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Attorney General Stops Deceptive Marketing by Treatment Center

BOTTOM LINE MATTERS MORE – Feb. 12, 2021 - Additionally, the settlement said that their website funneled consumers to what were called “treatment specialists” for a consumer to call for assistance in deciding w... Read More...

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As Overdose Deaths Surge, Rehab Industry Faces ‘Severe Ethical Crisis’

LISTEN – GETTING HELP – Feb. 15, 2021 - “It’s a very hard system to navigate,” said Ryan Hampton, who spent years trying to get help for his addiction to prescription opioids and heroin. His family “was preyed ... Read More...

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Breaking the “Body Brokers”: California Non-Profit That Stood Up to Patient Kickback Business

PETE NIELSEN DOES HIS THING – Feb. 12, 2021 - CCAPP knew they had to act to stop this new adversary that threatened to abuse patients and cast a cloud of doubt over the legitimacy of the treatment itself. As soon as... Read More...

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Rob Lowe Gets Candid About His 30-Years Of Sobriety

‘CLASS’ OF 1991 – Feb. 9, 2021 - “It was no different than craft services,” he explains. “Where are the Red Vines, and where is the great Peruvian blow...? Cocaine was the thing that successful people did. Ther... Read More...

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Is Social Media Bad for Sobriety?

MAYBE – Feb. 10, 2021 - Pro Tip: If you’re on social media and see things that trigger you, you should try to counter that with enjoyable things to ruminate on in positive ways. Some people think of a memory, o... Read More...

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News Anchor’s 20-year Addiction and Journey to Sobriety

WATCH – REGULAR DUDE LOVES SOBRIETY – Feb. 4, 2021 - Addiction runs in his family, he said, he said before he knew it, he was following in the footsteps of those he’d watch struggle with their own addictions. ... Read More...

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Uber Acquires Alcohol Delivery Startup For $1.1 billion

BOOZE APP, WHAT COULD GO WRONG? – Feb. 2, 2021 - Drizly will eventually integrate with the company’s Uber Eats app, but it will also maintain its own Drizly app, per the release. Drizly has been called the “Ube... Read More...

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Oregon Treats Addiction as a Mental Health Issue

LISTEN – FORTY-NINE MORE STATES NEEDED – Feb. 5, 2021 - And on February 1, the new law, called the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, went into effect. To help break down this act, Portland Monthly spoke wit... Read More...

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Megadeath’s David Ellefson, “The Beauty of Sobriety is That You Get to Have a Second Life in One Lifetime.”

WATCH – REBORN LIKE THE MASTER – Feb. 6, 2021 - Since I wasn’t getting drunk passing out on airplanes I had plenty of free time to read. That’s what actually started it. That’s the beauty of sobriety; you get t... Read More...

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Hazelden Betty Ford Expands Addiction Services in Montana

COWBOY UP – Feb. 5, 2021 - Other RecoveryGo™ resources and services now available in Montana and nationwide include a free one-day virtual Family Program, available in English and Spanish; a virtual Chil... Read More...

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Jack Osbourne & Dad Ozzy Osbourne On Getting Sober in the Spotlight

THE SHOT GLASS DOESN’T FALL FAR FROM THE TUMBLE – Feb. 5, 2021 - Addiction experts often say that the disease runs in the families who struggle with substance abuse, and Jack and Ozzy Osbourne are sharing their... Read More...

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How Variety’s Marc Malkin Owned His Sobriety

ONCE A MENSCH, ALWAYS A MENSCH – Feb. 4, 2021 - And then we walked two blocks up Eighth Avenue. We made a right on 24th Street and headed east. I went to my first 12-step meeting at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis’... Read More...

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Abraham Twerski, Who Merged 12 Steps and the Torah, Dies at 90

SEEING THE LIGHT ... IN PEANUTS – Feb. 6, 2021 - Andrew Heinz wrote in a 1999 profile of Rabbi Twerski for Judaism, the quarterly magazine of the American Jewish Congress. “He was moved by the example of men an... Read More...

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Alcohol deaths hit record high during Covid pandemic

EMPTY BOTTLES, FULL COFFINS – February 2, 2021 - Between January and September, 5,460 deaths were registered with this cause - up 16% on the same months in 2019. It is the biggest toll recorded since reco... Read More...

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6 Reasons AA Zoom Rooms Are Inferior to In-person Meetings by Christopher Dale

IS ZOOM AA INFERIOR TO REAL AA MEETINGS? – Feb. 8, 2021 - In-person meetings also allow small acts of kindness – those mini-miracles that exemplify its members’ commitment to helping others – that don’t carry o... Read More...

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‘Bachelorette’ Star Zac Clark Helping Millions Through Sobriety & Recovery

LOVE AND SOBRIETY – February 5, 2021 - When he tried to cash the check, the bank teller knew something was wrong. But instead of calling the police, she called Clark’s father, who rushed to the bank befor... Read More...

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Hunter Biden Recounts Addiction and Sobriety in Memoir

RECOVERY ROAD – February 4, 2021 - (The book’s title comes from a phrase Beau and Hunter would say to each other after Beau was diagnosed.) Hunter Biden is publishing a memoir about his struggles with addiction... Read More...

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Sobriety Surprises: Stars Who Revealed They Got Sober

CELEBRITIES, THEY’RE JUST LIKE US. – February 4, 2021 - From time to time, however, a celebrity will surprise the world and suddenly announce that they got sober. Us rounded up the public revelat... Read More...

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Secret ‘Rehab’ Shoppers Report Hard Sell Tactics

IT’S NOT A TIME SHARE – Feb. 1, 2021 - The hard sell often happened before callers were screened to assess their need for treatment and determine if the program might be helpful. In fact, a third of callers wer... Read More...

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AspenRidge Recovery’s Diversity Scholarship for Minorities Battling Addiction

DO THE RIGHT THING – Jan. 26, 2021 - “The value of it is about $33,000 and it’s really there to extend the invitation for anybody to get services who needs it,” Sandoval said. Within the past year, AspenRidg... Read More...

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Kehlani Shares Her “personal ex-smoker experience” After 3 Years of Weed Abstinence

STILL EXHALING – Jan. 25, 2021 - On Sunday, the R&B singer revealed she gave up the green and the alcohol, in response to a fan who created a Twitter thread of images that show Kehlani smoking. “Wow, It’... Read More...

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New Dean at Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies

GOT KNOWLEDGE? – Jan. 27, 2021 - Substance use disorder counseling is an increasingly specialized area of behavioral health, serving patients who have complex substance use and co-occurring mental health disord... Read More...

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With Administration Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – STORMY FEBRUARY – Jan. 29, 2021 - The new administration has also appointed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to head the Health and Human Services Department. Becerra, who hasn’t been conf... Read More...

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Good riddance to Dry January…

LISTEN – NO BOOZE IS GOOD BOOZE – Jan 30, 2021 - You don’t realize how many times an alcoholic is asked, “Why can’t you just have one glass and stop drinking?” I didn’t know. I wanted to answer that question so... Read More...

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Q&A with Gretchen Burns Bergman, Founder of A New PATH

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – January 28, 2020 - Gretchen Burns Bergman is Executive Director and Co-Founder of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing), a non-profit organization that works to re... Read More...

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Lily Allen Celebrates 18 Months of Sobriety

ONE YEAR AND A HALF AT A TIME – Jan. 27, 2021 - She “got clean” but six months later she fell off the wagon again and “lost everything.” “I lost my marriage. I lost my house I worked for 10 years to buy. My ... Read More...

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Alcoholics’ Silent COVID Suffering: What’s a Recovering Addict to do in Isolation?

WHAT WOULD BILL AND BOB SAY? – Jan. 27, 2021 - Some of this is well-publicized. Unsurprisingly the anxiety, fear and isolation COVID-19 has caused lends itself to increased risks for alcoholism and substance a... Read More...

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5 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone With An Addiction

YOU HOLDING? – Jan. 28, 2021 - The most important thing you can do to help someone with a substance use disorder is to be there for them without judgment. “You want to be supportive of someone seeking... Read More...

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Macklemore passionately details his sobriety journey: Treatment ‘continues to save my life’

THE RECOVERY SHOW – Jan. 29,2021 - Though the Grammy Award-winner recalled years of shame, he reminded fans that there is always hope and self-growth in the road to recovery. “You work these 12 steps and you... Read More...

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‘Lockdown broke me: After 15 years of sobriety, I drank. Secretly, alone.’

KEEP COMING BACK – Jan. 25, 2021 - This January, I would have been 15 years sober. In 2006, after 24 years of drinking addictively, I crawled — metaphorically — into a meeting of recovering alcoholics, got wit... Read More...

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