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Drinking Cranberry Juice Every Day Helps Slow the Effects of Age-Related Cell Damage

COOL – Sept. 3, 2024 - What gives cranberry juice a possible anti-aging edge? The primary answer is the beverage’s high amounts of antioxidants; cranberry juice has plenty of antioxidant sources, including vitamin C ... Read More...

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Police Raid Largest Drug Lab in Polish History

VIDEO – PEOPLE ARE HIGH EVERYWHERE – Aug. 30, 2024 - In a joint operation involving Poland’s Central Bureau of Investigation and Ukraine’s Department for Combating Drug Crime, officers seized nearly 200 kg of synthet... Read More...

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Is Addiction a Chronic Brain Disease?

DEFINITELY POSSIBLY MAYBE!? – Sept. 3, 2024 - “I don’t think it helps to tell people they are chronically diseased and therefore incapable of change. Then what hope do we have?” said Kirsten E. Smith, an assistant pr... Read More...

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Could You Be a ‘borderline alcoholic’ As Adele Admitted?

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE – Sept. 3, 2024 - In fact, people who appear as ‘functional’ - but still drink excessively - can sometimes struggle to realise they might have a problem in the first place. Even celebrities are s... Read More...

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‘You Saved My Life’: Sober Man Thanks Substance Use Navigator

VIDEO – ASK FOR HELP – Sept. 6, 2024 - After decades of struggling with alcohol use disorder, Larry Boganwright now describes every day as a gift. “Here I stand today happy,” Boganwright said. “Life is so go... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Sergio Mendes

“There’s a word in English that I love: serendipity. That’s the story of my life.” – Sergio Mendes, b. Brazil, Feb. 11, 1941 – d. Los Angeles, Sept. 5, 2024 ... Read More...

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I Regrettably Tried a Nicotine Pouch

SHE LOVES IT – Aug. 23, 2024 - I am pathetically addicted to my vape. I am not proud of this, but it is what it is. Or more accurately, it dawned on me as I walked into WH Smith at Euston station a few weeks ago, I a... Read More...

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Ed Begley Jr. on A Sober Life and Career in Hollywood

AUDIO – ONE NOT ANGRY MAN – Aug. 18, 2024 - In this episode, we welcome Ed Begley Jr. Ed is a legendary actor with roles in films including This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Pineapple Express, Whateve... Read More...

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The Loneliness Epidemic

ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER – Aug. 27, 2024 - It contains elements of sadness and anxiety, fear and heartache. The experience of it is inherently, intensely subjective, as any chronically lonely person can tell you. ... Read More...

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When The Heir Is An Alcoholic

MONEY CAN’T BUY SOBRIETY – Aug. 22, 2024 - Over the years, Hutcheson and ReGeneration managing partner Elle Hansen have developed theories about why drug or alcohol abuse appears prevalent among the heirs to a family... Read More...

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The Magic and Mystery of Psychedelic Therapies

TIM’S NOT DEAD – Aug. 26, 2024 - David Hellerstein is one of a growing number of clinicians who are investigating a potential answer: the little understood, highly promising, very illegal class of drugs known as psyc... Read More...

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$2,400,000 Study On Psychedelics For Meth Addiction Treatment

SPEED KILLS – Aug. 28, 2024 - The study aims to determine whether psychedelics, such as psilocybin, could offer a new way to treat meth addiction. Researchers will focus on understanding how these substances work ... Read More...

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Spock’s Son Adam Nimoy On Reconciling with His Papa

TREK TO A MEETING – Aug. 28, 2024 - Even when the pointy ears came off, Leonard Nimoy had trouble expressing emotion. A highly repressed, high-functioning alcoholic, Nimoy connected with the character of Spock on “St... Read More...

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David Rush Holds 181 Guinness World Records

GOALS MATTER? – ... Read More...

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Fluoride In Drinking Water Lowers IQs In Children

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Virtual Riot Opens Up About Touring Sober

AUDIO – SOBRIETY TAKES DISCIPLINE – Aug. 26, 2024 - Living in LA for eight years, Virtual Riot admits he had every excuse to par... Read More...

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60% of Toddler Food Doesn’t Meet Nutrition Standards

GROW YOUR OWN? – Aug. 28, 2024 - “Dietary preferences are established quite young,” Dunford said. “Half of all the sugar that young kids are consuming through these commercial foods come from squeezed pouches, so tha... Read More...

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Doritos, Skittles, Pepsi and Gatorade Can ‘trigger an agonizing disease’

YUMMY? – Dec. 21, 2022 - Allura Red AC, a food coloring used in sweets and soft drinks like Doritos, Skittles, Pepsi and Gatorade, can trigger inflammation of the large intestine. The RED food dye product used in pop... Read More...

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Why Are Physicians Not Addressing Addiction?

TOO COMPLICATED? – &nbs... Read More...

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Matt Cardle Decides Booze Was Bad

NO KIDDING – Aug. 28, 2024 - X Factor star Matt Cardle has opened up about his rocky relationship with alcohol - and how being sober again has made everything ‘great’. The singer, 41, has always been candid ... Read More...

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Coach Shares Powerful Message About His Sobriety

TACKLING HIS DEMONS – &... Read More...

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Hotel Creating Sober Apartment House

VIDEO – LIVE IN PEACE – Aug. 28, 2024 - Safe Harbor is for people in recovery who are looking to live independently but also wan... Read More...

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Community Hero Zac Holt Provides Steps For Sobriety

VIDEO – ALWAYS MERRY AND BRIGHT – Aug. 28, 2024 - This week’s community hero is changing lives, starting with those who are down on their luck and battling addiction. Zac Holt brings a message of hope and love to tho... Read More...

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CALIFORNIA SOBER

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 2015 - Boom!!!!! Finally, the long awaited visual presentation of this awesome musical Anthem (that has played an important role in many people’s lives) is ready to be launched all over th... Read More...

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Body Brokering & Unethical Addiction Treatment

VIDEO – ONE BAD APPLE? – Aug. 26, 2024 - In the labyrinth of addiction recovery, where hope and despair often intertwine, a dark and insidious practice known as patient brokering, or “body brokering”, thrives. ... Read More...

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Whey Jennings On Overcoming Addiction

MUSICAL COWBOY OUTLAW – Aug. 23, 2024 - Whey Jennings comes from a famous family, but his life and music journey are completely his own. He’s the grandson of Waylon Jennings, and spent most of his life moving b... Read More...

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Acadia Healthcare Holding People Captive To Maximize Insurance Payouts

WHAT EVIL GREED LURKS IN CORPORATE HEALTHCARE? – Sept. 1, 2024 - A New York Times investigation found that success was built on a disturbing practice: Acadia has lured patients into its facilities and held them again... Read More...

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Telegram is Helping Americans Get Fentanyl by Mail

VIDEO – OD WITHOUT LEAVING HOME – Aug. 27, 2024 - French prosecutors arrested Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov and is being held as part of a cyber-crime investigation for offenses conducted on the platform including illic... Read More...

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Addiction Recovery Care Founder Calls FBI Probe ‘choppy waters’

WHERE THERE IS SMOKE... – Aug. 28, 2024 - The Lord calms stormy waters, the leader of Kentucky’s largest addiction treatment provider preached last week to a sanctuary full of clients, and these are certainly turbule... Read More...

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Older Black Men Disproportionately Affected by Overdose Crisis

WHAT ELSE IS NEW? – Aug. 31. 2024 - Although white and Black people use drugs at similar rates, fatal overdoses have escalated in Black people at a much higher rate than in other groups over the past decade, and mult... Read More...

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