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Pandemic drinking is dangerous for women

WATCH – A NEW “DAWN” WITHOUT ALCOHOL – April 8, 2021 - Alcohol consumption has increased during the pandemic and it could be putting many women at an increased risk of breast cancer. A growing group of women ar... Read More...

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Ibogaine: Promising Treatment for Addiction

IF IT REALLY WORKS, WHY NOT? – April 5, 2021 - Once dismissed as a fringe, counterculture vice, psychedelics are rapidly approaching acceptance in mainstream medicine. These drugs uniquely change the brain, and a pe... Read More...

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CA. Senators OK Bill To Legalize Possession Of Psychedelics

THEY BE TRIPPIN’! – April 6, 2021 - A bill to decriminalize psychedelics in California and create a working group to study broader reform advanced through a Senate committee on Tuesday. The panel also approved ... Read More...

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Teenage Brains Especially Vulnerable to Marijuana?

SHE’S NINETEEN – March 29, 2021 - Adolescents and teenagers who experiment with marijuana and prescription drugs are more likely to get hooked on them than young people who try these drugs for the first time wh... Read More...

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Can 12-Step Groups and Psychedelics Coexist?

WHAT WOULD BILL W. DROP? – April 8, 2021 - After years of daily opioid use, Kevin was finally succeeding at his recovery. In 2011, he moved into a halfway house, got a sponsor, and started going to 12-step meetings ... Read More...

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How I learned to love Zoom 12-step meetings

NO MORE ZOOM GLOOM – April 8, 2021 - “You could hear the plopping of her poo,” he recalls. “She put the camera back on her face like nothing happened.”) Meetings were attacked by Zoom bombers. Hate speech... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – DMX

“The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.” —DMX (Dec. 18, 1970 – Apr. 9, 2021) ... Read More...

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Teens more likely than adults to develop addiction to marijuana, drugs within 12 months

A YEAR IN THE LIFE – April 1, 2021 - The new report, published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA pediatrics, adds to mounting evidence showing adolescents are more vulnerable to substance use disorders t... Read More...

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Margo Price: ‘My Mind Is Clear and My Heart Is Full’

SAVE THE COUNTRY – April 2, 2021 - Price wrote that her decision to get sober came after she “started drinking more frequently again” during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during the late summer and early ... Read More...

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Celebrity groomer helps people battling addiction

WATCH – THE MIRACLE OF MEN – March 24, 2021 - Now, they’re ready to take their efforts a step further by creating a structured sober living facility in Southern California that’s equipped with a “community of r... Read More...

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Hunter Biden Says His Family Never Gave Up On Him

LISTEN – LOVE IS THE FIRST STEP – April 5, 2021 - He has been in and out of rehab numerous times over the last two decades and has had long periods of sobriety between relapses. It’s also a story about a fam... Read More...

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You got sober? Good for you, but we can’t date

ESSAY/OPINION/AL-ANON SHARE – March 27, 2021 - My brilliant and weirdly eccentric father, who I thought was the most interesting man in the world, indulged in a combo of pills and alcohol. Even as a teenager... Read More...

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Marti Pellow: ‘Every day I punch addiction in the face!

WATCH – SINGING SOBER – March 29, 2021 - Of all the pop stars, Pellow seemed such an unlikely addict – so clean-cut, bouncy and upbeat. After being outed by the tabloids in 1999, he never denied his problems. B... Read More...

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This Is Your Brain on Junk Food

HAPPY AS HELL – March 25, 2021 - “I had tried to avoid the word addiction when I was writing ‘Salt Sugar Fat,’” he said. “I thought it was totally ludicrous. How anyone could compare Twinkies to crack cocaine w... Read More...

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RHONY’s Leah McSweeney Celebrates 1 Year of Sobriety

A YEAR IS A YEAR, WELL DONE – March 30, 2021 - She continued, “When I found out that I was in fact going to be on the show I thought to myself that it may be a good time to stop drinking again but it was much t... Read More...

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Paige talks about her sobriety

WRESTLING FOR LIFE – April 1, 2021 - “Honestly, the drug thing, (stopping drugs), kind of happened when I got the call that I could go back to WWE because that lifted my spirits a lot. I was like, ‘Damn, well, ... Read More...

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Stimulus money fueling addictions

WATCH – BAD MONEY AFTER GOOD – April 1, 2021 - She said the correlation became clearer when checks rolled out. Some people relapsed or would stop showing up for treatment. “Engagement specialists, recovery c... Read More...

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The Guest House: Ocala’s best kept secret

HEALING AND HOPE – April 2021 - The Guest House, located on a rustic estate in Silver Springs, has been in operation since 2016. It is one of the nation’s leading centers for treating addiction and destructive ... Read More...

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“Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness’

CATCH HER IF YOU CAN – April 2, 2021 - Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale Of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness is a true story, laced with wicked humor and much pathos, of Mary Goggin’s Irish Catholic upbringing... Read More...

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Film about addiction made by people in recovery

THREE BULL-MASTIFFS IN A CORNER KITCHEN – April 2, 2021 - Like a pea pushed down a snowy mountain, is how Sam Batley describes his spiral into addiction. From the age of 15, his consumption of substances gained... Read More...

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Minnesota band “Communist Daughter” embrace new Alaska home

WATCH & LISTEN – BEING SOBER IS VERY COOL – April 2, 2021 - After almost a decade of steady touring and hustling to make their harmonious indie-rock group Communist Daughter one of Minnesota’s great shoulda-been... Read More...

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Q&A with Amy Dresner, Best-Selling Author

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – April 6, 2021 - Amy Dresner is a journalist, author and former comedian as well as a recovering addict and alcoholic. She was a regular columnist for the addiction/recovery magazine Th... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths Spiked To 88,000 During Covid-19

LISTEN – HUNGRY GHOSTS – April 1, 2021 - The White House plan drew praise from Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who represents one of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic. “I have long pushed to expand ... Read More...

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George Floyd could change how we talk about drug abuse and Black Americans

WATCH – LONG OVERDUE CONVERSATION – April 3, 2021 - As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States, Floyd, the father of two young daughters, started using again: he lost his job as a nightclub security gu... Read More...

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‘Jackass’ team ‘tortured’ me with 90-day rehab stint’ says: Bam Margera

WATCH – 18 DIFFERENT JAGGED LITTLE PILLS – April 2, 2021 - “What’s the point of a $5 million contract that I have to walk on eggshells and jump through your hoops — which is already impossible — to obey if I’m dead?... Read More...

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Alcohol really does go straight to the head!

IT’S SO CLOSE TO THE MOUTH – March 27, 2021 - The old adage claiming alcohol “goes straight to the head” is actually true according to new research. Scientists say booze breaks down in the brain, rather than th... Read More...

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Drug treatment should be incentivized, NOT forced

LISTEN – ATTRACTION NOT COERCION – MARCH 31, 2021 - The Washington Post has been running a series about reimagining public safety, and one of the guest columnists is Kassandra Frederique, the executive director of t... Read More...

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Safer injection facilities are a much-needed weapon in the opioid epidemic

DEATH REDUCTION – April 3, 2021 - Doctors or nurses based at SIFs provide treatment or give referrals to treatment for people with opioid addiction. In my work as a buprenorphine doctor, many of my patients say... Read More...

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I’m a mom who drank daily during COVID-19

WATCH – TIME TO WINE DOWN – April 2, 2021 - Between 2019 into 2020, reports of women binge drinking rose amid the COVID-19 pandemic -- now many, particularly mothers, say they’re reevaluating their relationship... Read More...

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