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Young Adults Fighting Alcoholism

MEETINGS OF MINDS – Oct. 22, 2022 - Paul has been sober for more than three years, he says proudly, showing off his golden chip he earned as a mark of his achievement. It has three large stripes and shows th... Read More...

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Tony-Award Winner Levi Kreis and The Power of Recovery

AUDIO – THE MOST DEPRESSING MINI-SERIES EVER – Oct. 19, 2022 - Listen on the Imagine Paradise Podcast which seeks to help people become chain-breakers, turning addiction to freedom, self sabotage to self love and v... Read More...

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We Can’t Buy into Hollywood’s Glamorization of Drug Abuse

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE – October 13, 2022 - With the high expectations of the major film studios and long work hours that required high amounts of energy, doctors started prescribing drugs and de... Read More...

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Hang-xiety? How a Night of Drinking Can Tank Your Mood

GETTING A DUI? – Oct. 6, 2022 - One of the many things I have noticed about life after 40 is that even a single glass of wine can make me feel icky the next day. I wake up tired, foggy-headed and anxious... Read More...

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Flavor Flav Celebrates Two Years Of Sobriety

ONE CLOCK AT A TIME – Oct. 12, 2022 - 2 years sober next week. Ya boy Flav is not alone in dis journey. Thx to god and family and friends dat support me!!! more@BET ... Read More...

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Andrea Riseborough on Alcoholism Drama ‘To Leslie’

VIDEO – A STAR IS BORN – Oct. 7, 2022 - You had a working relationship with Michael Morris prior to this film from collaborating on Bloodline. What else about To Leslie stood out, and made it clear this ... Read More...

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Long Term Antidepressant Use Linked To Increased Morbidity and Mortality

BUMMER – Oct. 6, 2022 - The authors then assessed the association between antidepressant use and four different morbidities: diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), and cerebrovascular disease (CV... Read More...

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How Hospital Addiction Specialist Saved a Life

AUDIO – MORE THAN ONCE! – Oct. 9, 2022 - BEBINGER: This is Liz Tadie. She helped launch a different approach for Marie and other patients at Salem Hospital. That day, when Marie said, please don’t make me g... Read More...

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Josh Peck and Paige O’Brien Welcome 2nd Child

SOBRIETY IS SO CREATIVE – Oct. 14, 2022 - The couple — who tied the knot in June 2017 — announced that they were expecting their second child in June, when O’Brien shared a photo of her cradling her belly while... Read More...

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One Man’s Journey Through Opioid Addiction

IT’S THE HERO’S JOURNEY! – Oct. 14, 2022 - “I overdosed on drugs. I took heroin laced with fentanyl,” the 38-year-old Idaho Falls man says. “I was dead.” Exactly how long he was dead is unclear. To th... Read More...

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‘My alcoholism successfully destroyed everything I loved.’: Woman achieves 12-year sobriety after prolonged addiction

RECOVERY SAVES LIVES – Oct. 13, 2022 - Growing up, I always appeared ‘normal,’ but I never really felt secure or accepted. My father was an alcoholic and my mother was the daughter of an alcoholic who died from... Read More...

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Watch Richard Pryor Open Up About His Sobriety

VIDEO – A LITTLE TOO LATE – Oct. 11, 2022 - In an interview with Johnny Carson, Pryor spoke about his sobriety. He said: “I haven’t had drugs in a long time now. And it’s the first time that I’m really trying t... Read More...

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Addiction, at Heart of Boxer Taylor Duerr Documentary

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM – Oct. 14, 2022 - The topic of “We Can Be Heroes” is vitally relevant to Genesee County, where there were 184 reported overdose deaths in 2020, and 155 overdose deaths between May 2021 and Apr... Read More...

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Recovery Industry Rife with Abuse, Investigators Say

GREED GREED GREED – Oct. 12, 2022 - The opioid epidemic may have fallen out of the daily headlines, but it continues its deadly rampage in New Jersey, Brewer said. More than 3,100 people died of ... Read More...

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Rehabs in Jersey Engaged in ‘Appalling’ Practices

MONEY MONEY MONEY – Oct. 12, 2022 - At a hearing in Trenton to highlight the flaws in the addiction rehabilitation industry, commission investigators testified about their work and what they found as they looke... Read More...

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Addiction, and Illness Under Capitalism

VIDEO – SOCIETY’S CHILD – Oct. 14, 2022 - This is helpful. I’ve never made the connection between societal (in US, etc) expectations related to individualism and the how they facility capitalism and vice versa.... Read More...

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Commentary: Harm Reduction and the Proletariat

STOP THE MADNESS – Oct. 13, 2022 - Now opium derivatives, like heroin, are once again the actual opium of the people. People use heroin and fentanyl analogues to escape oppression temporarily. Black Pant... Read More...

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Side Effects of Smoking “Too Much” Marijuana Say Doctors

BE CAREFUL BRAINS ARE FRAGILE – Oct. 10, 2022 - It is well-known that smoking marijuana can negatively affect the brain,” Dr. Mitchell emphasizes. For example, studies have shown that it can impair memor... Read More...

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Encampments & Halfway House Bulldozed, Displacing 100s

WHERE ARE WE TO, WHERE ARE WE EVER TO GO – Oct. 6, 2022 - Minneapolis, MN – On Oct. 6, 2022, the City of Minneapolis evicted three encampments of unhoused people, leaving over 100 people displaced withou... Read More...

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2.5 Million US Students Vape

VIDEO – NO MATCHES NEEDED – Oct. 6, 2022 - About 2.55 million middle and high school students in the US currently use e-cigarettes, researchers say, based on responses to a survey conducted earlier this year.&n... Read More...

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Exploring Sobriety Through Sober Curious Movement

VIDEO – CURIOSITY CURED THE CAT – Oct. 13, 2022 - Sober curious often involves rethinking alcohol consumption. That often results in reducing the amount of alcohol consumed or abstaining completely. “If you ... Read More...

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Adwoa Aboah: Loneliness Attached to Sobriety is Like a ‘grieving period’

IT’S WORTH IT – Oct. 8, 2022 - She said: “I don’t think people talk about it (loneliness) enough when attached to sobriety. Like imagine, you know, it’s almost like a grieving period. “You mourn the people y... Read More...

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FILM: “To Leslie” Gets 4 Stars

FILM REVIEW – Oct. 8, 2022 - James isn’t happy to see her. Nobody’s happy to see Leslie. Leslie is an alcoholic who’ll do any other substance within reach. She can’t borrow from anyone anymore because sh... Read More...

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Overcoming Alcoholism To Live An Adventurous Life

HEALTHY EXCITEMENT – Oct. 7, 2022 - “I share this kind of stuff to inspire people who are on the journey that I’ve been on. It’s to smash that myth, actually a life without alcohol is not worse - you’re not the... Read More...

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New Documentary “The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief” Screens at the REEL Recovery Film Festival in North Hollywood

YOUR HIGHER POWER WANTS YOU TO BUY TICKETS – Aug. 8, 2022 - That first meeting was tense, to say the least. Rossetto, now 84, remembered Borovitz as “a very large man who interrogated me.” She recalled hi... Read More...

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Overdose Prevention Scheme Gives Users Shopping Vouchers

VIDEO – BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Oct. 5, 2022 - One of the voucher recipients is Kevin Whittaker, 44. He’s been using class-A drugs since his late 30s. He said: “I’ll see what shop I’m passing at the time an... Read More...

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Dr. Explains what happens when a person uses cocaine or heroin for the first time

THEY GAMBLE BIG – Oct. 9, 2022 - Around 100 million people consume illicit drugs such as cocaine or heroin in India – this revelation was made by the Narcotics Control Bureau DDG (Operations) Sanja... Read More...

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LSD-based drugs help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip

STANLEY MOUSE? – Oct. 5, 2022 - The new drug comes from a large team of scientists who did not start out looking for an antidepressant. They had been building a virtual library of 75 million molecules... Read More...

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Ex-Yankees Ace CC Sabathia Celebrates 7 Years of Sobriety

SORT OF LIKE A PERFECT GAME – Oct. 5, 2022 - Sabathia, 42, has been sober since the end of the 2015 season. He checked himself into rehab before the Yankees’ Wild Card game against the Houston Astros. He then r... Read More...

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I was a drug, alcohol and gambling addict – I lost everything, now I’m a bestselling author

GOOD FOR YOU – Oct. 6, 2022 - Obviously, I couldn’t go to the police about the threats from the dealer, and I didn’t have money to pay them so I ran away to Thailand. But then, of course, I ran out of ca... Read More...

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