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Inside the Story of America’s 19th-Century Opiate Addiction

JANUARY 4, 2018 - The Civil War helped set off America’s opiate epidemic. The Union Army alone issued nearly 10 million opium pills to its soldiers, plus 2.8 million ounces of opium powders and tinctures. An unknown numb... Read More...

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Google makes millions from plight of addicts

Addicts for Sale – Jan. 7, 2018 - An undercover investigation by The Sunday Times has found that the internet giant charged the middlemen as much as £200 each time someone accesses their website with... Read More...

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Year End Film List of 2017

The Year's Best – Jan. 2, 2018 - I've seen most of these in the theater, a few at home. (Ratings based on personal reaction, opinion, enjoyability and my delight for the art. Not a crit... Read More...

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Dear eBulletin Readers

A Letter from the Editor/Publisher — Jan. 2, 2018 - Dear eBulletin readers and beloved advertisers, It’s 2018 and the Addiction/Recovery eBulletin is very excited to be launching our new website, ... Read More...

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Everything You Know is a Lie!

WARNING – Dec. 22, 2017 - VIEWER COMMENTS: It’s been preached for years that Big Pharm does not care about you.They haven’t cured nothing since Polio. Please do the research. Inform yourself and trus... Read More...

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Bill calls for mandatory jail or rehab for drug offenders

January 4, 2018 - A new House bill would require mandatory jail time or rehabilitation for drug users who violate their probation. Local representative Niraj Antani introduced the bill. He said it’s all about saving liv... Read More...

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Administration Takes Step That Could Threaten Marijuana Legalization

ARREST THEM POTHEADS – Jan. 4, 2018 - “It puts the industry on notice in these states who thought they had cover from the states and the feds,” he said. “All these people are going to wake up today w... Read More...

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City of Addict Entrepreneurs

Cashoholics Anonymous — Dec. 27, 2017 - The vans, she learned after tailing one, were ferrying addicts all over town to what amounted to halfway houses for those in recovery: sober living homes. “I fol... Read More...

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Darryl Strawberry: Sex addiction drove him to dalliances during games

No One Told Him to Slide — Dec. 24, 2017 - “It was a pretty crazy lifestyle, you know,” Strawberry said in the interview that runs on Thursday’s show. “All addictions have to do with behavior.” … S... Read More...

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U.K. Woman Tried to Bring Painkillers Into Egypt. She Was Sentenced to 3 Years

0 Tolerance – Dec. 26, 2017 - Laura Plummer, 33, was arrested after authorities found her bringing 300 tablets of Tramadol, a powerful class C painkiller, into Egypt, the BBC reports. Trama... Read More...

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Father Shares Emotional Post About Daughter’s Heroin Overdose

The Family Afterwards — December 28, 2017 - An Ohio father made a Facebook post about losing his daughter to a heroin overdose, opening people’s eyes up to the harsh reality of opioid addiction. Ti... Read More...

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Judge finds McKees Rocks rehab operator is a danger; keeps him locked up

Double Agent — Dec. 27, 2017 - Prosecutors say accused heroin dealer David Francis delivered drugs to overdose victims, vouched for his alleged New York suppliers in order to get them released from... Read More...

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2 Addiction Recovery Centers Under Investigation in Oklahoma

Slave Labor is Back — Dec. 28, 2017 - A sign marks the entrance to the Faith Based Therapeutic Community Corporation recovery program in Fort Gibson. The program is under investigation for alleged fo... Read More...

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Massachusetts prosecutors to throw out 8,000 convictions in second drug lab scandal

Evil Woman — Dec. 28, 2017 - “Foster and Kaczmarek piled misrepresentation upon misrepresentation,” Superior Court Judge Richard J. Carey wrote last June, “to shield the mental health work sheets fro... Read More...

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Kickstarter’s Yancey Strickler Announces Support For Five NonProfits

Help for the Addiction Services — Dec. 28, 2017 - On Thursday, Kickstarter Co-Founder and current CEO, Yancey Strickler, took to Twitter to announce his support for five nonprofits after reading pred... Read More...

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5 Ways to Get Sober in the New Year

Many Paths, One Destination — Dec. 31, 2017 - New Year’s resolutions come and go, but a resolve to get sober is accessible and sustainable throughout the year. Experts working in addiction treatment ... Read More...

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A Doctor with a Phone and a Mission

Call Centers Connect – Dec. 27, 2017 - More than 200,000 people seek addiction treatment on the phone or online every month. Few of them realize that their pleas for help are a valuable commodity —... Read More...

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Philadelphia’s Overdose Epidemic

Philly Photo Essay – Dec. 28, 2017 - Seth Ditizio, an investigator for nine years in the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office and before that a veteran of the Army infantry in Iraq, knows death.... Read More...

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Do You Have Video “Gaming Disorder,” A Newly Recognized Mental Health Condition?

Wasted Minds – DEC. 24, 2017 - Amazon listed as one of the most common items purchased along with the video game Call of Duty 4? A brand of adult diapers. Yes, apparently some video gamers are we... Read More...

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Governor Launches Campaign to Warn New Yorkers About Fraudulent Addiction Treatment Referral Services

GREAT IDEA – Dec. 27, 2017 - “Vulnerable New Yorkers struggling with addiction are being targeted and falsely promised life-saving treatment services and then are given inadequate and ineffective t... Read More...

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Rehab Riviera: Are drugs for drug addicts a solution or a crutch?

Anything Goes — Dec. 28, 2017 - “There are people in the 12-step community who tell their own, ‘You have a sponsor, don’t listen to your doctor. Don’t take that medication. Don’t take anything,’ ” sa... Read More...

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How one woman became a local hero of the opioid

Doing a Life Saving Deed — Dec. 29, 20167 - As the opioid crisis worsens, Lori Erion is finding success fighting it just outside Dayton, Ohio. Her organization “Families of Addicts” focuses on cele... Read More...

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Staring Down Addiction and Fending Off Harmful Voices

AA Not the Only Way... — DEC. 28, 2017 - “I went to war with addiction,” Mr. Wilson said. There, he encountered a woman who told him about an Alcoholics Anonymous program held in the basement of a ... Read More...

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Drug and alcohol treatment facility proposed at Aspen Institute site in Maryland

The Right Side of History — Dec. 30, 2017 - Recovery Centers of America is in negotiations with the Aspen Institute to purchase the River House and a portion of the Houghton House parcel … The conf... Read More...

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Dr. Phil’s Show Denies Claims That Guests Were Encouraged to Use Drugs and Alcohol

All for Higher Ratings? – Dec. 29, 2017 - STAT and The Boston Globe published an exposé on Thursday, which includes accounts from multiple guests who say their substance addictions were enabled by me... Read More...

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Industry struggling to get clean

Most Rehabs Practice Best Practices — Dec. 29, 2017 - California’s notoriously hands-off approach to regulating the industry — still predominantly non-medical even as other states push hard for a mor... Read More...

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

Recommended Book for the Year – Dec. 2017 - This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 19... Read More...

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Opioid Policy Becomes Personal After Husband’s Death

Death Doesn't Take a Holiday — Dec. 29, 2017 - Joe Thompson’s struggle with opioids started in 2004. After he was in a serious car accident, Thompson says her husband was likely overprescribed medication... Read More...

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What Does Tyler Perry, the 12-Steps of AA & Bhutan Have In Common?

We're All Connected – 12/24/2017 - Angela Davis was on her game, focused, attentive and present in the room and there was a spirit greater than any of us present as we joined together clapping hand... Read More...

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Dr. Phil says he rescues people from addiction. Some say his show puts guests’ health at risk

Ratings Mean More Than Anything? – DECEMBER 28, 2017 - TV viewers, however, didn’t see the setup for this shocking scene. Herzog, who was battling alcoholism, told STAT and the Boston Globe that h... Read More...