Smartphone Addiction Has Same Effect On Brain As Drug Use Siri, I can’t quit you – February 18, 2020 - Grey matter in the brain is vital, as it contains a majority of neuronal cell bodies and includes the regions that are associated with muscle control, speech, and se... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020Smartphone Addiction
Amanda Bynes & fiancé announce 1-year sobriety in apology video So Open – February 21, 2020 - “I’m sorry to everyone whom I called ugly on Twitter,” Bynes said. “I was feeling so ugly at the time and it was really hard for me to express myself at the time because I wa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020
Many pitfalls of universal drug screening for new mothers She lost her baby to a bagel – February 19, 2020 - This policy, known as universal screening, proactively screens all new mothers regardless of whether drug use is suspected. Those who favo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
‘Living Proof:’ Portraits Share Stories of Addiction and Recovery Reality In Your Face – February 20, 2020 - We are honored that they would step forth and share their stories with the community and trust us to be a part of this work,” said Jennifer Muggeo, deputy director of ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020
AA Shares New Video: “Young & Sober in A.A.: From Drinking to Recovery” AA’s First Commercial – Feb. 21, 2020 - Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of people who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, no cost, all gender, apolitical and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 25 2020Recovery
Public Radio’s “Back from Broken” – stories of addiction, struggle & recovery Good Radio – Feb 21, 2020 - The podcast will consist of 10 episodes released every other Friday and focus on conversations with people of all walks of life – including some celebrities – who have dealt with st... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020Recovery
Has social media become a socially acceptable addiction? Just Like Coffee – Feb. 18, 2020 - Galen joined Know Your Value co-founder and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski and Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2020
Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. More than a comeback! – Feb. 18, 2020 - Affleck, Oscar-winning writer, director of the Oscar-winning “Argo,” better actor than you remember — and, yes, alcoholic, divorcé and proud possessor of a mythical back ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 25 2020
It’s time to get real about heroin addiction. It’s time to decriminalize this drug! Decriminalize Heroin! – February 19, 2020 - I CAN SAY without a shred of doubt that the most stigmatized people in our society are those who use illicit drugs. ‘Junkies’, ‘dopeheads’ and ‘crackheads’ are some of the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Heroin Addiction
How Juul gets kids addicted to vaping: it’s even worse than you think Drug Dealing on the Internet – Feb. 14, 2020 - This isn’t the first time a company selling nicotine products has been accused of targeting children. Joe Camel, the cartoon mascot for Camel cigarettes, was the s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020juulRehabVaping
‘Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it’: Adderall presents esports with an enigma eAddiction – Feb. 13, 2020 - “Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it,” former Call of Duty World Champion, Adam “KiLLa” Sloss said. When asked if Adderall abuse at events was something he had ever witnessed ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020internetvideo games
We need to rethink “tough love” as a response to addiction Just Love – FEBRUARY 2, 2020 - When I reached out for help, I went to my ex-boyfriend, the only person I’d been honest with about my relapse. I reached out to him because, although he did have boundaries (“I wo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehabrelapse
Addiction Memoirs are a Genre in Recovery Sharing is Good – Feb. 13, 2020 - Hitting Bottom “Stray” is a literary coming to terms with her parents’ substance abuse, as well as her own periods of heavy drinking, cocaine and sedative use. Her father is a ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Man credits selling bouquets on Chicago streets for his recovery :‘Selling flowers helped me survive’ Sharing Beauty Enhances Sobriety – FEB. 14, 2020 - In the attempt to recover from alcoholism, Flores, 56, began to sell bouquets in the same streets he once tramped, begging for alcohol or the money to bu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020
Fruits of their labor: Restaurant celebrates love and recovery Are you hungry? – February 14, 2020 - Employees, or students as they call them, will go through a 12-week course to get their first level of certifi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Coronation Street actor helps addicts in Brighton A couple of swells – Jan. 31, 2020 - Kennedy Street has helped other projects set up their own social enterprises, feeding the homeless, organising dry gigs, and using crafting as therapy. Clare said: “Kennedy Str... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020RecoveryRehab
Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t This Needle Heals – February 15, 2020 - While out with his drinking buddies one night, they offered Jensen a hit, and he “was immediately hooked,” he said. “It was nothing like anything I’d done before,” Jense... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020meth
Cody Simpson credits Miley Cyrus and sobriety for inspiring new music Couple In Love – February 15, 2020 - Cody Simpson’s new music is inspired by the sober lifestyle he and girlfriend Miley Cyrus have adopted. The couple began dating last October, following the Slide Awa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Courtney Friel’s Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News New Book Recommendation – Feb. 2020 - “Love Courtney’s voice—she’s fun, funny, frank and candid! No doubt Tonight at 10 will help many people struggling with addiction.”-Ben Stein, editorial columnist at The Wa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2020
Q&A with Barbara Nicholson Brown Stick with the Winners! – February 12, 2020 - Barbara Nicholson Brown is publisher of Together AZ newspaper in Scottsdale AZ. Together AZ is a valuable source of information online and in print for anyone to access f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Amanda Bynes’s Sobriety Timeline The Bynes That Tie – February 16, 2020 - …struggling with drug abuse, she’s slowly taken back her life. In 2018, Bynes did an in-depth interview and photoshoot with Paper magazine, divulging her journey t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2020
Clinic uses device to take away addiction withdrawal symptoms Better Than Suboxone? – February 13, 2020 - The patient must keep the device on for five days. After that, Reed said the patient’s more likely to continue to sobriety. “They’ll laugh or they get te... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Rehab
Leigh Steinberg’s comeback continues with Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl MVP Touchdown in Sobriety – FEBRUARY 13, 2020 - It’s wonderful,” said Steinberg, who added that Mahomes is the kind of player and person he has always sought to represent, someone of high character and strong work ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryExperience Strength and Hope AwardsFeb 18 2020Recovery
Potential Gene Therapy Could Combat Cocaine Addiction The Future is Sober – February 15, 2020 - The results are promising enough that the FDA has approved plans to proceed with human clinical trials. Beginning more than 20 years ago, scientists have worked to engineer a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Gene Therapy
Boys, 12 being treated for online porn addiction WE had to walk 2 miles uphill to get porn – February 16, 2020 - ...today kids of 12 can just click on to these porn sites and they are there in the middle of this extreme stuff.“ In the last five years I have n... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020GamingSexual Addictionteenagers
Courtney Love celebrates 18 months of sobriety Sharing the Good News – February 2020 - Love used her unplanned acceptance speech to celebrate her sobriety, love for London, and to remind audiences that her accolade is well deserved. “I had the honour today ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 18 2020Recovery
Dueling Lawsuits Between Malibu Rehab Centers Rehab Wars – February 12, 2020 - Taite and Cliffside filed a countersuit exposing that Prentiss’s network of unbranded referral websites had been used for... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2020MalibuRehab
Noah Centineo opens up about his sobriety From stoned to success – February 12, 2020 - Once you wade through all those descriptions, you learn that Centineo recently shaved his head, exposing a scar he got at the age of 6 in a trampoline accident; he’s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 18 2020Recovery
Things You Only Know If You’re Long-Term Sober It Gets Better and Better – Jan. 31, 2020 - My own sobriety date, four years ago last week, coincides with an attempted dry January – embarked on, ironically, to prove I didn’t have a problem – gone disastrousl... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020Recovery
What are methadone and buprenorphine? Good To Know – Feb. 2020 - You may have heard about methadone and buprenorphine, but what exactly are they and what do they do? Is medication assisted treatment really helpful for those with opioid dependency? Why ca... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineFeb 11 2020meth