I walked out of rehab and into a pandemic SOBER – April 21, 2020 - Recovery is difficult and all too often bound toward failure. As someone new to sobriety, I’m in no position to talk with any authority on how to be successful. But as someone working t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020CoronavirusRecoveryRehab
LISTEN: Alcoholism And Coronavirus Listen, this guy’s an Idiot – APR 20, 2020 - Consider the plight of the alcoholic during this coronavirus shutdown. Liquor is still widely available at stores and even now via delivery. At the same time, social dist... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionApril 28 2020Coronavirus
‘Not the same on Zoom’ Reality TV Anyone? – April 20, 2020 - In normal times, he’d be able to turn easily to his counsellor, Tham Yuen Han – or Han, as her clients call her. For nine years, Eugene has been attending recovery su... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020CoronavirusinternetRecoveryRehab
Getting people into rehab can be hard. Try doing it during the coronavirus crisis If not now, when? – APRIL 24, 2020 - In recent days, Heller said, he has heard from a couple of former residents who relapsed during the pandemic, as well as from two former patients who work in Silicon Valley ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousApril 28 2020CoronavirusRecoveryRehab
Now is the time to listen to science, especially when it comes to addiction Still No Silver Bullet – April 23, 2020 - The National Institutes of Health found that buprenorphine and methadone reduce overdose fatalities and relapse by as much as 59%. In 1995, amid epidemic opioid use, Fr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020buprenorphineDrug Abuse and Addiction
Coronavirus isolation could mean death for America’s opioid addicts So Could Scoring – April 25, 2020 - “Instead of walking in, they call or we do it through video so they don’t have to come in unnecessarily and potentially put themselves or others at risk,” Smith said. Whil... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Coronavirusopioids
Michael Jordan remembers Bulls ‘traveling cocaine circus’ Send In The Clowns – April 20, 2020 - The six-time NBA champion went on to tell a story from his rookie season where he walked into a hotel room and stumbled upon a scene ranging from things as (now) mundane as weed... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addiction
Q&A With Recovery Advocate, Jennifer Gimenez Actor, Model, Sober – April 20, 2020 - As one of the nation’s leading advocates on addiction recovery, Jennifer Gimenez has become a regular fixture on numerous television networks and across multiple social media pl... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Celebrity SobrietyExperience Strength and Hope AwardsRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Addiction Crisis Looms As Most Vulnerable Fall Through Pandemic Cracks Catch Them If You Can – April 25, 2020 - She said while the funding for prevention and early intervention was welcomed and useful, she was concerned about the level of support for those already addicted during ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020CoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addiction
Extra Payments Motivate Sobriety & Employment for People Recovering from Addiction Cash is King – April 20, 2020 - In a report on the study, described in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health online Feb. 21, the investigators say their intervention could be used widely in low-inc... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020CoronavirusRecovery
Heather Locklear Celebrates 1 Year of Sobriety with Empowering Message from Maya Angelou The Wisdom of Recovery – April 21, 2020 - “I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one,”... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Celebrity Sobriety
JACK OSBOURNE Celebrates 17 Years of Sobriety Maturity is Attractive – April 21, 2020 - I surrendered to the fact that I will never be a ‘normal’ drinker and that drugs and alcohol will only ever lead to bad things for me. I went to meetings, worked ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Celebrity SobrietyRecovery
‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why it happens. Sobering information – APRIL 24, 2020 - This leads to problems in which group video chats become less collaborative and more like siloed panels, in which only two people at a time talk while the rest listen. Be... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousApril 28 2020CoronavirusRecoveryRehab
Eminem Celebrates 12 Years of Sobriety Clean Dozen – April 20, 2020 - Posting a photo of Eminem holding up his sober accomplishment chip, Royce Da 5’9” corrected his ten-year achievement to twelve years and wrote a touching message on social media. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Celebrity SobrietyrapRecovery
Recovery and sobriety during quarantine Good time to be awake – April 18, 2020 - Stuber explained that a sense of community is key for those struggling with addiction and mental illness. “It is critically important that you’re able to connect with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Recovery
Women recovering from human trafficking and addiction making masks for nonprofit Not for Halloween! – April 11, 2020 - The projects are helping keep the lights on. “That’s almost two months of rent,” Smith says. “And right now, while the women aren’t working, we have to pay for all their... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Coronavirus
The Importance of Getting Someone Off Drugs Meds can be tricky – April 11, 2020 - This isn’t hard to imagine since we’re talking about people who often haven’t experienced a state that isn’t chemically influenced for many years. It’s not exactly a surpri... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020RecoveryRehab
‘I was slow-killing myself!’ Comedian Robert Webb reveals battle with alcoholism No Laughing Matters of the Heart – April 12, 2020 - The mitral valve is a small flap in the heart that stops blood flowing the wrong way and if there are issues with it it can affect how blood flows around the ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionApril 21 2020
The Scary Relationship Between Vaping and Coronavirus Vent-O-Later – April 13, 2020 - Research on vaping’s long-term health effects is still limited. But given what we know about smoking, COVID-19 and other respiratory infections, health experts confidently say th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020CoronavirusVaping
Officials, health experts worry coronavirus will set back opioid fight Staying on the defensive – April 10, 2020 - Only three months ago, when reported U.S. coronavirus cases were in the single digits, the Trump administration celebrated some rare good news in the battle against o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Coronavirusopioids
CJ Sparxx on Sobriety: ‘My Life Only Gets Better Every Day’ Better not Easier – April 18, 2020 - The Playboy model, and Instagram influencer bares more than her body on social media with her honesty and gratitude for her sobriety. “My life only gets better every d... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Celebrity SobrietyRecovery
Is COVID-19 triggering your eating disorder? Make Peace with your Pantry – April 16, 2020 - This is objectively a difficult time and self-care has never been more important. ” A person might also feel triggered by the increased conversations surrounding f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020CoronavirusEating Disorder
Pop Singer Drea Jeann’s Battle with Addiction Papa don't preach... – April 15, 2020 - I couldn’t continue living the way I was. I was either going to die, or get clean at that point. I wished death upon myself numerous times, and even tried. It was extremely se... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Drug Abuse and Addiction
Seth Rogen on smoking weed during quarantine Rehabs Get Ready for BONGERS – April 17, 2020 - Rogen turned 38 on April 15 and to celebrate the day, his wife Lauren Miller had some of Rogen’s pals drive by and wish happy birthday, which suited the “Superbad... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020CoronavirusmarijuanaMental Health
“Reclaiming My Life,” New Book on Addiction, Recovery, & Healing When a son dies too young – March 2, 2020 - Maryland mother and wife, Tammy Lofink, experienced a parent’s worst nightmare when her son Robert Mason Lofink died of an overdose. Out of a strong desire to help ot... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls: a memoir When romance and substance abuse collide – April 17, 2020 - But, as Oakland writer Nina Renata Aron points out in “Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls,” her own unflinching new memoir of addiction, romance and co... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Celebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addiction
Shelter in Place is an Invitation to Sober Up Privacy to Change – April 11, 2020 - My life has become infinitely more interesting since I ditched the drink, but this did not happen in my first few months of getting sober. The truth is, your sobriety evolve... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Recovery
He Spent 20 Years Battling Addiction. Now Fitness Is Helping Him Stay Sober. How It WorkOuts – APR 15, 2020 - Back to 2015, when I was withdrawing in bed, unable to eat or even drink water. My son, who was 8-years-old at the time, started to recognize that something was seriously wrong with ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionApril 21 2020
How America’s ‘Bedlam’ Became Jails and Streets From Bad to Worse to the Streets – April 17, 2020 - Over the course of the late 20th century, psychiatric hospitals emptied out about 1.4 million of their patients in a process of de-institutionalization. But m... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Drug Abuse and Addiction
“America’s Other Epidemic” by Beth Macy author of DOPESICK from The Atlantic – May 2020 - Nikki thought about going back. But then she remembered one of her last conversations with her grandmother. She had forbidden Nikki from going to a certain friend’s house. They’d both ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Overdoseoxycontin