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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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‘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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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‘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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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‘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...

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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...

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Q&A with Chris Herren, Founder of Herren Wellness

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – January 20, 2021 - An extraordinary basketball player, Chris Herren was a celebrated star in his native Fall River, MA before graduating high school. He went on to play at Boston Colle... Read More...

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699 People Died in SF in 2020: 235 From COVID-19

INSANITY IN AMERICA – Jan. 15, 2021 - The DOPE Project has also seen an increase in the number of overdoses prevented by Narcan, a medication commonly sprayed up the nose to reverse an opioid overdose. This yea... Read More...

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Using Analytics to Attack Addiction

NUMBERS CAN’T LIE – Jan. 19, 2021 - The students designed an approach grounded in finding “unobvious and of interest” information. First, they determined what defined a “typical” patient at Hazelden Betty Ford—... Read More...

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Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford on Showtime

THE FIRST LADY OF REHABS – Jan. 21, 2021 - Set in the White House, the political drama is a look at America through the eyes of various first ladies. Season 1 will focus on Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama... Read More...

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“I have been anorexia’s prey”

WASTING AWAY – January 20, 2021 - I have been anorexia’s prey, all while thinking that it was my friend and protector, my arbiter of discipline. When I heard that gyms were going to be closed during th... Read More...

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Internet, Sports Betting Legalization Causes Addiction Worries

A.I. ALWAYS WINS – Jan. 20, 2120 - Compared to the national average, ‘problem gambling’ isn’t a huge issue in Michigan right now. But the people who help gambling addicts are worried that’s about to change, ... Read More...

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How Bad IS Quarantine for my Body?

TRY BENDING OVER – January 22, 2021 - ...Leah Whigman, associate professor at UTHealth School of Public Health in El Paso, told VICE. “Is there any value in saying, I screwed up big time, I’m going to die earlier n... Read More...

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