Surf Legend Bruce Irons ArrestedWipe 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...Dec 4 2018
Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino says sobriety is best gift everGrateful 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...Dec 4 2018
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...Dec 4 2018
She overdosed in a car with her baby, now she shares a story of recoveryTouching – 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...Dec 4 2018
The label ‘alcoholic’ is as schmaltzy as a Christmas hamIt’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...Dec 4 2018
Dr. Pole pleads guilty to operating illegal pill millCartoon 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...Dec 4 2018
Want to end AIDS? Treat people like humansKindness 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...Dec 4 2018
Klean Plans to Close Its West Hollywood Residential Recovery CenterKlean 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...Dec 4 2018
Drug overdose deaths top 70,000 a yearUSD = 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...Dec 4 2018
Amanda Bynes Reveals the Depths of Her Adderall AbuseComeback 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...Dec 4 2018
Jail Ordered to Give Inmate Methadone in Far-Reaching RulingBrave 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...Dec 4 2018
Overshadowed by opioids, meth is back with a vengeanceSPEED 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...Dec 4 2018
How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addictionMore 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...Nov 27 2018
The New York Review of Books – OPIOID EDITIONREADING 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...Nov 27 2018
Comedian Artie Lange reveals he’s clean for 18 daysKeep 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...Nov 27 2018
How One Gym Uses Exercise to Fight AddictionOne 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...Dec 25 2018Nov 27 2018
Juelz Santana Opens Up About His Drug and Alcohol Addiction in the Extended Love & Hip Hop New YorkSoul 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...Nov 27 2018
Some pharmacies thwart efforts to improve access to the opioid overdose reversal drugWhy? – 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...Nov 27 2018
He’s Shed Almost 400 PoundsLetting 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...Nov 27 2018
No charges in the mass opiate overdose at state prisonLock 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...Nov 27 2018
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...Nov 27 2018
21 Reasons Why Soda Is Killing YouCarbonated 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...Nov 27 2018
Student trains public to give life-saving overdose antidoteSomething to Learn – November 23, 2018 - A Montreal social work student is on a mission to save lives by teaching people how to administer the drug naloxone, which can counteract the effects of an opioid drug overdose w... Read More...Nov 27 2018
Cleaning lady wrote Suboxone prescriptions at Johnstown addiction clinic officeMAT = Medically Assisted Tidying – Nov. 19, 2018 - Even the cleaning lady was filling out prescriptions after hours, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cessar said Monday during a plea hearing for Ruth Jones. Dr. Jones, 57,... Read More...Nov 27 2018
The other victims: Children bearing witnessSave the Children – November 23, 2018 - Children routinely watch drug users inject themselves — and they also see paramedics race to reverse overdoses. Every morning, school janitors scour the playgrounds for discarded... Read More...Nov 27 2018
Should Kiwis go to south-east Asia for addiction treatment?Worth the Trip? – Nov. 24 2018 - But people with severe addictions can benefit from being removed from their environments - their responsibilities and stressors, triggers and temptations - to “break the cycle”: detox, s... Read More...Nov 27 2018
Millionaire couple threatening to create a magic mushroom monopolyHell or Help is On the Way? – November 8, 2018 - Compass Pathways has set itself up to be the first legal provider of psilocybin, having recently launched a massive clinical study across Europe and North America to test... Read More...Nov 27 2018
It melts plastic and can kill – so why is club drug GHB on the rise?SO SAD – Nov. 24, 2018 - GHB’s popularity among young women and clubbers in general marks the third stage of its evolution as a drug: first, it was best known as a potent and dangerous date rape drug, slipped into the ... Read More...Nov 27 2018
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) Offers A Solution To Those Who Struggle With Food And Weight Related IssuesOne Bite at a Time – Nov 21, 2018 - FA understands food addiction as a physical, mental, and spiritual disease, and addresses these three dimensions with a structured, balanced food plan, daily help from a sponsor and f... Read More...Nov 27 2018
Former Portland football star details long road to sobrietyTouch Down – November 24, 2018 - He loved it. “It was an opportunity for me to release anger, frustration, and just a lot of things. Just a way for me to release my emotions,” said Bailey. He was really good. A highligh... Read More...Nov 27 2018