Prozac lowers sex drive That’s Depressing – Jan. 5, 2020 - Many antidepressants lower libido and interfere with sexual pleasure. There is even a medical name for this condition: treatment emergent sexual dysfunction (TESD). The official pre... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Dr. Heather Ashton, 90, Helped People Quit Anxiety Drugs OBITUARY – Jan. 3, 2020 - The result of her work, in 1999, was “Benzodiazepines: How They Work And How To Withdraw.” Now known simply as “The Ashton Manual,” it has become a cornerstone for those looking to quit the ... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Deal will let more companies make an overdose antidote spray Keep Coming Back – Jan. 3, 2020 - The attorney general’s office said the new agreement came after it found that Adapt Pharma, which has since been bought by Rockville, Maryland-based Emergent, had the exclusive right... Read More...Jan 7 2020
The real villain of the opioid crisis is the healthcare industry There is no money in good health – Jan. 5, 2020 - That’s the conclusion of two Princeton University economists, Angus Deaton and Ann Case, who have been studying opioid addiction. In a panel discussion of their new ... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Why Is America So Depressed? The United States of Despair – January 2, 2020 - Everyone has his or her own definition of a political crisis. Mine is when our collective mental health starts having a profound effect on our politics — and vice vers... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Illinois becomes 11th state to legalize marijuana It's No Longer a Crime to Inhale – Jan. 1, 2020 - “The war on cannabis has destroyed families. It has filled jails and prisons with nonviolent offenders. It has disproportionately affected black and brown commu... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Marketing Psychiatric Drugs to Jailers and Judges Medications Make Mad Money – Dec. 31, 2019 - At recent conferences about correctional health care, Merck, Gilead, AbbVie, and other big pharmaceutical companies have staged “product theaters” or “education luncheons”... Read More...Jan 7 2020
63% of Hawaii State Hospital Patients Have Used Meth 63 out of 100 – December 31, 2019 - When state epidemiologist Amy Curtis became chief administrator of the health department’s Adult Mental Health Division in July, she made a small switch in the clinic’s survey to g... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Why We Need ReSOULutions, not Resolutions – Robyn Cruze The Door Opens Inward – Dec. 30, 2019 - In 2020, my ReSOULution is to delve deeper into my soul and claim the space that I longed for when I had an eating disorder. I am writing this blog from Australia, where I retu... Read More...Jan 7 2020
What Would Bill Do? Keep His Side of the Street Clean – Dec 26, 2019 - In today’s addiction treatment field, the Big Book is still held up as the primary text and answer for people with addiction. The field is split between those who fe... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Victoria’s Secret Models Got Thinner Over 23 Years Not Roll Models – January 3, 2020 - “These findings represent an ideal of beauty that continuously moves further away from the characteristics of the average American woman,” says a news release accompanying the stud... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Poet & Ex-Con – Life After Prison Poetry Lives – 2019 - As a 16-year-old student who had never been in trouble, Betts hijacked a car at gunpoint, confessed to the crime, was “certified” an adult despite his age, and sentenced to nine years in prison,... Read More...Jan 7 2020
F.D.A. Failed to Ensure Safe Prescribing of Opioids Watched People Die Every Day – Dec. 30, 2019 - “What’s surprising here is the design of the program was deficient from the start,” said Caleb Alexander, the senior author of the study, who serves as a paid expert wit... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Why Did the Pentagon Push the FDA to Approve a Powerful New Opioid 200 Times More Powerful Than Heroin? It’s the American Way? – Jan. 6, 2020 - Over a period of several months, both the FDA and the DoD were either unwilling or unable to articulate to me how an opioid made it onto a list supposedly reserved for life-sav... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Big Pharma raises prescription drug prices on New Year’s Day Happy New Year STOCKHOLDERS – January 1, 2020 - “Hard-working Americans don’t deserve to pay such high prices for the drugs they need. We are fighting DAILY to make sure this HAPPENS,” he tweeted in November. M... Read More...Jan 7 2020
A Cuban Describes Her Recovery from Alcoholism Island Relief – December 30, 2019 - Kirenia Medina: I must have been about 15 years old and my boyfriend at the time was 18. Every time we met up with his friends, it was pretty normal for a bottle to be passed aroun... Read More...Jan 7 2020
In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings Strumming Towards Sobriety – January 3, 2020 - The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The communit... Read More...Jan 7 2020
The writer as glamorous drunk? That myth is long gone Clarity NOT Claret – December 30, 2019 - The four characters sit around a kitchen table drinking endless glasses of gin and talking about love. And a lot more. Carver, often regarded as one of America’s greates... Read More...Jan 7 2020
The 7 Biggest Lessons from 7 Years of Sobriety Actions Speak Louder Than Words – December 30, 2019 - Intentions matter the most. Where you’re coming from is the biggest determining factor of the end result. Intentions determine everything from the first ... Read More...Jan 7 2020
More U.S. Teens Are Overdosing on Valium, Xanax Tension in the air – Dec. 24, 2019 - Benzodiazepines like Valium, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin have been traditionally prescribed to treat anxiety and insomnia, but doctors have started handing them out as substitute f... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Cannabis: Why don’t its illnesses and deaths command media headlines? Opiates – Jan. 3, 2020 - On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 2,561 people have been hospitalized with vaping-related lung illness and 55 have died. That’s one more death and over 50 more h... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Quote of the Week “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” —Rene Descartes ... Read More...Jan 7 2020
Jennifer Gimenez Marries Tim Ryan in Private Beverly Hills Ceremony on New Year’s Eve Couple of Swells – December 31, 2019 - Gimenez announced the news of her engagement to Ryan — the subject of the 2018 A+E documentary special Dope Man — back in June, taking to Instagram to share a sweet pic of herse... Read More...Jan 7 2020
24 Great Local News Stories From 2019 Start the Presses – December 21, 2019 - Their reporting showed that when facility operators stand to gain from relapses, patients are routinely paid — in money, drugs, free flights, and more — to attend rehabs.... Read More...Dec 31 2019
After My Daughter’s Overdose, My Family Vowed to Fight the Opioid Epidemic How do we do that? – Dec. 25, 2019 - There was so much we didn’t know about Victoria until reading her journal. Victoria had a weight problem in her early teens, but blossomed. We didn’t realize that she had an... Read More...Dec 31 2019
Beyond the Bubble Gum Bandit: How one man overcame his addiction Chew On This – Dec. 25, 2019 - In March 2010, McAuliffe, then 42, was arrested and booked into the Coweta County jail. He had hidden his cocaine use — which started when he was a teenager — from many in his lif... Read More...Dec 31 2019
Cannabis-related psychosis, addiction, ER visits for young users on the rise TOO HIGH – December 23, 2019 - At Caron, the number of patients who were admitted with a primary diagnosis of cannabis use disorder increased more than 22% from 2014 to 2019. In those five years, people admitted to t... Read More...Dec 31 2019
Local Family Celebrates Sobriety and Togetherness at Christmas Home Sweet Home – December 25, 2019 - After years of anguish and many overdoses, the monthly medication Vivitrol has given Kaitlin her life back. “It’s so worth it. To be there for your family and yoursel... Read More...Dec 31 2019
Heartwarming moment – son gifts father first pair of Jordan sneakers for Christmas Father and Son – Dec. 26, 2019 - He continued: ‘This last time he made a promise & he stuck with it ... One of our first Christmas Moments together & it was one to capture because he got his first pair of Jor... Read More...Dec 31 2019
McShin Foundation Hope Dealers Documentary Prison Is Not Forever! – Fall 2019 - In 2018 the McShin Foundation located in Richmond, Virginia started the Recovery and Reentry Program at RSW Regional Jail in Front Royal, VA. Founded with the help of ... Read More...Dec 31 2019