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More than a third of American adults take prescription drugs that can cause depression
Catch 22 –
June 12, 2018 - More than one-third of American adults may be using prescription medications that can potentially cause depression or increase the risk of suicide, according to a study published Tuesday in t... Read More...
Party Girl’s journey to sobriety: ‘I don’t think about alcohol at all now’
From Drinker to Darling –
June 4, 2018 - Maz Compton is a self-confessed party girl, or at least she used to be. The former 2DayFm breakfast radio host and MTV VJ never considered herself to be an alcoholic, in fact, sh... Read More...
North Carolina Rehab Program Sent Clients To Work For No Pay At Adult Care Homes
North Carolina. Is that in America? –
May 25, 2018 - The program Recovery Connections Community operated out of two facilities in Buncombe County and one in Harnett County. It was founded in 2011 by Jennifer Warren, an ... Read More...
With 17 million pills in Madison County, this man helps police fight opioid crisis
Beautiful –
June 6, 2018 - In 2014, Madison County had the second-highest number of prescription painkillers in the nation. In that year, there were enough pills in the county for each person, including children, to hav... Read More...
Addiction behaviors tied to specific impairments in six brain networks
Science May One Day, Blah Blah Blah –
June 6, 2018 - Specific impairments within six large-scale brain networks during drug cue exposure, decision-making, inhibitory control, and social-emotional processing are associat... Read More...
Anthony Bourdain Exposed The Dark Secrets Of Kitchens: Addiction And Mental Illness
Unblinking –
June 9, 2018 - “In America, the professional kitchen is the last refuge of the misfit,” Anthony Bourdain once wrote. “Admittedly, it’s a life that grinds you down,” he added. “Most of us who live and operat... Read More...
Stigma Is A Barrier To Addiction Treatment. Lift The Label Hopes To Squelch The Shame
Help Is Available –
June 4, 2018 - Colorado’s $1.8 million Lift The Label campaign is all about challenging the perceptions of people with opioid addiction and encouraging them to get help. The campaign leverages a memo... Read More...
Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our culture
Jackass Was a Big Hit on TV –
June 9, 2018 - Don’t pathologize the despair that is a rational response to a culture that values people based on ever escalating financial and personal achievements ... In September of 200... Read More...
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
MEDIA: NYT Book Review –
June 4, 2018 - Michael Pollan has long been concerned with the moral dilemmas of everyday life. “Second Nature,” his first book, was ostensibly about gardening, but really about ways to overcome... Read More...
Massena facility doubles number of beds for children seeking recovery
Younger than Springtime –
June 6, 2018 - She said abuse of substances such as heroin is on the rise. Buckley said in 2016, 23 percent of the admitted patients were diagnosed with opiate addiction. So far in 2018, 32 per... Read More...
Suicide is desperate. It is hostile. It is tragic. But mostly, it is a bloody mess.
A Daughter’s First Person Account –
Originally published: May 19, 1996 - The blood was like Jell-O. That is what blood gets like, after you die, before they tidy up. Somehow, I had expected it would be gone. The police... Read More...
The Goldbergs actor Jackson Odell is found dead in a sober living home in California, aged 20
Jesus, NO! –
June 10, 2018 - According to police, there was no signs of foul play. Authorities said an investigation is ongoing and details surrounding the actor’s death have not been released. Odell is seen on The Gold... Read More...
Eight doctors with ties to Staten Island with criminal convictions
Bad Medicine –
June 6, 2018 - Test-referral scams. Running pill mills to dispense powerful painkillers. Medicare fraud. In recent years, eight doctors who either practiced or lived on Staten Island have been criminally ... Read More...
