‘The Rehab Booth’ hopes to connect drug addicts with resources An Addiction Call Box – Sept. 14, 2019 - “We’ve already got a few phone calls and we even got someone help,” Sylvester said. Sylvester said he knows about the struggles of fighting addiction – 30 years ago, he... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Scientists Unveil Weed Breathalyzer DON’T EXHALE – September 5, 2019 - The university’s Star Lab, led by Alexander Star, began developing the box-shaped device in 2016, in the midst of a wave of pot legalization across the United States. Star, a ... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Demi Moore, talks sobriety, miscarriage She’s Got Game – Sept. 12, 2019 - In retrospect, what I realized is that when I opened the door (again), it was just giving my power away,” said Moore. “I guess I would think of it like this: It was really impo... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Why best album of century is Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black Spirit Don’t Ever Die – Sept. 13, 2019 - A rare instance of critical acclaim chiming with public taste, it sold millions. It may well be the most influential album of the last 20 years. The immediate effect of ... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Inside the Drug Industry’s Plan to Defeat “then President Obama signed it into law” – Sept. 13, 2019 - The new information is emerging through the efforts of lawyers in the massive federal lawsuit against two dozen drug companies in Cleveland who have obtain... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Drug companies seek removal of judge in landmark opioid case Desperate Measure – September 14, 2019 - “Defendants do not bring this motion lightly,” the lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday morning on behalf of some of the nation’s biggest drug distributors and retailers b... Read More...Sept 17 2019
OxyContin Maker Files For Bankruptcy Protection Morally Bankrupt Too! – Sept. 15, 2019 - The information, in records an unnamed financial institution produced in response to a subpoena from James’s office, detailed financial transfers involving former Purdue... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Google’s new addiction recovery website is more useful than a Google search Thank You Ryan Hampton – Sept. 12, 2019 - Google used to famously refuse to put anything but a logo, a search box, and a button or two on its homepage. That’s changed in recent years, but a homepage promotion is stil... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Tackle the epidemic, not the opioids SUD Whack-A-Mole – September 9, 2019 - The epidemic arose in the 1990s in areas that had experienced economic decline, a brain drain and population loss over decades. Many factors combined to create a monstrous situa... Read More...Sept 17 2019
12-Step Programs Effective says American Psychiatric Association Success Based Evidence – Sept. 03,2019 - Spiritual or religious based programs, such as those based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, are effective for treating people with substance use disorders, ac... Read More...Sept 17 2019
How a millennial Boy Scout built a fentanyl empire The American Dream – Sept. 14, 2019 - For three weeks this summer, those suburban millennials climbed onto the witness stand at his federal trial and offered an unprecedented window into how fentanyl bought an... Read More...Sept 17 2019
‘Jackass’ Star Steve-O Celebrates Decade of Sobriety with Shocking VIDEO Trigger Warning Video – September 13, 2019 - Jackass star Steve-O has never been shy about his many years of abusive drug use, and now the stuntman is celebrating a decade of sobriety by sharing a shocking video of e... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Alec Baldwin’s Battle with Alcoholism & Drug Addiction He Plays a Great Alec Baldwin – Sep 15, 2019 - The Beetlejuice and Hunt for Red October actor actually traces his sobriety to well before those hits occurred. According to Baldwin, he stopped drinking on Februa... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Are You Triggered By Sober September? Time To Go On The Water Wagon – September 10, 2019 - If Sober September or Dry January bring up serious emotions for you, here’s how to cope, according to experts. 1. Be Prepared: Right now, there are two disti... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Quote of the Week "It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." —P.D. Ouspensky ... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Sacklers Transferred $1B From Pharma Accounts To Themselves Blood Money Safe in Switzerland – September 13, 2019 - “Records from one financial institution alone have shown approximately $1 billion in wire transfers between the Sacklers, entities they control, and diffe... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Teen now has lungs like a 70-year-old Vape Like There’s No Tomorrow – September 12, 2019 - The US Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday that more than a quarter of high school students this year have reported using e-cigarettes and the “ove... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Purdue Pharma Settles Opioids Case Breaking News - Slap on the Wrists – Sept. 11, 2019 - Often when a company goes into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, all litigation against it is stayed. The deconstruction and evolution of Purdue would now be presumab... Read More...Sept 17 2019
Newborn Babies Cry for Drugs Pharmaceutical Infanticide? – Sept. 7, 2019 - Every 15 minutes in America, a child is born after a prenatal exposure to opioids. Here in West Virginia, 14 percent of babies are born exposed to drugs, and perhaps 5 pe... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Treatment Limitations for Physicians with Opioid Addictions NPR All Things Considered – September 5, 2019 - When doctors and nurses become addicted to opioids and they get caught, they have to follow strict treatment guidelines to get their licenses back. Often that mea... Read More...Sept 10 2019
$110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died. And the Industry Says: ‘Keep Coming Back.’ – Sept. 3, 2019 - That’s often coupled with approaches that have even less evidence behind them. There’s wilderness therapy, focused largely on outdoor activities. The... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Vox is investigating America’s addiction treatment system. Help us by sharing your stories. Can This Article Cost or Save Lives? – Sep 3, 2019 - “The problem in the industry isn’t that we have a few bad actors,” Tami Mark, a health economist at the research foundation RTI International, told me.... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Courtney Love blasts OxyContin heiress Joss Sackler Would You Have Done the Same? – Sept 9, 2019 - The Sackler family made $4 billion from the sale of prescription medications between 2008 and 2016 through the family business, according to court filings. Attorney gene... Read More...Sept 10 2019
The Impact of Sobriety Influencers on Social Media Trending, Pretending or Saving Lives? – September 4, 2019 - Instagram emerged onto the social media scene in October 2010, and was soon affiliated with Zuckerberg’s Facebook. It very quickly became the place to... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Hi, I’m David. I’m a drug addict Not For Much Longer – SEP. 6, 2019 - Painkillers, antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, tranquilizers, stimulants — each can affect users’ bodies so intensely that severe withdrawal symptoms are pos... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Robert Frank Dies; Documentary Photographer Seeing What Is – Sept. 10, 2019 - Robert Louis Frank was born in Zurich on Nov. 9, 1924, the younger son of well-to-do Jewish parents. His mother, Regina, was Swiss, but his father, Hermann, a German citizen wh... Read More...Sept 10 2019
‘I’m 21, an alcoholic and was willing to let booze end my life’ Taking The Right Steps – Sept. 8, 2019 - She explained: “At first it was just to de-stress after a hard day. I’d have a glass of wine after work in the evening. “That was the start of it all. I felt relief after drin... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Counterfeit Weed Vape Cartridges Are Making People Sick The Wrong Side of Science – AUGUST 28, 2019 - In California alone, where recreational marijuana is legal, there have been 28 potential cases of acute lung disease among people who had recently vaped cannabis p... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Blue Cross Invests in Addiction Treatment Provider Strange Bedfellows – September 6, 2019 - Eleanor Health is rethinking how to treat addiction—now the leading cause of death in America for those under aged 50 years—by fully treating addiction as a chronic dis... Read More...Sept 10 2019
Woman uses Narcan training to save stranger Save One Life, Save The World – September 6, 2019 - Just two months earlier, Rugh had been trained to use Narcan, also known as naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses and had a travel kit with her. She thoug... Read More...Sept 10 2019