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Medication-Free Treatment in Norway

Back To Basics – Dec. 8, 2019 - The Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center can be seen as both part of that initiative, and distinct from it. But with “medication-free” offerings within the public sector surviving and gro... Read More...

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Sometimes it makes sense to jail addicts

NEVER unless they committed a real Crime? – Dec. 7, 2019 - The threat of incarceration as an incentive for the addict to remain substance free is a nation-wide criminal justice practice that affects thousands of addi... Read More...

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Dopamine Fasting; the Newest Tech Trend?

At Least You Won’t Be Hungry – DECEMBER 9, 2019 - Proponents, including lots of tech startup types, go to different extremes as far as what they eliminate on a dopamine fast. Some simply treat it like a digital or so... Read More...

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Lil Mo Beats Addiction: ‘Let The Toxic Go’

Smack Down – DECEMBER 4, 2019 - “SPENT SOOOOO MUCH PAYING OTHER PEOPLE BILLS JUST TO BE HIGH AND A FUNCTIONING ADDICT,” LIL MO WROTE. “I WAS HIGH AND THINKING IT WAS OK CUZ I COULD AFFORD IT. I’M LIL MO. I’M FAMOUS.... Read More...

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Artist’s Corner – Domenic Esposito

Stick with the Winners! – Domenic Esposito is an artist and activist living in the Boston area. Esposito is the son of immigrant Italian parents and was raised in both Boston and Italy. As an artist and social ... Read More...

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The Decade Drug Overdoses Killed Nearly Half A Million Americans

Population Control? – December 6, 2019 - No one predicted the ferocity of the opioid epidemic,” American Society of Addiction Medicine President Paul Earley told BuzzFeed News. “Ten years ago people did not recognize... Read More...

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Detox Units Closing at All 11 NYC-Run Hospitals

OMG WTF? – DEC. 2, 2019 - The inpatient detox units at all 11 city-run hospitals are about to close — steering people struggling with alcohol and drugs back into already busy emergency rooms, THE CITY has learned. Th... Read More...

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Demi: “Don’t believe the rumors”

Demi Does it Again? – December 5, 2019 - In July 2018, the pop star was hospitalized following an overdose. After spending eleven days in the medical facility, she checked herself into rehab. “This illness is not som... Read More...

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Shocking number of children show signs of smartphone addiction

So Focused! or Attachment Disorder? – December 07, 2019 - While many people think of addiction as a behavior driven by things such as drugs, alcohol, or tobacco, the concept of addiction to technology has become a se... Read More...

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Crack vs. Heroin: Drug wars’ racial double standard

Separate and Unequal – December 8, 2019 - In the late 1980s, the crack epidemic launched a War on Drugs that disproportionately arrested and punished black Americans.But a generation later, when a new drug scourge st... Read More...

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Ron Leibman, Tony and an Emmy winner: ‘Angels in America,’ ‘Where’s Poppa?’ and ‘Friends,’ Dies at 82

OBITUARY: RIP Ron Leibman – Dec. 6, 2019 - Mr. Leibman, red-faced and cackling, is a demon of Shakespearean grandeur, an alternately hilarious and terrifying mixture of chutzpah and megalomania, misguided brilliance... Read More...

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Six drug companies subpoenaed in federal opioids probe

Who Will DO Time? – November 27, 2019 - Teva, for example, reported that it received an April subpoena from the Justice Department for “documents relating to the manufacture, marketing and sale of opioids.” In ... Read More...

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Let’s Talk: Addiction & Recovery Podcasts with William Cope Moyers

Words of Wisdom – Hear what leading addiction and recovery experts are talking about—addiction trends, topics and challenges as well as research, practices and advances that point the most promising way forward. Auth... Read More...

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Tufts Removes Sackler Name

Cutting out the wound – December 5, 2019 - Dr. Harris A. Berman, the dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine observed, “They feel the names are incongruous with the mission of the school and what we’re trying... Read More...

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7 Heroin Users Die From Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Black Death – December 5, 2019 - The source of the heroin is unknown and an investigation is continuing, the county said. Most black-tar heroin is produced in Mexico and sold in the United States west of the Mississi... Read More...

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Inside Paracelsus Recovery, the Drug Rehab for the World’s Super-Rich

Detoxing the 1% – Dec. 5, 2019 - At the International Conferences on Addiction and Associated Disorders in London in April, Chris Coplans of Narcotics Anonymous told a reporter for Tatler magazine: “The trend i... Read More...

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Chronic disease prevention could ease opioid crisis

Addicted Forever? – Dec. 5, 2019 - One in four U.S. adults is living with at least one chronic disease Preventing chronic disease could help curb the opioid epidemic, according to research from the University of G... Read More...

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Quote of the Week

"If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees. If your plan is for 100 years, educate children." —Confucius ... Read More...

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Brad Pitt reflects on alcoholism, past mistakes with with Sir Anthony Hopkins

Stars Align on Sobriety – DEC. 03, 2019 - “I’m realizing as a real act of forgiveness for myself for all the choices that I’ve made that I’m not proud of, that I value those missteps, because they led to some wisdom,... Read More...

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Where the Nurse Prescribes Heroin

Medication Assisted Living – Nov. 27, 2019 - From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week, a $1.5 million facility in Glasgow that opened on Tuesday will allow a handful of drug users to receive doses of the drug al... Read More...

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Addiction takes up residence on Sesame Street

Children 'R' Our Future – November 29, 2019 - Jerry Moe is, in a way, one of Karli’s creators. Moe is national director of Hazelden Betty Ford Children’s Program, and an advisory board member for the National Associ... Read More...

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Can ketamine curb harmful drinking?

Blacking Out the Blackout – NOVEMBER 26, 2019 - For a person with alcohol use disorder, a memory triggered by a simple cue — like walking by a favorite bar or spotting a beer billboard — can drive a desire for ... Read More...

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Five youths in drug treatment program rushed to hospital with OD symptoms

A Step Backwards – Nov. 26, 2019 - “Granite Pathways called 911 because we believed that residents had used drugs and showed signs of impairment and because of a serious behavioral issue of one of the residents,” Mon... Read More...

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Why doctors know almost nothing about the health effects of marijuana

They Don’t Care? – NOVEMBER 25, 2019 - There are several ways to cut through the current obstacles to marijuana research. Certainly, reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug would solve ... Read More...

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UNPAID AD – First Pennsylvania Medication-Assisted-Treatment Facility

Medicine Men – Nov. 26, 2019 - MAT utilizes FDA approved medications to treat patients with an opioid addiction. Methadone, one of the medications, changes how the brain and nervous system respond to pain. It lessens... Read More...

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She was spending $1,000 a day on crack and heroin. Then she cried out to God.

Spiritual Solution – Nov. 26, 2019- When Moran was 11, her mother remarried, and the family moved to Indianapolis’ east side. Moran went to Lutheran High School, where she made decent grades and played volle... Read More...

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Sculpture of AA founder Bill Wilson’s Face unveiled

Half Measures – NOV. 29, 2019 - As detailed in a May 5, 2018 article in the Banner and Manchester Journal, thousands of people visit Wilson’s birthplace in East Dorset each year. Wilson was born in the house in 1895... Read More...

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Heartburn drugs putting millions at risk of acute stomach virus

What, no more cheesesteaks? – November 28, 2019 - “And now we’re finding that the drugs are not as safe as we thought. They interact with a bunch of drugs. There are some nutritional concerns. There’s an increased ri... Read More...

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Sexism Can Affect Your Mental Health

The Unsafe Sex – November 30, 2019 - Sexism was defined in the study, which received responses from nearly 3,000 women aged between 16 and 93, as feeling unsafe, avoiding going to or being in a setting, being i... Read More...

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Hellfighters Help Homeless

Mercy After Dark – November 30, 2019 - They’re a Christian ministry motorcycle gang that has spent seven years feeding the city’s homeless and others in need. The leather-clad, bandanna-wearing group, with its vans a... Read More...