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Six infections, three heart surgeries, a $1 million on hospitals and he still can’t escape his drug addiction!

HE’S COMMITTED – Oct. 16, 2025 - They installed his first pacemaker when he was 30, opened his chest three times for heart surgeries, and amputated all but one of his toes. Friends and health care providers have help... Read More...

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Private Treatment Centres Put Patients in Danger

AUDIO/VIDEO – OH CANADA – Oct. 24, 2025 - Quebec and Alberta are only provinces that provide some regulation for all private facilities. After past struggles with alcohol, she was battling prescription drug addiction... Read More...

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Treatment Center Feels Impact of State Crackdown on Sober Living Fraud

WATCH – VIDEO ONLY – Oct. 15, 2025 - Local treatment center the Haven feels impact of state crackdown on sober living fraud. See Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45g2ATJOCk ... Read More...

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Embattled Kentucky Treatment Center Sold to Ethema Health

AUDIO – GUILTY AS SIN – Oct. 22, 2025 - One of Kentucky’s largest for-profit residential addiction care treatment providers, which has been the subject of an FBI investigation for more than a year, is being sold. Add... Read More...

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Doctor’s Journey Sparks A Movement

THANK GOD – Oct. 16, 2025 - Dr. Christopher Schenewerk’s personal battle with alcoholism transformed both his life and medical practice. After voluntarily entering rehab on Nov. 8, 2018, he has remained sober for ove... Read More...

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Person of the Week: Shireen Janti

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Oct. 28, 2025 - Shireen Janti has been a force in the field of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency for over 36 years. Her credentials include becoming a (CPC) Certified Professional ... Read More...

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Anthony Hopkins on Quitting Booze & Finding God

THE SILENCE OF THE DRINKS – Oct. 25, 2025 - In his new memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” which will be published on Nov. 4, the 87-year-old shares the details...But I was drunk and driving my car here in California in a blac... Read More...

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Antidepressant Side Effects

WHICH SIDE? – OCT. 23, 2025 - Doctors have long known that antidepressants come with side effects for cardiovascular and metabolic health. The end result is something akin to a “sports league table” for 30 different ... Read More...

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For Sale in California Stores Nitrous Oxide Is Ruining Lives Forever

AUDIO – TOO EASY – Oct. 20, 2025 - ...as her boyfriend drove while repeatedly inhaling nitrous oxide from a two-liter canister. At roughly 100 mph, Mr. Loudermilk lost consciousness, the effect of the anesthetic d... Read More...

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‘It’s scary to think I could have died’

LONG STRANGE TRIP – Oct. 17, 2025 - Coming back from fentanyl addiction. Kayla first tried fentanyl as a troubled 18-year-old, growing up in the US state of North Carolina. ”I felt like literally amazing. The voices ... Read More...

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Fewer Than Half of Drug Overdose Survivors Go to the Hospital

INDEPENDENT ADDICTS – Oct. 23, 2025 - The researchers found that 25.7 percent of participants had experienced at least one NFOD in the prior year. During the most recent NFOD, use of naloxone was reported by 82.1 per... Read More...

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The 10 Darkest Movies About Addiction and Alcoholism

THE HORROR – Oct. 15, 2025 - Many movies have successfully portrayed the reality of alcohol use disorders and other addictions. While many of these movies focus on the fact that these are illnesses that can be succes... Read More...

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Celebrity TV chef Andrew Zimmern Talks Addiction & Sobriety

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL – Oct. 24, 2025 - At one time, Andrew Zimmern, an Emmy and four-time James Beard Award winner, TV/media personality, chef, writer and passionate global citizen, used people, was addicted to heroi... Read More...

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Connecticut Residents Debate Hillbilly Heroin / Kratom Ban

AUDIO – NOT GOOD – Oct. 16, 2025 - The vast majority of the more than 100 testifiers during Wednesday’s marathon seven-hour hearing agreed that 7-OH, which researchers have estimated could be 15 times as potent as mo... Read More...

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Celebrating Husband Jason Ritter’s Sobriety: ‘12 Years of Accountability’

AND NO HANGOVERS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Lynskey wrote, “12 years of accountability, of showing up, of answering the phone, of driving home safely, of quiet nights, of loud fun nights, of laughing and laughing, of be... Read More...

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Ben Fuller: What Almost Cost Him 6 Years of Sobriety?

VIDEO – A STAR STAYS BRIGHT – Oct. 16, 2025 - Fuller was nominated for Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year for his collaboration with Carrie Underwood on his song “If It Was Up To Me.” Underwood later m... Read More...

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FILM: Daughter’s Searing Portrait of Family Addiction and Mental Illness

VIDEO – MOVIE REVIEW – Oct. 8, 2025 - Film-maker Myrid Carten, who holds the camera much of the time as well as directing, exposes here the open wound that is her relationship with her mother Nuala, who has both bipo... Read More...

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Recovery Center to Stop Providing Pipes to Drug Users

VIDEO – GOOD IDEA – Oct. 9, 2025 - According to the Howard Center, it helps people and communities by providing services to address mental health, substance use and developmental needs The organization provides le... Read More...

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Why People Use or Get Addicted to Cannabis?

JAZZ OR ROCK? – Oct. 13, 2025 - The tendency to use cannabis is associated with genes linked to impulsive behavior, obesity, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other traits. 24 states legalized recreatio... Read More...

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Woman Escaped Death: Now 2 Years Sober

GRATEFUL EVERY DAY – Oct. 16, 2025 - Ellie McLean will never forget the day that saved her life. “My dad came into my room and he said, ‘Are you trying to kill my baby girl?’” “I said, ‘No, Dad.’” McLean was 43, ... Read More...

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Country Singer Makes Bold Admission About His Sobriety

VIDEO – AND HAVING A BALL – Oct. 17, 2025 - “I never was a big drinker, but when I did drink, I was just a total jerk,” he explained. “I always told people I’ve been mistaken as someone, a kid that was a bit cocky an... Read More...

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Alcoholic Who Relapsed Shoplifted Wine Seven Times In One Month

HE NEEDS SOME MONEY – Oct. 17, 2025 - The court was told that the items taken were all alcohol on six occasions from SuperValu in Macroom and on one occasion from Aldi in the town. The court was told that O’Drisco... Read More...

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Libraries in Chicago Reduces Overdose Deaths

GO BEARS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Even libraries have become part of the city’s arsenal in the fight against drug overdose deaths. Chicagoans can get free drug test strips at the city’s public libraries – as well as naloxon... Read More...

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When Darren Waller Puts Sobriety First, His NFL Career Falls Into Place

VIDEO – MIAMI DOLPHINS – Oct. 17, 2025 - He had been in the NFL’s drug program for a while, but still didn’t stop him from abusing alcohol, marijuana, painkillers, anything to numb him from his struggles in life, and... Read More...

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Person of the Week: TJ Woodward

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – TJ Woodward is a revolutionary recovery expert, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and addiction treatment specialist who has helped countless people through his simple, yet powerful... Read More...

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Paris Jackson Got Her ‘Life Back’ After Sobriety

SHINING STAR – October 13, 2025 - Paris Jackson is reflecting on her sobriety journey and how it feels “getting my life back.” Paris attended the 35th annual Friendly House Awards Luncheon, and was awarded the Shinin... Read More...

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“Could the cure be worse than the disease?”

WE THINK NOT – Oct. 10, 2025 - Two new books chronicle ‘an American Scandal’ and point the way forward. Insurers, legislators, Congressfolk, listen up! Forgive the imagery, but we long to box the ears of every Cal... Read More...

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The Drug That Took Away Her Appetite and Cocaine Addiction

BRING IT ON – Oct. 14, 2025 - She began taking a drug similar to Ozempic while living at a Rhode Island nonprofit for formerly incarcerated and homeless people. She gets the medication, called a GLP-1, free thr... Read More...

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Blowing the Lid Off U.S. Rehabs

THIS STORY WON’T DIE – Oct. 16, 2025 - Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make you cry and scream. Cry for how people in need are treated with such cruelty in addicti... Read More...

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Nonprofits Profit On Homeless While the Crisis Deepens

AUDIO – NOT SO POOR ANYMORE – Oct. 14, 2025 - In Los Angeles, much of the work is carried out not just by government agencies, but largely by a vast network of nonprofits funded with public money. Over the past de... Read More...

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