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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 school trustee, and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity... Read More...

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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 met now-imprisoned rehab mogul Christopher Bathum at a 12-Step meeting in 2011, he did not real... Read More...

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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 involved in the settlement, did not admit to any wrongdoing in agreeing to settle. “UH... Read More...

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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, sobriety during lockdown has been harder than normal for many. As we emerge from... Read More...

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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 friends and family, that excess of positivity can be, well, negative. This kind of encouragement and self-talk is s... Read More...

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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 ghastly descent into the hellacious pit of drug addiction is that of Los Angeles-based author Rose A... Read More...

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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 in a book titled “From Park Bench to Park Avenue.” The park bench refers to the many years of homelessness. T... Read More...

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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 economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic — will hit behavioral health services when they are needed most... Read More...

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Telemedicine is a magnet for fraud and data theft

Just Be Careful – JULY 13, 2020 - “Most telehealth practitioners do not receive formal information security and privacy training,” said Leming Zhou, a professor of health informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Read More...

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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 opioids being prescribed as there was in 1999, and there’s also substantial variation across the country. MANN: You... Read More...

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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. Prototypical, even. I was an awkward middle-schooler who transformed herself with the help of Seventeen magaz... Read More...

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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 these roxycodone due to a stunt injury on a film in London. He previously told the court he went through a painful detox... Read More...

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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 years, I mean, we would not be together,” the “What About Us” singer revealed. “We just wouldn’t because we are... Read More...

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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 curtains, a sudden flashback leapt at me from my blackout, an image of stumbling around in the bathroom with... Read More...

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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 app. With support from the Clinton Foundation, Schusterman, along with other rabbis and int... Read More...

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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 of patients suffering from substance use disorder (“SUD”) including many leadership roles at behavioral health and... Read More...

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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 Outpatient Program (IOP), which offers individual and group-based substance use counseling ser... Read More...

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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 psychiatric care if they are perceived to be violent or in imminent danger of hurting themselves, until r... Read More...

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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 off the album N.A.T.I.O.N. Vext talks about how he hopes this single inspires others struggling with sobriety to reac... Read More...

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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. I’m Al Letson. This is chapter three of American Rehab: A Venomous Snake. Last time, we started telling yo... Read More...

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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 in individuals with smartphone addiction, as defined by validated psycho... Read More...

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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 in the day, when he was just a boy, his two role models in his life were John Wayne and his uncle Gilbert. The f... Read More...

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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 — “and was presumably saved by Betty Buckley,” he said, laughing. “Which is the sto... Read More...

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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, and no explanation, for the surprising size of the cut or its timing by the administration of Gov. A... Read More...

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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 with mental health and substance use problems,” sayss Jonny Morris, CEO Canadian Mental Health ... Read More...

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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 studies such as illness severity or other factors associated with illness that influence brain... Read More...

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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 and I. I’m happily in love. I’m moving — hauling ass and getting the f–k out of Los Angeles for Santa Fe — I... Read More...

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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 both the legacy of our combined organization, as well as our dedication to partnering with experts, advocates and ot... Read More...

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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, the Western Hemisphere cocaine trade did function like a pipeline that started in South Am... Read More...

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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 intake. There are therapies, but patients have no exact cure to heal from the brain disorder fully. Brain com... Read More...

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