NEW BOOK – Scattered Pink: A Diary of a Woman in Recovery READING IS HEALTHY – Feb. 22, 2022 - During my active addiction, I thought I was going to die and I accepted that. It sounds morbid, but it was where I was in life. I was in love with heroin and the dysfunctio... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 8 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Marin Rehab Faces Sexual Abuse Lawsuit WHERE WAS HR? – Feb. 27, 2020 - Vazquez, 35, filed the lawsuit on Feb. 8 in Marin County Superior Court. The suit seeks special damages, general damages, punitive damages and attorney fees. Carter could not... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Convict’s Remarkable Transformation After Beating 30 Year Drug Habit COMEBACKS HAPPEN IN RECOVERY – Feb. 27, 2022 - Shawn first took drugs at the age of 14, starting with cannabis and Valium. His addiction to substances then grew and he started a life of crime to fund his hab... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 8 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Live from Rehab’ Comedian Zane Helberg Is Back FRONT ROW OR FRONTAL LOBOTOMY? – Feb. 26, 2022 - Helberg got into comedy because it was on his bucket list, he says by phone from his home in Southern California. He had been interested in theater when he was ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 8 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Why Was John Mulaney In Rehab? TO SAVE HIS LIFE – Feb. 27, 2022 - He has recounted stories of his partying and drug abuse from a young age, including how he first became sober at the age of 23. At the time of his admission, a source close t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
What Is Harm Reduction? DEATH PREVENTION – Feb. 25, 2022 - Other harm reduction objectives include decreasing the stigma associated with addiction, increasing education on safer substance use, encouraging protected sex, and connecting... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionMay 8 2018RecoveryRehab
Man Changes Lives After Losing Son To Addiction CHANGE OF HEART TOO – Feb. 27, 2022 - After dealing with the tragic loss of a son to addiction in 2019, Paul Williamson and his wife have built a thrift store and ministry for people battling the disease. Ou... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 8 2022OverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
If Only I Had ‘Euphoria’ During Height of My Drug Addiction VIDEO – THIS IS NOW – Feb. 28, 2022 - It’s making addicts and the people who love them feel less alone, and it’s illuminating the dark reality of addiction for people who might be struggling to understand. The ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyMay 8 2018Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
‘Single Drunk Female’s Pacing Does Disservice to Her Sobriety Journey IT’S TELEVISION – March 1, 2022 - ...community service, moving home with her mom, going to Alcoholics Anonymous for the first time, backsliding, and finally committing to sobriety. It’s a lot of material for th... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Gambling Addictions Rise After Legalization of Mobile Sports Betting THE ADDICTION THAT LOVES SUICIDE – Feb. 27, 2022 - Delaney is one of 4.3% of adult residents in New York who are having problems related to their gambling, according to the New York Council on Problem Gambling.... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneGaminginternetMarch 8 2022Mental HealthSmartphone AddictionSuper Bowlvideo games
John Mulaney on SNL Makes Fun of His Intervention VIDEO – HAHA? – Feb. 27, 2022 - “It was not dinner, it was an intervention for me. My least favorite kind of intervention,” said Mulaney. “I knew right away it was an intervention. You know how bad a drug probl... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionMarch 8 2022RecoveryRehab
Book Review: A Sweeping History of Addiction MEDIA: BOOKS MAKE SENSE – Feb. 25, 2022 - “The Urge” ultimately unfolds as far more than an addiction memoir. Arriving at a time when the so-called opioid epidemic has become a defining crisis of our time, it ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 1 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
One More Drink Will Kill Me – Says James ‘Arg’ Argent After ‘bad relapse’ THE ENGLISH RELAPSE TOO – Feb. 21, 2022 - Arg broke his silence for the first time since we revealed paramedics rushed to save him, claiming he is full of regret for putting his life in danger and vowed it wil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMarch 1 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Patrick Kennedy Marks 11 Years of Sobriety ADVOCATE FOR SOBRIETY – Feb, 22, 2022 - Patrick Kennedy is marking a major milestone in his journey from addiction as he celebrates 11 years of sobriety. Kennedy, 54, the son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy an... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 1 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Navigating Grief As A Result of Substance Abuse HEART ACHE FOREVER – Feb. 24, 2022 - But on December 19th Jenna received a phone call that her sister was cold and unresponsive on the floor ... “I also knew that she had that watch on but it didn’t alwa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionMarch 1 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Can Retail Therapy Actually Be Helpful? SHOPAHOLICS UNITE! – Feb. 25, 2022 - “Retail therapy” can get confused with “shopping addiction,” but these terms have different meanings. During retail therapy, you are in control of your spending and feel ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMarch 1 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Woman Uses Life Experience To Help Women Tackle Sobriety A FOUR LEAF CLOVER – Feb. 25, 2022 - Having grown up familiar with alcoholism, binge-drinking and using recovery coaches in her own life, Joanne wanted to add to the chain of recovery by forming a specialised p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionInterviewMarch 1 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Habit or Addiction? HALF A DOZEN OF ONE, SIX ... – Feb. 26, 2022 - Before I begin though, to explain the automatic thing my legs do most mornings, I’d like to ask “What is your biggest dream?” A doctor acquaintance of mine rec... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 1 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Kit Harington Opens Up About Sobriety and ‘Exorcising Demons’ VIDEO – GAME OF GROANS – Feb. 24, 2022 - Harington says that when some people find out that he’s playing the role of Henry V, their first thought is of his Game of Thrones character Jon Snow. While he admits t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionMarch 1 2022RecoveryRehab
Michael Keaton’s Emotional Speech After Winning His SAG Award for Dopesick TEARFUL ACCEPTANCE – Feb. 28, 2022 - Michael Keaton was teary-eyed as he accepted the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Award for best male actor in a television movie or limited series. He won the award for “Dopesic... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 1 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecovery
Seeing Addiction as a Disease WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET – Feb. 24, 2022 - “We’re in what is now becoming known as the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic. The first wave was the over-prescription of analgesics like oxycodone, morphine and... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictioninterventionMarch 1 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Elton John Is Eminem’s Unofficial Sponsor GOING THE EXTRA 8 MILES – Feb. 25, 2022 - Elton John has been living sober for over 30 years. And in that time, the Grammy-winning artist has been able to reflect on his life before and after he found his sobr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewMarch 1 2022RecoveryRehab
Gaming Addiction Is Now a Globally Recognized Illness VIDEO – NO TIME FOR MANICURES – Feb. 24, 2022 - Among gamers and parents and even within the medical community, there’s disagreement about whether gaming addiction is real. Either way, the WHO’s designation cou... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetinterventionMarch 1 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabvideo games
Bitcoin, Recovery and an Addiction to Debt A GLOBAL OBSESSION – Feb. 23, 2022, - Many people’s lives are characterized by similar obsessive-compulsive behaviors. People can be addicted to work, sex, food, power, wealth, possessions and so on. Any extern... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMarch 1 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Lottie Moss sings about drugs and dances to the Euphoria theme song in bizarre videos filmed at rehab – after revealing she has a cocaine addiction VIDEO – ON THE EDGE – Feb. 17, 2022 - In another video with a kaleidoscope style filter, Lottie danced around to the theme song for Euphoria. The HBO drama stars Zendaya and follows a group of high school stud... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionRecovery
‘Lisa’s Light’: Couple Aim to Illuminate Addiction CATHARSIS – Feb. 16, 2022 - Her parents, Gary and Judy Stoefen, have written a book detailing her successes and challenges in hopes that it will steer others from a similar path. The couple, who met while gr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Signs of Porn Addiction and When to Get Help AUDIO – POWERFUL – Feb. 12, 2022 - “At this point in time, there is no recognized diagnosis of ‘pornography addiction,’ and there is no evidence that pornography is inherently ‘addictive’,” Joshua Grubbs, asso... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 22 2022internetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabSexual AddictionSmartphone Addiction
Delilah Hamlin Celebrates 6 Months of Sobriety After Accidental Overdose VIDEO – ALIVE AND WELL – Feb. 18, 2022 - “I found a psychiatrist and he over-prescribed me,” she said. “He over-prescribed me with one medication that one of my friends takes for 10 milligrams and he gave me 2... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Out of Reach for Many Americans NOT ALL EQUAL – Feb. 17, 2022 - These gaps in care put patients struggling with OUD at risk, and many need effective treatment now more than ever. Understanding these disparities can help state policymakers imp... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
I Am an Alcoholic In Rehab VIDEO – FIRST HAND ACCOUNT – Feb. 19, 2022 - As I write this in my marble notebook, I am a stereotype, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette, dry just a few days. It’s a chilly morning for Southern California. I... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab