Food addicts find answersNutrition Counts – Feb. 23, 2018 - A recovery program akin to Alcoholics Anonymous helps people overcome food addiction Danielle (not her real name) knew she had a problem with food. At 5 foot, 5 inches tall her weight... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Overdose deaths dropped in 14 states, prompting cautious optimismFingers Crossed – Feb. 22, 2018 - In Alaska, where deaths declined more than 11 percent between the 12-month period ending July 2016 and the 12-month period ending July 2017, the state’s public health chief, Jay Butler,... Read More...Feb 27 2018
American Addiction Centers Releases Findings from First Patient Outcome StudiesSuccess – Feb. 20, 2018 - NASHVILLE, TN, Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - American Addiction Centers (AAC) is breaking new ground in addiction treatment with the release of its first patient outcome studies. AAC is joining ... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Ex-heroin addict on the reality of opioid epidemicHe Knows From Whence He Came – Feb. 22, 2018 - Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the country may be making progress fighting the opioid epidemic. The number of overdoses dropped in 1... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Doctor Arrested for Illegal $ale of DrugsMoney Addiction? – Feb. 24, 2018 - The doctor, who specialized for nearly 40 years in anesthesiology and pain medicine, was accused of selling Oxycodone and Alprazolam, also known as Xanax, without a legitimate medical ... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Recovery App Can Now Predict Relapses with Artificial IntelligenceHow About Next Year’s Super Bowl? – FEBRUARY 19, 2018 - Sober Grid is widely known as being a leader in the addiction space, and has managed to gather the largest user base in the mobile peer support recovery community.... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Addiction recovery center plans to shut down 4 of 5 locationsNO Funding? Feb. 20, 2018 - MANCHESTER, N.H. — Addiction recovery center Hope for New Hampshire Recovery is shutting down four of its five locations because of funding issues. The organization said Tuesday it was shutti... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Toxic Levels Of Lead And Other Metals Found In E-Cigarette VaporSmoke Gets in Your Eyes – Feb. 23, 2018 - While the study is small—evaluating devices in a random sample of 56 users—it revealed that a significant number of the devices produced aerosols with potentially dangerous leve... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Mark Vallas, Son Of Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Dies At Rehab In CaliforniaSo Sad: More Will Be Revealed – February 26, 2018 - According to the Orange County Coroner’s office, Mark Vallas, 24, died at 1p.m. Saturday at New Existence Recovery, a substance abuse treatment facility in Huntington ... Read More...Feb 27 2018
All teens should be screened for depressionIt’s Not Easy Out There – Feb. 26, 2018 - Depression is a growing threat to American children and teens. As many as 1 in 5 teens experience depression at some point during adolescence, but parents often miss the clues, ... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Letting American Kids DieNew York Times – Feb. 17, 2018 - Guns are a big part of the callousness, but only a part of it. They are one of three main reasons the United States has become “the most dangerous of wealthy nations for a child to be bo... Read More...Feb 27 2018
‘One Day at a Time’ actress shares story of addiction and recoveryTelling It like it Is – Feb. 23, 2018 - Mackenzie Phillips, the actress from the TV show One Day at a Time, was in Horry County Thursday night sharing her story of addiction and recovery. She spoke at Horry Georgetown T... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Mothers of Babies Born Addicted to Drugs Could Lose Parental RightsThen Auctioned Off? – Feb. 23, 2018 - A change in Kentucky law could mean that children born addicted to drugs would be labeled as neglected and abused at birth. In addition, mothers could have their parental rights ter... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Let Cities Open Safe Injection SitesLet There Be Life – Feb. 24, 2018 - the face of this emergency, dedicated public health officials and policymakers have suggested some vital solutions. One important, rigorously tested harm-reduction method, however, i... Read More...Feb 27 2018
CONVICTED ‘Rehab Mogul’ raped women, dealt drugsDON’T DROP the SOAP – February 26, 2018 - LOS ANGELES — A self-dubbed “Rehab Mogul” who operated more than 13 drug treatment centers in Southern California was convicted Monday of rape and drug dealing. In all, Christop... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Recover From Addiction and THRIVE PodcastEvolving Man PODCAST – Feb. 21, 2018 - Jordan is a sex and relationship coach who helps his clients zero in on whats holding them back, and at lightning speed. He is a no BS coach who gets straight to the root of an iss... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Trump privately talks up executing all big drug dealersWith an Injection of Fentanyl? – Feb. 25, 2018 - In Singapore, the death penalty is mandatory for drug trafficking offenses. And President Trump loves it. He’s been telling friends for months that the country’s policy t... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Addiction Recovery in the Lap of LuxurySober, and the Living is Easy – Feb. 23, 2017 - In 2015, he opened the Lighthouse, a luxury sober-living home in Darien for executives. Last year, he opened a second branch in New Canaan. With rates of $10,500 to $17,50... Read More...Feb 27 2018
3 Books to Help You Understand MillennialsChildren of the Corn? – Feb. 14, 2018 - KIDS THESE DAYS Human Capital and the Making of Millennials By Malcolm Harris 261 pp. Little, Brown. $25. THE SELFIE GENERATION How Our Self Images Are Changing Our Notions o... Read More...Feb 27 2018
Jodie Sweetin: “I’ve Been Sober For Six Years From Drugs”No Artificial Sweeteners – Feb. 24, 2917 - Sweetin, 36, revealed: “I have not had any alcohol in at least eight years, and I have been sober from illegal substances for at least six years. “I take my sobriety very serio... Read More...Dec 25 2018Feb 27 2018
The Show Goes On for Arrested ‘Housewife’Married to Recovery? – Feb. 23, 2018 - Ms. de Lesseps says she has quit smoking, been practicing yoga, regularly attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and rehearsing rigorously. A few months ago, she moved to the Upp... Read More...Feb 27 2018
WATCH: Gabriel Byrne’s speech on alcoholism … brings nation to tearsThe Rooms to the Rescue – Feb. 16, 2018 - The Irish actor spoke candidly about his past demons. International actor Gabriel Byrne joined Ryan Tubridy on this week’s Late Late Show following his recent win at the Irish F... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Meet the Murderers: Family Feud over Opioid CrisisPill Pushers – Feb. 13, 2018 - The Sackler family, a sprawling and now feuding transatlantic dynasty, is famous in cultural and academic circles for decades of generous philanthropy towards some of the world’s leading i... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Scan environment for a bouquet of happiness dailySeek and Ye Shall Find – FEBRUARY 12, 2018 - It’s a choice, not occasion. 1. Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect, it means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections: You may never have everything that’s... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Can We Ever Replace Alcohol?Science May One Day Do So... – Feb 9, 2018 - David Nutt is the director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London. He claims to have invented a viable alcohol subst... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Disease Definition of Addiction Does More Harm Than GoodTrue? – Feb. 9, 2018 - Among other problems, it has obstructed other channels of investigation, including the social, psychological and societal roots of addiction … Definitions point us to strategies of investigation, ... Read More...Feb 20 2018
How to Talk With Teenagers About VapingA Bad OMEN – Feb. 14, 2018- Instead of leading with facts, consider starting with genuine curiosity. Setting judgment to the side, ask, “What’s your take on e-cigarettes?” or “Do you know kids who are vaping?” or someth... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Former addict whose overdose photo went viral reveals the real story behind the picAnd Lives to Tell the Tale... Feb. 17, 2018 - “Eventually, I was snorting it in the bathroom of my high school. And I knew it wasn’t good, but I couldn’t stop.” Adderall is an oral medication - but crushing and snorting... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Colorado’s largest drug treatment provider shut down: What went wrong at Arapahoe House?Management? – Feb. 18, 2018 - In the months before the abrupt shutdown of Colorado’s largest alcohol and drug treatment provider, others in the substance abuse field worried Arapahoe House’s new leadership lacked experi... Read More...Feb 20 2018
Opioid makers gave $10M to drug advocacy groups amid epidemicPayoff to Pain players – Feb. 18, 2018 - Fourteen nonprofit groups, mostly representing pain patients and specialists, received nearly $9 million from the drugmakers, according to investigators. Doctors affiliated with ... Read More...Feb 20 2018