Painting Portsmouth, by Sam QuinonesPainting the Town Clean – August 12, 2018 - With the town blasted by this huge supply, and the sense of community shredded by job loss and more, widespread pain-pill addiction was a fact of life in Portsmouth by the end... Read More...Aug 21 2018
HMP Acquires Vendome Group’s Behavioral Healthcare UnitProgress and Perfection? – July 10, 2018 - HMP’s third acquisition in 18 months as part of a pivot toward an events-focused strategy under CEO Jeff Hennessy, the deal includes the quarterly magazines Addiction Professio... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Johnny Kline, dead at 86, Harlem Globetrotter Turned Drug Abuse CounselorA Real Mensch – August 17, 2018 - “I was a stinking, drugged-out dope fiend,” Kline wrote in “Never Lose” (1996), his autobiography. “People who knew me would cross the street to avoid seeing me.” His daughter Sharon sa... Read More...Aug 21 2018
American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis – and How to End It by Ryan HamptonMEDIA: Book of the Month – August 2018 - Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of ... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Elvis’ addiction was the perfect prescription for an early deathEven the Good Die Young – August 16, 2018 - But on this day 41 years ago, millions of music lovers wept to the news that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, was dead. He was only 42 years old and a bloated, fading... Read More...Aug 21 2018
DEA Wants More Marijuana Grown and Fewer Opioids Produced In 2019. Really.Who’s Smoking What? – August 16, 2018 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, added that “the opioid epidemic that we are facing today is the worst drug crisis in American h... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las VegasMEDIA: BOOK for Gamblers – 2014 - Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state t... Read More...Aug 21 2018
What is synthetic marijuana?It’s Garbage – AUGUST 16, 2018 -No deaths were reported, but two people suffered life-threatening symptoms. Synthetic marijuana — also known as “K2,” “spice,” “crazy monkey,” and “Scooby snacks” — is a designer drug. It... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Deep brain stimulation might one day treat the worst cases of alcohol addictionScience May One Day... – August 17, 2018 - That’s because once alcohol hooks you in, it becomes extremely difficult to break free. To make matters even worse, even existing therapies are rather ineffective and bear a hi... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Fighting drug addiction in teens: What parents should knowTalking Helps – August 14th 2018 - The stress of school and pressures from friends might be factors that could lead them to use and become addicted to drugs and substances. “Typically what we’re seeing in terms of stat... Read More...Aug 21 2018
An Overdose Left Him With Brain Damage. Now What?The Needle and the Damage Done – August 18, 2019 - It was a Sunday afternoon, and in the cozy house at the end of the street, Andrew Foote sat in his usual chair while a movie played on the television. The young man’s h... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Epidemic: Two Recent Gifts to Fight Drug Addiction Are the Exception, Not the RuleMeet the Hero and the Hypocrite – August 16, 2018 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the country’s largest public health funder, has stayed out of the fray even though it led the philanthropic community in addressing... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Hundreds attend opioid addiction protest in Stamford FridayPurdue Pharma: Guilty as Charged – August 17, 2018 - A couple hundred protesters gathered outside of the Stamford headquarters of drug maker Purdue Pharma on Friday... Full Story @ WTNH.com... Read More...Aug 21 2018
US multinational buys into UK rehab centres as demand growsMoney Money Money – August 17, 2018 - The UK private rehab market is set to grow exponentially, one of the largest addiction firms in the country has said after receiving US investment. Addiction treatment centres have ... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Sister of man found dead gives tearful testimony after seeing ‘Oxy Doc’Prescribing Death for New Yorkers – July 11, 2018 - The sister of a Staten Island man who died of a drug overdose two days after visiting a Manhattan physician dubbed the “Oxy Doc” dissolved into tears on the stand Wedn... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Josh Gordon returns to Browns, vows to put sobriety firstTrying NOT to Score – August 18, 2018 - Gordon, who’s been in a treatment program at the University of Florida, announced on Twitter Saturday that he’s back with the Browns, but that he must continue to work hard on sta... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Gov. declares September addiction ‘recovery month’Set to Save Lives – August 16, 2018 - n March, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared addiction a crisis and requested state leaders to come up with a strategy to combat it. Several hundred people met in downtown Portland Thur... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Rash of overdoses show dangers of powerful synthetic drugsFAKE DRUGS are Our Enemy – August 16, 2018 - On the same day that more than two dozen people were raced from a New Haven, Conn., park to emergency rooms after violent reactions to synthetic marijuana, federal authoritie... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Betty Ford Foundation Claims Groups Fraudulently Using NameFreedom Healthcare Crooks – August 15, 2018 - Websites associated with Freedom Healthcare of America and Addiction Enders are using deceptive practices and unauthorized trademark material to mislead consumers seeking ad... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Will Self Interview: Rehab and Bristol’s “nasty” drug problemFor Our UK Fans: Totally Entertaining – August 17, 2018 - “At a spiritual level it’s a disaster, it’s just basically saying we’re going to lie around in our own shit.” Novelist Will Self thinks as a society we’re faili... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Behind Aretha Franklin’s successful career was a life of failed marriages and alcoholismI Say a Little Prayer – August 17, 2018 - But Aretha’s life was far from sunshine and rainbows, and amid a wildly successful career spanning nearly six decades, the singer struggled with alcoholism, abusive marriages an... Read More...Aug 21 2018
This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on DemandThat's Very Rare – August 18, 2018 - Every year, thousands of people addicted to opioids show up at hospital emergency rooms in withdrawal so agonizing it leaves them moaning and writhing on the floor. Usually, they’re ... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Seven Things That Inevitably Happen to Your Personal Life When You Get Sober by Holly Glenn WhitakerThere is a Solution – August 17, 2018 - This year, I celebrated five years sober. It’s been over six years since I first started seriously questioning my relationship with alcohol and considered a life without it ... Th... Read More...Aug 21 2018Dec 25 2018
Purdue Pharma’s Sales Pitch Downplayed Risks of Opioid AddictionSackler Family - Guilty as Sin – August 17, 2018 - Two decades ago, Purdue Pharma produced thousands of brochures and videos that urged patients with chronic pain to ask their physicians for opioids such as OxyContin, a... Read More...Aug 21 2018
‘The devil’s aspirin’: why do so many celebrities like Elon Musk blame Ambien?Such a Friendly Sounding Word... – August 17, 2018 - “It is often a choice of no sleep or Ambien,” Musk told the New York Times in an interview published on Thursday, which came after the Tesla founder claimed on Twitt... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017American Dream Denied – August 15, 2018 - The death toll is higher than the peak yearly death totals from H.I.V., car crashes or gun deaths. Analysts pointed to two major reasons for the increase: A growing number of A... Read More...Aug 21 2018
76 people non-lethal overdose on K-2 at Connecticut parkKeeping it Unreal – August 15, 2018 - 71 people suffering from apparent overdoses were transported to local hospitals from the New Haven Green, according Dave Hartman with New Haven Police. Another 5 people refused medi... Read More...Aug 21 2018
‘Patrick Melrose’: How Benedict Cumberbatch Became an Expert in Addiction to Deliver His Career BestAct As If – August 18, 2018 -Not only is Showtime’s five-part mini-series “Patrick Melrose” a superb cinematic adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s five searing novels, it marks Benedict Cumberbatch’s best performance ever. ... Read More...Aug 21 2018
Margot Kidder’s Death Ruled a SuicideBi-Polar Destruction – August 8, 2018 - “Superman” actress Margot Kidder’s death has been ruled a suicide, according to the Associated Press. Kidder’s daughter, Maggie McGuane, told the publication on Wednesday that she... Read More...Aug 14 2018
Ant McPartlin pulls out of I’m A Celebrity to focus on rehabSelf Care Comes First – August 9, 2018 - McPartlin first checked himself into rehab last summer, citing an addiction to prescription drugs. He returned to the screens but stepped back from all presenting duties after c... Read More...Aug 14 2018