Spiritual Adrenaline: Addiction Recovery Through Nutrition and Exercise Higher Muscle Power – JULY 17, 2019, - Founder, and recovering addict, Tom Shanahan, founded Spiritual Adrenaline as a new way to treat addiction by focusing on the body’s overall health. Focusing on nutrition ... Read More...July 23 2019
Executive Corner with Anna David Stick with the Winners! Anna David is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books. She’s been published in The New York Times, Time and The LA Times, among many others, and has appeared repeatedly on The Tod... Read More...July 23 2019
Four Ordinary People Who Took on Big Pharma Burying Their Young – July 20, 2019 - It was the early 2000s, and they usually talked over old-school computer message boards. Occasionally they gathered in person, carrying posters of their children and middle-aged ... Read More...July 23 2019
Story Details Roy Halladay’s Struggle With Drug Addiction No Extra Innings – JULY 17, 2019 - The story also details Halladay’s struggle with fame and restlessness, and fleshes out what we know about Halladay’s relationship with drugs after he retired from baseball. Halladay... Read More...July 23 2019
Scotland on Brink of Becoming the Drug Death Capital of the World Are There No Edens? – July 15, 2019 - Scotland’s biggest challenge is tackling the polydrug habits that see many long-term addicts mix heroin and methadone with alcohol, prescription pills and street drugs tha... Read More...July 23 2019
Drug Company emails Show Indifference to Thousands of Opioid Deaths Salesmen of Death – July 19, 2019 - The Controlled Substances Act requires drug companies to control against diversion, and to design and operate systems to identify “suspicious orders,” defined as “orders of unusual... Read More...July 23 2019
Ex-Pharma Chief Charged with Killing Appalachian Towns with Opioids Guilty As Sin – July 19, 2019 - Rattini is accused of distributing powerful narcotic painkillers for other than medical reasons to more than 200 pharmacies across West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Ra... Read More...July 23 2019
Opioid Distributor Sent 6 Million Pain Pills To Small Town Stockholders Rejoice – July 21, 2019 - Federal prosecutors in Ohio indicted a pharmaceutical wholesaler, two former executives, and two pharmacists Thursday for conspiring to illegally distribute millions of addictiv... Read More...July 23 2019
My Child Recovered From Her Addiction. But I’m Not Sure I Ever Really Will. AL-ANON ESSAY – July 20, 2019 - She checked herself back into treatment. Detox and recovery were more difficult this time. When I talked to her, she didn’t sound like herself, and I wondered if her beautiful m... Read More...July 23 2019
Ex-TV anchor reveals turning point from sex and drug addiction Brave Man Speaks Out – July 22, 2019 - Former TV anchor Brandon Lee opens up about his struggles with addiction and his push to change the public perception and stigma surrounding addiction in the US. VIDEO ONLY F... Read More...July 23 2019
‘My Heart Still Beats’: An Intimate Conversation On Addiction And Recovery The Talking Cure – July 19, 2019 - Six Vermonters shared their stories with VPR as part of My Heart Still Beats, a podcast series featuring conversations about addiction and original writing from the recovery communi... Read More...July 23 2019
Paul Krassner, anarchist and leader of the Yippies, dies at 87 Fearless and thorough from the very start – July 21, 2019 - An FBI agent once described him in a letter to Life magazine as “a raving, unconfined nut,” a phrase that Mr. Krassner gleefully adapted for the title of hi... Read More...July 23 2019
Treatment Center Owner Pleads Guilty to $57 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy Green Showers – July 9, 2019 - Kyle Ryan Marcotte, 36, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Toomey of the Middle District of Florida to a one-count information chargi... Read More...July 23 2019
Buzz Aldrin forced to save Apollo 11 Moon landing after fatal Neil Armstrong error 50 Years - Walking on the Moon – July 15, 2019 - Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and in light of that, a series of stories and documents have been released to mark the event. ... Read More...July 23 2019
See the DEA’s Pain Pill Database INTERACTIVE: This Page is a Trip – July 21, 2019 - The Washington Post sifted through nearly 380 million transactions from 2006 through 2012 that are detailed in the DEA’s database and analyzed shipments of oxycodo... Read More...July 23 2019
Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley on How Sobriety and Tom Petty Changed His Life To Sum It All Up... – July 16, 2019 - Steve Baltin: How did getting sober affect you musically? Deryck Whibley: From six years old I wanted to be a musician and so I followed that path. But once all the par... Read More...July 16 2019
Buzz Aldrin on Long-Term Sobriety Walking the Walk, One Day at a Time – FROM August 2, 2016 By John Lavitt – Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, celebrating 37 years (now 40 years) of sobriety, reflects on his challenges after coming back from the Moon and what d... Read More...July 23 2019
Cannabis Treatment Counters Addiction Marijuana Assisted Treatment – July 15, 2019 - A paper about the University of Sydney and NSW Health clinical trial provides the first strong evidence that so-called cannabinoid agonist medication — which targ... Read More...July 23 2019
Quote of the Week “Being honest may not get you al lot of friends, but it'll always get you the right ones.” –John Lennon ... Read More...July 23 2019
From Addict to Entrepreneur with Holly Wilson, Founder of Women’s Recovery One Woman's Day at a Time – July 15, 2019 - Having an intimate knowledge of substance abuse recovery, Holly is a strong advocate for clinically savvy, gender-specific, co-occurring treatment. Holly is deeply c... Read More...July 23 2019
In 7 years, 76 Billion Opioid Pills Flood America Is it Love, Pain or Profits? – July 16, 2019 - The information comes from a database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks the path of every single pain pill sold in the United States — from m... Read More...July 16 2019
The First Day Movie with Chris Herren New York Theatrical Premier Nov. 1, 2019 – Theatrical Premiere at the 11th REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium - Los Angeles and on November1st at the 7th Annual NY Reel Recovery Film Festival & Sympo... Read More...July 16 2019
Suboxone Maker Agrees To Pay $1.4 Billion In Settlement They’ll Say Anything To Sell Drug$ – July 11, 2019 - In announcing the Reckitt Benckiser settlement, the Justice Department noted that Suboxone is a medication designed to help people suffering from opioid dependen... Read More...July 16 2019
The Burgeoning Benzo Crisis Mother’s Little Helper – July 8, 2019 - Often, women don’t know what they’re getting into. “Most people taking psychiatric drugs these days do not get an adequate explanation about the nature of the medication,” says... Read More...July 16 2019
NCAD Spotlight: Data Will Drive Better Outcomes, Reimbursement Business is Business and Nobody Lies – July 8, 2019 - Joanna Conti, BS, MS, considers her family “extremely fortunate” to have found programs that treated her daughter for an alcohol addiction despite ha... Read More...July 16 2019
Jobs Van picks up panhandlers and drives them towards a brighter future A Square Meal and a Full Heart – JULY 09, 2019 - Cira loves his work, although he says when he first considered taking a job driving around picking up homeless people, his wife needed some convincing. Cira not ... Read More...July 16 2019
Dwight Gooden Arrested on Cocaine Charges in New Jersey Stopped Going to Meetings? – July 12, 2019 - Known by the nickname “Doc,” Gooden was electric as a starting pitcher. He had a fastball that approached 100 miles per hour and a devastating curveball, and he domi... Read More...July 16 2019
Florida might be making a ‘dent’ in opioid epidemic Thanks to Naloxone – July 08, 2019 - “It feels like the resources that are being provided are helping the problem,” David Daniels said. He’s an operations manager at Big Bend Community Based Care, which provides subs... Read More...July 16 2019
In an Alcohol-Soaked Nation, More Seek Booze-Free Social Spaces Hang Up On Hangovers – July 9, 2019 - Since giving up booze, Logan-Rice said, she has seen alcohol in unexpected places — even an assisted living facility that offered bottles of wine as door prizes when she at... Read More...July 16 2019
“He Threw Wine In My face.” Ala-none too soon – JULY 12, 2019 - We had walked into a Thai restaurant for dinner, been seated, and told by the waiter that they didn’t serve alcohol. David said, “No worries, mate,” ordered a Coke, and then excuse... Read More...July 16 2019