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Leslie Jordan Recalls Hearing Amy Winehouse’s ‘Rehab’ First Time After Sobriety

A VERY CATCHY DIRGE? – July 11, 2022 - “I thought she shouldn’t be doing that. Who is this, this Amy Winehouse? I got to look her up. And then I started thinking more about it,” Jordan told host Dave Cob... Read More...

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Beth Macy Proud of Dopesick’s 14 Emmy Nominations

AUDIO – IT ALL STARTS WITH WORDS ON THE PAGE – July 12, 2022 - “It’s really great to see the show getting accolades,” Macy said. As one of the executive producers of her show, Macy will get to personally tak... Read More...

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Meet Mckenzie: Pregnant, homeless and living in a tent

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD... – July 12, 2022 - A hole in a chain-link fence around the restaurant parking lot opened onto a ragged train of tents. They clung to a steep embankment above eight lanes of who... Read More...

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Man Begged for Mental Health/Addiction Support in Prison Until He Died

INJUSTICE WINS – July 12, 2022 - “They’re offering people time off their sentences for intolerable conditions in the HMP, but yet my brother is passed away … it don’t make sense,” she said. “My brother... Read More...

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Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine

AUDIO – WALLS Melt on Wall Street – July 13, 2022 - Empath has since raised $2.1 million of a $10 million target for its first fund and made 10 investments. Portfolio companies include Mindstate Design Labs, w... Read More...

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Prozac Was Just The Beginning

WHO DOESN’T NEED MEDS NOW? – July 10, 2022 - Their pediatrician recommended she come off the Adderall to determine whether the Paxil worked. While she was off the Adderall, her grades slipped. She recently star... Read More...

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Jessica Simpson: Through the Years: Sobriety, Divorce & More

AUDIO – SOBRIETY’S ROLLER COASTER RIDE – July 12, 2022 - In addition to struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, the Dukes of Hazard actress has also endured public scrutiny of her body since the early days o... Read More...

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Tom Arnold Talks About Losing 75 lbs. & 5 Years of Sobriety

CHANGE IS GOOD – July 15, 2022 - Tom also celebrated five years of sobriety on Friday (15.07.22), taking to Instagram to reflect on the milestone. He told fans beneath a photo of himself with his kids on a b... Read More...

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Randy Grimes Helping Others And Being Of Service

IN THE CENTER OF THE PACK – July 3, 2022 - “In the eight and a half, nine years that this was going on, not once did anybody ever come and say Randy why are you slurring your words or Randy why are you nodding... Read More...

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Lamar Odom Says The Ghost Of Kobe Bryant Inspires Him To Maintain Sobriety

FROM POINT GUARD TO GUARDIAN ANGEL – July 4, 2022 - Odom has battled drug addiction and depression. Not only did it cost him his NBA career, but it also ruined his marriage to Khloé Kardashian. At one point it ... Read More...

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Lynda Carter ‘begged God’ For Help: “I’ve been in recovery for 23 years.”

VIDEO – IS IT ANY WONDER? – July 4, 2022 - Talking to The Insider about her move towards recovery, she said: “My husband asked me … ‘Can’t you just stop this for the children and for me?’ “I needed help – I be... Read More...

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Amee Gray Wants to Fix Referral Scams And Let Hospitals Do the Job

Call Centers Becoming Obsolete? – July 12, 2022 - Amee Gray found herself in a situation foreign to her but intimately familiar to so many. A family member had survived a drug overdose, and she was trying ... Read More...

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Employees “Silly” Surprise for Manager’s Sober Anniversary

A REASON TO CELEBRATE – 7/1/2022 - In a video shared to Reddit under the name nameless-manager, the manager is seen sitting in his office when his employees come in and spray him with silly string while congrat... Read More...

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How Music Can Help Your Addiction Recovery

HARMONY AND TEMPO – July 3, 2022 - Music therapy is an evidence-based therapeutic method. It can help to reduce anxiety and improve heart rate and learning. Depending on your reasons for getting music therapy ... Read More...

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The Inflation-Proof Economics of Drug Dealing

WALL STREET KNOWS THAT SO WELL – July 4, 2022 - Large shipments continue to be detected that are transported using methods that often exploit commercial infrastructure, particularly intermodal container shipmen... Read More...

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‘Monumental’ Drug Bust: 5,000 Pounds of Meth Seized

THE ELEPHANT IN THE TRUCK – July 9, 2022 - Detectives from the Sheriff’s Department’s border crime suppression team followed the truck. First, the person who drove it across the border stopped in Otay Mes... Read More...

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Scotland Calls For Law Change To Give People A Right To Recovery

EVERYONE HAD THE RIGHT TO BE STRONG – July 3, 2022 - Ross insisted the legislation his party has put forward could be a “game-changer” in tackling Scotland’s drugs deaths problem. And he called on SNP and Gr... Read More...

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How Gambling Addiction Has Affected Younger Generation

BETTER MATH SKILLS? – July 4, 2022 - Joe was 13 when he started gambling with friends. In college, he became a bookie. “People would text me their bets. I kept a spreadsheet,” he said. “There were many Mondays... Read More...

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Fall River Novel Shines Light On Addiction Struggles

READ A BOOK – July 7, 2022 - “There are so many things that so many people go through in this world that I wanted to try my hardest to shine light on, whether it be drug addiction, living in poverty, coping wit... Read More...

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Lena Dunham, Nicki Minaj and Others Revealed They Got Sober

CELEBRITY SOBRIETY – July 6, 2022 - Jane Lynch The Glee alum recalled her struggles with alcohol addiction during an interview with The Guardian in February 2022, revealing she got sober for a second time afte... Read More...

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‘Evil does eventually die’: Florida man pens brutal obituary for his ‘abusive alcoholic’ father

VIDEO – BUT IT’S A DISEASE haha – July 7, 2022 - The 48-year-old’s obituary for Lawrence Pfaff Sr seeks to dissassociate and “cleanse” himself from the alleged damage done to him and his siblings by the latter,... Read More...

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LGBTQ+ Individuals Find Help and Hope in Alcoholics Anonymous

Tradition 11 11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films. – July 8, 2022 - In A.A. you will find ... Read More...

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Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry

LIMITLESS – July 8, 2022 - Take the chemical imbalance theory — as deeply embedded in the contemporary cultural firmament as Freud’s tripartite theory of the mind was a couple of generations ago — which posits ... Read More...

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Q&A with Smart Recovery, Ted Perkins

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – JULY 8, 2022 - Ted Perkins has worked in various professional capacities in the motion picture industry and in senior executive posts at two major studios, including Warner Bros., and ... Read More...

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Move Over, Heroin

A GRAVE DESTINATION – July 6, 2022 - But he said people prefer fentanyl to heroin because it is a consumer-driven industry, it’s less expensive and easily accessible and available. People who are selling it are... Read More...

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Father Says Son’s High School Prescribed Him Anti-Depressants Without Notifying Him

VIDEO – BRAVE NEW WORLD IS HERE – July 3, 2022 - In a viral TikTok, a father shares his shock and frustration that his 15-year-old son’s high school was supplying him with antidepressants without his knowledge... Read More...

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Medical Director Sentenced in $112 Million Addiction Treatment Fraud Scheme

GUILTY: MONEY FOR NOTHING – July 7, 2022 - According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Santeiro and others admitted patients for medically unnecessary detox services, the most expensive kind o... Read More...

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Can a Target Gift Card Help You Stay Off Meth?

YES. MONEY TALKS NOBODY WALKS – July 4, 2022 - Behind the table, a program assistant hastened to clarify that it was a chance at a gift card — just a chance. But a chance was enough for Mark, who began filling ... Read More...

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Leslie Jordan Recalls Hearing Amy Winehouse’s ‘Rehab’ First Time After Sobriety

Beth Macy Proud of Dopesick’s 14 Emmy Nominations

Meet Mckenzie: Pregnant, homeless and living in a tent

Man Begged for Mental Health/Addiction Support in Prison Until He Died

Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine

Prozac Was Just The Beginning

Jessica Simpson: Through the Years: Sobriety, Divorce & More

Tom Arnold Talks About Losing 75 lbs. & 5 Years of Sobriety

Randy Grimes Helping Others And Being Of Service

Lamar Odom Says The Ghost Of Kobe Bryant Inspires Him To Maintain Sobriety

Lynda Carter ‘begged God’ For Help: “I’ve been in recovery for 23 years.”

Amee Gray Wants to Fix Referral Scams And Let Hospitals Do the Job

Employees “Silly” Surprise for Manager’s Sober Anniversary

How Music Can Help Your Addiction Recovery

The Inflation-Proof Economics of Drug Dealing

‘Monumental’ Drug Bust: 5,000 Pounds of Meth Seized

Scotland Calls For Law Change To Give People A Right To Recovery

Inside the Mind of an Addict

How Gambling Addiction Has Affected Younger Generation

Fall River Novel Shines Light On Addiction Struggles

Lena Dunham, Nicki Minaj and Others Revealed They Got Sober

‘Evil does eventually die’: Florida man pens brutal obituary for his ‘abusive alcoholic’ father

LGBTQ+ Individuals Find Help and Hope in Alcoholics Anonymous

Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry

Hayden Panettiere Ends Addiction to Opioids & Alcohol

Q&A with Smart Recovery, Ted Perkins

Move Over, Heroin

Father Says Son’s High School Prescribed Him Anti-Depressants Without Notifying Him

Medical Director Sentenced in $112 Million Addiction Treatment Fraud Scheme

Can a Target Gift Card Help You Stay Off Meth?