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Three pain clinic staffers admitted a pill scheme. Head Dr. beats 9 out of 10 charges.

Jury Pampering – July 2, 2018 - Oakland Park doctor Andres Mencia, accused of prescribing 1,200 opioid doses a day while running a pill mill, beat nine of 10 drugs and fraud charges in federal court on Friday. But Menci... Read More...

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Overdose Fears Weaken Stigma Of Step-Down Drugs In Addiction Treatment

Drugs Saves/Takes Lives – July 3, 2018 - Even asking how best to wean drug abusers off opioids can raise hackles. Addiction specialists have straddled a philosophical divide over the use of pharmaceuticals in the proces... Read More...

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New federal drug rehab bill inspired by “Florida Shuffle”

Law and Disorder – July 6, 2018 - Senator Marco Rubio posted on Twitter how he hopes a bill he’s sponsoring will put an end to fraud in the residential drug treatment industry. He and Senator Bill Nelson are jointly spo... Read More...

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A rider rediscovers her passion after addiction

Back in the Saddle – July 8, 2018 - “I CAN’T BELIEVE I just ran a supreme time!” my niece, Brooke Stromberg, shouted out with joy upon completing the figure eight race at a recent Patterned Speed Horse Association show.... Read More...

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Mayor questions Sovereign Health rehab facility’s legitimacy

Sovereign Health Abandons Illinois Town – July 6, 2018 - North of Murphysboro, Illinois sits a large, vacant facility on 14th Street that used to be known as Jackson County Rehab & Care Center or a nursing home for ... Read More...

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Methadone plus therapy a path to addiction recovery

Whatever It Takes – July 7, 2018 - A tortoiseshell kitten named Zoe is more than a pet for Cheri Mueller and Chris Gunter. She’s a symbol of the couple’s ongoing recovery from opioid addiction. “They told us we had to h... Read More...

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Opioid deaths declining in Florida?

Hope is in the Air – July 6, 2018 - As the opioid epidemic continues to rage across the United States, the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office is embracing two new local statistics as evidence that their efforts t... Read More...

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Blame It On The Alcohol

Education in Alcoholism and Treatment, 1-hr. – Feb. 8, 2018 - This week, we devote an entire hour to what one important scholar deemed “the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.” From its earliest role as a s... Read More...

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NJ teen wins national award for heroin education program

Positive Vibrations – July 7, 2018 - Five years later, Reifman’s HAPPY Week heroin program for middle and high school students has earned her a $36,000 Helen Diller Foundation Teen Tikkun Olam (“repair the world”) Award... Read More...

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Opioid Maker Trained Staff Using ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Techniques About ‘Aggressive,’ ‘Deceptive’ Salesmen

ABC: Always Be Conniving – July 6, 2018 - A lawsuit unsealed this week alleged that OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma used “unprecedented marketing” to push opioids to prescribing doctors and created a “deceptive narrative... Read More...

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Is This Psychedelic The Future of Depression Treatment?

Ask Dr. Maté – July 8, 2018 - Alternative therapies and medicinal plants are definitely having a moment. Last week the FDA approved a seizure medication derived from cannabis, and now ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug, is b... Read More...

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Lawsuit claims HOPE clinics are responsible for overdose, addiction

From Those You Trust – July 7, 2018 - A Kanawha County lawsuit is alleging HOPE Clinic, four medical professionals and two pharmacies are responsible for one man’s addiction and overdose death. The case, filed June 29 b... Read More...

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Sperm Drop ‘could make humans extinct’ but not if men eat more nuts

Handmaids Tale Coming True? – July 4, 2018 - Men who ate about two handfuls of mixed almonds, hazelnuts and walnuts daily for 14 weeks improved their sperm count and had more viable “swimmers”, scientists found. The stu... Read More...

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Director Gus Van Sant continues his longtime exploration of addiction and recovery with ‘Don’t Worry’

The Master is Back – July 6, 2018 - A Gus Van Sant film has moments of strange wonder when those at the fringes — pill-poppers, boozers, gay hustlers and a genius janitor — find communion amid the souls of troubled othe... Read More...

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Instagram wants to curb your Instagram Addiction

It’s Too Late to Stop Now – July 4, 2018 - Instagram is rolling out a new feature under which it will notify you when you’ve reached the bottom of the most recent posts. The feature, called “You’re All Caught Up,” aims... Read More...

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Review: For These ‘Recovery Boys,’ Sobriety Is a Steep Climb

Farms and Friends – June 29, 2018 - Opening a wider window into a world many of us know only from news reports and the long-running television series “Intervention,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “Recovery Boys” tracks fou... Read More...

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Kids’ exposure to addiction drug rose 215% in three years

Children Will Listen – June 25, 2018 - More than 11,200 calls concerning children’s exposure to buprenorphine, an opioid medication used to treat opioid use disorder, were made to US poison control centers from 2007 to ... Read More...

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Unbroken: Navigating the Madness of Family Dysfunction, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Heartache by Annie Highwater

MEDIA: Book Recommendation – July 2018 - I feel like I’m drowning! Does that describe you at times? Addiction, conflict, and dysfunction can destroy a family. But even in the depths of adversity and despair, there is h... Read More...

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3 Ways Exercise Combats Teenage Drug Abuse and Teen Depression

A Moving Target is Harder to Hit – July 2018 – We all know that exercise is good for you. But did you know that it can also help fight teenage drug abuse, addiction, and teen depression? Research shows that regular exer... Read More...

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USA border policy is a catalyst for drug addiction

High ACE from ICE – June 29, 2018 - With separation, children will experience tremendous surges in adrenaline from the terrifying events. Adrenalin is the neurotransmitter that contributes to creating a permanent memory... Read More...

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Zoe Ball Admits Two Years Of Sobriety Helped Her Through ‘Two Toughest Years Of My Life’

BRAVO! – June 27, 2018 - She wrote: “Special moment. 2 years no booze - through two of the toughest years of my life, I’m not sure I’d have survived intact had it had not been for my sobriety & #recovery ... Zoe Bal... Read More...

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Demi Lovato Opens Up About “Addiction Hell” In New Interview

She’s Baaaaack – And she’s been just as open about her most recent battle with the bottle. Demi’s new song, “Sober,” is a surprisingly confessional ballad detailing her lapse back into addiction. Sadly, Lovato’s relapse... Read More...

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Program uses dogs to help recovering addicts

Taking a 90 Day Bone? – June 29, 2018 - The class, which Kover calls “Moving Forward with Dogs 12 Steps at a Time,” is now up and running at The Mission’s new women and children’s center in downtown Bakersfield. The pro... Read More...

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Seventy years of Alcoholics Anonymous in New Zealand

Hold in NZ – June 26, 2018 - STARTS AT 8:45 minutes in. Alcoholics Anonymous has been helping alcoholics in NZ for 70 seventy years. Our special guest Paul talks about AA and his own recovery from alcoholism through the... Read More...

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Scandal over opiate deaths uncovered 16 years later

Doctor Charged with 650 Deaths – July 1, 2018 - Their fears were vindicated last month when an inquiry found Dr. Jane Barton responsible for the deaths of up to 650 people and a culture in which powerful opiates were ro... Read More...

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Bogus treatment centers prey on opioid addicts

Greedy Bastards – June 29, 2018 - The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation says beware of anything offered for free. That could be a sign of kickbacks. As well as this, be sure to visit the facility beforehand. “If there’s e... Read More...

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Woman tells cops the cocaine must have been in her purse when she bought it

As Good an Excuse as Any – June 29, 2018 - A Key Largo woman being booked into jail Thursday on a driving with a suspended license charge said the cocaine detention deputies found in her purse must have been in the bag ... Read More...

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Pain Killer Pill Makers Cut Back On Payments To Doctors

Smaller Yachts? – June 28, 2018 - Lawsuits and media reports have accused Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, of aggressively marketing the powerful narcotic even after it knew the drug was being misused. Prosecutors... Read More...

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A history of Diego Maradona’s epic use of cocaine and other drugs

Scoring a New Goal – June 27, 2018 - Maradona began taking cocaine in the mid-1980s, developing an addiction to both that and alcohol which would last until 2004. It was a problem for the Argentine at the peak of his ca... Read More...

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Former drug addict who spent ‘£1k a month on cocaine’ explains how she turned her life around

Walking the Walk – July 1, 2018 - SPLASHING my face, I glimpsed myself in the bathroom mirror and gasped. Why did I have a black eye? I knew I’d been up until the early hours at a booze- and drug-fuelled party, but I co... Read More...