American Addiction Centers borrows $10 million from lenders Treatment Millions – Jan. 20, 2020 - That news came the same day AAC announced founder Michael Cartwright was stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by McWilliams, who at the time was the company’s chief financia... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020Rehab
Super agent Leigh Steinberg has made quite a comeback 9 years, 11 months sober... – Feb. 1, 2020 - As far as comeback stories go, there are few better than the one being authored by sports agent Leigh Steinberg. Steinberg also was promoting his blue-chip client cu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 4 2020Recovery
The dangers of digital crack Faux Childhoods? – January 29, 2020 - Never have we been more connected yet felt lonelier. While we realize that most of what we see on social media is staged, we are still compelled to make comparisons. It’s easy t... Read More...Addiction Recoverycell phoneFeb 4 2020internetloneliness
Food Addiction Eat Your Heart Out – January 28, 2020 - We need food to survive, but certain foods -- especially those rich in sugar, fat and salt — can trigger chemicals in the brain that make us feel good, such as dopamine. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020food addiction
Magazine editor Dan Peres on harrowing Vicodin addiction There is a pill for everything – February 1, 2020 - Later that day, finally loaded on 15 Vicodins, Peres met boxing champ Mike Tyson to discuss an upcoming story. Sweat-soaked and “swaying back and forth,” Pere... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020Rehab
Rapper Lexii Alijai, 21, died of accidental overdose Way Too Young! – JAN. 28, 2020 - Music ran in her family, as her father Roger Troutman Jr. recorded with Capitol Records during the 1980s, and her grandfather, Roger Troutman, founded funk band Zapp. Less than ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020fentanylOverdoserap
Demi Lovato Back on Top Demi Lovato Sings Her Heart Out – Dylan James wrote “I watched the Grammy’s Sunday night with a group of strangers. I was sitting in the social room at an inpatient hospital that I had been admitted to a week b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyJan 28 2020Recovery
How to Treat Insomnia in People Recovering from Drug Addiction In the Dark – Jan. 24, 2020 - Treatment Options If you have a history of drug abuse, we do not advise solving your insomnia with medications. Any prescription drugs or sleeping pills that need to be consumed cont... Read More...Addiction RecoveryinsomniaJan 28 2020Rehab
Aerosmith honored at MusiCares benefit Russell Brand hosts – Jan. 25, 2010 - Longevity and conflict have become defining characteristics in the shared half-century career of Aerosmith, the classic rockers who were honored Friday at the annual MusiCares Pe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyJan 28 2020
At 84, Cajun Great Doug Kershaw Still Going Strong Soberly All The Right Notes – Jan. 24, 2020 - As 84-year-old Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw looks back, he’s still looking ahead too — fiddling, singing, writing and performing as the quintessential “Louisiana Man.” Kers... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyJan 28 2020Rehab
Recovery from Addiction (suggested by John West) Easy Does It Easily – January 2020 - It is now well known that the repetition of rewarding behaviors produces changes in brain function and structure that facilitate habits and, for some, sustained compulsivity... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousGuest HouseJan 28 2020Rehab
Demi Lovato performs for the first time since overdose Tearful Triumph – January 26, 2020 - She actually wrote the song just before the incident. “I tried to talk to my piano / I tried to talk to my guitar / Talked to my imagination / Confided in to alcohol / I tried and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyJan 28 2020Overdose
Motley Crue Icon Calls Out ‘Lazy Alcoholic’ Nikki Sixx Six of one... – Jan. 24, 2020 - Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world could not stay sober, unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionJan 28 2020Rehab
Jessica Simpson reveals she was ‘killing’ herself ‘with drinking and pills’ Beautiful Decision – Jan. 20, 2020 - Simpson didn’t tell her parents what happened until she was 12. Even then, she explained, “Dad ... said nothing. We never stayed at my parents’ friends house again but we al... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJan 28 2020
Film List of 2015 Film List of 2015 I've seen most of these in a theater, not at home. Based on personal reaction, opinion, enjoyability and gut feelings. Not a critic's critique. A LOVED to LOATHED list, nor Best and Worst. A... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRehab
Can a Treatment Center Pay for Referrals in California?“Can my addiction/mental health center pay for referrals?” A question frequently asked these days relates to the practice of paying for referrals. This issue is one of the most misunderstood laws in Califo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryRehab
Gambling Addiction More Gambling Does Lead to More Gambling Addiction by Michael Burke I just finished the article entitled "More Gambling Does Not Lead to More Gambling Addiction". The premise for the article is, “Despite an incr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryRehab
Anonymity – A New Paradigm? Admitting that you're in a Twelve Step group is officially condoned by the fellowship, while confessing you're in AA is strictly verboten. What exactly is the point? My name is Leonard Buschel, and I... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionLeonard BuschelRehab