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
Thanks for celebrating women’s sobriety, but don’t call us ‘alcoholics’ Lush for Life? – FEBRUARY 6, 2020 - As women in recovery, we were pleased to see “Clearing a path to sobriety” (Feb. 1) on local efforts to expand gender-specific treatment options for women. Many struggle with hist... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 11 2020Mental Health
How sobriety changed my sex life No Hangovers – February 3, 2020 - Most people assume that sex after sobriety is probably boring at best, awkward and clunky at worst, but that it gets better with time. That’s what I assumed, too. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionFeb 11 2020
Social Life Without the Buzz? It’s the ‘Sober Curious’ Movement Boozeless – February 3, 2020 - Member Cori Clark says it’s a social gathering that allows for more authenticity “because you’re not distracted by what you’re drinking.” Clark, a recovering alcoholic, says that ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020Recovery
A Widow, Not A Wife: ‘Smacked’ Explores An Ex-Husband’s Secret Addiction NPR Fresh Air! – February 4, 2020 - “I tried to listen for a heartbeat and I couldn’t hear one ... I ran out of the house because I was afraid,” Zimmerman says. When the police and EMTs arrived, they identified... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 11 2020
Supermodel Sobriety with Jennifer Gimenez Straight Up! – FEBRUARY 5, 2020 - She also appeared on the reality shows Celebrity Rehab and Sober House. Jennifer just celebrated 14 years of sobriety, but for many years she abused drugs and alcohol, an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 11 2020Recovery Advocate
Florence Welch celebrates six years of sobriety She’s Gotta Not Have it – February 5, 2020 - She then captioned the painting of a red heart, “I send love to anyone on day 1. I love you. I’m with you.” Friends and fans congratulated the singer on her mileston... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 11 2020Recovery
Justin Bieber gets candid about mental health struggles and addiction The Bieb’s Battle Within – February 03, 2020 - Bieber’s marijuana abuse was only one addiction he was fighting. At one point, he admits to sipping the codeine cough syrup and soda combination known as lean, popping p... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020Mental Health
Catastrophe’s Delaney 18 years sober 12th Step work – February 5, 2020 - Thank you to everyone who’s helped me along the way. Delaney previously attributed his sobriety to helping him cope with the death of his 2-year-old son, Henry, two years ago... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 11 2020Recovery
Emory, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation form ‘Addiction Alliance’ Solution Based – February 7, 2020 - “I was ready to give up. I just wanted to die. My family, my employer – CNN and Tom Johnson, refused to give up on me,” Moyers said. “This community saved me.” S... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020RecoveryRehab
San Francisco to open tent ‘sobering’ center for meth users It has come to this! – February 6, 2020 - HealthRight 360, one of the largest San Francisco drug treatment providers, will run it. A driver with a van will be posted outside the center to pick up people show... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 11 2020homelessmeth
In ‘Smacked,’ a tale of addiction behind a veneer of success MEDIA: Book Review – Jan 30, 2020 - Zimmerman begins “Smacked” with her dramatic discovery of Peter’s corpse in his “architectural trophy” of a house, “all sharp angles and sunlight.” Though divorced, they are bonded... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 11 2020
Proof positive power of AA in our town Our primary purpose... – February 6, 2020 - For sure, there are families in this town that struggle with someone addicted, and many of those addicted are seeking help. At Christ Church Greenwich the 12-Step mee... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousFeb 11 2020Recovery