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Food Addiction is Real – And Overcoming it Isn’t Easy

No Joke – Feb. 22, 2020 - If you said yes to any of these questions, you, or someone you know, might be suffering from food addiction. What’s food addiction? It’s an addiction to junk food that’s as stron... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020

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Three women with addiction-prone pasts open recovery center

Healing Headquarters – Feb. 20, 2020 - “We decided to sign up. We said, ‘Oh, heck -- why not? What are we doing? We’re not doing much. Sure, we’ll do it,’” Collins recalled. “That started this journey.” That journ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020RecoveryRehab

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They Fell in Love Helping Drug Users. But Fear Kept Him…

Spoiler Alert - He Dies – February 24, 2020 - “He was just this really sweet, no-nonsense person who was committed to justice and equity,” she says. “Even though he was suffering in many ways, he had a very ca... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020

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Ben Affleck – how sobriety made him happier

Sober To The Core – February 22, 2020 - The actor spoke openly about his family’s history with addiction and said that five years from now, he hopes people will say that he’s “sober and happy” and seeing his ki... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020Rehab

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One man’s journey – addiction & the power of his poetry

Black Words Matter – February 19, 2020 - After 13 trips to detox and an equal number of arrests, Kearse “hit rock bottom” on the roof of his mother’s house in a failed suicide attempt. Today Kearse is Vice Pres... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020Recovery

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Addicts & Alcoholics to Spend $31.17 Billion on quitting by 2027

Steps, Stock Markets and Meds – Feb. 20, 2020 - For the addicts of drugs like opioids, the addiction initiates with receiving medications with relatives & friends who have been prescribed with... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Rehab

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Smartphone Addiction Has Same Effect On Brain As Drug Use

Siri, I can’t quit you – February 18, 2020 - Grey matter in the brain is vital, as it contains a majority of neuronal cell bodies and includes the regions that are associated with muscle control, speech, and se... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020Smartphone Addiction

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Amanda Bynes & fiancé announce 1-year sobriety in apology video

So Open – February 21, 2020 - “I’m sorry to everyone whom I called ugly on Twitter,” Bynes said. “I was feeling so ugly at the time and it was really hard for me to express myself at the time because I wa... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020

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Many pitfalls of universal drug screening for new mothers

She lost her baby to a bagel – February 19, 2020 - This policy, known as universal screening, proactively screens all new mothers regardless of whether drug use is suspected. Those who favo... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020

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Demi Lovato Says Struggles With Eating Disorder Led to Sobriety Slip and Overdose

Addition is Addiction – February 18, 2020 - “I think when you have certain people around you that are telling you certain things that you should look a certain way, it makes it harder,” she says. “I was i... Read More...

Celebrity SobrietyEating DisorderFeb 25 2020Rehab

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‘Living Proof:’ Portraits Share Stories of Addiction and Recovery

Reality In Your Face – February 20, 2020 - We are honored that they would step forth and share their stories with the community and trust us to be a part of this work,” said Jennifer Muggeo, deputy director of ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020

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AA Shares New Video: “Young & Sober in A.A.: From Drinking to Recovery”

AA’s First Commercial – Feb. 21, 2020 - Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of people who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, no cost, all gender, apolitical and... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 25 2020Recovery

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Major Study That Fueled National Vape Panic Has Been Debunked

Who Can’t You Trust? – Feb. 19 2020 - Last June, the authors, Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the University of California San Francisco, stated in the original study that vaping and smoking cigarettes pose... Read More...

Feb 25 2020Vaping

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Teaching Kids How to Reverse an Overdose in a Dystopian Present

Teach Your Children Hell – Feb. 23, 2020 - In Carter County, where 56,000 people live in a cluster of small cities and rural towns on the North Carolina border, nearly 60 people have died from opioid overdoses ... Read More...

Feb 25 2020Overdoseteenagers

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Doctors Received $1.5 Million in Free Lunches From Pharma Companies

Free Meals for Dead Bodies – Feb. 21, 2020 - That’s a dangerous practice,” Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said. Farley says free meals by doctors offered by big pharma are, at least, partly to blame for the ... Read More...

Big PharmaFeb 25 2020

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Public Radio’s “Back from Broken” – stories of addiction, struggle & recovery

Good Radio – Feb 21, 2020 - The podcast will consist of 10 episodes released every other Friday and focus on conversations with people of all walks of life – including some celebrities – who have dealt with st... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020Recovery

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Has social media become a socially acceptable addiction?

Just Like Coffee – Feb. 18, 2020 - Galen joined Know Your Value co-founder and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski and Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pe... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2020

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Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty.

More than a comeback! – Feb. 18, 2020 - Affleck, Oscar-winning writer, director of the Oscar-winning “Argo,” better actor than you remember — and, yes, alcoholic, divorcé and proud possessor of a mythical back ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020

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Quote of the Week

“Just try new things, don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar!” –Michelle Obama ... Read More...

Feb 25 2020quote of the week

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It’s time to get real about heroin addiction. It’s time to decriminalize this drug!

Decriminalize Heroin! – February 19, 2020 - I CAN SAY without a shred of doubt that the most stigmatized people in our society are those who use illicit drugs. ‘Junkies’, ‘dopeheads’ and ‘crackheads’ are some of the... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Heroin Addiction

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How Juul gets kids addicted to vaping: it’s even worse than you think

Drug Dealing on the Internet – Feb. 14, 2020 - This isn’t the first time a company selling nicotine products has been accused of targeting children. Joe Camel, the cartoon mascot for Camel cigarettes, was the s... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020juulRehabVaping

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‘Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it’: Adderall presents esports with an enigma

eAddiction – Feb. 13, 2020 - “Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it,” former Call of Duty World Champion, Adam “KiLLa” Sloss said. When asked if Adderall abuse at events was something he had ever witnessed ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020internetvideo games

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Alcohol deaths in women on the rise

Higher and Higher – February 15, 2020 - A recent study shows that deaths associated with alcohol use among women rose 85%. Why are more women drinking? Lydia Burr, the Director of Clinical Services at Hazelden ... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020

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We need to rethink “tough love” as a response to addiction

Just Love – FEBRUARY 2, 2020 - When I reached out for help, I went to my ex-boyfriend, the only person I’d been honest with about my relapse. I reached out to him because, although he did have boundaries (“I wo... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehabrelapse

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Addiction Memoirs are a Genre in Recovery

Sharing is Good – Feb. 13, 2020 - Hitting Bottom “Stray” is a literary coming to terms with her parents’ substance abuse, as well as her own periods of heavy drinking, cocaine and sedative use. Her father is a ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020

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Man credits selling bouquets on Chicago streets for his recovery :‘Selling flowers helped me survive’

Sharing Beauty Enhances Sobriety – FEB. 14, 2020 - In the attempt to recover from alcoholism, Flores, 56, began to sell bouquets in the same streets he once tramped, begging for alcohol or the money to bu... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020

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Fruits of their labor: Restaurant celebrates love and recovery

Are you hungry? – February 14, 2020 - Employees, or students as they call them, will go through a 12-week course to get their first level of certifi... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery

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Coronation Street actor helps addicts in Brighton

A couple of swells – Jan. 31, 2020 - Kennedy Street has helped other projects set up their own social enterprises, feeding the homeless, organising dry gigs, and using crafting as therapy. Clare said: “Kennedy Str... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020RecoveryRehab

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Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t

This Needle Heals – February 15, 2020 - While out with his drinking buddies one night, they offered Jensen a hit, and he “was immediately hooked,” he said. “It was nothing like anything I’d done before,” Jense... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020meth

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Being the child of an alcoholic means the trauma stays with you for years

Until it Doesn’t – February 15, 2020 - Anyone who has lived through alcoholism will know that reasoning with a constantly drunk individual is not an easy task. My overriding memories from my teenage years are of inci... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020