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Mental capacity changes give care homes too much power

Detained in the UK – January 17, 2017 - The problem has become more acute as demand for care home places rises. There are around 300,000 people over 65 in residential care in the UK; many suffer from dementia. Restricti... Read More...

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Kate Moss, 45, continues to show dazzling perks of sobriety

Model of Moderation – January 18, 2019 - ‘Kate is like a new woman and a much better version of herself. She is focused, professional and glowing with health...’Everyone is amazed at how well she has done in not drinki... Read More...

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Eels in Thames become hyperactive after Londoners on cocaine pee in waste water

No Unagi for Me – Jan. 20, 2019 - They found the fish “appeared hyperactive” compared to eels kept in cocaine free waters. While the powder may be increasingly popular with the country’s elite - an estimated 3.64% of th... Read More...

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Creating While Clean: Trey Anastasio, Jason Isbell, Ben Harper & Others Discuss Sobriety

Music of the Spheres – Jan. 15, 2019 - In the modern pop-culture tradition, being a musician has often come with a series of default lifestyle expectations, ones of indulgence and recklessness, larger-than-life living, ... Read More...

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Lena Hall on ‘Falling Apart,’ and finding herself through sobriety

Acting As If – January 18, 2019 - A: I think, for me, my emotional ups and downs were becoming so extreme that I was not recognizable to myself. My downward spiral started around when I was 30, which was a time of disco... Read More...

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Ant McPartlin opens up about his battle with alcohol dependency and drug addiction

Deep Drama – Jan. 19, 2019 - Ant McPartlin breaks silence on drink drive arrest to The Sun and reveals how new lover Anne Marie Corbett saved his life in world exclusive interview Ant McPartlin weighs in on ‘girl code’... Read More...

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Even a little marijuana may change teen brain

Reality Damage – Jan. 14, 2019,- “Most people would likely assume that one or two uses (joints) would have no impact, so we were curious to study this — and especially to investigate if first uses may actually produce b... Read More...

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Kickbacks for North Palm Beach center totaled nearly $250,000

Money Over Lives – Jan. 14, 2019 - According to a Palm Beach Gardens Police report dated last Wednesday, Mylett was the co-owner of Reliance Treatment Center, a licensed substance abuse center on U.S. 1 in North Palm Be... Read More...

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Massachusetts Attorney General Implicates Sackler Family In 100,000’s of Deaths

American Terrorists Killing Our Youth – January 16, 2019 - The two physicians and several others, who became Purdue’s most frequent prescribers in Massachusetts, eventually lost their licenses but not before authorizi... Read More...

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Samuel L. Jackson Talks About His Drug Addiction

Snakes on a Plane – Jan. 9, 2019 - Jackson also recalls another night when was smoking crack and spotted another actor he greatly admired — Jessica Lange. She was taking a smoke break while working on A Streetcar Named ... Read More...

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Ex-pharma CEO pleads guilty to kickbacks to Fentanyl loving doctors

Money Gets People to Die – January 10, 2019 - Michael Babich, the former CEO at Insys Therapeutics, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston on Wednesday for his role in a nationwide scheme to bribe physicians to pres... Read More...

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Drugs have become such a problem in Starbucks bathrooms they are installing needle-disposal boxes

Sad But True – Jan. 9, 2019, - The coffee giant is exploring remedies after employees expressed fears about being pricked by uncapped needles and experiencing related health risks. Starbucks is testing solutions, inclu... Read More...

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Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?

MayB, MayBEE Knot?! – January 14, 2019 - It’s hard to study a substance that until very recently has been almost universally illegal. And the few studies we do have were done mostly in the nineteen-eighties and nineties... Read More...

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Is the Kratom Nature’s Answer to Opioids?

You mean like Suboxone? – January 10, 2019 - It’s the weirdest, grossest drug,” comedian Margaret Cho said. On the other hand, Chris Bell, the filmmaker who made “Leaf of Faith,” said that kratom helped him kick his opi... Read More...

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EDITORIAL: How suburban police departments are wising up about drug abuse

Treatments works ... when you want it to... – 01/06/2019 - Police departments work out arrangements with drug treatment providers in advance to ensure care is available around the clock. They then drive addicts seeking ... Read More...

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Amid rising sobriety trend, Heineken brings alcohol-free version to U.S.

Nowhere Near Beer – January 9, 2019 - Non-alcoholic beer accounts for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. beer market, according to Heineken. Historically, most big brewers have played in the non-alcoholic segment wit... Read More...

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Do drug treatment facilities really lower property values?

Depends on the property – Jan. 11, 2019 - But opposition may be unfounded, a study distributed this week by National Bureau for Economic Research found: Substance-abuse disorder centers do not negatively affect property... Read More...

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New study finds social media junkies make riskier decisions

Playing with Fire – January 10, 2019 - Researchers at Michigan State University ... gave 71 people the Iowa Gambling Task, which psychologists say identifies the differences in decision-making among healthy people and ... Read More...

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A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis

A Book Should Be Well Digested – Dec. 17, 2018 - Writing from Britain, Dr. Ben Goldacre echoes Angell’s concerns, charging in “Bad Pharma” that the worst misbehavior in the pharmaceutical industry actually occurs not wh... Read More...

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Model reveals she used to subsist on cigarettes, black coffee, cocaine to maintain thin figure

Thin White Line – January 10, 2019 - She went on to say that many people never really understood how she could eat and still be so thin. The 25-year-old then dished the dirt on the entire, glamorous influencer industry... Read More...

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Recovering drug addict Tom Sizemore ‘arrested after police find meth and heroin in his car

Keep Coming Back – January 12, 2019 - Sizemore has faced a very public battle with drug addiction and run-ins with the police. But in May 2017 he told the Daily Mail.com that he was “fit, healthy and approaching 4 yea... Read More...

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Inside America’s other opioid epidemic

TRIGGER WARNING: Drug use – December 18, 2018 - Now Rogers, 53, was back in his bedroom at the hot, dark house on R Street SE. Sitting in a worn swivel chair, he cued a Rob Thomas song on his cellphone and bent over h... Read More...

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A Space for Advanced Thinkers and Influencers – Podcasts

More Than the 12 Steps – Jan. 7, 2019 - Judy Crane has over 3 decades of experience working in both residential and out-patient settings. She earned her B.A. at Rutgers, M.A. from New York Institute of Technology and is... Read More...

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Social Media Addiction Needs To Be Taken More Seriously

DEAD SEA SCROLLING – Jan. 11, 2019 - Social media addiction, also known as internet addiction disorder, is not currently classed as a specific disorder. In the most up-to-date Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental... Read More...

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Recovery School offers students a path to sobriety

Passing More Than Their Urine Tests – January 12, 2019 - Rochester Public Schools created the APEX program during the 2016-17 school year. It offers students battling addiction education plans aimed at filling credit ga... Read More...

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Drew Barrymore: I’d be ‘dead really soon’ if I tried heroin

Heroin Isn't Chic – January 10, 2019 - “I feel if I try either,” she shared, “I’m going to be dead really soon.” By the time she was 12, Barrymore was a cocaine addict. She was in and out of rehab in her early teenage ... Read More...

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Labor Department Wants to Drug-Test Applicants for Unemployment Benefits

Who gets that contract? – January 10, 2019 - This month, the Department of Labor finished soliciting feedback on a proposed federal rule, that would encourage states to conduct blanket drug testing for those seeking une... Read More...

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Criminalizing 1st-time DUIs is a tough sell

One Jigger, One Jail Cell – Jan. 13, 2019 - “We want to feel like we’re really being strict on drunk drivers,” said Republican state Sen. Van Wanggaard, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and an opponent of crim... Read More...

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7 Hot Musicians Share Their Stories Of Sobriety

Songs in the Key of AA – JANUARY 11, 2019 - If you’re stepping into 2019 sober: congratulations! And to those who are considering reducing their consumption this year, congratulations to you, too! Taking steps toward so... Read More...

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Judge dismisses lawsuits – Big Pharma NOT GUILTY

Defense, Defense, Defense – Jan. 9, 2019 - A Connecticut judge has dismissed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and other drug makers brought by 37 cities and towns in the state that blame the companies for the opioid crisi... Read More...