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Anne Lamott Reflects on Life, Death and Enduring the Beams of Love’

VIDEO TED TALK – SHE’S A ROCK STAR – April 5, 2024 - Anne Lamott has always been honest about the messiest parts of her life, from addiction to parenthood. Now she reflects on the beautiful—and complicated—realitie... Read More...

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Art Exhibit Remembers Those Lost to Addiction

VIDEO – SOUL ALCHEMY: GRIEF INTO ART – April 11, 2024 - When Theresa Clower lost her son, Devin, she turned to an old hobby she hadn’t picked up in nearly five decades. With a degree in fine arts, she pick... Read More...

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Gift Cards Can Be a Tool to Stop Meth Addiction

AND THE GIFT OF A BETTER LIFE – April 16, 2024 - Clyde Davis battled a methamphetamine and heroin addiction for over nine years. Contingency management uses positive reinforcement as a behavioral treatment for... Read More...

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Will Cancer Causing Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Lucky Charms & Gatorade be BANNED?

KILLER FOODS – April 17, 2024 - Bills advancing in multiple states could see 'thousands' of America's favorite candies, snacks and sodas banned in their current form. California approved a historic 'Skittles ban' th... Read More...

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Tiffany Haddish: Sobriety Helped Her Realize She’s Been ‘TOO NICE’

BALANCE IS KEY – April 8, 2024 - The comedian/actress said drinking activated her filter since she would think and want to say hurtful things but restrained herself. “Now I say it. If I think it, I say it. ... Read More...

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Cure for Addiction and Traumatic Brain Injury

IT COULD WORK – April 9, 2024 - New treatments for addiction are urgently needed. 107,941 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, an age-adjusted rate of 32.6 deaths per 100,000 people. The rate has nearly qu... Read More...

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The Drug That Kills Most Americans is at the Grocery Store

AUDIO – AND WILL ALWAYS BE THERE – April 9, 2024 - While overdose deaths from fentanyl and its sinister cousins have seized the spotlight for years — some 112,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023 — alcoho... Read More...

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Residents Concerned Over 5G Towers

VIDEO – DANGER IN THE AIR – April 10, 2024 - She quickly learned that the concrete slab was a 5G tower. It has a health warning that reads it “can cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm.”“I’m ... Read More...

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GOP Leader Apologizes for Trashing & Vomiting in Hotel

TOO MUCH SUN? – April 10, 2024 - George Riley, a leader of the Republican Party of Florida has apologized for being excessively drunk and urinating and vomiting all over his room at a hotel last week, saying h... Read More...

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“I would drink three bottles of wine before running a 100 mile race”

FOUL FUEL – April 10, 2024 - Rock bottom came in 2021 when I was at my best friend Julius’ house in Somerset, drinking bottles of wine like they were water, crying hysterically, in bits on his sofa. I had lost... Read More...

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Eminem Celebrates 16 Years of Sobriety

LOCAL HERO – April 20, 2024 - On Saturday, April 20, the “Lose Yourself” rapper, 51, marked 16 years sober, sharing the milestone on Instagram with fans. The Grammy winner — who was born Marshall Mathers — pos... Read More...

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Fans Recall How Indigo Girls Helped Them Through Sexuality and Sobriety

VIDEO – TOGETHERNESS WORKS – April 10, 2024 - There’s another layer to the duo’s impact. “I’ve been clean and sober 29 years now,” one fan shared. “They were almost like this unspoken permission that it was OK to ... Read More...

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Reports of Depression and Suicide After Taking Weight Loss Drugs

VIDEO – SMALLER COFFINS? – April 16, 2024 - “I have zero doubt that this drug caused me to be suicidal and I almost lost my life from it,” Etheridge said, referring to semaglutide, the active ingredient in the... Read More...

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‘Gig Economy’ Jobs May Lead to Problem Drinking

THE TEMPTATION OF LIFE – April 10, 2024 - People who take poorly paid temp jobs as freelancers or independent contractors are 43% more likely to develop an alcohol-related illness than those with full-time per... Read More...

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

CVS - RITE AID - DUANE READE - TARGET – April 16, 2024 - Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is therefore strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandem... Read More...

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Johnny Knoxville Embraces ‘Sweet Dreams’ Sobriety Story

VIDEO – WE ALL SHOULD – April 11, 2024 - “My father was an alcoholic and I get to play softball half the movie,” Knoxville told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. “Baseball was the only thing I was ever good at.”... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, b:1884, NY, NY – d:1962 NY, NY ... Read More...

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Cancer Rates Up in Young People Due to ‘Accelerated Aging’

VIDEO – 40 IS THE NEW 70 – April 9, 2024 - “The realization that cancer, and now aging, are becoming significant issues for younger demographics over the past decades was unexpected.” The researchers analyzed data fr... Read More...

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Ex-Gangster Turned Pastor Warns About POWERFUL Opiates

REDEMPTION SONG – April 2, 2024 - While it is unknown which opiate caused the overdoses, Pastor Mick Fleming, founder of Church on the Street, fears that deaths will be “off-the-scale” due to synthetic substances cal... Read More...

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Social Media Expert Hears ‘wake-up call’ on Youth Screen Addiction

VIDEO – PLEASE KEEP SCROLLING – April 7, 2024 - “I started as a voice in the wilderness about eight, nine years ago, saying that digital media can be addicting. But that was just the price of admission. Digital med... Read More...

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Teens Mental Health – Anxiety and Smartphones

CHILDHOOD CANCELED – April 3, 2024 - Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation,” published last week, argues that the smartphone-driven “great rewiring of childhood” is causing an “epidemic ... Read More...

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Los Angeles County Library Offers Narcan Clinics

BOOKS SAVE LIVES – April 2, 2024 - All 86 county libraries are stocked with Narcan, and staff has been trained on how to administer the medicine. According to the L.A. County Department of Health, accidental fenta... Read More...

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Can Methadone Vans Deliver the Goods?

STEP RIGHT UP – April 1, 2024 - “This kind of initiative is about using harm reduction, bringing services to where people are; it’s about using an evidence-based strategy,” Dr. Cunningham. “We know metha... Read More...

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Judge Melissa Boyd Sent to Rehab

SENTENCED – April 5, 2024 - Former Shelby County court judge Melissa Boyd pleaded guilty Friday morning. “First your honor, I want to apologize for my relapse with the positive drug test and to the state al... Read More...

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U.K. Drug Treatment Boss Throws Down Gauntlet to Authorities

MAKE IT SAFER – April 7, 2024 - Exasperated by years of fruitless discussions while drug deaths mount, Martin Blakeborough told The Independent that he plans to pilot several “micro” drug consumption spaces. I... Read More...

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Deryck Whibley Celebrates 10 Years Sober

ONE NOTE AT A TIME – April 6, 2024 - Call it a premonition or pure naïveté, but Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley knew for a fact when he was 16 that he was going to be famous someday. “I mean, I was just so obsessed with m... Read More...

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Why Nature Is Your Best Ally in Recovery

IT DOESN’T JUDGE – April 10, 2024 - 4 EASY WAYS TO CONNECT WITH THE OUTDOORS - Being outdoors has been linked to reduced stress, more energy, better physical health, and much more. Nature is often looked ... Read More...

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Psychological Paths From Loneliness to Smartphone Addiction

NEVER BE ALONE AGAIN – April 5, 2024 - The study was prompted by concerns over digital addiction, a problem recognized by the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization as a public heal... Read More...

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How Loneliness Can Lead To Food Addiction And Obesity

TABLE FOR ONE! – April; 9, 2024 - Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), UCLA Health researchers observed that when shown images of food, especially sweet treats, the brains of lonely individuals ... Read More...

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The Worst Restaurant Breakfasts in America in 2022

MORNING SICKNESS – AUG. 2022 – Making a hot breakfast at home isn't always practical. Luckily, there are loads of restaurants and fast-food chains serving up all sorts of breakfast offerings that can be yours for a r... Read More...

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