Grandparents raise kids after daughter’s opioids deathLost Generation – June 30, 2018 - Mickey and Tina Baltz raise their two grandchildren after the loss of their daughter to opioids Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean, Nashville Tennessean. Full Video @ Tennessean.com... Read More...July 3 2018
9 Signs You Have High Functioning DepressionSadly Blending In – July 1, 2018 - Too often, depression sufferers are depicted as exclusively white, cis, straight women, while the disease itself is presented as an all-consuming, incapacitating misery that binds its ... Read More...July 3 2018
Dr. Gabor Maté receives 2018 Order of Canada AppointmentThe Man Who Fell to Earth – June 29, 2018 - Rideau Hall announced 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada on Friday, a list stocked with leaders in research, community activists, authors, politicians and athletes. N... Read More...July 3 2018
California Lawmakers Want To Crack Down On Fraud At Rehab Centers. Will It Work?WOW! Interview with Attorney Mick Meagher – June 25, 2018 - The centers often keep patients addicted so they can keep administering services, said Mick Meagher, an independent California attorney who specializes in cons... Read More...July 3 2018
Recovery Boys: the documentary on what happens after opioid addictionRenew Netflix Subscription – June 27, 2018 - ...Sitting on leather couches at a West Virginia farm, a father of two reckons with terrible news about his three-year-old daughter, who he just learned had been molested whi... Read More...July 3 2018
UNITED NATIONS REPORT 2018: opioid crisis, prescription drug abuse expands; cocaine and opium hit record highsDemand and Supply – June 26, 2018 - The non-medical use of prescription drugs is becoming a major threat to public health and law enforcement worldwide with opioids causing the most harm and accounting for 76 per cent o... Read More...July 3 2018
Igniting The Heroin EpidemicMore Like a Nicholas Cage Film – 2018 - Purdue Pharma and El Chapo had provided kindling: The pharma company’s unprecedented marketing campaign for its blockbuster OxyContin painkiller did not stop with pill sales. Purd... Read More...July 3 2018
…Marco Rubio, ignited America’s heroin crisisPolitics As Usual – June 28, 2018 - 1. Marco Rubio killed a critical prescription drug monitoring program over “politics.” Florida had the chance to implement a program that would track overprescribing by doctors – cons... Read More...July 3 2018
Volunteers of America (with Lyrics) Jefferson AirplaneHappy Independence Day – Look what’s happening out in the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Hey I’m dancing down the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Ain’t it amazing all the people I meet Got a ... Read More...July 3 2018
Husband ‘ordered hit on radio host wife’ after she ‘threatened to expose his illegal pill mill’Till Death Do Us Part – June 24, 2018 - For five years, Kim Pack suspected her stepfather, Dr James Kauffman of killing her mother, a bubbly host of a popular local radio show. But it wasn’t until January of this year t... Read More...July 3 2018
Two treatment center owners indicted after reaping $50 millionBernie Madoff's newest roommates? – June 27, 2018 - Kenneth Bailynson, owner of the defunct Good Decisions Sober Living in West Palm Beach, and Eric Snyder, owner of Real Life Recovery and Halfway There, both face more ... Read More...July 3 2018
Blaming AA for Opiate DeathsIt’s Hard to Abuse Abstinence – June 27, 2018 - David got up from his folding chair. Several people reached out to shake his hand or slap him on the back as he passed. Everyone in the room knew how tough it was to achie... Read More...July 3 2018
People in Jail Deserve Effective Drug Treatment Not Forced WithdrawalFrom One Prison to Another – June 15, 2018 - Nearly 30 years ago, when he was 18 years old, Sy Eubanks had surgery for a knee injury he got while competing on his high school’s wrestling team. His doctor prescribed him ... Read More...June 26 2018
Meth addiction has roared back in Texas. Can new experimental treatment stop it?Try Everything – June 16, 2018 - Before she’d meet up with her meth dealer first thing Monday mornings, Kim would impatiently count down the weekend. The weekend was the time of the crash, the lethargy, depression and m... Read More...June 26 2018
When We Talk About Suicide, We Need to Talk About Addiction by Jamie BrickhouseThe Conversation Continues, Just Like Life – June 16, 2018 - Trigger warning: This story addresses suicide. If you or a loved one is struggling, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) … N... Read More...June 26 2018
The Psychological Toll of Our Increasingly Online LivesMEDIA: BOOK Recommendation – JUNE 8, 2018 - Want to book plane tickets? Order a pizza? Check college courses? Write a note to Aunt Sally? Chances are you’ll use a smartphone (or laptop or desktop or smartwatch or Amazon... Read More...June 26 2018
Smoking hits new low; about 14 percent of US adults light upBig Tobacco in Ashes? – June 18, 2018 - The new figures released Tuesday mean there are still more than 30 million adult smokers in the U.S., he added. Teens are also shunning cigarettes. Survey results out last week sh... Read More...June 26 2018
Jack Malone celebrates 25 years of sobriety, helping othersIt Works If You Work It – JUNE 25, 2018 - Jack Malone has a designated parking space at Lebanon Pines and a story similar to the men who come to the residential substance abuse treatment facility when alcohol or drugs h... Read More...June 26 2018
Tommy Lee Reveals Shocking Money He Spent On Son’s Drug RehabDirty Laundry – Jun 21, 2018 - son’s 21st birthday last year: $40,000…Medical Bills after son knocks his father unconscious and uses ‘alcoholism’ as scapegoat: $10,000 … Son acting like a victim on social media on fathe... Read More...June 26 2018
The ‘cash for patients’ scandal sabotages addictsUK Scandals – June 15, 2018 - This weekend, hundreds of people from all walks of life will gather for a party in the splendid grounds of a former stately home in Wiltshire to celebrate the fact that they are alive and w... Read More...June 26 2018
Ex-cops, doctors and alleged drug dealers among pending federal court casesWe Are All One – June 18, 2018 - Some have imminent court appearances this summer, including alleged drug-ring operators Michael and Joseph Calabria and a current NYPD detective charged with lying on the stand during a ... Read More...June 26 2018
Sport helped Olympic long jumper beat meth addictionJUMP for Your Love – June 22, 2018 - Olympian Luvo Manyonga has spoken of the power of sport in helping him fight back from drug addiction to become long jumpworld champion. The 27-year-old South African said sport had ... Read More...June 26 2018
Demi Lovato Drops Surprise Single ‘Sober’ About Drinking AgainLike a Lady? – June 21 2018 - Demi Lovato has released a surprise single, “Sober,” about her real-life break from sobriety after six years abstaining from alcohol. “Momma I’m so sorry I’m not sober anymore / And Daddy ... Read More...June 26 2018
Sovereign Health forced to kick patients outFollow the Money, What Money? – Jun 19, 2018 - Sovereign Health, a rehab center for mental health and substance abuse, was forced to kick patients out, Monday. This comes after the Department of Children and Families (D... Read More...June 26 2018
Why we prostitute: Local women open up about their struggles, recoveryTelling It Like It Was – June 24, 2018 - We’re either told to do it, or we have to because we’re sick ... They should get a chance to go to rehab, not jail,” said 25-year-old Ashley Mullins. Between the two undercover s... Read More...June 26 2018
New Life For A Connecticut Mansion: A Recovery Center For Wall Street ExecsUnsold Real Estate for Addicts Only – June 19, 2018 - In the woods of New Canaan, Connecticut, a one-hour drive from the skyscraper canyons of Manhattan, an elegant mansion has found new life as a “halfway house” for Wa... Read More...June 26 2018
She Was Ordered To Stay Drug-Free While On Probation. Is It Constitutional?There’s Still a Constitution? – June 25, 2018 - If addiction is a disease, should a relapse send you back to jail? A first-in-the-nation court case could decide. Full Story @ WBUR.org... Read More...June 26 2018
Everyday PeopleWhy Can't We All Just Get Along – June 2018 See Video @ YouTube.com... Read More...June 26 2018
Oxycontin maker lays off its entire sales teamDealers Out of Work... – June 19, 2018 - Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, laid off its entire sales force Tuesday, effectively ending an era for the drug that at on... Read More...June 26 2018
White House Appointee Who’s an Addiction SpecialistDr. Pill Takes Over – June 23, 2018 - Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz, the Trump administration’s director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, helped pioneer opioid addiction treatment with bupren... Read More...June 26 2018