Where Fentanyl is Traded for Candy SICK WORLD – Feb. 26, 2025 - When we visited Monday night, drug dealers hid in the bushes. A park ranger shuffled groups of users and illegal vendors around the block. People lay slumped in nearby doorways. All in, t... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMar 04 2025
Three-year-old Dies From Methadone VIDEO – HORROR STORY – Feb. 26, 2025 - A man has been arrested for neglect after a three-year-old in his care died from a methadone overdose. CONTINUE@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7w-E5Jna5s ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Trauma
‘Zebra Striping’ Taking Over Social Scenes ONE EVERY OTHER DAY AT A TIME – Feb. 23, 2025 - Google trends data shows “zebra striping” searches have surged 975% in the U.S. over the past year. The name effectively captures the essence of the practice--a consist... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousMar 04 2025
Running Club Helps Men on Road to Recovery VIDEO – RUN LOLA RUN? – Feb. 25, 2025 - A few years ago, a mentor challenged him to run a half marathon. “Half marathon? I can’t even run like half a mile,” said Carlson, “All of a sudden I was running one mile, tw... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Filmmaker Grows Storytelling Niche – Releases Movie on Streaming Platforms MOVIES MATTER – Feb. 24, 2025 - Grace Point premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The independent movie is about a young man on his way to a remote drug rehab who then gets chased by locals in a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025
Funeral Home is Now Recovery Center MAKES SENSE SADLY – Feb. 24, 2025 - “We’re living in a time of a lot of different uncertainties, and this is a story of hope,” said Becky Flood, interim chief executive officer. “People deserve that, too.” Limen Reco... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
A Pale Blue Dot VIDEO – SCIENCE INTERLUDE – 168,621 views since Dec 19, 2012 - A visual response to the famed ‘Pale Blue Dot’ monologue, where Prof. Carl Sagan muses on Earth’s appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spac... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMar 04 2025
Jai Uttal and The Pagan Love Orchestra VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – Feb. 24, 2025 - Ezra Uttal - keyboards-Ami Molinelli - percussion- Ben Leinbach - bass - Jai Uttal - guitar & singing - Deszon Claiborne - drums = Brianna Prajna Vieira harmonium... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winnerMar 04 2025
Person of the week: Ronald Tannebaum STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Mar. 4, 2025 - Ronald (RT) Tannebaum – InTheRooms.com Co-Founder RT is the Co-Founder of InTheRooms.com the Largest FREE Online Social Network for the Global Recovery Community for tho... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Grace Slick: ‘I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake’ STILL VITAL – Feb. 25, 2025 - She topped the charts, dropped the F-bomb on US TV, was ghosted by Jim Morrison and planned to spike Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD. Now 85, the legendary singer tells all! ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Senator Explains Bill That Makes Opioid Treatment Illegal VIDEO – SAY WHAT? – Feb. 24, 2025 - The bill is intended to outlaw stand-alone methadone clinics. He says these types of clinics are mills that keep people in the cycle of addiction. He also said methadone has a hig... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Tragic Stories Show Need for ‘compassionate intervention’ SAVE-A-SOUL – Feb. 24, 2025 - It’s not often a reporter signs in to a government news conference on the hunt for scandal, but ends up with a broken heart. That’s how it felt for me when Premier Danielle Smith anno... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMar 04 2025
Homeless Say Cost of Addiction Forcing Them Into Modern Slavery IT’S ROUGH OUT THERE – Feb. 28, 2025 - Patrick is 32 years old and has been homeless on and off in Edinburgh since growing up in care. He speaks with a rasping quality due to the ravages of sleeping outdoors in... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessMar 04 2025
From Living on the Street to Becoming Sen. Rosalind Osgood VIDEO – A REAL PATRIOT – Feb. 23, 2025 - “It’s important for me to say that I’m a person in recovery, for 35 years,” Osgood said. Her drug of choice varied over time. “I used marijuana, I used cocaine and I used c... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyMar 04 2025
Trump’s Backs Death Penalty for Drug Sales SOON? – Feb. 25, 2025 - “If you notice that every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem,” Trump falsely claimed at a meeting of the National Governors Association, at the White House on Feb. 21... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Study Links Vaping to Serious Illnesses MODERATION IS THE KEY – Feb. 25, 2025 - Vaping might just be more harmful than traditional smoking, with a new study suggesting it increases the risk of dementia, heart disease, and organ failure. The ground-breaking... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Vaping
He Died as S.F.’s Largest Treatment Provider Turned Him Away AUDIO – WHY WHY WHY? – Feb. 27, 2025 - Jonathan Martin was face down, his head in his pillow, when Shy Baniani went to shake his roommate awake. As soon as Baniani’s hand touched Martin’s bare skin, th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Tatum O’Neal Is Still Here: The Oscar Winner on Surviving Addiction SUCCESS STORY – Feb. 26, 2025 - Tatum O’Neal walked into Smashbox Studios using a cane, a vestige of the stroke she had in 2020 after an overdose. As she was getting a manicure, she struggled to remember the na... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyMar 04 2025
For 18 Years Celebrities Have Come to Talk About Recovery MENTORING FROM THE HEART – Feb. 23, 2025 - Casey King launched the series in 2008, systematically growing the event into a Who’s Who of featured celebrity speakers including actors Louis Gossett Jr., Todd Bridges, Cr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
A Raw, Honest & Deeply Moving Experience VIDEO – HAVE A BALL – Feb. 25, 2025 - RAVING REVIEW: MY OWN NORMAL doesn’t ask for sympathy but exists as an unapologetic and deeply personal account of life, love, and self-definition. It doesn’t try to change mind... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025Recovery
Quote of the Week – Adrien Brody “I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that’s kept me in line. Really in line.” – Adrien Brody ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025quote of the week
Gene Hackman and wife & dog found dead in home WATCH – LEGENDARY ACTOR – Feb. 27, 2025 - The couple was found during a welfare check after their neighbor called in concerned about their well-being. The Academy Award-winning actor, who starred in "The French Co... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2025
MTV Star Madison Channing Walls Unrecognizable VIDEO – SOBRIETY AWAITS – Feb. 21, 2025 - The MTV alum was unrecognizable in a new mugshot after she was arrested for meth and fentanyl possession. Madison, 34, appeared on MTV’s Real World: Skeletons in 2... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025fentanyl
Gabor Maté on Why Modern Life is Breaking Us – Hurt to Healing AUDIO – THE MASTER SPEAKS – Feb. 10, 2025 - Welcome to a brand new series of the Hurt to Healing Podcast! In this powerful first episode, I am honoured to be joined by Dr. Gabor Maté—renowned addiction expert, speake... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025InterviewMental Health
‘Love Addiction’ Linked to Emotional Dependence LIKE A BABY AT THE FONT – Feb. 17, 2025 - Romantic involvement with a partner can sometimes exhibit dysfunctional traits similar to addictive behaviours, a phenomenon known as emotional dependence on the partner or “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025Mental Health
Groove Is In The Heart – Deee-Lite VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 90,941,762 views since Oct 26, 2009 - Deee-Lite was formed in 1986 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn by vocalist Lady Miss Kier and multi-instrumentalist Super DJ Dmitry and became popular in th... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2025grammy winner
What Would An Ideal Friend Be Like? Perfectly Imperfect – Feb. 18, 2025 - Some of the reason why we aren’t, collectively, so good at friendship, is that we don’t have a clear idea of what a really good friend might be like. It may therefore be worth tr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025Mental Health
Why Your Brain Says ‘thank you God’ to Sweets AUDIO – CANDYLAND – Feb. 21, 2025 - Henning Fenselau, one of the study authors, says this suggests that people’s brains evolved to love sugar in excess. “Because sugar is so easy to metabolize, its consumption beyond... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating DisorderFeb 25 2025food addiction
An intervention saved his life. 23 years later they meet again. A STORY TO LOVE – Feb. 17, 2025 - Jean-Philippe Desjardins-Dufour began drinking at the age of 13. He stole his parents’ alcohol and drank alone in the evening. Then he fell into chemical drugs. The day of his ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaFeb 25 2025Recovery
Duo Poured $1.1M Into a New Addiction Treatment Centre VIDEO – BEST WISHES – Feb. 21, 2025 - Ryan Kirby and the former camp’s co-owner, Mark Lane, aren’t focused on turning a profit from the vast waterfront property. Instead, they’re pouring their own savings — about ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab