Addiction Recovery

Abraham Twerski, Who Merged 12 Steps and the Torah, Dies at 90

SEEING THE LIGHT ... IN PEANUTS –  Feb. 6, 2021 - Andrew Heinz wrote in a 1999 profile of Rabbi…

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Work Addiction Can be Harmful to Mental Health

TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH Feb. 8, 2021 - Work addiction is a clinical condition characterised by an obsessive and compulsive interest in…

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Alcohol deaths hit record high during Covid pandemic

EMPTY BOTTLES, FULL COFFINS –  February 2, 2021 - Between January and September, 5,460 deaths were registered with this cause…

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McKinsey Fined $600 Million For “turbocharging” Opioid Deaths

BOTTOM LINES KILL PEOPLE –  Feb. 3, 2021 - McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on…

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6 Reasons AA Zoom Rooms Are Inferior to In-person Meetings by Christopher Dale

IS ZOOM AA INFERIOR TO REAL AA MEETINGS? –  Feb. 8, 2021 - In-person meetings also allow small acts of…

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Is Social Media Addiction Myth?

TWEET THIS –  February 6, 2021 - “Addicts” who changed their lives through digital detox confess that social media was…

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‘Bachelorette’ Star Zac Clark Helping Millions Through Sobriety & Recovery

LOVE AND SOBRIETY –  February 5, 2021 -  When he tried to cash the check, the bank teller knew something…

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Hunter Biden Recounts Addiction and Sobriety in Memoir

RECOVERY ROAD –  February 4, 2021 - (The book’s title comes from a phrase Beau and Hunter would say to…

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Sobriety Surprises: Stars Who Revealed They Got Sober

CELEBRITIES, THEY’RE JUST LIKE US. –  February 4, 2021 - From time to time, however, a celebrity will surprise the world…

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Secret ‘Rehab’ Shoppers Report Hard Sell Tactics

IT’S NOT A TIME SHARE –  Feb. 1, 2021 - The hard sell often happened before callers were screened to…

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AspenRidge Recovery’s Diversity Scholarship for Minorities Battling Addiction

DO THE RIGHT THING –  Jan. 26, 2021 - “The value of it is about $33,000 and it’s really there…

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Brothers Get Clean Through Nonprofit

WATCH – TREATMENT WORKS –   Jan. 25, 2021 - “I wasn’t considering my brother, his well-being; ultimately I didn’t…

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FDA Can Save Lives if it Wanted to By Targeting Tobacco Addiction

SMOKESCREEN –  Jan. 25, 2021 - The Biden administration has a chance to embrace this agenda after Trump’s FDA abandoned…

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Kehlani Shares Her “personal ex-smoker experience” After 3 Years of Weed Abstinence

STILL EXHALING –  Jan. 25, 2021 - On Sunday, the R&B singer revealed she gave up the green and the…

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New Dean at Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies

GOT KNOWLEDGE? –  Jan. 27, 2021 - Substance use disorder counseling is an increasingly specialized area of behavioral health, serving…

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Scott Silverman Addresses Addiction Through Conversation and Experience

OPEN MOUTHS, OPEN MINDS –   Jan. 27, 2021 - “I have a perspective that I bring to the conversation…

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With Administration Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – STORMY FEBRUARY –  Jan. 29, 2021 - The new administration has also appointed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra…

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They Called for Help. They’d Always Regret It.

WHEN 911 IS THE LAST RESORT –  Jan. 30, 2021 - The moment their family members called 911, both Carlos…

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Good riddance to Dry January…

LISTEN – NO BOOZE IS GOOD BOOZE –  Jan 30, 2021 - You don’t realize how many times an alcoholic…

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Q&A with Gretchen Burns Bergman, Founder of A New PATH

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! –  January 28, 2020 - Gretchen Burns Bergman is Executive Director and Co-Founder of A New…

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Lily Allen Celebrates 18 Months of Sobriety

ONE YEAR AND A HALF AT A TIME –  Jan. 27, 2021 - She “got clean” but six months later…

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While US Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – WHEN WILL IT END? –  Jan. 29, 2021 - “Our country is facing many simultaneous crises and President…

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Alcoholics’ Silent COVID Suffering: What’s Recovering Addict to do in Isolation?

WHAT WOULD BILL AND BOB SAY? –   Jan. 27, 2021 - Some of this is well-publicized. Unsurprisingly the anxiety,…

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Mum Uses Tik Tok to Spread Message of Self Love

WATCH – WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW –  Jan. 29, 2021 - “You know what, I had one of those…

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5 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone With An Addiction

YOU HOLDING? –   Jan. 28, 2021 - The most important thing you can do to help someone with a…

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Macklemore passionately details his sobriety journey: Treatment ‘continues to save my life’

THE RECOVERY SHOW –  Jan. 29,2021 - Though the Grammy Award-winner recalled years of shame, he reminded fans that there…

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‘Lockdown broke me: After 15 years of sobriety, I drank. Secretly, alone.’

KEEP COMING BACK –   Jan. 25, 2021 - This January, I would have been 15 years sober. In 2006,…

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Thousands of Recovery Homes in PA. Operate Without State Oversight

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME –  Jan. 25, 2021 - Department officials said earlier this month that they were…

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Drug Rehab Counselor Arrested for Stalking and Sexual Assault of Client

ONE ROTTEN APPLE? –  Jan. 25, 2021 - According to the Boulder Police Department, detectives began investigating Yepes earlier this…

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It’s Hard to Stay Sober in Pandemic, Holly Wants to Help

SUGGESTIONS TO GO BUY –   Jan. 27, 2021 - While there’s no one-size-fits-all treatment strategy to address problematic drinking,…

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