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Dancer Corey O’Brien In Powerful Short Film on 9 Years Sober

WATCH – EVERYONE WINS – Sept 30, 2021 - “Filming ‘Freedom’ was a way for me to be vulnerable and reminisce on the past while being able to share my story of growth, which is important,” O’Brien, 30, told HuffP... Read More...

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Deep Brain Stimulation May Ease Addictions

WATCH – IT BETTER – Sept. 29, 2021 - Fisher, 36, who lives in West Virginia, is the third patient enrolled in a clinical trial being conducted at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Insti... Read More...

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Demand for Sober-Living Residences

LISTEN NPR – RECOVERY CAN START ANYWHERE – Oct. 2, 2021 - Money from opioid settlements will flow into recovery services around the country. Some residents of Parkersburg, W.V., say their small city is u... Read More...

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How the Pandemic Led to the Rise of Virtual Rehab

YOUR NEW CONNECTION – Oct. 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic drove the demand for telehealth in 2020, but experts say that telehealth will likely become a permanent fixture in both the tech and healthcare landscapes.&nb... Read More...

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A Litre of Vodka and Four Bottles of Wine During Lockdown

DEATH AVERTED – Oct. 2, 2021 - “He said to me ‘I think you have something to tell me. You need to say it out loud’,” Kathleen added. “And I looked at him and said ‘I’m an alcoholic’. That was the first t... Read More...

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Psych Student Wins Grant To Study Alcoholism Treatments in Marginalized Populations

WE NEED MORE SCHOLARS – Oct. 1, 2021 - Working with College of Health Sciences professors Nicole Weiss, Sarah Feldstein-Ewing and Manshu Yang, Goldstein will spend the next two years poring through the d... Read More...

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Racism Is An Addiction…In The Recovery Industry by Ester Nicholson

IS THERE A 12-STEP PROGRAM FOR THAT? – Oct. 4, 2021 - I am a black woman in recovery. In my 35 years of recovery, and as a recovery professional, I have experienced bias and racism. When I entered ... Read More...

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Evidence Exposes Harms of Smoking Ban in Drug Treatment

WHO FUNDED THE STUDY? – Sept. 27, 2021 - The study also found that 46 percent of participants reported that the smoking ban was impacting their decision about whether or not to seek inpatient addiction treatme... Read More...

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Austin-Based ‘CLEAN Cause’ Awards $1.2M in Scholarships

WATCH – DRINK UP, IT’S FOR A CLEAN CAUSE – Sept. 30, 2021 - Hurt struggled with alcohol and drug addiction before finding a path to recovery and starting CLEAN Cause. His company gives half of its profit... Read More...

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A Helping Hand

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN – 2021 - In a soaring chapel space, a men’s choir sings two resounding songs to the beat of a band. It’s a diverse group—old, young, African American, white, some looking dapper in... Read More...

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Temple Drug Rehab Centre Accused of Torture

WATCH – NOT ALL THAI REHABS ARE CREATED EQUAL – Sept. 22, 2021 - Media reported the addicts were there both voluntarily and as a condition of their release by police. All had to pay 12,000 baht each once they ... Read More...

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Cheryl Burke Says Sharing Sobriety With Fans Has Been ‘Scary’

WATCH – ALL THE RIGHT STEPS – Sept. 20, 2021 - In the video Burke posted Monday morning, Burke drove while she spoke to the camera about how doing the show sober was “scary for her,” and that while she c... Read More...

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Officer Refused Sobriety Test After Crash Killed Fellow Officer

NO ONE IS IMMUNE – Sept. 24, 2021 - A witness who called in the crash to authorities said the passengers in the car, who all suffered minor injuries, performed chest compressions on Castellano, according to th... Read More...

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Alcohol Kills More Americans Than Drug Overdoses

LEGALIZE IT! OH, IT IS – Sept. 24, 2021 - As we observe National Recovery Month throughout September, it’s important to recognize the scope of America’s alcohol dependence and help those with alcohol use disor... Read More...

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District Court Judge: Addiction is a Disease

BUT IT’S STILL A CRIME? – Sept. 23, 2021 - She admitted that while serving as prosecutor, then as a judge, she believed that in sentencing people with a substance use addiction (SUD) to jail, she was doi... Read More...

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Heartache of Addiction Leads to Lifetime of Activism

PRISON IS NOT THE ANSWER – Sept. 24, 2021 - If you have been reading The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a while, this story may sound familiar. Boccia wrote an editorial about the crisis of heroin addiction ... Read More...

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Skate Straight for Those Battling Addiction

WATCH – BALANCE AND GRACE – Sept. 23, 2021 - At first, he didn’t think anyone would show up, but before long people came from everywhere. A chapter of Skate Straight recently opened in England and he hopes to ... Read More...

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“We Shouldn’t Jail Shoplifters – Victims Should Pay for Thieves’ Rehab Costs” Police Chief

GOTTA LOVE THIS WOMAN – Sept. 24, 2021 - Miss Jones, who at 27 was the youngest ever magistrate in England and Wales, said: ‘I think that we need a review of the way that sentencing in this country is done... ‘... Read More...

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Why I Stayed in a Damaging Relationship With an Alcoholic

YOU’RE IN IRELAND? – Sept. 25, 2021 - When he finally fell right off the wagon and descended into an alcoholic vortex of total life-obliteration, lasting nearly a year, I found myself in a situation for which ... Read More...

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‘The Flight Attendant’

NOT HARD NEWS! REAL FUN FICTION ON TV – Sept. 24, 2021 - In Season 2, Cassie is sent on an overnight assignment where she inadvertently witnesses a murder, entangling her in another case filled with inte... Read More...

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Patricia Heaton Shares What Led Her to Sobriety

ON A PINK CLOUD (SORT OF) – Sept. 23, 2021 - And I was so humiliated in front of my sons, and their friends,” she continued. “And God knows that that’s all it takes for me — for that kind of sense of the... Read More...

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Using Yoga to Help with Addiction Recovery

WATCH – STRETCHING MIND AND BODY – Sept. 22, 2021 - With little left to give, Daffner channeled his hopelessness into a willingness to try just about anything, and that’s when he discovered the Scottsdale Reco... Read More...

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Jeremy Plummer Returns Home to “Smash the Stigma” of Addiction

RECOVERY HAS MUSCLES AND FLEXIBILITY – Sept. 21, 2021- His story: 10 years ago, Plummer attended his first CrossFit class. It was something he and his sister – a nurse Morning Chalk Up met in 2020 when she was... Read More...

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8 Arrested in Fraternity Pledge’s Alcohol-Poisoning Death

MURDER WEAPON! JACK DANIEL’S WHISKEY – Sept. 25, 2021 - Mr. Oakes, 19, was found dead the next morning by Richmond police officers, the authorities said. Courtney White, Mr. Oakes’s cousin, said on Saturday that... Read More...

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How to Spot a Love Addict

ROSES AND RED FLAGS – Sept. 23, 2021 - “Nobody gets out of love alive,” said Dr. Fisher. “People live for love, pine for love, kill for love and they’ll die for a loved one. It’s one of the most powerful brain sys... Read More...

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Neuroengineering is Helping People Fight Addiction

WATCH – MIND MATTERS – Sept. 2`, 2021 - “Even just having a conversation with you, looking you in the eyes, is something that I never would have been able to do six years ago,” said Julia Soloman. Looking a... Read More...

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Native Americans Face Deadly Drug Crisis

WATCH – HEALING FROM THE TRIBE – Sept. 23, 2021 - “Many native families are suffering from generational abuse, eroding traditional values and destabilizing families” across the country, according to the ... Read More...

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The Importance of Relationships in Addiction Recovery

WATCH – IT’S AN INSIDE JOB – Sept. 23, 2021 - “What my program is really trying to do is deliver some of those same interventions but in a self-help format, so that the loved ones don’t have to participa... Read More...

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An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz

NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER IS FOR NON-ALCOHOLICS – Sept. 20, 2021 - It felt good to be conducting an interview in a bar again. As a reporter, I had relied on interviews over drinks as a way of loosening a subject’s to... Read More...

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