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Why Addiction Isn’t a Disease

BECAUSE YOU CAN STOP IT YOURSELF – August 20, 2015 - The prevalent theory in the United States, and to some degree in Australia, is that addiction is a chronic brain disease – a progressive, incurable condition... Read More...

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Aggies for Recovery Shed Light on Substance Abuse

THE COLLEGE RE-EDUCATION – Feb. 10, 2021 - Angela Armstrong-Ingram, a first-year graduate student of anthropology, became a member of Aggies for Recovery at the beginning of this academic year. Armstrong-Ingram... Read More...

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Woman’s Drug Recovery Tweet Goes Viral

ANYONE CAN DO IT – Feb. 29, 2021 - “On my 49th birthday, I woke up in Butte County Jail again,” shared Sullivan. “I was clean, there are a lot of drugs in jail I was clean at that moment. That is what sta... Read More...

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Huge Colorado Trafficking Bust

BIG PHARM COMPETITION FOILED – Feb. 12, 2021 - Federal, state and local law enforcement in Adams County announced on Friday the dismantling of a drug trafficking operation that has led to state-level indictment... Read More...

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Is There a Difference Between Sex Addiction and Porn Addiction?

WHERE ONE OR MORE ARE GATHERED – Feb. 2021 - The pattern of failure to control intense sexual impulses or urges and resulting repetitive sexual behavior is manifested over an extended period of time (e.g., 6 mo... Read More...

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Attorney General Stops Deceptive Marketing by Treatment Center

BOTTOM LINE MATTERS MORE – Feb. 12, 2021 - Additionally, the settlement said that their website funneled consumers to what were called “treatment specialists” for a consumer to call for assistance in deciding w... Read More...

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Carl Hart: PhD, Parent, Author, Speaker, Columbia Professor and Heroin User

DOCTOR FEELGOOD – Feb. 6, 2021 - As Hart continues: “I do not have a drug-use problem. Never have. Each day, I meet my parental, personal and professional responsibilities. I pay my taxes, serve as a volunteer ... Read More...

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As Overdose Deaths Surge, Rehab Industry Faces ‘Severe Ethical Crisis’

LISTEN – GETTING HELP – Feb. 15, 2021 - “It’s a very hard system to navigate,” said Ryan Hampton, who spent years trying to get help for his addiction to prescription opioids and heroin. His family “was preyed ... Read More...

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Q&A with Stevie Mack, Actor and Comedian

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – February 12, 2021 - Stevie Mack voted top dancer by People magazine in the Oscar nominated Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, “Can’t Stop the Feeling” music video by Justin Timberlake... Read More...

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12 Recovery Memoirs by Black Authors You Need to Read

TIME TO READ ... MORE! – Feb. 9, 2021 - In early recovery, the stories of others are an invaluable resource. We hear stories around our recovery meetings, read stories online, and find hope in the stories of in... Read More...

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Breaking the “Body Brokers”: California Non-Profit That Stood Up to Patient Kickback Business

PETE NIELSEN DOES HIS THING – Feb. 12, 2021 - CCAPP knew they had to act to stop this new adversary that threatened to abuse patients and cast a cloud of doubt over the legitimacy of the treatment itself. As soon as... Read More...

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Day Trading, It Can Be Addictive

IT’S NOT GAMBLING ... OR IS IT? – February 13, 2021 - Day trading can be very, very addicting! However, that doesn’t exactly mean that day traders are addicts. I myself am an addict. This March I will be sober ... Read More...

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Rob Lowe Gets Candid About His 30-Years Of Sobriety

‘CLASS’ OF 1991 – Feb. 9, 2021 - “It was no different than craft services,” he explains. “Where are the Red Vines, and where is the great Peruvian blow...? Cocaine was the thing that successful people did. Ther... Read More...

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Inside Billie Piper’s Mind

A COMPLICATED PLACE – Feb. 4, 2021 - I’m 34 but this feeling isn’t unfamiliar; this spiralling soothed by the strange comfort of a sterile white room. I felt the same thing when I was just 17, enduring another ... Read More...

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Legalizing All Drugs Is Just the Beginning

SET OUR PEOPLE FREE – Feb. 13, 2021- All the evidence, for decades, shows that the drugs that children under 17 or 18 years old are most likely to use are marijuana, alcohol and tobacco. That’s where my educati... Read More...

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Is Social Media Bad for Sobriety?

MAYBE – Feb. 10, 2021 - Pro Tip: If you’re on social media and see things that trigger you, you should try to counter that with enjoyable things to ruminate on in positive ways. Some people think of a memory, o... Read More...

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Who’s Taking Care of Mental Health Professionals?

DOCTOR (CAN’T) HEAL THYSELF – February 11, 2021 - USA TODAY spoke with half a dozen mental health workers who told us the pandemic has been the most challenging year of their professional lives. Every one of th... Read More...

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Sia’s Awful Movie Portrays Drug Addiction and Abuse With Colorful Musical Numbers

WATCH – CRAPUE du SOLEIL? – Feb. 10, 2021 - Hold on. The worst moment in “Music” is the quick-cut, frenetic, orange-tinted fantasy musical number when the title character flails about making exaggerated facial and b... Read More...

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A ‘Family’ of Artists of the Downtown Eastside

PAINTING THE TOWN CLEAN & SOBER – February 9, 2021 - They’re just a few of the artists who live or work in the Downtown Eastside and are part of a new group called the Downtown Eastside Artists Collective. ... Read More...

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TV Host Dr. Laura Berman’s 16-year-old Son Dies from Overdose from Drug Dealer on Snapchat

WATCH – DEAR GOD, MAKE IT STOP – Feb. 8, 2021 - Berman first shared the news of her son’s death on Instagram Sunday, writing that her son got “the drugs delivered to the house” in an “experimentation gone bad.” “... Read More...

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Is Chocolate Addictive?

WHO CARES? – Feb. 4, 2021 - Can you be addicted to chocolate? Though this is still a controversial topic, a growing amount of research supports treating food addictions like other types of substance addictions.... Read More...

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News Anchor’s 20-year Addiction and Journey to Sobriety

WATCH – REGULAR DUDE LOVES SOBRIETY – Feb. 4, 2021 - Addiction runs in his family, he said, he said before he knew it, he was following in the footsteps of those he’d watch struggle with their own addictions. ... Read More...

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Wendy Williams Revisits Cocaine Use and Sober Living in New Biopic

WATCH – TOO MUCH EVERYTHING – Jan. 30, 2021 - Among the many romantic relationships featured in the film was one with a man who Williams said “ruined” her credit by renting cars on her credit cards without tell... Read More...

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Oregon Addicts Get Rehab Instead of Prison

FINALLY! – Feb. 1, 2021 - For Janie Gullickson, rock bottom came both slowly and all at once. A long time drug and alcohol addict, Gullickson pushes back on the idea that one terrible day on the street leads to... Read More...

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Uber Acquires Alcohol Delivery Startup For $1.1 billion

BOOZE APP, WHAT COULD GO WRONG? – Feb. 2, 2021 - Drizly will eventually integrate with the company’s Uber Eats app, but it will also maintain its own Drizly app, per the release. Drizly has been called the “Ube... Read More...

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Jamie Lee Curtis Marks 22 Years Sober

SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT – Feb. 4, 2021 - “A LONG time ago … In a galaxy far, far away … I was a young STAR at WAR with herself,” she began. “I didn’t know it then. I chased everything. I kept it hidden. I ... Read More...

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Oregon Treats Addiction as a Mental Health Issue

LISTEN – FORTY-NINE MORE STATES NEEDED – Feb. 5, 2021 - And on February 1, the new law, called the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, went into effect. To help break down this act, Portland Monthly spoke wit... Read More...

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‘My Stealing Addiction Gives Me The Illusion Of Control’

DESIGNER BAG...LADY – Feb. 4, 2021 - As an attractive, Caucasian, middle-class woman, I’m hardly the archetypical shoplifter. To my knowledge, I’ve never been suspected, which I’m certain is down to how I look,... Read More...

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Experimental vaccine blunts the deadliest of synthetic opioids

AN INJECTION OF OPTIMISM or SAY WHAT? – February 4, 2021 - “We’ve shown it is possible to prevent these unnecessary deaths by eliciting antibodies that stop the drug from reaching the brain.” The Scripps Resea... Read More...

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