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This City’s Overdose Deaths Have Plunged. Can Others Learn From It?

Live and Learn – Nov. 25, 2018 - Dayton, a hollowed-out manufacturing center at the juncture of two major interstates, had one of the highest opioid overdose death rates in the nation in 2017 and the worst in Ohio. Now,... Read More...

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‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ OD Deaths Set a Record Last Year

Destiny, Fate, Chance, Mistake or Disease? – Nov. 29, 2018 - New numbers Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that drug overdoses killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017, a record. Overdos... Read More...

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Can We Stop Suicides?

We Can Try – Nov. 3, 2018 - In May of 2017, Louise decided that her life was just too difficult, so she’d end it. In the previous four years, three siblings and a half-sibling had died, two from disease, one from fire a... Read More...

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New Yorkers got opioid scripts, addiction-recovery opioids amid missing oversight

MORE DRUGS! – Nov. 27, 2018 - Thousands of New Yorkers on Medicaid kept getting opioid prescriptions while simultaneously receiving similar drugs through addiction-treatment programs that didn’t check a crucial drug ove... Read More...

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Acadia Healthcare: Questioning The Reality Behind a Possible Deal

Money Talks, Nobody Squawks – Nov. 27, 2018 - Last week I discussed the many issues surrounding the “chatter” of a Kohlberg, Kravis, and Roberts & Co. (NYSE: KKR) bid to purchase Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (Na... Read More...

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Eliza Dushku Celebrates 10 Years of Sobriety

A Decade of One Day at a Time – November 28, 2018 - Eliza Dushku just hit a major milestone in her sobriety and says she’s incredibly “grateful” to be at this point in her life. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum, 37, ce... Read More...

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California Dems chair to seek treatment for alcoholism

Disease as defense, or just a douche? – Nov. 28, 2018 - “In the interest of allowing the CDP’s independent investigation to move forward, I do not wish to respond to any of the specific allegations. However, I will use ... Read More...

Executive Corner with Morgan Gliedman

Stick with the Winners! — Morgan Gliedman is the Vice President of Education and Engagement at the Addiction Policy Forum. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Vox, and The Fix. A lifelong New Yorker, she r... Read More...

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Surf Legend Bruce Irons Arrested

Wipe Out? – NOV. 29, 2018 - According to police records, Irons was booked for dui drugs, possession of a controlled substance without prescription and driving without a valid license. Bail was set at $2,500. Bruce Iron... Read More...

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Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino says sobriety is best gift ever

Grateful TV Husband – November 28, 2018 - “Around Christmas time three years ago, I started my journey of becoming my best self,” he said, adding the best present he has received is “the gift of sobriety.” With his “Jer... Read More...

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Alberta has rules for treating alcoholism & addiction, enforced by fines up to $100,000 a day!

That’s where I want to go – November 28, 2018 - The Mental Health Services Protection Act would also launch a new self-funded regulatory college dubbed the College of Counselling Therapy. That body could then determine ... Read More...

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She overdosed in a car with her baby, now she shares a story of recovery

Touching – Nov. 28, 2018 - Lau’s first experience with prescription painkillers came at 17. She was outside in flip-flops with a puppy. The grass was wet. She fell, and her left ankle “went the wrong way.” Lau underwent... Read More...

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The label ‘alcoholic’ is as schmaltzy as a Christmas ham

It’s Complicated – Nov 29, 2018 - When I wrote a book about women and addiction, I reasoned against using labels. Woman of Substances includes my own hectic tale of smashing phone boxes, hurling pints, stealing from dea... Read More...

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Dr. Pole pleads guilty to operating illegal pill mill

Cartoon Villain – Nov. 29, 2018 - According to court documents, Shriharsh Laxman Pole, 65, was operating the Excel Medical Clinic in Woodbridge even though his medical license was suspended in 2009 for improper prescrip... Read More...

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Want to end AIDS? Treat people like humans

Kindness Heals – DECEMBER 1, 2018 - We could choose to provide education and offer the means to prevent transmission such as syringe access programs, safe consumption facilities and shifting the government’s response t... Read More...

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Klean Plans to Close Its West Hollywood Residential Recovery Center

Klean Sweep – November 29, 2018 - The Klean center, located at 850 Hilldale Ave., has 26 beds and offers a variety of treatment programs. Klean also currently operates residential treatment facilities in Long Beach, Was... Read More...

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Drug overdose deaths top 70,000 a year

USD = United States Death? – Nov. 28, 2018 - Overall life expectancy for Americans was 78.6 years in 2017, a drop of 0.1 year. That may not seem like much, but usually, life expectancy goes up a little each year. If it ... Read More...

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Amanda Bynes Reveals the Depths of Her Adderall Abuse

Comeback Kid – Nov. 28. 2018 - Unfortunately, Adderall tends to have a “high abuse liability,” meaning it’s particularly easy to misuse it by injecting it or snorting it, Frances Levin, MD, a board-certified psychiatris... Read More...

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Jail Ordered to Give Inmate Methadone in Far-Reaching Ruling

Brave New World – Nov. 28, 2018 -Some experts have estimated that up to a quarter of those incarcerated have opioid-use disorder. But most jails and prisons around the country do not give inmates access to methadone or ... Read More...

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Overshadowed by opioids, meth is back with a vengeance

SPEED KILLS Too! – Nov. 27, 2018 - Doctors see evidence of the drug’s comeback in emergency departments, where patients arrive agitated, paranoid and aggressive. Paramedics and police officers see it on the streets, whe... Read More...

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How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

More from Gabor – Nov. 24, 2018 - Part of that price was addiction – whether to alcohol or drugs, gambling or sex, overwork or porn, extreme sports or gaming – but essential to understanding it, says Maté, is to realize... Read More...

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The New York Review of Books – OPIOID EDITION

READING is for WINNERS – Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic (Expanded and Updated Edition) by Barry Meier, Random House, 223 pp., $27.00 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the ... Read More...

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Comedian Artie Lange reveals he’s clean for 18 days

Keep Going Back – Nov. 23, 2018 - The 51-year-old performed in New Brunswick on Wednesday. He said he was allowed to temporarily put a stop to his treatment at the rehab that day, an unusual privilege granted by the tre... Read More...

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How One Gym Uses Exercise to Fight Addiction

One Push-Up at a Time – Nov 20, 2018 - The nonprofit was founded in 2006 by 33-year-old triathlete and climber Scott Strode after experiencing firsthand how sports and adventure outings assisted in his own recovery from... Read More...

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Juelz Santana Opens Up About His Drug and Alcohol Addiction in the Extended Love & Hip Hop New York

Soul Sacrifice – 11/21/2018 - It’s one big happy reunion in the beginning of the sneak peek to the Love & Hip Hop New York season premiere when Rich Dollaz, Safaree Samuels, Joe Budden and his beautiful baby boy Lex... Read More...

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Some pharmacies thwart efforts to improve access to the opioid overdose reversal drug

Why? – November 16, 2018 - In states with access laws, pharmacies dispensed 79 percent more naloxone between 2007 and 2016 than those in states without such laws, one study found. Another study linked access and Good Sa... Read More...

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He’s Shed Almost 400 Pounds

Letting Go – Nov. 24, 2018 - No matter how much I hurt, I would go to Penn Station to get those doughnuts,” Mr. Warner said. “I loved those doughnuts.” He made the trips in secret for fear of how loved ones might react.... Read More...

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No charges in the mass opiate overdose at state prison

Lock Up or Shoot Up? – Nov. 21, 2018 - The unconscious prisoner’s cellmate, laughing, told McKee the man needed to go to the hospital, the patrol report said. The cellmate then came out of the cell, raised his arm towar... Read More...

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Vermont needle exchange isn’t just giving out syringes. It’s offering treatment on the spot.

Each One, Teach One! – Nov. 20, 2018 - “Some people are good at writing. Some people are good at public speaking,” Blake said. “I’m a good doctor. And I feel like that’s where I can fill a role to help with this epidemi... Read More...

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21 Reasons Why Soda Is Killing You

Carbonated Death? – 3/31/2016 - Soda may be available wherever you turn, but do your body a favor and stay away from it. To pour such nasty stuff into your system is to poison your body. There is no nutritional benefits... Read More...