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American Medical Association calls for total ban on all e-cigarette, vaping products

If Only We Could Trust the AMA – November 20, 2019 - “I would be 100% with the AMA if they were seeking a ban on all tobacco products that are smoked, including e-cigarettes,” said Jonathan Foulds, a tobacco addictio... Read More...

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Suicides for kids ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled in last decade

AMERICAN HEARTACHE – WHY? – OCTOBER 22, 2019 - Meanwhile, homicide ranked as the third most common cause of death for teens aged 15-19 and adults aged 20-24, and the fifth most common cause for children ... Read More...

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80 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous Chronicled in ‘Writing The Big Book’

It Didn’t Write Itself – OCT. 23, 2019- The “Big Book,” as it’s commonly known, is arguably the most significant self-help book published in the twentieth century. Released in 1939, it has sold an estimated 37 millio... Read More...

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Prescriptions Aren’t Causing The Opioid Epidemic!

People Refilling Them? – November 24, 2019 - As previously reported here and here, there is no correlation between opioid prescription volume and non-medical use or opioid use disorder among persons age 12 and over. ... Read More...

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Her son died after insurers resisted covering rehab

Bottom Line Hits Rock Bottom – Nov. 22, 2019 - Fahy initially tried to get inpatient treatment for his addiction to opioids, cocaine, and alcohol at two different facilities in New Jersey. But his health plan adminis... Read More...

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Heroin, bullets, and empathy

CSI - Vermont – November 21, 2019 - At first blush, it made no sense. Two young men, cousins, as privileged and connected as you can be in a place this size, dead within hours and 25 miles of each other. But this... Read More...

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Nicotine: How Juul Hooked a Generation

Selling Addiction – Nov. 24, 2019 - From the beginning, there was plenty of evidence of teenage use on social media that should have been apparent to a company that had made social media the core of its marketing str... Read More...

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Alicia Fox opens up about alcoholism & recovery

Staying In The Ring – Nov 20, 2019 - As someone with my own addiction and recovery story, please allow me to welcome The Foxy One to the fellowship. She’s asked for help and is now doing something to help others who ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week

“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” —Claude Monet ... Read More...

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Live happier, with more freedom and joy

Joy to the World – November 16, 2019 - So, “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glorify to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). Gratitude enlarges the heart and ... Read More...

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After Overcoming Addiction, Maintenance Worker’s Idea Becomes Hallmark Christmas Movie

Televised 5th Step? – November 15, 2019 - There was just one problem: “I knew I had a drinking problem,” he recalls. “My life was falling apart. I started getting into drugs on top of the drinking. I mean, I was sink... Read More...

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Veterans fighting addiction become artists for an hour

THE ART OF PEACE – Nov. 10, 2019 - Harry Kavadas, 59, a U.S. Army veteran, gets instruction from Sarah Hellmann, director and founder of ‘Art for All People’, who teaches a painting class each week for residents of J... Read More...

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Drug addiction in Russia: Draconian laws instead of help

Sound Familiar? – Nov. 11, 2019 - The biting cold hits the people who come out of the Moscow subway this evening. It is a 45-minute ride from the city center to Marino, the most populated district of the Russian capi... Read More...

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Opioid Addiction in Jails: An Anthropologist’s Perspective

Drug Hell – November 12, 2019 - One of the women I took care of and interviewed at MCI-Framingham, a women’s state prison in Massachusetts, was in the health services unit — where they send people when they’re ... Read More...

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Another serious health risk for e-cigarette users

Have A Heart – Nov. 13, 2019 - More than 2,000 Americans who use e-cigarettes have become sick since March, many of them teenagers and young adults, and at least 40 people have died. The bulk of the cases occurred in... Read More...

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Cincinnati-area high school announces mandatory drug tests for all students beginning in 2020

Blood or Piss? – November 12, 2019 - A first positive test will not result in disciplinary action, according to the policy. However, if a student tests positive a second time, there will be repeated drug testing duri... Read More...

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Nine USC student deaths: Possible drug overdoses, tainted narcotics probed

American Mystery – NOV. 13, 2019 - Investigators are trying to determine whether any student deaths are connected with tainted drugs, said sources who spoke to The Times on the condition on anonymity because th... Read More...

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Bronx Politicians Join Groundswell of Opposition to Drug Treatment Clinics

Get Outta Here – Nov. 14, 2019 - Last year, the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported, 391 Bronx residents died of drug overdoses — accounting for 31% of all drug fatalities citywide. The Bronx is ... Read More...

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Addiction Support Goes Mainstream

Sober Schools Rule – November 7, 2019 - Three sober years later, Cafran is now the coordinator of the university’s newly launched Collegiate Recovery Program, or CRP, one of 136 such programs at colleges and universi... Read More...

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Preventing Childhood Trauma May Lower Drug Addiction Risk

Another Hit? – Nov 17, 2019 - However, ACEs can be prevented, the CDC said. Preventing ACEs can help children and adults thrive and potentially mean a lower risk for conditions such as depression, suicide, asth... Read More...

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Editorial: Her baby was born dead because she used drugs. That doesn’t make her a murderer

Disease or Demon? – NOV. 17, 2019 - ut pregnant drug users have drawn a different response in many places. More than two dozen states have laws that treat drug use during pregnancy as child abuse, at least for the pu... Read More...

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Only 1 Percent of People Become Chronic Opioid Users After Hospital Prescriptions

Who are the 99%? – Nov. 11, 2019 - The authors said that although a sharp uptick in prescriptions during the past two decades has led to more opioid use disorders in the U.S., their data shows that the vast majority ... Read More...

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Ben Affleck’s New Film, ‘The Way Back,’ Deals With Alcoholism

Art Imitates Life – Nov. 14, 2019 - “It doesn’t really bother me to talk about alcoholism and being an alcoholic. It’s part of my life, something that I deal with. It doesn’t have to subsume my whole identity a... Read More...

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Iconic photographer Terry O’Neill dies aged 81

New Pair of Glasses – Nov. 17, 2019 - Mr O’Neill is one of the world’s most collected photographers with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. His images have burst out from iconic... Read More...

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Reflection: Cleaning Up After My Brother’s Fatal Overdose

Extremely Sad and Incredibly Close – Nov. 15, 2019 - “I had a drink last night. It was an experiment.” My heart sank. That was five years ago. Over that period, he lost everything and then he died. For years... Read More...

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California Taking Vape Giant To Court

Lawyers Rejoice – NOV. 18, 2019 - Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said Monday that Juul’s decision to stop selling some flavored vaping products has come “too late,” noting that many teens are already cau... Read More...

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Tom Coderre Named to U.S. Behavioral-health Post

Making Waves – Nov 15, 2019 - In a farewell email Monday to his State House colleagues, Coderre wrote of his “incredible opportunity working on solutions to the opioid crisis, broader mental health and addiction reco... Read More...

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Meth. We’re on it,’ says South Dakota in ridiculed ad campaign

Truer Words... – November 18, 2019- Pearce said the advertisements — which are placed on television, billboards and posters — feel like domestic policy more than an actual effort to reach the people who need the reso... Read More...

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Former alcoholic was cured within days of writing a ‘letter to her mind’

Brain’s Powers – Nov. 15, 2019 - She told MailOnline: ‘All I could think about was drink. I’d go to work and even though I’d finish at about 2pm, I’d make excuses to go home early. ‘Rose was my favour... Read More...

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Executive Corner with Stephen Dansiger

Stick with the Winners! – Dr. Steven Dansiger played CBGB and Max’s Kansas City in the late 70s; drank, played drums in a toy rock band and then got sober in the late 80s; became an international educator and rocker... Read More...