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Woman Ordered to Treatment

BETTER THAN PRISON – May 6, 2023 - A woman with a history of forging checks received two suspended 19-48-month prison sentences and was ordered to pay nearly $4,900 in restitution. Bobbi Mortimer, 39, has be... Read More...

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Rob Lowe Celebrates God, Friends, Work, Dogs and Unions

EVERYONE’S HERO – May 10, 2023 - The 9-1-1: Lone Star actor received a number of responses to the post, including from his son John Owen, who said, ‘Proud of your recovery, opposite feeling about this selfie.’ One... Read More...

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Disturbed Frontman, David Draiman Opens Up On Addiction

VIDEO – IT’S NOT BLACK AND WHITE – May 10, 2023 - “All that bullshit people go ahead and spew about hard rock and heavy metal being something that’s dark and evil. Such a crock of shit. Don’t get me wrong — we have ... Read More...

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Beau Mann Biography: 13 Things About Sober Grid Founder

VIDEO – HE WILL BE MISSED, RIP Beau Mann – May 11, 2023 - Beau Mann was a sober living advocate from California, United States. He suffered from substance abuse issues when he was younger so he wanted to create a su... Read More...

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Famed Mommy Blogger Heather Armstrong, Suicide At 47

SADLY, AN OBITUARY – May 10, 2023 - Armstrong, who had two children with her former husband and business partner, Jon Armstrong, began Dooce in 2001 and built it into a lucrative career. She was one of the firs... Read More...

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Reflections On a Life of Drinking

...“MY SECOND LIVER TRANSPLANT” – May 5, 2023 - Jaundice turns your skin yellow. Also the whites of your eyes. Swollen ankles and midriff fluid – edema and ascites, I would learn to call them – are other outwar... Read More...

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Tom Holland Reveals Struggle With Sobriety and Healthy Mental Health

THE MYTH OF NORMAL – May 10, 2023 - “I’m no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action-movie thing,” Holland said. “But the mental aspect, it really beat me up and it took a long time f... Read More...

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Police Find Remains of Beau Mann, Sober Grid App Founder, Missing Since Nov. 2021

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY – May 9, 2023 - The remains of a Los Angeles tech CEO who has been missing for more than a year were found in Santa Monica. Beau Mann, who was last seen a few days after Thanksgiv... Read More...

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Documenting Sobriety Can Restore Relationships

100% PROOF – May 1, 2023 - By sharing the moving stories of Soberlink clients who have successfully rebuilt their lives and relationships, the “Proof is Powerful” initiative brings attention to the significance of t... Read More...

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‘Yellowstone’ Star was in Debt Amid Drug Addiction: ‘I had no clothes, I had no money’

$400,000 in DEBT – May 7, 2023 - “I lost everything in the fire. I had no car, I had no clothes, I had no money — I was $400,000 in debt,” Bentley recalled. After moving to Hollywood, The Hunger Games star s... Read More...

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Teenagers Devise Alexa Skill For Those Struggling With Alcohol Addiction

TECH TO THE RESCUE – May 2, 2023 - After starting to code at the age of nine, Eleora proposed an Alexa skillcalled ‘Sober Tracker’ to help those struggling with alcohol addiction and substance abuse after being inspi... Read More...

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I used to drink heavily and got sick all the time. I got sober last year and haven’t gotten sick once.

SHE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE – May 2, 2023 - Instead, for me, the social implications of quitting alcohol proved most difficult. I had always leaned on alcohol as a crutch for my social anxiety, so I avoided large social g... Read More...

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Meditating On The Road To Recovery

FROM CHEAP DIVE, DEEP DIVE – May 4, 2023 - He found that “it was a really difficult thing to find people to connect with in recovery and sobriety in Northwest Ohio. I was always just a little bit different … There wa... Read More...

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Can Cannabis Aid Addiction Recovery?

GOD, GRANT ME THE IRONY... – May 4, 2023 - When I decided to quit drinking alcohol because it was spiraling my life out of control, weed was never something I had questioned to quit as well,” Katie shared, “Alc... Read More...

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People With Anxiety and Mood Disorders More Likely To Become Problem Drinkers

NOT IF THEY SMOKE POT – May 3, 2023 - “Our findings show that on a drink-for-drink basis, those with anxiety and depression experience more symptoms related to alcohol use disorder. If addiction were a competition, t... Read More...

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Post-Acute Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: Is It Real?

REHAB INDUSTRY CONSPIRACY? – May 4, 2023 - The idea of it was introduced by Terence Gorski and Merlene Miller in their 1982 book Counseling for Relapse Prevention, and they expanded upon it in Staying Sober: A ... Read More...

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Recovering Addicts Turn To Science to Map the Effects of Meth

CAN BRAINS BOUNCE BACK? – May 5, 2023 - New Zealanders are some of the world’s biggest meth takers: wastewater testing has placed it in the top four consumers worldwide. The country’s physical isolation – 4,000... Read More...

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Ellsworth Acres Helps Women Recovering Through Agriculture

GROWING NEW LIVES – May 5, 2023 - Erin Helms started Ellsworth Acres when she noticed that addiction recovery services did not address the person as a whole. She was working as a counselor at a treatment center in Oh... Read More...

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Drinking While Working at Home

NAPPING ANYTIME – May 5, 2023 - Remote work, for some people, is accompanied by a substantial increase in alcohol consumption. During the COVID pandemic, more than a third of Americans reported consuming more alcohol... Read More...

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Sobering Facts—Doctors Talk Addiction

FRIGHTENING – May 2, 2023 - The leading medical professionals discussed treatment, including medication and long-term recovery with members of the Kittitas County recovery community and others looking for clari... Read More...

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Hooked on Fentanyl: Man Shares Journey to Sobriety

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE – May 3, 2023 - From the couch of his addiction treatment center, 49-year-old Michael Padrta is hopeful to finally be on a new path after almost 40 years of drug use and two stints in pri... Read More...

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16 Celebs Who Opened Up About Getting Sober

MODERN ROLE MODELS – May 5, 2023 - Though some, like Ben Affleck and Demi Lovato, experienced highly publicized setbacks, their slip-ups haven’t stopped them from resiliently pursuing sobriety. Others faced add... Read More...

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Nun Remembered as “Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous”

A REAL HIGHER POWER – March 4, 2023 - At the time, alcoholism was not treated as a medical condition. The patient had been brought to her by Dr. Bob Smith, a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous who was working at S... Read More...

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Not Treating Addicts in Criminal Justice Settings Violates 4 Ethical Principles

THE AMERICAN WAY? – May 4, 2023 - Unfortunately, our medical system in the United States is violating all four of those principles by not routinely treating substance use disorders in the criminal justice syste... Read More...

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Lawmakers Push Back Against ‘Harm Reduction’

INSANITY – May 4, 2023 - A nonprofit group called Safehouse has been negotiating with the U.S. Justice Department, hoping to open supervised injection clinics in Philadelphia. If this measure is approved and... Read More...

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FILM: Swimming To Sobriety

ONE MILE AT A TIME – May 4, 2023 - Tuff, 42, despite spending his summers on a 10-square-mile island, never really learned how to swim until he quit drinking at 32 years old when his sponsor suggested he try co... Read More...

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JetBlue First Major Airline to Serve Non-Alcoholic Beer

LESS TURBULENCE – May 5, 2023 - The Financial Times ranked Athletic Brewing as the fourth fastest-growing company in the country in 2021, and by 2022, the company had made it onto Time’s list of the 100 Most Influent... Read More...

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What Is “Sobersplaining”?

LET ME TELL YOU... – May 5, 2023 - Two types of sobersplainers John Stuart Mill, in On Liberty(1859), observes that it is part of human nature for each of us to assume we are right about the goodness or rightne... Read More...

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‘Be careful what you wish for!’ Matthew Perry on the Dark Side of Fame and Addiction

A FRIEND of BILL’S – April 22, 2023 - Matthew Perry “never realised” that there was a dark side to fame. The 53-year-old actor became a household name when he was cast in the NBC sitcom ‘Friends’ alongside Jennife... Read More...

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Mickey Mantle’s Regrets a Lesson On Alcoholism

AUDIO – HOW MUCH GREATER? – April 28, 2023 - The New York Yankees superstar center fielder and first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee recounted his life as an alcoholic with brutal candor. Mantle admitted that because of... Read More...

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