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They lost their son, then started an agency to help addicts navigate treatment

A Higher Calling – April 14, 2018 - Founded by Avi and Julie Israel of Buffalo, Save the Michaels transitioned last year into an agency for addicts in need as well as their families, designed to help them navigate a con... Read More...

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Pharmacist who ran oxycodone ‘pill mill’ gets 15 years

Justice in Jersey – April 13, 2018 - Until he got busted, Michael Ludwikowski was your go-to guy if you had a fudged oxycodone prescription. Customers came to him with prescriptions that were obviously “washed” or “blea... Read More...

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Busting the myth that doctors are to blame for the opiate overdose crisis

OPINION from CANADA – April 10, 2018 - Illicit fentanyl was the cause of the earliest deaths that the panel looked at. Now, Egilson said, the toxicology reports show that fentanyl is found in 80 per cent of those who ha... Read More...

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20 Lies Addicts Say to Justify their Addiction

Rationalization Nation – April 14, 2018 - Angel came into counseling knowing that something was wrong but not knowing what it was. After being married for seven years, he noticed his wife became more secretive and dista... Read More...

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With One Picture, Patton Oswalt Gave Meaningful Advice for Anyone Living with Depression

Best Tweet Ever – April 3, 2018 - It can be hard to find the right words to describe depression, and in the pursuit of getting across what it’s really like, people write poems, craft metaphors, draw pictures and even pl... Read More...

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A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’

MEDIA: Book Review – April 3, 2018 - She takes us on similar journeys into lithium and MAO inhibitors, each bringing hope and problems. And then, in the late 1980s there’s the arrival of serotonin reuptake inhibitors, k... Read More...

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Hidden Dangers of Addictive Food Stimulants

Chemical Brothers – March 21, 2018 - Many different types of stimulants can be found in the foods and drinks we consume. Some are natural ingredients that we’ve been consuming for millennia, such as caffeine, now embe... Read More...

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Artist’s Corner with John Lavitt

Artist's Profile: Growing up in New York City as a stutterer, John Lavitt embraced writing as a way to express himself when the words would not come. After graduating from Brown University, he lived on the Greek island ... Read More...

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Hospitals to Provide $50 Million in Treatment Funding

That’s a Lot of Suboxone – April 6, 2018 - New Hampshire’s hospitals have agreed to spend $50 million over the next five years to fund the programs that combat the state’s ongoing opioid crisis. The announcement Friday ... Read More...

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With the drug industry as its partner, an addiction policy group…

Fox Guarding the Hen House? – April 5, 2018 - ...Nickel’s three-year-old nonprofit is increasingly in the spotlight, both for its high-profile advocacy work and its close ties with drug makers. The vast majority of the ... Read More...

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Prison program helps lower overdose deaths

No More re·cid·i·vism – April 9, 2018 - Researchers from Brown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that the addiction treatment program was leading to a drop in post-incarceration overdo... Read More...

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Deaths, financial chaos bring scrutiny to Rehab Riviera

The OC Conundrum – April 6, 2018 - Mental health provider Sovereign Health has been having a rough time as well. In June, after Sovereign became entangled in civil lawsuits with insurance giant HealthNet over the validi... Read More...

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Not even the Bible is safe…where some kids hide their drugs

A Burning ... Bud? – April 9, 2018 - A Pringles can, ChapStick tube, hairbrush handle and the Bible. These are some of the places Louisville area drug users have hidden their stashes. Parents afraid their children may h... Read More...

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Johnny Manziel’s journey to sobriety could be NFL’s biggest nightmare

Out of the Mouth of Babes – April 7, 2018 - It’s often been said that a drunk mouth speaks sober thoughts. But in the case of Johnny Manziel, it seems like his journey to sobriety has moved him past the days of giving “... Read More...

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Surgeon General Says More People Should Carry Naloxone

Buy One, Get an Epipen at Half Off? – April 5, 2018 - The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, issued a public health advisory on Thursday urging more Americans to carry and learn to use the opioid overdose-reversing... Read More...

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“The People’s Preacher,” Addresses Opioid Crisis in Poignant New Book, “Preaching Under the Influence”

MEDIA: Reading is Holy – April 5, 2018 - In his newly released book, Preaching Under the Influence, A Minister’s Struggle, Brandon Holt, a nationally recognized pastor and licensed chemical dependency counselor, details... Read More...

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Dave Franco: Playing a Heroin Addict Made My Wife Say ‘You’re Not Fun to Be Around’

Art Imitates Life, and Death – April 6, 2018 - Prepping to play a heroin addict took a mental toll on Franco as well. “The whole research process also contributed to why I was so depressed. You can imagine how hard it i... Read More...

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People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit

That’s Depressing – April 7, 2018 - Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a small dropper. It was a delicate operation that had become a daily ro... Read More...

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Alonzo Bodden on Comedy and Recovery in the Age of Trump

Comedian For Our Times – April 9, 2018 - By John Lavitt - “Although my life may seem great, meetings remind me that I’m still an addict and an alcoholic. It only stays great by maintaining my sobriety.” According to his... Read More...

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New Moms Who Smoke Pot Have THC in Breast Milk

Pure Babies Please – April 9, 2018 - Nursing women who smoke marijuana transfer low levels of cannabis’ main psychoactive ingredient, THC, to their children via breast milk, a new study finds. Researchers took samples o... Read More...

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Lamar Odom Says Marijuana Helped End Crack Addiction

That’s One Solution – April 5, 2018 - Former Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom is starting a new business, Rich Soil Organics, that will focus on producing marijuana-based products. According to a press release issu... Read More...

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Colin Farrell Voluntarily Checks Into Rehab for ‘Reset’

12 Stepper Holiday – April 3, 2018 - “He put himself in there. It was voluntary. He was not using again, but needed to do a little reset and get things back in alignment to make sure he doesn’t use again,” the source ex... Read More...

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Stem cell injections have the potential to cure alcoholism

Anything is Possible – March 28, 2018 - Researchers at the University of Chile have had a breakthrough that could ultimately lead to a cure for alcoholism. When the experts injected human stem cells into mice that had b... Read More...

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Profiles in Recovery: man grateful every day for sobriety

Happy to Be Alive – April 1, 2018 - “I never in a million years thought I would become a heroin addict, but it happened,” Kyne said. “But I’m a strong believer you’ve got to be accountable for your actions — you’ve got... Read More...

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NAATP’s 2018 Addiction Treatment Leadership Awards

Good Work Gentlemen! – March 27, 2018 - Founded in 1978, NAATP is a national professional membership association of addiction treatment providers. Its mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, training and other membe... Read More...

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New Study: Consistent Gig Attendance Can Help You Live Longer

Please, Just No SRO – March 27, 2018 - Accompanying research shows “a positive correlation between regularity of gig attendance and wellbeing”, a statistic that was further backed-up by the fact that participants who fo... Read More...

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…happiness can follow rage

Recovery is Possible – March 26, 2018 - He came back from Vietnam “in a rage.” Though Ron Brown didn’t know it yet, his experiences in the war had left him with post-traumatic stress disorder and in trying to cope with ... Read More...

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Morgan Stanley fired broker for using drugs years before he joined company

Rightful Determination – April 2, 2018 - A former New Jersey broker for the Wall Street bank was deemed a “reputational risk” and fired after publishing a November 2017 memoir about getting sober after years of bad beha... Read More...

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John Goodman Almost Left ‘Roseanne’ During Past Battle With Alcoholism

Sober Success Story! – April 2, 2018 - John received treatment for his alcoholism, and he’s now been sober for 10 years … John took home the 1993 Golden Globe for Best Actor on the hit sitcom, but the loss of privacy an... Read More...

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New Opioid Memorial Demeans People Who Died From Painkiller Overdoses

Not Just Names, They Are People – March 29, 2018 - by Maia Szalavitz. With his unerring eye for approaches that are not only cruel but also offensive and tasteless, President Trump has announced that the White House wi... Read More...