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How opioid addiction is hurting businesses

Workers Hard To Find ... Clean – May 7, 2018 - Walmart is making its opioid policy more strict, limiting the duration of such prescriptions and requiring that they be filled electronically. The company announced on Mond... Read More...

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How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby

Drug Addiction Good for Business – April 28, 2018 - The biggest beneficiaries of private prisons’ political donations have been Republican politicians in Florida, Tennessee, and border states with high populations of un... Read More...

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Should opioid abusers pay the price for their choices?

Choice, Chance or Fate? – May 7, 2018 - Those are contradictory beliefs if you play them out logically, addiction experts say. A person’s early decision to use opioids may have been a choice, they say. But the repeated ... Read More...

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7 in 10 say Opioid addiction is a very serious problem – CBS poll

It’s Unanimous – May 8, 2018 - When Americans are asked who they blame most for the opioid addiction problem, people who abuse pain medication top the list (28 percent), followed by pharmaceutical companies who make and... Read More...

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TEDX- Depression and spiritual awakening—two sides of one door

Patience and Perseverance – May 2018 - This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Is depression, as most of us experience it, meaningless suffering? Dr. Lisa Miller present... Read More...

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Passionate plea for a recovery high school

Non-Higher Learning – May 8, 2018 - Addiction advocates made a passionate plea for Delaware to stop dragging its feet when dealing with the opioid epidemic and devote a surplus of state revenues to the creation of a rec... Read More...

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Scientists Have Successfully Tested a Cure for Alcoholism

AA Obsolete? – May 8, 2018 - Biologists from the University of Texas tested the world’s first drug for alcoholism – JVW-1034. As scholars have noted, alcoholism is not developing due to the fact that a person has a weak... Read More...

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Summertime and sobriety is difficult

The Season of Our Discontent? – May 11, 2018 - He says that’s where the AA program has helped. He can surround himself with people who help him resist the warm weather temptations and stay on the sober path. The challen... Read More...

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Owner of detox center given SBA award

Stick with the Winners! – May 12, 2018 - Though Orem business owner Tara Gleave came into business ownership in a roundabout way, she is passionate about what she does. This passion led a recent prestigious recognition.... Read More...

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Reversing An Overdose Isn’t Complicated, But Getting The Antidote Can Be

Who’s On First? – May 7, 2018 - A few months ago, Kourtnaye Sturgeon helped save someone’s life. She was driving in downtown Indianapolis when she saw people gathered around a car on the side of the road. Sturgeon pulle... Read More...

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s TV ad focuses on mother’s drug addiction

It’s on Television – MAY 7, 2018 - Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s latest television ad focuses on her mother’s addiction to prescription drugs and battle with mental illness. Baldwin unveiled the ad on Monday, a ... Read More...

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UCSD developing biosensor that monitors alcohol in people struggling with substance abuse

Science is Real – May 9, 2018 - The device now has to be refined so that it can be tested in live animals and, eventually, humans. Hall is trying to create a low-power sensor that can be injected blow the surface of the... Read More...

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Biggest addiction facing the world may not be what you think

Smoke and Glass – May 11, 2018 - ABC News - If you’re worried about addiction killing people, you’re probably worried about drugs. But they pale in comparison to the deaths caused by two everyday addictions: alcohol a... Read More...

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How A.I. Can Help Addicts Stay Sober

With AA? – May 9, 2018 - Artificial intelligence is the future. It can predict when we’ll die, help us buy stuff we don’t need, diagnose cancer, and imperfectly predict songs we’d like. It’s not perfect, and sometimes i... Read More...

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Teenage Vaping Puts Structure In Place For Heroin Addiction

Vapeway Drug – May 9, 2018 - Teenage smoking has decreased over the past few years in America, but that is not necessarily good news. “Teenagers have flocked to e-cigarettes, and when combined with use of traditional ci... Read More...

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People taking medication face stigma that they’re not ‘fully recovered’

Sweet and Sour Bullshit – MAY 10, 2018 - “Methadone is stopping me from putting a needle in my body,” she said. “It doesn’t get you high. It stops the cravings, and even if you do use you’re not going to be able to feel... Read More...

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Eric Schneiderman’s Downfall Puts a Spotlight on Men, Alcohol and Violence

Punch Drunk Asshole – May 9, 2018 - As one of his accusers recalls in the piece, Mr. Schneiderman “would almost always drink two bottles of wine in a night, then bring a bottle of Scotch into the bedroom. He would get a... Read More...

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Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino Marks Over 2 Years of Sobriety

Narcotics Anonymous has a Winner – May 7, 2018 - Congratulations to Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino on more than two years of being clean! The 35-year-old Jersey Shore star on Sunday posted the achievement on his offici... Read More...

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Beyond AA: Where restaurant workers go for help

More Than Coffee and Cookies – May 11, 2018 - Thirty-five years ago, when Mickey Bakst walked into his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, he realized he was the only hospitality worker in the group. “It was all doctors... Read More...

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Steering Addicts Toward Hope

Straight Talk – May 09, 2018 - While in prison DeLeon pitched an idea he had to the Department of Corrections. The idea was to have kids hear from other kids who had been in prison. It was to bring the inmates out to th... Read More...

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Cheyenne Jackson Celebrates 5 Years of Sobriety After Battle as a ‘High-Functioning Alcoholic’

A Very Handsome Sobriety – May 10, 2018 - The 42-year-old American Horror Story star, who also costars in Paramount Network’s upcoming drama American Woman, jumped for joy about reaching that goal in a triumphant Instag... Read More...

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Baby boomers seeing a spike in opioid addiction

Assisted Living – May 8, 2017 - Ronnie settles into the love seat in his sister’s living room and prepares to tell his story. He asked 8News not to share his full name or show his face during the candid conversation, bu... Read More...

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Children of the Opioid Epidemic – NYTimes Feature

Fledglings of Big Pharma – May 9, 2018 - It was not until her third month of feeling unwell, in the fall of 2016, that Alicia thought to take an at-home pregnancy test. Until then, she assumed her fatigue and nausea wer... Read More...

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How do patients know if a recovery center gets results? … answers are hard to find

Depends On Who You Ask – May 9, 2018 - News 5 found that facilities that treat Ohio’s recovering addicts aren’t subject to any state or county regulations that require quality care to stay open. They are subject only to... Read More...

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A Tortured, Trippy Benedict Cumberbatch in the Role of a Lifetime

Drunk In Public – May 11, 2018 - It’s palpable in a scene where he takes quaaludes and loses all control of his motor functions, sliding across a floor and down a wall as he attempts to flee from an interrogative dinner... Read More...

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J. Cole tackles drug abuse and more on his new album ‘KOD’ VIDEO

Music VIDEO – May 10, 2018 Watch VIDEO @ Mashable.com... Read More...

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NBC 6 Investigates The Business of Addiction

Criminal Minds! – May 14, 2018 Full Story @ NBCMiami.com... Read More...

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Crisis Grips California’s Rural North

Dirty Needles Amongst the Redwoods – May 8, 2018 - EUREKA, Calif. — The dirty needles can be found scattered among the pine and brush, littering the forest floor around Eureka, a town long celebrated as a gateway to the... Read More...

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What can ads do for addiction?

Nothing? – May 8, 2018 - Politicians on the left and the right are calling for an anti-addiction ad campaign aimed at the opioid epidemic. The airwaves of history are littered with previous anti-drug efforts - some of w... Read More...

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Drug executive tells Congress his company contributed to the overdose epidemic

Murder on the Appalachian Express – May 8, 2018 - The head of a major pharmaceutical distributor apologized before Congress on Tuesday for not doing more to stop the shipment of millions of powerful prescription opioids... Read More...