Jersey Doctor Sentenced for Supplying Opioid Pills to Drug RingMorphine MORE FINE – Dec. 4, 2018 -Beecher, an ear, nose and throat specialist who had a practice in Warren, pleaded guilty on Sept. 19 to second-degree conspiracy and distribution of a controlled dangerous substance (o... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Pennsylvania hands out anti-opioid-overdose drug across the stateState of Compassion – DECEMBER 6, 2018 - Pennsylvania is handing out anti-opioid-overdose medication across the state next week, including more than a dozen locations in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. KYW Ne... Read More...Dec 11 2018
‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’- Song accused of being an “Ode to Roofies”Going Too Far? – Dec. 7, 2018 - “Bill Cosby ruined it for everybody,” Susan Loesser, 74, told NBC News on Thursday. “Way before #MeToo, I would hear from time to time people call it a date rape song. I would get annoyed... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Baby It’s Cold Outside VIDEOBanned Song VIDEO – December 2018 – Full Video @ YouTube.com... Read More...Dec 11 2018
AAC laying off 200, consolidating some propertiesTreatment Industry – Dec. 7, 2018 - Word of the cuts comes a month after AAC Chairman and CEO Michael Cartwright and his team said their third-quarter results had badly missed the mark in part because a change this summ... Read More...Dec 11 2018
‘It didn’t happen overnight’: How the U.S. opioid crisis got so badRace to the Morgue – December 9, 2018 - Drugs called “medicines” were used by the “kinds of people” that reformers liked — “white people of respectable means,” Herzberg explained. “Drugs that weren’t medicines were ones... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Dennis Quaid reveals that he did 2 grams of cocaine every day before getting cleanDrinks Again – Dec. 3, 2018 - The star went on to discuss his highly-public love life. The star recently ended a 14-year relationship with Kimberly Buffington. Since then, he’s fallen in love with 32-year-old French-Can... Read More...Dec 11 2018
For One Rural Community, Fighting Addiction Started With Recruiting The Right DoctorDoing No Harm – December 9, 2018 - Lindsay Bunker woke up from a nightmare. The 32-year old lives with her 6-month old daughter on the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin. She’s struggled with a... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Parents agonize: ‘Did our son really have to die?’Investigation Underway – December 10, 2018 - Brandon Nelson arrived at Sovereign on Feb. 23 to forge a new path forward. Two weeks later, he was dead. The Nelsons were steered toward Sovereign Health, a behavioral and m... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Sedative addiction and anxiety on the rise among childrenLife in the fast lane – Dec. 7, 2018 - Xanax was the benzodiazepine which saw the biggest rise — its use among young people needing treatment rose almost seven-fold, from eight people to 53. Overall, two thirds of the y... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Why is Pizza So Addictive?It’s Cheesy... – December 16, 2018 - In a recent study, pizza was ranked as the food most associated with symptoms of addiction, according to the Yale Food Addiction Scale, a tool that assesses the diagnostic criteria f... Read More...Dec 11 2018
You’re in Recovery. What Should You Eat?You Are What You Ate – Dec. 3, 2018 - Whole foods that are rich in L-glutamine. L-glutamine is an amino acid that offers immune and antioxidant benefits, among others. L-glutamine can help reduce sugar cravings, which c... Read More...Dec 11 2018
First person in UK to get cannabis prescription was previously given opiates 50 times stronger than heroin for chronic painJoint Relief – December 4th 2018 - Doctors prescribed the 32-year-old with morphine and fentanyl, an opiate 50 times more powerful than heroin. She described the experience as leaving her feeling like “a zombie” and ... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Rehabs in Big Trouble American Addiction Centers stock drops from $46.60 to $2.00 Closures, layoffs – plot thickens – December 6, 2018 - The Current has obtained an email addressed to all AAC staff, in which CEO Michael Cartwright notifie... Read More...Dec 11 2018
The Opioid Epidemic’s First Corporate CasualtyNatural Born Killers – December 4, 2018 - It didn’t sell well, at least at first. That changed, federal prosecutors have alleged, when Kapoor and other executives essentially bribed doctors to prescribe it for everythin... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Korn’s Brian Welch Survives Addiction in ‘Loud Krazy Love’ TrailerWhen the Music Stops – DECEMBER 4, 2018 - A new trailer for Loud Krazy Love, an upcoming Showtime documentary about Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, documents the musician’s struggles with addiction and his turbulent... Read More...Dec 11 2018
Today’s Drug Abusers Did Not Derive From Yesterday’s PatientsIt’s Complicated – DECEMBER 4, 2018 - As a result, most of the focus has been on pressing health care practitioners to decrease their prescribing, imposing guidelines and ceilings on daily dosages that may be prescrib... Read More...Dec 11 2018
‘Ben Is Back’: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of AddictionAddiction Horror Film – Dec. 5, 2018 - The rest of “Ben Is Back,” written and directed by Peter Hedges (father of Lucas), sustains and intensifies that clammy, anxious feeling. The suspense is generated by a deceptively... Read More...Dec 11 2018
One of the biggest challenges of kicking addiction is getting and keeping a jobNever Give Up – November 27, 2018 - After years of drug addiction and homelessness, Kenny Sawyer found himself staring at a job application at Hypertherm , a New Hampshire company that makes industrial cutting tools. He... Read More...Dec 4 2018
University of Alabama adding degree in addiction recoveryMajoring in Sobriety – Nov 23, 2018 - “Interest in the minor grew rapidly, and there have been 177 graduates with the minor as of June,” said Tricia Witte, UA coordinator of the undergraduate minor in addiction and rec... Read More...Dec 4 2018
Quitting alcohol can be deadly: Hundreds in the US die each yearEasy Does It – Nov. 27, 2018 - For those experiencing the most serious symptom of withdrawal – the shaking, shivering, sweating and confusion of delirium tremens, or the DTs – the death rate has been estimated as high ... Read More...Dec 4 2018
Former Opioid Addict at Harvard Says We’re Getting Addiction WrongHe Knows Everything, Not! – NOV. 27, 2018 - For one thing, he supports the use of buprenorphine. Drugs like buprenorphine lessen withdrawal symptoms and the cravings that lead to relapse and overdose. While in rehab, Gr... Read More...Dec 4 2018
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...Dec 4 2018
‘The Numbers Are So Staggering.’ OD Deaths Set a Record Last YearDestiny, 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...Dec 4 2018
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...Dec 4 2018
New Yorkers got opioid scripts, addiction-recovery opioids amid missing oversightMORE 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...Dec 4 2018
Acadia Healthcare: Questioning The Reality Behind a Possible DealMoney 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...Dec 4 2018
Eliza Dushku Celebrates 10 Years of SobrietyA 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...Dec 25 2018Dec 4 2018
California Dems chair to seek treatment for alcoholismDisease 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...Dec 4 2018
Executive Corner with Morgan GliedmanStick 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...Dec 4 2018