Faces of Addiction: God delivered man from drugs, alcohol and suicide Grace – March 14, 2020 - He cried, “God, why won’t you let me die?” God whispered back, “Because you haven’t done what I sent you there to do yet.” Slack was among several recovering addicts to speak during a F... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionMarch 17 2020Rehabsuicide
Andrew Gillum, Who Ran for Florida Governor, Is Entering Rehab I would too if someone OD'd in my hotel room – March 15, 2020 - Mr. Gillum apologized to his family, friends “and the people of Florida who have supported me and put their faith in me over the years.” I also know... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 17 2020Rehab
‘Lost in Ghost Town’ – Drug Memoir with a Redemptive Finish MEDIA: Book Feature – MARCH 11, 2020 - The timeline bounces back and forth between his childhood, starting at age seven, to his adult life in Venice, California. Growing up, he writes, his father was gone a lot... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMarch 17 2020
Curiosity Is A Superpower: Use It To Combat Addiction At Your Attention – March 11, 2020 - No matter your addiction, Brewer doesn’t want you to quit cold turkey. Rather, he wants you to go about your regular routine, just be completely conscious whi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
Keepin’ It Friel with ‘American Fix’ author Ryan Hampton Lois Lane & Clark Kent? – Mar. 11, 2020 - Ryan Hampton is an author and activist. He is the author of the book American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis-and How to End It. Ryan opens up about h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
A doctor’s radical treatment for pregnant addicts? Get them clean And Love Them – FEB. 26, 2020 - Towers didn’t need a drug test to confirm Lenderman, 14 weeks pregnant, was in the throes of opioid addiction, and this morning still showed the effects of having used the drug t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 17 2020RecoveryRehab
The Buddhist Approach to Addiction Treatment One Minute at a Time – March 13, 2020 - When one has negative feelings and experiences, their natural instinct is to escape the situation with an addiction. Mindfulness teaches us how to interrupt ourselves an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab
David Arquette on Wrestling, Addiction, and Losing Luke Perry It’s Complicated – March 13, 2020 - You mention Luke Perry, who died a few months after that match. How did that loss impact yo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 17 2020Rehab
12-step programs more effective at maintaining sobriety Promises Not Promotion – MARCH 11, 2020 - In fact, the evidence suggests that 42 percent of all study participants engaged in AA remained completely abstinent one year after starting treatment, compared to 35 ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousMarch 17 2020Rehab
How many body-brokering cases have been prosecuted under new law? Zero, nada, zilch, none, nil, gornish – March 12, 2020 - “There is no excuse for their failure to prosecute these cases, particularly when we desperately need an all-hands-on-deck approach to this crisis.” Si... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020opioids
Not Even 9/11 Could Shut Down AA Meetings. Coronavirus is Different. Sobriety comes first, no matter what – Mar. 13, 2020 - The woman said she would still have phone call check-ins and small pot-luck gatherings with her fellow group members if face-to-face meetings ended, but that it ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCoronavirusMarch 17 2020
Alcoholics Anonymous vs. Other Approaches: The Evidence Is Now In It Works If You Work It – March 11, 2020 - One study found that compared with Alcoholics Anonymous participants, those who received cognitive behavioral treatments had about twice as many outpatient visits — as... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousMarch 17 2020Recovery
Opinion: Jailing individuals for drug addiction is immoral War On The Wounded – March 3, 2020 - The Controlled Substance Act distinguished five different “schedules” for drugs to huddle underneath. Ignorance was on full display: schedule one drugs — the most “dangerous... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020
‘Strung Out’ Tackles Pain, Stigma And Shame Of Drug Use MEDIA: Book Review – February 28, 2020 - In her new memoir, Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, essayist and advice columnist Erin Khar writes candidly and at length about this partic... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020
Heroin addict: ‘You either going to be high, or dead’ Who Decides? – February 29th 2020 - “It depends on how potent the dope is. And around here, ain’t pretty. It ain’t potent. People who OD and stuff that like, they’re reckless.” Life for Lagenna has been toug... Read More...Addiction RecoveryHeroin AddictionMarch 10 2020
Comedian uses humor to share captivating recovery It’s a very funny disease – March 2, 2020 - “I had a lot of fun in sobriety,” Holbert said. “I got to do shows like this.” For eight years, his alcoholism pulled experiences away from him. Trapped by his addict... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 10 2020Recovery
Why Addiction Treatment Isn’t “One Size Fits All” Super Size Me – Mar. 3, 2020 - Traditional 12-Step-based treatment centers are incredibly successful and valuable for many, but for those still in a precontemplation stage of change or in denial of the seriousness of... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 10 2020Rehab
17% addicts hooked on de-addiction drug It’s Punjab Jake – Mar. 8, 2020 - De-addiction seems to have become a new addiction in the state. As per a government report, there is widespread addiction of de-addiction drug buprenorphine. At present, abo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020Rehab
Laura McKowen on Addiction, Recovery and We Are the Luckiest We Are Miracles, Too! – MARCH 2, 2020 - I just don’t think the labels are very helpful. Nobody hears the word “addict” or “alcoholic” and thinks something positive, or even neutral. Those words carry with them... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020Recovery
Science Suggests Loneliness Is Tied To Addiction Come Together – MAR 5, 2020 - As the United States struggled with a crisis of addiction to opioids and other drugs over the past few years, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionlonelinessMarch 10 2020Rehab
Mother with opioid addiction died in police custody after officers ignored her calls for help Arrested to Death – MAR. 7, 2020 - “Yeah I’m literally ill right now. I can’t even think straight. I’m gonna like literally pass out from pain,” Linsemeir tells Sgt. Moises Zanazanian who is listed as a defenda... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020opioids
Mika Brzezinski: This therapy is helping me triumph over my 20-year addiction to sleep medicine All Roads Lead to Home – March 5, 2020 - It started with my graveyard shift at CBS News when I was 30 years old. Besides having two babies under the age of two, my shift was brutal. After a one-hour commute, I ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 10 2020RecoveryRehab
‘Sobriety’s not boring’ Just Like Life – March 2, 2020 - While her friends are supportive of her sober lifestyle, she finds it comes up a lot in one particular area of her personal life. “It’s kind of difficult being single and dating,” she... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 10 2020
Indiana County to Start Bringing Charges Against Residents Who Overdose Locking Up The Dead – February 29, 2020 - The person who has overdosed is given the opportunity to plead guilty, and if they go that route, “the prosecutor’s office would agree to offer treatment services through pro... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020Overdose
Demi Lovato opens up about sobriety relapse in interview with Ellen Woman’s Empowerment – March 5, 2020 - According to the Daily Mail, Demi tells Ellen “My bulimia got really bad. I asked for help and I didn’t get the help that I needed. I’m thinking to myself: ‘I am six years ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 10 2020relapse
Can You Drink Your Way Sober? L’Chaim and L’Chaim again... – March 1, 2020 - Dr. Charles Shadel founded Shadel Hospital outside Seattle in 1935 offering aversion therapy in a “homelike setting” — the same year Bill Wilson started Alcoholics... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionMarch 10 2020
San Francisco Resurrects Plan to Open Supervised Injection Sites Keeping Life Alive – March 4, 2020 - Approximately 24,500 people in San Francisco regularly use syringes to inject illegal drugs, according to the city’s health department. In the city, drug overdosing accounte... Read More...Addiction RecoveryinterventionMarch 10 2020Rehab
Truly Radical Idea to Address Drug Addiction in Mia Donovan’s “Dope is Death” THEATER “Dope is Death” – March 6, 2020 - “You don’t want to fight on drugs,” says Felipe Luciano, the founder of the Young Lords, in “Dope is Death.” “ I found out I was political.” His epiphany contributes to a ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020
‘The Way Back’ Review: Ben Affleck Shines as Alcoholic Basketball Coach Off His Back – March 4, 2020 - There is an origin story for his current predicament, one that is both universal and specific, the film never allows that trauma to excuse or justify his behavior. Jack is surrou... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCelebrity SobrietyMarch 3 2020Recovery
Ozzy Osbourne Talks Sobriety and Having ‘the Midas Touch Batshit Sane – FEBRUARY 24, 2020 - The Godfather of Heavy Metal released his reunion album with Black Sabbath in 2013 and has been sober for seven years. “The last album, I wrote some of it stoned,” he admits. “I qui... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyMarch 3 2020Recovery