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 substance use disorder is to be there for them without judgment. “You want to be supportive of someone seeking... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
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 is always hope and self-growth in the road to recovery. “You work these 12 steps and you... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘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, after 24 years of drinking addictively, I crawled — metaphorically — into a meeting of recovering alcoholics, got wit... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCompassionCoronavirusFeb 2 2021interventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
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 completing an internal review of draft regulations and planned to send them to the Attorney General’s Office b... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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 month after a female client reported he “repeatedly contacted her and initiated ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionRecoveryRehab
It’s Hard to Stay Sober in a 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, many people turn to 12-step programs for peer support—most notably, Alcoholics Ano... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusFeb 2 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
When I Was Labeled a ‘Troubled’ Teen, I Obliged WHEN IS IT TOO TOUGH? – January 12, 2021 - The years leading up to my being taken and the eventual break out is now a blur of misanthropy. I was reckless, taking my mom’s car out for joy rides without permissio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabteenagers
The Pandemic’s Toll on Children’s Mental Health SUFFER THE CHILDREN, AND TEENS, TOO – Jan 12, 2021 - KRISSY WILLIAMS, 15, had attempted suicide before, but never with pills.The teen was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 9. People with this chronic mental... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionlife expectancylonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocatesuicideteenagersTrauma
How to Tell If You’re Addicted to Day Trading YOU'RE CHECKING YOUR PHONE RIGHT NOW APRIL, 2020 - “He knew it the way an alcoholic just knows this will be his last drink of the night. So he went in with everything he had and then some (compliments of his&nbs... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFeb 2 2021GaminginternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionSuper Bowl
Gambling Addiction Experts Focusing on Robinhood App BETTING REAL MONEY – Jan. 30, 2021 - But industry experts say Robinhood’s addictive elements have been such a well-known problem that rival startups, like Public and Titan, have been casting themselves as abbre... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeb 2 2021GaminginternetinterventionRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Opioid Deaths Occur Less Often in Areas with More Cannabis Storefronts WAKE AND LIVE – Jan. 30, 2021 - “Our findings suggest that higher storefront cannabis dispensary counts are associated with reduced opioid-related mortality rates at the county level,” the authors write. “While... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoveryRehab
Nitrous Nation USE ONLY FOR TOOTHACHES – Jan. 30, 2021 - There are “stories of pool parties, people filling inflatables in the pool with nitrous oxide, so you could be just floating on it and huffing on it,” said Mike Jay, th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionMental HealthRecovery
Watch All-Star Cast Take On The Opioid Epidemic EXCLUSIVE Preview of CRISIS BATTLING A DEMON – Jan. 20, 2021 - Those interwoven storylines follow Dr. Tyrone Brower (Oldman), a university professor who battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a major pharmaceutical com... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionopioid crisisopioidsRecovery
‘Body Brokers’ Frank Grillo Runs a Crooked Drug Rehab Scam WATCH – HOLLYWOOD FICTION? – Jan. 26, 2021 - Over the past couple years, I’ve read several articles about shady rehab facilities and treatment programs, so when I was offered the opportunity to check out the new ind... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Two-Drug Combo May Help Fight Meth Addiction LET’S PRAY IT DOES – Jan. 20, 2120 - Standard behavioral treatment for meth addiction typically involves highly structured group therapy, Volkow explained. Another option is a rewards-based motivational therapy... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 26 2021methRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Sackler Family and Mine THEM AND US – Jan. 19, 2021 - On May 23, 2019, the day my son was coming home from college, I was flying to Warsaw for an awards ceremony. He texted me that he’d gotten home all right but complained that he wa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 26 2021opioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue Pharma
How Stuart Watson Became A Sober ‘Man Listening’ To Women LISTEN – HUH? – Jan. 19, 2021 - What does it take to get a man to listen — really listen — to women? Well, in Stuart Watson’s case, it took being slapped, fired and flat out told by his own wife that he wasn’t ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionJan 26 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction READ THEM AND WEEP – Jan. 19, 2021 - This was the place where it happened, and the person on whom everything hinged was her mother — beautiful, capricious, cruel. Ditlevsen was a bright girl and a good student... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 26 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Help Dad’ campaign comes under fire for ‘mocking alcoholism’ WATCH – SATIRE OR BAD TASTE? – Jan. 20, 2021 - Oatly’s new ‘Help Dad’ campaign and website are designed to help young persuade their parents to give up dairy and switch to oat milk and is filled with recipes, t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 26 2021RecoveryRehab
A Retired DEA Agent’s Plea: Time to Reschedule Marijuana TIME TO FREE ALL POT DEALERS – Dec. 2020 - In the 1960s, I was the first federal drug agent to arrest a student on a college campus for sale of marijuana. In the 1970s and ‘80s, as head of the Drug Enforcement ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 26 2021marijuanaMental HealthRecovery
Zooming Through Recovery PASS THE ELECTRONS – Jan. 15, 2021 - Group therapy helps build up the strength necessary for recovery through the essential process of validation. Coping with addiction is unbelievably challenging — doing so wi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJan 26 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Kate Moss From Coke Scandal and Sobriety A ROLLING STONE... – Jan. 16, 2021 - The model mum called herself “so emotional” when the teen made her catwalk debut for Miu Miu back in October, days after she turned 18. And throughout lockdown Kate has bee... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 26 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Fentanyl Is in Everything IS NOTHING SACRED? – Jan. 21, 2120 - 2020 was the deadliest year ever for overdoses in Philadelphia. The surge is being fueled by deaths among methamphetamine and PCP users. The city’s top substance abuse offi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionJan 26 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Family’s Struggle With Mental Illness Comes to an End WATCH – ALL-AMERICAN DISEASE – January 21, 2020 - His mother, Pat, 91, of Wauwatosa, agreed. “Sheer torment,” she said of her son’s life. “For him and for us.” Spoerl was born and raised in Wauwatosa, the third... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 26 2021life expectancyMental Health
Mobile Clinic Helps Las Vegas Homeless Combat Addiction A SAFE BET – January 23, 2021 - Services include: clean needle exchange, wound care, substance abuse rehabilitation, and doses of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses. Linkage to Action will also provide ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionJan 26 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Chrissy Teigen describes sobriety as ‘a different world for me’ WATCH – IT’S A START – Jan. 22, 2021 - Ahead of Legend’s performance on Wednesday as part of the Inauguration Day events in D.C., Teigen shared some beautiful family snaps of the historic sites, writing on Twit... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassioninterventionInterviewJan 26 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Could Psilocybin End Our Addiction Crisis? OR MAKE YOU A DEADHEAD? – Jan. 22, 2021 - “If this keeps going the way it looks like it’s going, I think it will lead to a large phase 3 trial that could be part of getting psilocybin rescheduled,” NYU psychia... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmainterventionJan 26 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Lost Touch: How a Year Without Hugs Affects You PRIMITIVE NEED NOT BEING MET – Jan. 25, 2021 - Nina Smith is 40, and lives alone in south London. She experienced a protracted recovery after a spinal injury in 2018, requiring long periods of bed rest. People ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionJan 26 2021lonelinessMental HealthRecovery
‘Addiction and Recovery’ Series Challenges Stigma TUNE IN AND TURN IT UP – Jan. 24, 2120 - The overweight kid from the suburbs of Philadelphia — who had an identity crisis in second grade where he asked his African-American father and Italian-East Indian moth... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 26 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Can Help You Cope WINTER READING TO KEEP YOU WARM – April, 2020 - Holden’s taste in food is pure postwar American. Bacon, eggs, hamburgers and steak all feature in the book. Mainly, however, this 16-year-old survives on cigaret... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 26 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehab