Meet 60 Minutes’ DEA whistleblowerA Hero for Our Times – June 17, 2018 - “People are dying.” That’s what whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi told 60 Minutes over and over again. “People are dying.” This week, the broadcast airs Bill Whitaker’s interview with ... Read More...June 19 2018
Sex and Drugs Decline Among Teens, but Depression and Suicidal Thoughts GrowGood News, Bad News – June 14, 2018 - One in seven high school students reported misusing prescription opioids, one of several disturbing results in a nationwide survey of teenagers that revealed a growing sense of fear... Read More...June 19 2018
Patrick Melrose gets to the painful, sickening truth about addiction – it all starts with the parentsTV is Addictive Too – June 11, 2018 - Which is the truest portrait of addiction on screen? There is Nick Cage in Leaving Las Vegas dying in the arms of a prostitute – but I didn’t believe in the prostitute. There is Ric... Read More...June 19 2018
Man sentenced to drug treatment for killing man in deadly hit-and-runThat Disease Sure Comes in Handy – June 13, 2018 - A man who pleaded no contest in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in a North Hills crosswalk and an ensuing police pursuit that ended in Paci... Read More...June 19 2018
Psychedelic Drugs May Change the Structure of Brain CellsTripping the Lights Fantastic – June 13, 2018 - It’s no surprise that psychedelic drugs such as LSD and ecstasy alter brain function, leading to the drugs’ “trippy” effects and possible hallucinations. But now, researc... Read More...June 19 2018
Veteran fights another battle, helping others with addictionBetrayal of a Dream – June 15, 2018 - We hear it all the time, the horrible stories of the addiction: the overdoses, the pain, and the suffering. It’s just one aspect ABC57 News has shown you during “Addicted America” s... Read More...June 19 2018
The Filmmaker Wringing Truth — And Comedy — From AddictionA Little Web Will Do Ya – June 13, 2018 - Seventeen years ago, Tess Sweet wanted to disappear. Suicidal, addicted to heroin and consumed by shame and rage following a sexual assault, she couldn’t see how she might somed... Read More...June 19 2018
Fathers Pose Naked to Raise Awareness for Men’s Mental HealthLetting It ALL Hang Out – JUNE 14, 2018 - Ahead of Father’s Day on Sunday, The Dad Network has launched a campaign to tackle the stigma surrounding men’s mental health. The Dad Network’s #FatherFigures campaign aims to ... Read More...June 19 2018
More than a third of American adults take prescription drugs that can cause depressionCatch 22 – June 12, 2018 - More than one-third of American adults may be using prescription medications that can potentially cause depression or increase the risk of suicide, according to a study published Tuesday in t... Read More...June 19 2018
Party Girl’s journey to sobriety: ‘I don’t think about alcohol at all now’From Drinker to Darling – June 4, 2018 - Maz Compton is a self-confessed party girl, or at least she used to be. The former 2DayFm breakfast radio host and MTV VJ never considered herself to be an alcoholic, in fact, sh... Read More...June 12 2018
North Carolina Rehab Program Sent Clients To Work For No Pay At Adult Care HomesNorth Carolina. Is that in America? – May 25, 2018 - The program Recovery Connections Community operated out of two facilities in Buncombe County and one in Harnett County. It was founded in 2011 by Jennifer Warren, an ... Read More...June 12 2018
With 17 million pills in Madison County, this man helps police fight opioid crisisBeautiful – June 6, 2018 - In 2014, Madison County had the second-highest number of prescription painkillers in the nation. In that year, there were enough pills in the county for each person, including children, to hav... Read More...June 12 2018
Addiction behaviors tied to specific impairments in six brain networksScience May One Day, Blah Blah Blah – June 6, 2018 - Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks during drug cue exposure, decision-making, inhibitory control, and social-emotional processing are associat... Read More...June 12 2018
Executive Corner with Ahbra SchiffStick with the Winners! – Ahbra Schiff is proud to be a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous, a mom, and part of Leonard Buschel’s Writer’s In Treatment, and the media produced under its auspices.“My life has changed be... Read More...Dec 25 2018June 12 2018
Philly developer opens recovery center in memory of his sonFrom Grief to Gift – June 6, 2018 - Jon Orens closed his first sale 30 years ago at 3900 Ford Rd., selling a property in Northwest Philly’s Park Plaza condos. Since then, he’s made a name for himself as a real estate de... Read More...June 12 2018
Anthony Bourdain Exposed The Dark Secrets Of Kitchens: Addiction And Mental IllnessUnblinking – June 9, 2018 - “In America, the professional kitchen is the last refuge of the misfit,” Anthony Bourdain once wrote. “Admittedly, it’s a life that grinds you down,” he added. “Most of us who live and operat... Read More...June 12 2018
Stigma Is A Barrier To Addiction Treatment. Lift The Label Hopes To Squelch The ShameHelp Is Available – June 4, 2018 - Colorado’s $1.8 million Lift The Label campaign is all about challenging the perceptions of people with opioid addiction and encouraging them to get help. The campaign leverages a memo... Read More...June 12 2018
Murder gets man life sentence in ‘pill mill’ rivalryCrime and Punishment – JUNE 5, 2018 - An Essington man was sentenced to life in federal prison Tuesday for having a drug rival murdered to edge out competition in the region’s lucrative opioid market. But neither the de... Read More...June 12 2018
Suicide Prevention Resources and Support AvailableThere is Help Available – June 8, 2018 - Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that suicide rates increased by 25 percent across the U... Read More...June 12 2018
Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our cultureJackass Was a Big Hit on TV – June 9, 2018 - Don’t pathologize the despair that is a rational response to a culture that values people based on ever escalating financial and personal achievements ... In September of 200... Read More...June 12 2018
How to recognize food addictionAre You Eating While You Read This? – June 5, 2018 - The list of substances or behaviors to which adolescents can become unhealthily attached, even addicted, can seem endless to a parent inclined to be caring and protec... Read More...June 12 2018
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and TranscendenceMEDIA: NYT Book Review – June 4, 2018 - Michael Pollan has long been concerned with the moral dilemmas of everyday life. “Second Nature,” his first book, was ostensibly about gardening, but really about ways to overcome... Read More...June 12 2018
Two more charged in drug urine-test kickback schemeThere’s gold in them there bladders – June 1, 2018 - Two men connected to a Delray Beach-area lab linked to kickbacks for urine tests for people in treatment and recovery for substance abusehave been arrested, a day aft... Read More...June 12 2018
Massena facility doubles number of beds for children seeking recoveryYounger than Springtime – June 6, 2018 - She said abuse of substances such as heroin is on the rise. Buckley said in 2016, 23 percent of the admitted patients were diagnosed with opiate addiction. So far in 2018, 32 per... Read More...June 12 2018
Suicide is desperate. It is hostile. It is tragic. But mostly, it is a bloody mess.A Daughter’s First Person Account – Originally published: May 19, 1996 - The blood was like Jell-O. That is what blood gets like, after you die, before they tidy up. Somehow, I had expected it would be gone. The police... Read More...June 12 2018
Buyer beware: Out-of-state drug rehab homesOut of the FOG - Into the FOG – June 9, 2018 - The nation’s ongoing opioid and heroin abuse crisis isn’t just big business for street-corner drug dealers and unscrupulous medical and pharmaceutical professionals. It’s ... Read More...June 12 2018
Alcoholics Anonymous: Hand-in-hand to sobrietyAA Indian Style – June 11, 2018 - “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.” Every AA meeting starts with the group c... Read More...June 12 2018
Can Legal Cannabis Help Slow the Opioid Epidemic in the U.S.?High Times – June 10, 2018 - Imagine stopping 115 needless deaths in the U.S. every day. It’s not a guarantee, but with recent developments in cannabis research, experts believe it could be on the horizon. Opioid drug o... Read More...June 12 2018
The Goldbergs actor Jackson Odell is found dead in a sober living home in California, aged 20Jesus, NO! – June 10, 2018 - According to police, there was no signs of foul play. Authorities said an investigation is ongoing and details surrounding the actor’s death have not been released. Odell is seen on The Gold... Read More...June 12 2018
123 Deaths a Day: Inside Crisis of Rising Suicide RatesDr. John Mann - Columbia University – June 11, 2018 Full Story @ DemocracyNow.org... Read More...June 12 2018