Addiction Recovery

Q&A with writer and podcaster, Laura Robbins

Stick with the Winners! – July 14 - Laura Robbins has been active for many years as a speaker and…

4 years ago

Cliff Brodsky: The Man Who Knew Too Much And Too Little

Jailhouse Rock – July 21, 2020 – By John Lavitt When Cliff Brodsky, a successful music producer and songwriter, first…

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Georgia addiction centers pay $122 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits

Easy Money – July 13, 2020 - Universal Health Services, a for-profit public company which runs about 30 psychiatric facilities…

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“Lockdown Has Been the Hardest Period of My Sober Journey”

Zoom Gloom – July 16, 2020 -  With Alcoholics Anonymous moving online, gyms closing and support networks being socially distanced,…

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Why It’s OK To Not Be OK Right Now.

WATCH – Only Human – July 16, 2020 - But if statements like this are all you’re hearing from your…

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Horrors of opioid addiction explored in LA writer’s memoir

The Heart And Other Monsters – July 17, 2020 -The voice speaking above serves as a narrator throughout her sister’s…

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Psychiatric nurse pens book on surviving homelessness and drug abuse

WATCH – Park Bench to Park Avenue – July 15, 2020  - Brown shares his raw journey out of homelessness…

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Overdoses skyrocket: states slash treatment budgets

Death Wish? – JULY 16, 2020 - The budget cuts — many spurred by state budget shortfalls wrought by the…

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Telemedicine is magnet for fraud and data theft

Just Be Careful – JULY 13, 2020 - “Most telehealth practitioners do not receive formal information security and privacy training,”…

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Opioids Are Still The King For Many Doctors

NPR LISTEN – Loving Pills – July 17, 2020 - DR. GERY GUY: There’s still three times the amount of…

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She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied

EMPTY: A Memoir by Susan Burton – June 23, 2020 - “In many ways,” she writes, “my adolescence was typical.…

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Johnny Depp diagnosed with ADHD, depression and chronic substance abuse

We care because we love him! – July 8, 2020 - Depp told the court: “I was quite addicted to…

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Pink Opens Up About Marriage Counseling

WATCH – Talking with, not at... – June 22, 2020 - “Without Vanessa translating for me for the last 18…

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I quit boozing when I was too drunk to hold my baby as hubby hosed vomit off me

Sober showers from now on... – July 9, 2020 - She wrote on her blog, DrunkMummySoberMummy: “As I closed the…

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Chabad Intown Offers Hope and Recovery

And blintzes too... – July 8, 2020 - Currently, meetings, classes, and events take place through the Zoom video conferencing…

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Recovery Centers of America Appoints Two Leaders as New CEOS

GROWTH IS WHAT COUNTS – July 7, 2020 - Michael Ogden has over 30 years of experience in the treatment…

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$3.5 Million for Addiction Services at Adventist Loma Linda University

MAT? – July 6, 2020 - SAC Health System operates the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) clinic with the onsite Intensive…

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Kentucky’s Challenge Against Involuntary Commitment

It’s for your own good. Clink! – July 9, 2020 - While all states have procedures for committing individuals to…

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Bad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext talks about sobriety in ‘Sober’

WATCH – Say it with Song – July 10, 2020 - The song ‘Sober’ is the bands second single released…

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American Rehab Chapter Three: A Venomous Snake

LISTEN – Great podcast – July 11, 2020 - From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal.…

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Study links addictive smartphone use to altered brain activity

Everything but actually talking – JULY 12, 2020 - “We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate cue-related activity…

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‘Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo’

WATCH – Machete – July 11, 2020 - Many of the stories he shares in the documentary are compelling. Back…

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Rufus Wainwright is sober, battle-hardened & wrestling with demons

Halleluiah! (Live at Fillmore) – July 8, 2020 - Wainwright’s Irish nanny wasn’t paying attention when he suddenly went underwater…

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Gov. Cuomo cuts aid for recovery services

“treatment programs are reeling with the news” – July 11, 2020 - Treatment providers say they were given no notice,…

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B.C. invests $16 million in recovery beds

Canada Cares! – July 10, 2020 - “The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the existing challenges and risks for those living…

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Trial Confirms Antipsychotics Damage the Brain

WATCH – Duh! – July 6, 2020 - “This randomized study in humans controls for confounders present in previous observational…

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Elle King Talks Isolation, Sobriety and Self-Repair

Working from home... – July 10, 2020 - I’m getting along with my family. Things are great between my father…

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Center on Addiction Changes Name to…

A rose by any other name... – July 10, 2020 - “Partnership to End Addiction is a name that reflects…

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3 things Amazon Prime series ‘ZeroZeroZero’ gets right about the cocaine trade

WATCH – International Trade Dealers – July 11, 2020 - The U.S. government’s assumption wasn’t always wrong. A generation ago,…

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Elon Musk’s ‘Terrifying’ MINI Brain Chip Cures Addiction?

It’s all in your head – July 11, 2020 - Mental disorders are diseases that are still incurable by medicine…

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