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Alcoholics Anonymous to Celebrate 90 Years of Recovery at International Convention in Vancouver, CAN, July 3-6

PARTY HEARTY – April 16, 2025 - Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) will bring together tens and tens of thousands of members and guests from around the world, July 3–6, 2025, for its International Convention in Vancouver, B... Read More...

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Supporting Your Partner on Their Sobriety Journey

HELPING HAND – April 4, 2025 - “Recovery affects both people in the relationship—not just the one with addiction. Partners might feel stressed or anxious. Sometimes even resentful, especially if trust has been an iss... Read More...

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Every Sip of Alcohol Increases Your Risk of Cancer

AIN’T NO GOOD – April 8, 2025 - Alcohol, whether consumed regularly or only on special occasions, takes a toll on your body. From your brain and heart, to your lungs and muscles, to your gastrointestinal and im... Read More...

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Artificial Sweetener Tricks Your Brain Into Feeling More Hungry

Bon Appétit – April 4, 2025 - Nothing in life comes free, not even a sugar-free drink. Scientists have now linked the artificial sweetener sucralose (sold as Splenda) to yet another potential health downside... Read More...

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Needle Exchange Program Feels Effects of Trump’s Aid Cuts

DIRTY BUSINESS – April 3, 2025 - PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of people with drug ad... Read More...

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U.S. Fentanyl Deaths Plunging

LIFE MATTERS – April 10, 2025 - Federal spending cuts instigated by the White House threaten to reverse a steep decline in American overdose deaths and are jeopardizing other gains in the battle against synthet... Read More...

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Doctors Prescribing Heroin?

VIDEO – INNOVATION – April 8, 2025 - A complementary but no less controversial harm reduction strategy, heroin-assisted treatment involves administering pharmaceutical-grade heroin under medical supervision. It stabi... Read More...

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17-Year-old Develops Irreversible ‘POPCORN LUNG’ From Vapes and e-Cigarettes

VIDEO – DON’T SMOKE – April 9, 2025 - Christie Martin received a panicked call from her daughter Brianne Cullen who claimed she was struggling to breathe. Horrified, Christie rushed the 17-year-old to a nearby ER... Read More...

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A Perfect Family Couldn’t Save Me From The Most Destructive Middle-class Addiction Of All

IT’S THE DOPAMINE – April 8, 2025 - Kate’s family was about discover a devastating secret she’d kept hidden for years - one that was going to turn their financial lives upside down. Grasping for the words to expla... Read More...

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Spencer Matthews On His Sobriety Journey

STUNNING SHARE – April 10, 2025 - Spencer Matthews has been open about his journey with alcohol after suffering with alcohol dependency between the ages of 15 and 30. He admitted that during that time period he wo... Read More...

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“California Sober” or Abstinence?

HARM REDUCTION – April 9, 2025 - Cali sober describes a lifestyle intent on both using drugs and reducing harm from drug use. However, the term has been adopted by others rejecting abstinence as the only path a... Read More...

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Help for Those With Addictions is in Jeopardy

CLEVELAND DESERVES BETTER – April 10, 2025 - As our country faces the possibility of federal health care funding cuts, it’s critical that we raise awareness about what’s at stake — especially for low-income individua... Read More...

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Thinking of Going Boy Sober?

OR WITHOUT WOMEN – April 9, 2025 - Hope deleted all her dating apps and made a promise to herself: No more dates for a year. Then, armed with a catchy new term coined by her sister, Hope started documenti... Read More...

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Eight Days a Week of Booze Doubles Risk of Brain Damage

BARFLY – April 9, 2025 - Boozers who down eight or more alcoholic drinks every week have an increased risk of brain lesions associated with memory and thinking problems, say scientists. They explained that t... Read More...

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Judge Rejects J&J’s $10 billion Baby Powder Settlement

VIDEO – BIG PHARMA FELONS – March 31, 2025 - J&J said in a statement that it would not appeal, but also that it had no intention of settling the claims and would instead “return to the tort system to litigate an... Read More...

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‘The Social Network’ and Mass Technological Addiction!

RIGHT UP YOUR SPECTRUM – April 9, 2024 - The “new thing” is better, of course. Its creators are gods, but few win enough power to play god. “The Social Network” (2010) depicts just that: the beginning of ... Read More...

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I Quit Hollywood After Dark Spiral of Addiction and Rehab

JENNIFER ANISTON & CAMERON DIAZ TOO! – April 6, 2025 - Paul Sculfor was one of the world’s leading male models in the late Nineties and early Noughties, racking up a huge list of enviable A-list connections. P... Read More...

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Addiction Hijacks Teenagers’ Brains

FROM GUTTER TO GOOGLE – April 9, 2025 - Addiction is not limited to substances like alcohol and drugs but extends to behaviours such as smartphone use, gaming, gambling and pornography. The essence of addiction is es... Read More...

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Comedy Shows Focus on Addiction Recovery

WE ARE NOT A GLUM LOT – April 9, 2025 - Recovering from addiction may not be a laughing matter but Aims Community College students hope they can give their peers a reason to smile. They said they wanted to bring the&... Read More...

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Hunger Hormone Contributes to Female Alcoholism

INTERESTING – April 4, 2025 - Specialists from the University of Florida made an important discovery in the field of neurobiology of addictions, finding a specific neural pathway in the brain associated with alcohol ... Read More...

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Sarah Palin’ Daughter – Bristol Says She’s 1 Year Sober?

GOD BLESS HER – April 2, 2025 - On Monday, the 34-year-old mom of three took to social media to share that she is 365 days alcohol-free. “365 days without alcohol.. *which sounds dramatic because I’ve never been a... Read More...

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Kim Delaney’s Felony Arrest Caps Alcoholism Battle

SAVING HER A SEAT – April 4, 2025 - For over two decades, “NYPD Blue” star Kim Delaney has had her fair share of personal and public struggles. From multiple run-ins with the law to a couple stints in rehab, th... Read More...

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Adult Star’s Battle for Sobriety

SHARING HER PRIVATE THOUGHTS – March 30, 2025 - EXCLUSIVE: Lana Wolf, a name associated with the UK’s rise of adult content creators, has opened up about her struggles with alcohol and the moment she needed to ... Read More...

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Splenda in Diet Drinks Changes Your Brain and Makes You Hungry

MAKES YOU FATTER? – March 29, 2025 - Artificial sweeteners, therefore, appear to confuse the brain, Page said, by sending signals of sweetness without delivering the needed calories the brain requires. Scientists hav... Read More...

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Four Women on Life After Fentanyl

VIDEO – IT’S COMPLICATED – March 30, 2025 - CNN “Fentanyl in America: A Way Out” on “The Whole Story presented by Anderson Cooper” “I was asked to give an update of myself for this documentary, and I wanted to throw ... Read More...

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Brooke Hogan’s Husband Defends Her Amid Claims of Alcohol & Physical abuse

LOYALTY PLEDGED – March 29, 2025 - “The claim that my wife broke Jane Doe’s collarbone was laughable to those who know the truth,” he wrote, without naming Linda directly. “My wife will have the occasional cock... Read More...

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Addiction Counselors Help Save Lives

VIDEO – IT STARTS IN REHAB – April 3, 2025 - “People are literally dying from just taking a pill that they thought was regular pain medicine, and it’ll be fentanyl, and they’ll be dead,” said Stuart Bostwick. “We ha... Read More...

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‘Sobriety Confidential’ by Chris Sicke: An Unfiltered Look at Alcoholism, Drug Addiction & Recovery

READING MATTERS – April 2, 2025 - In his book Sobriety Confidential, Chris Sicke takes readers behind the closed doors of recovery—sharing his story and revealing the realities of Twelve Step programs, meetings, reha... Read More...

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‘God Is Good’: Reality Star Celebrates One Month of Sobriety

30 CHIP – April 2, 2025 - Chase Chrisley was arrested earlier this year after allegedly getting into an altercation at an Atlanta bar — claims he says are “blown out of proportion,” per the Daily Mail. His publicist ... Read More...

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Texas Has Interactive Map to Help Find Overdose Medication Sites by Sophia Fox-Sowell

AUDIO – TEXAS IS BRILLIANT – April 4, 2025 - The new online map includes a search bar where visitors can type in an address or zip code to see nearby Naloxone locations. Information displayed for each location inclu... Read More...

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