Samuel L. Jackson Reveals Drug Addiction in his Early Career VIDEO – SOBRIETY AIN’T NO “PULP FICTION” – Mar. 18, 2022 - Jackson was addicted to crack cocaine during in the early years of his marriage and career. He said his addiction defined relationships with his famil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 22 2022RecoveryRehab
Can Big $ in Addiction Tech, Curb Soaring Overdose Deaths? ADDICTION IS BIG BUSINESS – Mar. 18, 2022 - David Sarabia had already sold two startups by age 26 and was sitting on enough money to never have to work another day in his life. He moved from Southern Cali... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
William Hurt Eschewed Opioids to Maintain his Sobriety NO MATTER WHAT – March 16, 2022 - “He was totally against taking opiates because he had been sober for decades,” the source also said. Hurt’s friend told the Daily Mail that the actor sought out alternative tre... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 22 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Feeling Out of Balance in Sobriety? TAKE A STAND, AND THEN STAND THERE – March 16, 2022 - Many people start to feel off-balance when they’re dealing with too many worries or responsibilities. Again, let’s consider the example from earlier; it’s r... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Christy Carlson Romano Says It Was ‘Challenging to Be Sober During COVID’ AND SHE DID IT – March 13, 2022 - She added that, as a mother to two daughters — Isabella, 5, and Sophia, 3, whom she shares with husband Brendan Rooney — there were times she felt alone despite being surround... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusinterventionInterviewMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Occasionally Charming Alcoholism Drama WAIT FOR NETFLIX – March 15, 2022 - The film’s eponymous protagonist, Leslie (Andrea Riseborough), became a household name in her small Texas town when she won the lottery. That fame quickly turned to notoriety... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMarch 22 2022RecoveryREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehab
Jamie Lee Curtis Helps LaKeith Stanfield With His Sobriety CELEBRITIES 12th STEP TOO! – March 16, 2022 - “My experience is that when you feel you are alone, that’s a very scary feeling,” Curtis said about her decision to reach out to Stanfield in 2021 to support his so... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Tips On How To Travel Sober DON’T DRINK – March 14, 2022 - The No. 1 rule, according to Ginger Blair, LMSW and Certified Addictions Counselor with more than 40 years of experience in behavioral medicine, is this: Plan, plan, plan. “Com... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Skin Graft: Next Breakthrough In Addiction Treatment? BELIEVE IN SCIENCE – March 15, 2022 - Mice forced to drink water laced with cocaine and alcohol were found to ignore their spiked options in favor of plain water after receiving a skin graft of altered human ce... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022RecoveryRehab
Alcohol Misuse Linked to 232 Million Missed Workdays THAT’S A LOT OF P.T.O. – March 17, 2022 - Heavy alcohol use is associated with missing work, but the scope of that relationship has not been well understood. Now, based on survey data from more than 110,000 U.S... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
What Amy Winehouse Taught Us About Denial and Alcoholism REST IN PEACE – March 8, 2022 - Denial was dangerous for Winehouse because it interfered with her ability to accept the help she needed to meet a challenge she could not overcome on her own. Pride certainly got... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Euphoria star Says Working in Porn Led to an Eating Disorder SKIN AND BONERS – Mar. 9, 2022 - With the help of mental health professionals, Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry has recovered from an eating disorder, but it’s something she’s not sure she would have developed if it wa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma
ACLU Sues Over Sobriety Program BEING DRUNK AIN’T A CRIME – March 8, 2022 - The twice-daily breath tests are administered by Teton County Sheriff’s Department deputies between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. each morning and from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly.... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 15 2022RecoveryRehab
Will There Ever Be a ‘Cure’ for Addiction? IN OUR DREAMS? – March 7, 2022 - Drug addiction involves changes in the brain, and those changes are in brain circuits that we use for everyday life—for seeking food and shelter, procreating our species, avoidi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionMarch 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Josh Peck Opens Up About His Past Drug and Alcohol Addiction NOT REGRET THE PAST NOR WITH TO SHUT THE DOOR ON IT – Mar. 9, 2022 - Born and raised in New York City, Peck began performing stand-up comedy as an adolescent before a breakout role on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Woman Chose Sobriety For a Better Life AUDIO – WOMAN ON THE BEAM – March 9, 2022 - Millions of Americans have a drinking problem. According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health nearly 15 million Americans, ages 12 and older, had an alc... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 15 2022RecoveryRehab
The Anatomy of Understanding Anxiety BOOK REVIEW – March, 2022 - As some of the millions of people on psychiatric medication inevitably decide to discontinue their meds for one reason or another, what I’m witnessing is that there are legions of pe... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Federal Government Allows Program to Pay Substance Abusers to Staying Clean LISTEN – MONEY FOR NOTHING – Mar 10, 2022 - A new legal opinion from the Biden administration appears to clear the way for wider use of an underutilized harm reduction technique: paying people addicted to drug... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 15 2022Mental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Sobriety and Financial Security: Raiders’ Maxx Crosby Is Doubly Thankful After Signing $53 Million Guaranteed AUDIO – MAKING THE MOST OUT OF SOBRIETY – March 11, 2022 - “It’s a blessing,” Crosby said via a Zoom call with reporters. “You can’t make it up. A lot of people have been asking like, ‘Did you plan to do that? ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabSuper Bowl
Dr. Peter Hayden, Recognized Pioneer of Black Sobriety SOBER BROTHERHOOD – Mar. 10, 2022 - “What I had to do then is buy into the system. So all my friends were White because I wanted to stay sober. For those seven years, I did whatever it took, aside break the law... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
TikTokers are Redefining What It Means to Get Sober SOBER IN SECONDS – Mar. 7, 2022 - I love the phrase “sober curious,” because it centers curiosity — something that feels more organic and accessible than hard-and-fast rules that sobriety has historically been... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Even One Drink a Day Can Be BAD for the Brain EVEN A SMALL ONE? – March 4, 2022 - The research, which was published today in the journal Nature Communications, analyzed data from 36,678 adults across the U.K.; it’s important to note that the partipants wer... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Is Atlanta Ready for a Zero-Proof Cocktail Bar? MOCKTAILS? OR MOCKTALES? – March 8, 2022 - “Back then, the majority of places would have a token lemonade with fresh herbs or something with ginger beer, drinks that were very one dimensional,” he explains. “J... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMarch 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Artist Predicted Social Media Addiction 50 Years Ago NOW HE TELLS US! – Mar. 8, 2022 - Audiences are consumers & subjects of mass media As an internationally taught artist, Paik spent a considerable amount of time in various countries, observing t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addictionvideo games
Confessions of a Grunge God AUDIO – SO MANY LOSSES – March 7, 2022 - Lanegan, who died Feb. 22 at the age of 57, talks about losing Kurt Cobain, Anthony Bourdain, and other close friends, and shares heartbreaking details from his struggle... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionInterviewMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
‘Society judges women more harshly for addiction’ (needs free registration to read) PREJUDICE – Feb. 26, 2022 - Women face extra hurdles in battling addiction because male-focused drug support services are neglecting their needs, new research has found. ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Sobriety Walk For Tribal Members To Share ONLY ONE FAMILY – March 3, 2022 - The legacy of alcohol and drug use as a coping mechanism among generations of Native Americans is one that Mariesha Keith does not want to see passed on. Keith, Tribal Liai... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 8 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘This Is My Fifth Rehab I’ve Been To In 10 Years’ KEEP COMING BACK AND BACK – Feb. 25, 2022 - Asked about his current health status, he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’m doing well. I’m an AA guy. I’m a 12-Step Program guy. I spent six months in ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 8 2018Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
The Labyrinth of American Health Care by Emily Maloney BOOK REVEW – Feb. 25, 2022 - The precipitating event in “Cost of Living” is the author’s psychiatric hospitalization at 19: “It wasn’t that I had wanted to die, exactly. It was more that I just couldn’t keep l... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 8 2018RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Devastating’: London Addiction Recovery Centre to Shut NO SALVATION? – Feb. 25, 2022 - That means many London-area residents seeking help with long-term addiction must go back to waiting months for a treatment centre bed while remaining in the same circumstances e... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab