Can Short Term Stress and Anxiety Be Good for You? Good News For...Everyone? – August 10, 2019 -“It’s important for psychologists to share our knowledge about stress with broad audiences: that stress is a given in daily life, that working at the edge of our abilities... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Sobriety Is Trending. Business Is Catching On Hard Drinking w/No Booze – Aug. 9, 2019 - As more people cut back on booze, non-alcoholic breweries, bars and spirits alternatives and are popping up to give the so-called sober curious a range of options beyond cons... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Emails Show This Anti-Tobacco Crusader’s Close Relationship with JUUL Our Trusted Leaders – Aug. 9, 2019 - As he finishes up what may well be his last stint in office, Miller, a 74-year-old Democrat, has become an unlikely advocate for JUUL, which some consumer advocates consider the n... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Man Dies in Rehab After Heroin Addiction Tragic – August 11, 2019 - “I believe that they killed him,” Nina Kassel said.Forty-one people died in Utah rehab centers in 2017, according to a report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services A... Read More...Aug 13 2019
How to Observe a Soberversary Celebrate Recovery – August 11, 2019 - “A lot of people through the AA/NA/CA communities have it recognized at their local chapter meeting, with a cake,” she tells Bustle. “Sometimes a medal. Sometimes t... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Kelly Osbourne ‘Overwhelmed with Gratitude’ Celebrates Two Years of Sobriety It’s a Family Affair – August 09, 2019 - “I woke up this morning feeling overwhelmed with gratitude. I can’t even put into words how much my life has changed over the last 2 years,” she captioned an Instagram ... Read More...Aug 13 2019
FDA Investigating 127 Reports of Seizures and Other Neurological Symptoms From Vaping Devices of Danger and Delight – Aug. 8, 2019 - All of the reported cases occurred between 2010 and 2019. Some people reported experiencing other serious neurological symptoms such as fainting or tremors, which ... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Beloved Toni Morrison Obituary: Toni Morison: February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019 – AUGUST 9, 2019- When I was 10 years old, I borrowed my mother’s copy of “The Bluest Eye.” I was a gluttonous reader, consuming every book I could ge... Read More...Aug 13 2019
New Robin Williams Documentary ‘When The Laughter Stops’ Examines John Belushi’s Death in the ’80s Double Heart Ache – AUGUST 9, 2019 - At the time, a concerned Robin asked John, who was down on the floor at the famous hotel, if he was okay. The comedian assured him he was fine and Robin left. Not long after... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Experts Look to Cutting Edge Vaccine to Fight Opioid Crisis Good Luck! – AUGUST 9, 2019 - Together, the couple is using his expertise in creating highly targeted vaccines with her expertise and experience treating and researching adolescent, teen, and young adult drug abusers... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Baby Boomers Are Binge-Drinking More Than Millennials Is it a Blackout or Alzheimers? – August 10, 2019 - “Binge drinking, even episodically or infrequently, may negatively affect other health conditions by exacerbating disease, interacting with prescribed medica... Read More...Aug 13 2019
Quote of the Week “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust ... Read More...Aug 13 2019
‘Machete’ to the Rescue: Actor Danny Trejo Helps Save Child Danny Trejo: Real Life Hero – August 8, 2019 - Trejo crawled into the overturned wreckage from one side, he recalled, but he couldn’t unbuckle the child’s car seat from that angle. The other bystander, a young woman,... Read More...Aug 13 2019
The Companies and Execs Who Fueled the Opioid Crisis Should Face the Same Fate as El Chapo OPINION: By Ryan Hampton – July 30, 2019 - During that six-year period, parallel to El Chapo’s reign, pharmaceutical companies earned billions from manufacturing, distributing, and weaponizing the American medi... Read More...Aug 6 2019
England Failing to Tackle Alcohol ‘epidemic’ Drunxit – July 30, 2019 - Massive cuts to alcohol rehab services mean a “national epidemic” of alcohol-related problems is not being tackled, King’s College London researchers say. And people with drink ... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Florida Synagogue Tailors High Holidays for Addiction Afflicted The Promises Land – JULY 29, 2019 - “I feel it is imperative to offer a path to Jewish spirituality for those in the process of recovery and spiritual seeking in their secular lives,” he said. The series will c... Read More...Aug 6 2019
NYPD Data Reveals Just How Often Fentanyl is in Cocaine Even Once Is Too Much – July 30, 2019 - The figure contradicts a narrative being pushed by health and crime agencies, as well as the White House and much of the media, that drug dealers are routinely lacing coc... Read More...Aug 6 2019
How a Big Pharma Lawsuit Could Succeed Where Big Tobacco Failed We’ll See About That – JULY 29, 2019 - Big Pharma is facing hundreds of lawsuits in nearly every state over its role in fueling overdose deaths, now that it is clear that companies were aware of the harm of th... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Woman Charged With Illegally Dispensing Over 745,000 prescriptions Acting As If – July 31, 2019 - “Californians picking up medications at their local pharmacy should never have to worry about whether pharmacies are employing licensed pharmacists to dispense prescriptions,” Bec... Read More...Aug 6 2019
For Years, Alcohol Was My Only Comfort. Then It Nearly Killed Me. New York Times Feature – July 24, 2019 - At 19, I signed over custody of my son to my mother in order to join the Air Force. The rigid environment in basic training forced me to get sober, which lasted until m... Read More...Aug 6 2019
‘Before the Meeting’ Not the Usual Sobriety Account New Play in Massachusetts – July 31, 2019 - An environment of fellowship and support is the launching point for Adam Bock’s new play, “Before the Meeting,” ... An environment of fellowship and support is the launchin... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Addiction Solutions in Native American Community Explored The Trail Never Ends – July 31, 2019- “Take a look around. There’s a lot of healing that’s happening,” said Roxanne Delille, the Dean of Indigenous and Academic Affairs at Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College, w... Read More...Aug 6 2019
New Data on Syringe Exchanges Better Safe Than Dead – August 1, 2019 - But a recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Analisa Packham, an NBER fellow and economics professor at Miami University, calls that conventional wisdom into que... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Overcoming Trauma Allows You to Live Freely in Sobriety? Worth The Effort – August 2, 2019 - Once sober, we begin to feel our emotions clearly for the first time in a long time. These emotions have been bottled up for so long inside of our psyche that they almost se... Read More...Aug 6 2019
‘Zombie land in New York’: Used Syringes Litter Section of Melrose Horrifying – Aug. 2, 2019 - Santana works at the Boom Health Harm Reduction Center, which is across the street from where many gather to use drugs. He heads out of his office, five days a week, with a trash pi... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Tattoos Can Be an Important Part of Mental Health Recovery Painted Lady – August 2, 2019 - “For the person who chooses to get a tattoo, many times it’s a much deeper process of reflection,” says Shainna Ali, PhD, a mental health professional. “What’s the point of getting a t... Read More...Aug 6 2019
3 People Got a 2nd Chance at Life Third Times a Charm – August 3, 2019 - After recovering from a drug addiction that sent her on a downward spiral, Danielle Turner, 30, recently was given back her 10-year-old son, who years earlier had been ta... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Dating as a Recovering Alcoholic Presents New Set of Hurdles Too Much Iced Tea? – August 3, 2019 - Alcohol helped me appear cool, calm and collected when in reality I was a fragile extrovert who gave off the unmistakable air of desperation, neatly covered by Davidoff Coo... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Former Drug Recovery Advocate Pleads Guilty to Charge Related to Fentanyl Trafficking Nobody’s Perfect – Aug 1, 2019 - The case played a part in last month’s sudden cancellation of Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the recovery center. According to court documents, Hatch moved 1,500 grams of ... Read More...Aug 6 2019
Binge Drinking Among Older Americans Is On The Rise Cuervo Old – July 31, 2019 - The study noted that for the metabolism of a person who is 65 years or older, drinking two or three beers at that age has the same effect as seven or eight beers on someone at age ... Read More...Aug 6 2019