Alcohol Addiction

Prison ‘aha’ moment leads to research into mental health and addiction

It works if you work it... –   Dec. 10, 2020 - For a study funded by the U.S. Department…

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AJ McLean ‘Inspires’ By Sharing Sobriety Journey On ‘Pretty Messed Up’

WATCH – Open books are easier to read –   Dec. 9, 2020 - ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante caught up…

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‘Last Christmas my drinking was destructive. This will be my first sober December.’

A merrier Christmas for sure –  Dec. 9, 2020 - Just this week, The National Health and Medical Research Council…

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HBO’s ‘The Flight Attendant’: how does she cope with alcoholism?

Do not offer to buy her one drink... –   Nov. 26, 2020 - How she deals with it is…

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Sobriety’s Pied Piper

One solo at a time –   Dec. 11, 2020 - The Bronx native’s drive to help fellow addicts led…

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Rehab Programs Promise Recovery Through Work — But Deliver Slave Labor

WATCH – It works if you work it? –  Dec. 8, 2020 - But many of the workers in these…

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24-Hour Hotline Launched for People Using Alone

Medically Assisted Telephone –  December 10,  2020 - New Yorkers who are using drugs alone, and who would like someone…

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AJ McLean and Cheryl Burke Discuss Alcoholism on New Podcast

WATCH – Talking the talk... –  Dec. 11, 2020 - “Dancing with the Stars comes lots of attention, all of…

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Legendary Jockey Completing In-Patient Treatment Hopes to Return to The Saddle Soon

Staying on Track –  Nov. 23, 2020 - Desormeaux’s highly successful career has been comparatively erratic in recent years, and…

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2020 Most Admired CEOs: Mark Mishek, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Leaving the helm to others... –   Dec. 1, 2020 - You must pay to read entire article. When Mark…

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‘People Are Having very Hard Time Maintaining Recovery’ in Pandemic’

WATCH – When the going gets tough... –  Dec. 4, 2020 - Addiction specialists are encouraging employers to understand that…

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Moms Are Speaking Out on Drug Laws That Tear Families Apart by Gretchen Burns Bergman

Is America a penal colony? –   DEC. 4, 2020 - The holidays are always difficult for those who must…

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Kentucky Teacher of the Year’s Story of Addiction and Recovery

Neither regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it –   December 3, 2020 - I thought…

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‘Another Round’ – A Poignant Look at Alcohol and Alcoholism

WATCH – MEDIA: FILM REVIEW –  Dec. 4, 2020 - But today is different. As I’m writing these words, the…

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‘Lockdown had me drinking again’

Vigilance always –   Dec. 6, 2020 - From the beginning of lockdown in March, Pam had been fighting a…

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My Father Is An Alcoholic, And It Hurts Even Though I’m Grown

Brutal –  Dec. 5, 2020 - He missed so many things that were important to us. Before he knew it,…

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Chasing the News … stone cold sober – Episode 4

WATCH – Fascinating rhythm –   Nov. 17, 2020 - Sobriety, creativity, serenity and laughter in the Coronaverse.  A conversation…

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Q&A with Creator of The Global Sober Series of Giant Books

Stick with the Winners! –  December 4, 2020 - The Global Sober Series grew out of the Anonymous author’s first…

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The Queen’s Gambit Shows Knowledge Can’t Defeat Addiction – OPINION

Check(mate)-ing out –  November 3, 2020 - Even when she wakes up severely hungover in Paris, she whips her head…

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Zappos founder Tony Hsieh spent last hours planning to enter rehab

Don’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!! –  Dec. 6, 2020 - Then, just before entering a shed on his girlfriend’s posh waterfront property in…

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Sober living, addiction treatment conflicts return to lawmakers’ crosshairs

The good, the bad and the ugly –  Dec. 4, 2020 - On Thursday, Dec. 3, three Congress members introduced…

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Tallulah Willis Credits Mom, Demi Moore, for Her Sobriety

Sober mother, sober daughter –   December 3, 2020 - Willis also said she finds herself “becoming [her] mother in…

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12 Step Meetings: What is was like, what happened and what it’s like now!

Hindsight IS Indeed 2020 –  by Dr. Don Grant, MA, MFA, DAC, SUDCC IV, PhD November 27, 2020 - In…

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From A.A. to Zoom – Treatment Goes Online

An Alphabet Soup of Recovery –   November 28, 2020 - Though online rehab rose as an emergency stopgap measure,…

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Sobriety: an indigenous woman tells her story

WATCH – Struggles and successes –  Nov./Dec. 2020 - ‘Turning Points’ continues: stories produced, directed and told by indigenous people…

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Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network Convened for First Summit

Still working to heal... –   Nov. 24, 2020 - “Collaboration is powering 21st century health care, and that’s what…

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Celebrities who have discussed sobriety in 2020

Talk is cheap? –   Nov. 28, 2020 - In some cases, stars speak out to help provide support to…

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‘Recovery is possible’: beating drug addiction to spread hope

Never stop trying ... it pays off with life –  Nov. 29, 2020 - Henry continued to use and would…

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Ex-49ers linebacker Aldon Smith addresses his troubled past

We all have a comeback inside us –  Nov. 27, 2020 - “When I drank, it was always to numb,”…

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The childhood drug addiction that inspired The Queen’s Gambit

Here comes the knight –   Nov. 27, 2020 - Tevis, originally from San Francisco, learned to play chess as…

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