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...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020nonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
$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...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020Recovery
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...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020Mental Health
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
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...Addiction Recoverycell phoneJuly 14 2020Mental HealthSmartphone Addiction
‘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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
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...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Mental Health
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Mental HealthRecovery
RuPaul bonds with TV contestant over sobriety: ‘I wouldn’t be here today’ Harvey Milk would be proud! – July 11, 2020 - “I broke up with my fiancé of 12 years and also made a conscious decision to stop using drugs and drinking. That has been very impactful for me as a human being and as a ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Demi Lovato Saved Herself Doing It Her Way – July 7, 2020 - Now, Lovato’s project is Lovato. She is painting Hawaiian eucalyptus trees and Black Lives Matter-inspired portraits of George Floyd — “I’m kind of embarrassed about how that turned ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
Heroin addict reaches out to News 4 for help WATCH – Reality – July 10, 2020 - When Trouble Shooter, April Molina met Gina and Miguel, they were both jobless and homeless and the only glimmer of hope was that News 4 connected them with SACADA. Gina recalls b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionJuly 14 2020Recovery
Coronavirus disrupts Addiction treatment Never Stop Quitting! – JULY 6, 2020 - Shared spaces, double-occupancy bedrooms and group therapy are common in rehabs. People struggling with addiction are generally younger than nursing home residents, but both popu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Recovery
Free Film Screening Saturday Night at the Movies July 11, 2020 at 9:00pm. Screening the film, The First Day: A Focus on the Beginning. Presented on In The Rooms by REEL Recovery Film Festival July 8, 2020 –The Virtual REEL ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 7 2020RecoveryREEL Recovery Film Festival
Woman’s suspected overdose spotlights hidden deaths of the COVID-19 pandemic She could have been a contender... – June 28, 2020 - The virus knocked down all the supports she had carefully built around her: no more in-person Narcotics Anonymous meetings, no talks over coffee with a trusted fri... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020Overdose
FDA again declines to approve non-opioid painkiller What’s really going on? – JUNE 29, 2020 - The FDA has been pushing drugmakers to develop alternatives to opioid-based painkillers as the United States grapples with opioid addiction, with prescription opioids involve... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020opioid crisisopioids
How Attorneys Can Help As Addiction Cases Rise Post-Pandemic by Sue Bright When will it end? – June 28, 2020 - In establishing a solid defense for legal cases, take time to discuss the client’s history with drugs and alcohol. Attorneys can play an important role in ensuring their clients be... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020Recovery
‘It was a perfect storm how I got sober’: Student battles through addiction to graduate WATCH – Miracles Do Happen! – July 1, 2020 - Morrison started out at Lane Community College writing for the student-run newspaper, The Torch. Two years later, he transferred to the U of O and quickly got involved ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 7 2020Recovery
Providing Vapes to Incarcerated People Freedom would be even better – JUNE 30, 2020 - One aspect is the potential benefits of nicotine and the harms of withdrawal to people in this setting. Nicotine has calming properties which help to explain, for exampl... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 7 2020Vaping
Art exhibit removes the stigma of addiction WATCH – Celebration time is now – July 2, 2020 - This is a disease condition. This isn’t just a series of bad moral decisions and that’s what they come into the treatment center with. We’re trying to disjoint that id... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020Recovery
Involuntary treatment for the addicted is unconstitutional? Coercion or Compassion? – July 1, 2020 - On Wednesday morning, Cameron and local leaders and advocates gathered in overwhelming support of Casey’s Law, asserting its 16-year impact on people with substance use disord... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020RecoveryRehab
How To Achieve Emotional Sobriety Balancing Act As If – June 30, 2020 - The next step is recovery is emotional sobriety, or learning to deal with the uncomfortable feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that the addictive behaviors attempted to cover up o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCompassionJuly 7 2020Recovery
North America to Hold the Lion’s Share in Addiction Treatment Market, 2020 to 2025 America’$ Rehab Dream – July 3, 2020 - Recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic have led to increased drug addiction relapses. Hence, companies in the addiction treatment market are capitalizing on the demand for... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020RecoveryRehab