The Very Scientific Analysis of Alcohol in Food FERMENT THIS! – Sept. 15, 2022 - Millipore Sigma provided the 200-proof ethanol standard and pure t-butanol internal standard (IS) (Burlington, MA). A filtration system within the laboratory was used to produce... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022
The Preacher’s Son is Finally Sober, Happy and Free GRACE IS EVERYWHERE – Sept. 9, 2022 - old. Although it started out innocently enough, he found alcohol to be a crutch that he couldn’t live without. Well into his twenties, Kenan appeared to be a functioning hu... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022
Providers Face Multiple Challenges Working With Potheads BUT SO TALENTED – Sept. 11, 2022 - At the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Tanya L. Gouveia, MS, MPA, LCDP-II, LADC-I, who runs Addiction Recovery Counseling and serves as an adjunct professor ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanapotRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022smoking
Nothing seemed to relieve their depression. Then they tried ketamine. DO TRY THIS AT HOME – Sept. 12, 2022 - While the study has limitations, the findings appear to illuminate how ketamine could offer more than just brief relief to people whose depression is resistant to o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 20 2022
No More Hard-Drinking Japanese College Students as Gen Z Goes Sober AUDIO – REALITY DOESN’T BITE – Sept. 12, 2022 - The popularity of low- and non-alcoholic drinks has risen worldwide, accelerated by the pandemic, which led many people to be more health conscious. The global ma... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionRecoverySept 20 2022
“Junk Science” in Our Courts and Forced Drug Treatment are a Recipe for Disaster IT’S COMPLICATED – Sept. 12, 2022 - Yet, the insanity defense has been used in numerous trials involving school or community shootings. Found incompetent to stand trial or guilty but “mentally ill,” perp... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022
Addiction Often Goes Hand-In-Hand With Mental Illness BY NORA D. VOLKOW THE TRUTH HURTS – Sept. 12, 2022 - Substance use disorders often accompany other mental illnesses. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa. For ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022
Road to Recovery: ‘I dare you to believe’ CAME TO BELIEVE – Sept. 13, 2022 - We all have value; we all have worth; we all have something to contribute, and we don’t want to hang onto that,” Clemmer said. “...When I can give back, it just works.” It ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022
New Definition of Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder CUT DOWN AND STAY THAT WAY – Sept. 14, 2022 - For those experiencing alcohol-related functional impairment and other adverse consequences, recovery is often marked by the fulfillment of basic needs, enhancement... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022
Lala Kent: ‘I Would Have Curled Up In The Fetal Position’ OVERSHARING? – Sept. 12, 2022 - A lot has changed for Lala over the past year. Besides welcoming her first child — one-year-old daughter Ocean — she went through a public breakup with movie producer Randall Emm... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022
Hiding In Plain Sight: Young Adult Addiction Care YOUTH QUAKE – Sept. 14, 2022 - “If your child is diagnosed with a substance use disorder, there’s hope for recovery. It includes evidence-based counseling, family treatment, recovering peer groups, medic... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022
Cree Nation Chief Calls for Treatment Centres in Wake of Horrible Knife Attacks METH KILLS...OTHERS – Sept. 11, 2022 - The chief of James Smith Cree Nation and other Indigenous leaders are calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthmethRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022Trauma
After years of food addiction & depression, Tamara Walcott says powerlifting ‘saved me from myself’ VIDEO – WORTH THE WEIGHT – Sept. 13, 2022 - The private, deep-rooted significance powerlifting assumed in her life perhaps goes some way to explaining Walcott’s success in the sport. In July, sh... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022
Dope Crisis Strikes Nerve with NY OASAS Commissioner VIDEO – CATASTROPHE IN ACTION – Sept. 13, 2022 - The commissioner said this is a scene playing out all over New York and across the country. She believes it is going to take every family in every neighborhood, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 20 2022
Can You Get Hooked on Melatonin? IT AIN’T VALIUM, HOWEVER... – Sept. 6, 2022 - On TikTok, the hashtag #melatoninaddict has racked up more than a million views, with people swapping stories about craving the supplement, or being unable to sleep... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022
Remi Wolf’s Next Project—Her Sobriety UNIQUELY ECLECTIC – Sept. 14, 2022 - “There’s something about being 4 months sober where everything starts to get really really real. Too real,” she shared. “It was like all the shit I had been ignoring ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022
Are You a Love Addict? Or a Romantic? “WHAT IS LOVE...BABY DON’T HURT ME” – Sept. 16, 2022 - Love addiction is not a formal diagnosis. It is related to other clinical diagnoses under the spectrum of behavioral addictions, impulse control disorders,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 20 2022Sexual Addiction
Eminem on overdose: ‘It took a long time for my brain to start working again’ VIDEO – HAPPY IT DID – Sept. 8, 2022 - “I remember when I first got sober and all the shit was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f***ing new to me again,” Eminem sai... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewOverdoseRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022
‘Addiction Is a Medical Problem’: Nonjudgmental Treatment Is Good Medicine VIDEO – COMPASSION IN ACTION – Sept 6, 2022 - Depman moved to Vermont in 2007, as addiction treatment was starting to evolve. Before the move, he had seen the beginning of such changes while working as an emerg... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 13 2022Trauma
LSD Therapy Induces Rapid, Lasting Reductions in Anxiety and Depression BILL W. WAS A PIONEER – Sept. 8, 2022 - LSD-assisted therapy could provide benefits to patients struggling with anxiety disorders, according to new research published in Biological Psychiatry. The findin... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022Trauma
San Francisco One Step Closer to Decriminalizing Plant-Based Psychedelics SUMMER OF LOVE THERAPY CONTINUES – Sept. 10, 2022 - The measure, resolution #220896, concerns entheogenic plants, another term for psychoactive plants, or plants that can induce changes in perception and mood. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionPsychedelicsRecoverySept 13 2022
From Sober Mom Squads to Anti-Anxiety Workbooks: Do New AA Alternatives Work? IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT – Sept. 7, 2022 - AA was founded in 1935 by two white men who were members of a Christian revivalist group, Bill Wilson and Bob Smith – a Wall Street analyst and a surgeon, respectively ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 13 2022
The Deadly Financial Aspect of Addiction VIDEO – IT’S ALL ABOUT LOSSES – Sept. 8, 2022 - After losing her husband to accidental overdose, Cheryl shares his journey through active addiction, road to recovery and his final battle lost to overdose. By ex... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 13 2022
TIAN DAYTON’S NEW BOOK! SOCIOMETRICS AUDIO – RELATIONAL REPAIR KIT – Sept. 9, 2022 - “I am very happy to let you know about my new book Sociometrics, which clearly outlines my experiential/embodied approach to healing cPTSD, through accessi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 13 2022Trauma
TikToker’s Daily Posts Show Road to Sobriety INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Sep 8, 2022 - After getting out of bed, the couple went downstairs and dumped every last drop of alcohol down their kitchen sink. It has been over a year and Stoecker hasn’t had a dri... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022
Local Teen Creates Program to Raise Awareness About Drug Addiction VIDEO – BIG HEARTED YOUNG WOMAN – Sept. 7, 2022 - Local teen creates website to raise awareness about drug addiction. more@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X05NXxa6pco ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 13 2022
LA Indie Rock Artist Stephanie Hatzinikolis Celebrates Sobriety with New Song “Weed and Whisky” VIDEO – SHE’S ON IT – Sept. 10, 2022 - Though there are darker themes, ultimately the idea is to be honest, vulnerable, and to share the perseverance of the human spirit. I hope that this song inspires (sober o... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022
Five Ways to Avoid a News Addiction PLEASE DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE – Sept. 9, 2020 - It’s normal to want to know what’s going on in the world around us. That said, there is 24/7 access to news on the TV and our phones. Much of the news that is ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 13 2022Smartphone Addiction
‘I’m on the Verge of Dying’: Ailing Mike Tyson Once Made Brutally Honest Admission About His Struggles With Alcoholism and Drugs VIDEO – WEED WITH A BITE – Sept. 9, 2022 - The admission came during an ESPN Friday Night Fights post-fight press conference in Verona, New York. Tyson, in detail, talks about sobriety and how he longed t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022
Adrienne Banfield-Norris Celebrates 31 Years Of Sobriety VIDEO – SAY HEY NA – Sept. 2022 - “I spent so many years in that insanity of active addiction, running in and out, and just that revolving door — you know, trying to get my life back together. That surrender wa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 13 2022