A Barren Landscape for Meth TreatmentNo High Hopes For These Addicts – April 24, 2019 - Methamphetamine is not a new drug to the United States. Yet with cheaper and more potent forms from Mexico flooding U.S. communities in recent years – as well as instan... Read More...April 30 2019
Courthouse one-stop-shop aims to ease path to sobriety for opioid addictsGiving It a Shot – April 28, 2019 - The hope is that the ease of it all will lighten their burdens and clear barriers on the path to better lives, said Municipal Court Judge Eileen Paley, one of the drivers behind the p... Read More...April 30 2019
Morphine Spoons and Baby Face MasksThe Tiniest Victims – April 26, 2016 - The Urgent Love Initiative – a pilot project focused on fighting addiction, initially within 26 counties and 12 cities in southwestern Virginia – teamed up with ad agency Grey New ... Read More...April 30 2019
Drug Execs Face First Criminal Charges In Opioid BonanzaHard Time Pill to Swallow? – April 23, 2019 - “This prosecution is the first of its kind: executives of a pharmaceutical distributor and the distributor itself have been charged with drug trafficking, trafficking the sa... Read More...April 30 2019
Starbucks to install more needle disposal boxes in bathrooms nationwideReality Bites – April 25, 2019 - “At this point, our focus is installing them where employees need them,” a spokesperson for Starbucks told TODAY. “The opioid crisis is affecting people across the country and our partne... Read More...April 30 2019
Juul Vows to Curb Youth Vaping. Its Lobbying in States Runs Counter to That PledgeLying for Money? – April 28, 2019 - Though Juul supports numerous state bills that would raise the legal age for buying vaping and tobacco products to 21, some of those bills contain minimal sanctions for retailers. Oth... Read More...April 30 2019
Ex-NFL QB Ryan Leaf gives commencement addressTeacher Teacher – Apr. 27, 2019 - “It was just a rough patch,” Leaf said. “We’re all flawed human beings trying to be better every single day. Sometimes we forget that when we’re placed on this pedestal. That’s the main... Read More...April 30 2019
John Singleton, ‘Boyz N the Hood’ Director, Dies at 51A Star is Gone – April 29, 2019 - “When I was 18, I saw ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ ” Mr. Singleton said, referring to Mr. Lee’s 1986 breakthrough film, in a YouTube video in 2013. “The movie was so powerful to me, as a youn... Read More...April 30 2019
Deadly fentanyl bought online from China shipped through the mailThanatos Delivers On Promises – April 28, 2019 - By now, you may know a family shattered by the opioid epidemic. In 2017, there were 47,000 opioid deaths. That’s more Americans than were killed in vehicle accidents or b... Read More...April 30 2019
How drug decriminalization would help stem an epidemic of drug overdosesTreat & Teach, Not Prisons for Profits – April 24, 2019 - Treating drug users as criminals isn’t working, especially those in the cold grip of substance-use disorders. It’s expensive to arrest people, put them on tr... Read More...April 30 2019
Britney Spears’ Meds Triggered Mental Health CrisisCocktails Anyone? – April 23, 2019 - We’re told at the same time, Britney’s doctors were adjusting her meds which had lost their efficacy. Britney’s mental health issues were stabilized with a cocktail of medicines that... Read More...April 30 2019
Marijuana legalization push is ‘about a small number of people who want to get rich’Money Grows On Bushes – April 26, 2019 - He warned that today’s marijuana has “all kinds of issues,” saying that the new marijuana is being genetically bred to have “astronomical levels of THC.” He added that the rise o... Read More...April 30 2019
Shuttered Sovereign Health resurrected under new name, wrongful death suit allegesHe’s Baaack! – April 12, 2019 - Sharma, principal of Sovereign and many related companies, “has been targeted by several state and federal agencies for egregious and unlawful conduct, and although many entities under th... Read More...April 30 2019
John Oliver Revisits the Opioid Crisis, With Some Celebrity HelpThe Lighter Side of Tragedy – April 15, 2019 - To shine a spotlight on Purdue, the show decided to have Richard Sackler’s video deposition in one case read out word for word. However, because listening to people read co... Read More...April 30 2019
Beyond Addiction: Reframing RecoveryNew York City Exhibition – April 15, 2019 - Parsons professor of photography, Graham MacIndoe and Lang adjunct professor of Journalism + Design, Susan Stellin, curated an exhibit dedicated to redefining the word, and an... Read More...April 23 2019
63% of Americans say the US should spend more on drug rehab to combat the epidemic of addictionAffirmative Action – April 15, 2019 - Overall support for increased funding fell steadily from 1990 through 2012, just as the opiate crisis was about to take hold and capture media attention. ‘The coverage of the opioid... Read More...April 23 2019
The Book Newly Sober People Love to Give to Each OtherWhat, it’s not The Big Book? – April 19, 2019 - It came out in 2015 and has become something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Concrete numbers are hard to come by, but Grace has estimated that she’s helped somewhere in th... Read More...April 23 2019
Slash’s “Miserable” Addiction – How He Got SoberSex, Drugs and... You Know.... – April 19, 2019 - The guitarist says that after he left the “security” of GN’R behind, his drinking and drugging continued ... Being aware of his addiction issues, Slash recalls, “I had t... Read More...April 23 2019
Seymour Cassel, Familiar Face in Independent Films, Dies at 84OBITUARY: He Did It His Way – April 8, 2019 - “The fun is in filling out a part and making it a little crazy,” he once said, “because everyone has a little craziness in them anyway.” Though he was best known for his wor... Read More...April 23 2019
FDA allows sales of first medical device for treatment of ADHDDon’t Forget to Plug in Billy – April 19, 2019 - “This new device offers a safe, non-drug option for treatment of ADHD in pediatric patients through the use of mild nerve stimulation, a first of its kind,” said Carlos P... Read More...April 23 2019
JACK OSBOURNE Celebrates 16 Years Of SobrietyNo More Smack For Jack – April 21, 2019 - “If at 17 someone told me where I’d be at 33 with 16 years of continual sobriety I would have laughed and told you to fuck off. Jack entered rehab at the age of 17 to be treate... Read More...April 23 2019
“That is the David Carr way”: Erin Lee Carr on grief, addiction and her fatherMEMOIR : Straight Up – APRIL 20, 2019 -Also present in the book is Erin Carr’s own crooked journey through addiction and sobriety — another thing she had in common with her father, who chronicled his own trajectory in t... Read More...April 23 2019
US Awards $350M in Research Funds to Fight Opioid EpidemicBig Drug Deal? – April 19, 2019 - The grants from the National Institutes of Health will go the University of Kentucky, Boston Medical Center, New York City’s Columbia University and Ohio State University. Government of... Read More...April 23 2019
Responders called to 7 overdoses, 1 overdose death within 6 hoursMake America Live Again – April 20, 2019 - Columbus Division of Police and Fire personnel responded to eight separate locations where eight individuals were suffering from an overdose Saturday. Seven people were treated... Read More...April 23 2019
Touching Fentanyl Won’t Cause First Responders HarmIt’s Safe to Help – April 21, 2019 - Such myths could put overdose victims at risk, since emergency responders may be hesitant to touch or treat them. In recent months, several police reports and media outlets have reco... Read More...April 23 2019
Executive Corner with Nadine LewisStick with the Winners! – Nadine Lewis has a broad-based private practice focused on Real Estate, Unlawful Detainer, Foreclosure Defense, Consumer Debt Resolution and all IRS Fresh Start Programs for delinquent tax paye... Read More...April 23 2019
This Is How Much Sleep You Need To Be SuccessfulSweet Dreams – April 21, 2019 - The worst, perhaps, was: “Many adults need only 5 or less hours of sleep for general health.” So many entrepreneurs swear by this. Or, at least, they expect their employees to swear by th... Read More...April 23 2019
31 Doctors charged with prescribing pain killers for cash, sexGREED ISN’T GOOD!! – April 17, 2019 - The charges include unlawful distribution or dispensing of controlled substances by a medical professional and health-care fraud. Each count carries a maximum 20-year prison sentenc... Read More...April 23 2019
Drug Addiction a Plague for Syrian ChildrenSuffer The Little Children – April 19, 2019 - ...and nearly fainting in the eastern rural Barada Valley of the capital Damascus drew the attention of many people to the issue as the footage went viral on social media. I... Read More...April 23 2019
3 Cancer Stocks to Buy in AprilCANCER: More profitable than addiction? – April 20, 2019 - The top value stock among cancer drug developers Sean Williams (Exelixis): Although big pharma is often viewed as the smartest way for investors to take advant... Read More...April 23 2019