Study Links Drug Maker Gifts for Doctors to More Overdose DeathsMarketing Death/Smoking Gun – Jan. 18, 2019 - A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. The authors, from B... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Too Much Learning In Schools ‘Is Harming Mental Health’Missing the Mark – January 16, 2019 - Researchers interviewed teachers who had been on long-term sick due to mental health problems, as well as school leaders who had experience of dealing with mental health problems am... Read More...Jan 22 2019
S.N.L.: Reason John Mulaney Helped Pete Davidson Make a Triumphant ReturnGood News – JANUARY 20, 2019 - Mulaney mentioned on Saturday night that he wanted to show Davidson—who briefly left S.N.L. in 2017 to get sober—how to have some substance-free fun. Though Mulaney hasn’t made his past s... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Mental capacity changes give care homes too much powerDetained in the UK – January 17, 2017 - The problem has become more acute as demand for care home places rises. There are around 300,000 people over 65 in residential care in the UK; many suffer from dementia. Restricti... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Kate Moss, 45, continues to show dazzling perks of sobrietyModel of Moderation – January 18, 2019 - ‘Kate is like a new woman and a much better version of herself. She is focused, professional and glowing with health...’Everyone is amazed at how well she has done in not drinki... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Eels in Thames become hyperactive after Londoners on cocaine pee in waste waterNo Unagi for Me – Jan. 20, 2019 - They found the fish “appeared hyperactive” compared to eels kept in cocaine free waters. While the powder may be increasingly popular with the country’s elite - an estimated 3.64% of th... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Creating While Clean: Trey Anastasio, Jason Isbell, Ben Harper & Others Discuss SobrietyMusic of the Spheres – Jan. 15, 2019 - In the modern pop-culture tradition, being a musician has often come with a series of default lifestyle expectations, ones of indulgence and recklessness, larger-than-life living, ... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Lena Hall on ‘Falling Apart,’ and finding herself through sobrietyActing As If – January 18, 2019 - A: I think, for me, my emotional ups and downs were becoming so extreme that I was not recognizable to myself. My downward spiral started around when I was 30, which was a time of disco... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Ant McPartlin opens up about his battle with alcohol dependency and drug addictionDeep Drama – Jan. 19, 2019 - Ant McPartlin breaks silence on drink drive arrest to The Sun and reveals how new lover Anne Marie Corbett saved his life in world exclusive interview Ant McPartlin weighs in on ‘girl code’... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Even a little marijuana may change teen brainReality Damage – Jan. 14, 2019,- “Most people would likely assume that one or two uses (joints) would have no impact, so we were curious to study this — and especially to investigate if first uses may actually produce b... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Kickbacks for North Palm Beach center totaled nearly $250,000Money Over Lives – Jan. 14, 2019 - According to a Palm Beach Gardens Police report dated last Wednesday, Mylett was the co-owner of Reliance Treatment Center, a licensed substance abuse center on U.S. 1 in North Palm Be... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Sackler Family In 100,000’s of DeathsAmerican Terrorists Killing Our Youth – January 16, 2019 - The two physicians and several others, who became Purdue’s most frequent prescribers in Massachusetts, eventually lost their licenses but not before authorizi... Read More...Jan 22 2019
Samuel L. Jackson Talks About His Drug AddictionSnakes on a Plane – Jan. 9, 2019 - Jackson also recalls another night when was smoking crack and spotted another actor he greatly admired — Jessica Lange. She was taking a smoke break while working on A Streetcar Named ... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Ex-pharma CEO pleads guilty to kickbacks to Fentanyl loving doctorsMoney Gets People to Die – January 10, 2019 - Michael Babich, the former CEO at Insys Therapeutics, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston on Wednesday for his role in a nationwide scheme to bribe physicians to pres... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Drugs have become such a problem in Starbucks bathrooms they are installing needle-disposal boxesSad But True – Jan. 9, 2019, - The coffee giant is exploring remedies after employees expressed fears about being pricked by uncapped needles and experiencing related health risks. Starbucks is testing solutions, inclu... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?MayB, MayBEE Knot?! – January 14, 2019 - It’s hard to study a substance that until very recently has been almost universally illegal. And the few studies we do have were done mostly in the nineteen-eighties and nineties... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Is the Kratom Nature’s Answer to Opioids?You mean like Suboxone? – January 10, 2019 - It’s the weirdest, grossest drug,” comedian Margaret Cho said. On the other hand, Chris Bell, the filmmaker who made “Leaf of Faith,” said that kratom helped him kick his opi... Read More...Jan 15 2019
EDITORIAL: How suburban police departments are wising up about drug abuseTreatments works ... when you want it to... – 01/06/2019 - Police departments work out arrangements with drug treatment providers in advance to ensure care is available around the clock. They then drive addicts seeking ... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Amid rising sobriety trend, Heineken brings alcohol-free version to U.S.Nowhere Near Beer – January 9, 2019 - Non-alcoholic beer accounts for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. beer market, according to Heineken. Historically, most big brewers have played in the non-alcoholic segment wit... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Do drug treatment facilities really lower property values?Depends on the property – Jan. 11, 2019 - But opposition may be unfounded, a study distributed this week by National Bureau for Economic Research found: Substance-abuse disorder centers do not negatively affect property... Read More...Jan 15 2019
New study finds social media junkies make riskier decisionsPlaying with Fire – January 10, 2019 - Researchers at Michigan State University ... gave 71 people the Iowa Gambling Task, which psychologists say identifies the differences in decision-making among healthy people and ... Read More...Jan 15 2019
A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid CrisisA Book Should Be Well Digested – Dec. 17, 2018 - Writing from Britain, Dr. Ben Goldacre echoes Angell’s concerns, charging in “Bad Pharma” that the worst misbehavior in the pharmaceutical industry actually occurs not wh... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Model reveals she used to subsist on cigarettes, black coffee, cocaine to maintain thin figureThin White Line – January 10, 2019 - She went on to say that many people never really understood how she could eat and still be so thin. The 25-year-old then dished the dirt on the entire, glamorous influencer industry... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Recovering drug addict Tom Sizemore ‘arrested after police find meth and heroin in his carKeep Coming Back – January 12, 2019 - Sizemore has faced a very public battle with drug addiction and run-ins with the police. But in May 2017 he told the Daily Mail.com that he was “fit, healthy and approaching 4 yea... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Inside America’s other opioid epidemicTRIGGER WARNING: Drug use – December 18, 2018 - Now Rogers, 53, was back in his bedroom at the hot, dark house on R Street SE. Sitting in a worn swivel chair, he cued a Rob Thomas song on his cellphone and bent over h... Read More...Jan 15 2019
A Space for Advanced Thinkers and Influencers – PodcastsMore Than the 12 Steps – Jan. 7, 2019 - Judy Crane has over 3 decades of experience working in both residential and out-patient settings. She earned her B.A. at Rutgers, M.A. from New York Institute of Technology and is... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Social Media Addiction Needs To Be Taken More SeriouslyDEAD SEA SCROLLING – Jan. 11, 2019 - Social media addiction, also known as internet addiction disorder, is not currently classed as a specific disorder. In the most up-to-date Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Recovery School offers students a path to sobrietyPassing More Than Their Urine Tests – January 12, 2019 - Rochester Public Schools created the APEX program during the 2016-17 school year. It offers students battling addiction education plans aimed at filling credit ga... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Drew Barrymore: I’d be ‘dead really soon’ if I tried heroinHeroin Isn't Chic – January 10, 2019 - “I feel if I try either,” she shared, “I’m going to be dead really soon.” By the time she was 12, Barrymore was a cocaine addict. She was in and out of rehab in her early teenage ... Read More...Jan 15 2019
Labor Department Wants to Drug-Test Applicants for Unemployment BenefitsWho gets that contract? – January 10, 2019 - This month, the Department of Labor finished soliciting feedback on a proposed federal rule, that would encourage states to conduct blanket drug testing for those seeking une... Read More...Jan 15 2019