Addiction: The New Retirement ThreatTaking ‘bout My Generation – March 22, 2019 - It’s been a tortuous journey. At one point, the 55-year-old drove to five treatment centers in New Jersey to find one that would take her insurance—or at least take her tee... Read More...March 26 2019
PGA Tour suspends Garrigus after positive pot testWeed Sends Golfer into the Rough – Mar, 22, 2019 - The tour announced Friday that Garrigus, whose only PGA Tour victory was at Disney at the end of the 2010 season, has been suspended for three months under the conduct ... Read More...March 26 2019
Health Experts Push To Decriminalize Addiction Treatment DrugINSANITY – MAR. 22, 2019 - It’s been six years since Scott Pavek stopped using opioids. But he wanted out of his addiction long before he was able to get clean. “I just wanted … some relief from the cycle of using opio... Read More...March 26 2019
Compassion Not Contempt: Interview with Maia SzalavitzLEGALIZE ALL DRUGS! – Mar. 18, 2019 - The number one cause of addiction stigma is the fact that drugs are criminalized. Criminalization is a huge problem. We don’t lock people up with diabetes when they eat a donut, or ... Read More...March 26 2019
Scientists Have Cured Alcoholic Rats by Shooting Lasers at Their BrainsToo Bad for Rat Taverns – March 22, 2019 - “What is so exciting about these findings is that we were able to control the motivation to drink alcohol in severely dependent individuals with the flip of a switch,” said Scr... Read More...March 26 2019
Overdose Death Doctor Loses Latest AppealMake Him the Prison Proctologist – Mar. 20, 2019 - Hsiu-Ying “Lisa’’ Tseng was convicted in October 2015 of three counts of second-degree murder stemming from the deaths of Vu Nguyen, 28, of Lake Forest; Steven Ogle, 24... Read More...March 26 2019
TEN DRUGS: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of MedicineNY TIMES BOOK REVIEW – March 22, 2019 - as Thomas Hager, a historian of medicine and science, explains in his absorbing new book, “Ten Drugs,” it also describes America’s first, forgotten opioid epidemic a century ago. ... Read More...March 26 2019
Trigger Warnings May Not Do MuchDon’t Look Now – March 22, 2019 - “Although people were distressed by the negative materials we showed them, they were no more or less distressed if they’d seen a trigger warning first...Psychologists working with traum... Read More...March 26 2019
Former DEA official now working for OxyContin makerDouble Agent – March 20, 2019 - Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, is one of the opioid companies being sued by more than 1,600 cities and counties for “grossly” misrepresenting “the risks of l... Read More...March 26 2019
Elton John Biopic Expected to Get R-Rating for Sex, Drug ScenesMove Over Bohemian Rhapsody – March 22, 2019 - Rocketman, Paramount’s Elton John musical, is expected to be rated R and will include an intimate love scene between Taron Egerton, who plays the English singer, and Richar... Read More...March 26 2019
War on Opioid Abuse Is Striking the Wrong TargetWar = Murder – March 21, 2019 - Patients in pain have become collateral damage in the war on opioids. That’s the message of a letter from more than 300 medical professionals, including three former White House drug czar... Read More...March 26 2019
Drug Companies Are Making the Opioid Crisis WorseRisky Business – March 14, 2019 - Marketing to physicians is only one of the strategies employed by opioid manufacturers. Between 2012 and 2017, five opioid manufacturers gave nearly US$9 million to 14 patient advocacy ... Read More...March 26 2019
Wendy Williams’ Husband Speaks Out About Her Sobriety: ‘It’s a Family Process’House is Not a Home – March 22, 2019 - After Williams, 54, revealed on-air Tuesday that she’s been living in a sober house as a result of her past addiction to cocaine, Kevin Hunter told Entertainment Tonight that his ... Read More...March 26 2019
Drug rehab made millions off patients’ relapses, PA. attorney general chargesAn Industry With No Defense – March 25, 2019 - The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office charged Jason Gerner, the cofounder of Liberation Way, with fraud, conspiracy and related offenses. Other high-level executives,... Read More...March 26 2019
Wendy Williams’ Heroic Televised DisclosureRigorous Honesty – March 19, 2019 - Williams said the only other people who knew that she was staying at a sober house were her husband and son. “This is my autobiographical story,” Williams said on camera to her studio... Read More...March 26 2019
A real link between opioid use and people not workingDuh? – March 12, 2019 - States that prescribe more opioids per 100 people tend to have fewer people in their labor force. West Virginia, a state with one of the highest opioid prescription rates in the country in 2015, ... Read More...March 19 2019
New recovery program shows users are more likely to stay sober if they help others“It is better to give than to receive” -JC – March 3, 2019 - The National Institute on Drug Abuse says relapse rates among drug addicts or alcoholics are the same as the relapse rates for chronic medical illnesses. With... Read More...March 19 2019
Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgeryIt’s a Family Affair – February 27, 2019 - The presence of one or more family members using long-term opioids before a procedure was associated with a higher likelihood that adolescents prescribed opioids for the first ... Read More...March 19 2019
Local documentary on drug addiction helps othersGo Make a Movie – March 14, 2019 - Kaitlin said she graduated last year from Lycoming College and continues to work on her filming. She started the documentary in 2017 after discovering one of her best friends was strug... Read More...March 19 2019
Michael Bloomberg is giving Michigan $10M to fight opioid crisisDoes what you fight get stronger? – March 14, 2019 - “The opioid crisis is a national emergency that calls for bold leadership and big ideas,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “We hope our work in places like Michigan and... Read More...March 19 2019
Julia Roberts on drug addiction in her new filmVIDEO – March 14, 2019 - Hollywood actress Julia Roberts discusses her new film Ben Is Back and wants to remind audiences that addiction has a lot of layers and people can create change in legislation. Full Story @ B... Read More...March 19 2019
‘Kensington Blues’ gives devastating portrait of addiction in PhillyNot a Pretty Picture – March 16, 2019 - The 2017 toll was a record for opioid deaths in the city. Although overdose deaths may have dropped last year, Philadelphia is still grappling with how to tackle opioid use. City ... Read More...March 19 2019
Demi Lovato Speaks Out About Apparent Overdose for the First Time on What Would Have Been Her 7-Year Sobriety AnniversaryKeep Coming Back – March 15, 2019 - he Grammy-nominated singer, 26, would have celebrated seven years of sobriety on Friday but instead, she looked back on her relapse. In emotional Instagram posts, Lovato details her o... Read More...March 19 2019
Addiction specialist urges Japan to treat over-gaming as a mental disorderTetris Forever – MAR. 14, 2019 - “This isn’t just about Japan, it’s happening all over the world,” Higuchi said in a recent interview. “We deal with patients every day and see how gaming addiction is only getting worse.... Read More...March 19 2019
How Plunging into Sobriety Makes You a Better PersonThe Water’s Fine! – March 15, 2019 - You’ll see Your Health Improve! When you’re wrapped up in the throes of your addiction, everything else goes to the wayside – food, sleep, self-care, everything. This is why so many ... Read More...March 19 2019
These Tech Companies Aim to Cure Pain Without PillsBetter Living Through Technology – March 16, 2019 - A Jeep accident in Yemen at age 19 left him in a wheelchair and in such intense pain that he was rarely able to sleep, he recalls. Prescription drugs, even morphine, l... Read More...March 19 2019
Legalizing Marijuana, With a Focus on Social Justice, Unites 2020 DemocratsThe Candidate I’d Most Like to Do a Bong Hit With – March 17, 2019 - Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey last month introduced the pointedly named Marijuana Justice Act, which would remove the drug from the federal list o... Read More...March 19 2019
Is Pain A Sensation Or An Emotion?Feelings Aren’t Facts, or Are They? – March 16, 2019 - With more than 47,000 Americans dying of opioid overdoses in 2017 and hundreds of thousands more addicted to them, it was recently reported that, for the first time... Read More...March 19 2019
A look back at the Obama administration’s handling of the fentanyl epidemicNodding on the job? – March 13, 2019 - The 11 experts pressed the officials to declare fentanyl a national “public health emergency” that would put a laserlike focus on combating the emerging epidemic and warn the count... Read More...March 19 2019
The IRS Targets Drug Policy Reformers4/15’s a Bummer for 4/20 – March 17, 2019 - (T)hat language arguably covers organizations that advocate legalization of marijuana (or any other prohibited substance) or favor looser restrictions on certain prescription ... Read More...March 19 2019