home fraud scheme Not Real Drug Counselors – Jan. 17, 2020 - Taken into custody this week were Steven Lomonaco, 61, of Laguna Beach; Mahyar “Christian” Mohases, 37, of Santa Ana; Robert Williams, 41, of Murrieta; Nicholas Reeves... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Scientists Give Psychedelics the Serious Treatment Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – January 16, 2020 - Psychedelic drugs—once promising research subjects that were decades ago relegated to illicit experimentation in dorm rooms—have been steadily making their way... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Timbaland reveals how he overcame drug addiction and lost 130 pounds God has him under construction – January 13, 2020 - At that same time, he was going through a bad divorce with his wife Monique Idlett, and facing the pressure of being $4 million behind on his taxes from the prior t... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Beverly Hills Wants Historic AA ‘Log Cabin’ Gone Like Tearing Down Nate'n Al's – January 15, 2020 - “The Log Cabin is like an iconic way station for sobriety in Los Angeles,” said James Maclean, who runs a support meeting across the street at the West Hollywo... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Quote of the Week “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Body brokering, where addicts are sold as investments, can continue in sober homes Good Morning – Jan. 15, 2020 - The bill, SB 486, by Sen. Pat Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, sought to add “commercially operated recovery residences” to the list of places that can’t give or receive anything of value ... Read More...Jan 21 2020
Babies born to meth-affected mothers seem fine For Now – January 3, 2020 - While babies addicted to opioids show the jittery signs of immediate withdrawal, methamphetamine-affected babies show little more than a tendency to sleep. Neonatologist Ju Lee Oei ... Read More...Jan 14 2020
Study claims CDC underestimates number of overdose deaths Low Balling – January 7, 2020 - Quast told Healio Primary Care that the inaccuracies he identified would not necessarily be replicated in a nationwide study. “It is difficult to predict the results of this analysis i... Read More...Jan 14 2020
I quit drinking 2 years ago. Over time, my brain made it easier. It Usually Does – Jan. 6, 2020 - My brain, it turns out. And if you’re a regular drinker struggling to skip the spirits, you might need to give yours some time to adjust. That’s because alcohol can cause long-t... Read More...Jan 14 2020
Opioid Support Group Grows From Christian Book Club The Son Also Rises – January 9, 2020 - Over the next few years, her son’s addiction got worse and her friends and faith community pulled away. She wrote the book The Story Lives, about leading a Christian life,... Read More...Jan 14 2020
Abuses of FDA — The Case of Suboxone (suggested by Benjamin Seymour) NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE – January 8, 2020 - The company also filed a “sham” citizen petition to formally request that the FDA take administrative action against manufacturers of generic buprenorphine tablets.... Read More...Jan 14 2020
San Diego school district sues Juul for “impeding learning” Jewels for Students? – Jan. 9, 2020 - San Diego schools are suing vaping company Juul Labs, alleging it hooked teenage students on e-cigarettes and that the habit harmed their educations. The San Diego Unified Sch... Read More...Jan 14 2020
The F.D.A. Is in Trouble! Send Help Please – Jan. 11, 2020 - The effects of that slippage are starting to show. Too many prescription drugs and medical devices are being approved with too little data on how safe or effective they are. A... Read More...Jan 14 2020
Medicaid expansion saves lives in overdose deaths Helping Our Neighbor – Jan. 10, 2020 - “These findings add to the emerging body of evidence that Medicaid expansion under the ACA may be a critical component of state efforts to address the continuing opioid overdose... Read More...Jan 14 2020
The Natural History of the Senses Book Recommendation for Rehabs – Read more - “Diane Ackerman gives haunting descriptions of our five primary senses and how we have culturally and historically used them. Her prose is rich, vivid and sumptuous.... Read More...Jan 14 2020
I thought I needed alcohol to enjoy sex… It’s Not the Same Anymore - It’s Better – January 11, 2020 - I took a deliberate break from even thinking about sex or dating. I sublet an apartment with a twin bed, perhaps subconsciously because I believed I ... Read More...Jan 14 2020
No Easy Answers on Opioid Crisis And Nothing For Loved Ones? – January 11, 2020 - The closest to a victory that families saw was the declaration of bankruptcy by Purdue Pharma in September, which meanwhile offered a $3 billion payment to fami... Read More...Jan 14 2020
Ex-drug company execs face reckoning in opioid bribery case Last (Lap) Dance – January 12, 2020 - Prosecutors say officials at Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics paid millions of dollars in bribes to doctors across the country so they would overprescribe Subsys, a fentany... Read More...Jan 14 2020
Gordy Grimm Helped Shape Addiction Treatment Across the World Obituary for a Pioneer – Jan. 8, 2020 - At Hazelden—established in 1949 on farmland near Center City, Minnesota—Grimm started a spiritual care department and founded an accredited training program for clergy that bec... Read More...Jan 14 2020
The everyday medications that change who we are For Better or Worse – They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships. It turns out many ordinary... Read More...Jan 14 2020