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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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Thousands of Recovery Homes in PA. Operate Without State Oversight

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME – Jan. 25, 2021 - Department officials said earlier this month that they were completing an internal review of draft regulations and planned to send them to the Attorney General’s Office b... Read More...

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Drug Rehab Counselor Arrested for Stalking and Sexual Assault of Client

ONE ROTTEN APPLE? – Jan. 25, 2021 - According to the Boulder Police Department, detectives began investigating Yepes earlier this month after a female client reported he “repeatedly contacted her and initiated ... Read More...

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It’s Hard to Stay Sober in a Pandemic, Holly Wants to Help

SUGGESTIONS TO GO BUY – Jan. 27, 2021 - While there’s no one-size-fits-all treatment strategy to address problematic drinking, many people turn to 12-step programs for peer support—most notably, Alcoholics Ano... Read More...

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‘Body Brokers’ Frank Grillo Runs a Crooked Drug Rehab Scam

WATCH – HOLLYWOOD FICTION? – Jan. 26, 2021 - Over the past couple years, I’ve read several articles about shady rehab facilities and treatment programs, so when I was offered the opportunity to check out the new ind... Read More...

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How Stuart Watson Became A Sober ‘Man Listening’ To Women

LISTEN – HUH? – Jan. 19, 2021 - What does it take to get a man to listen — really listen — to women? Well, in Stuart Watson’s case, it took being slapped, fired and flat out told by his own wife that he wasn’t ... Read More...

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Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction

READ THEM AND WEEP – Jan. 19, 2021 - This was the place where it happened, and the person on whom everything hinged was her mother — beautiful, capricious, cruel. Ditlevsen was a bright girl and a good student... Read More...

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‘Help Dad’ campaign comes under fire for ‘mocking alcoholism’

WATCH – SATIRE OR BAD TASTE? – Jan. 20, 2021 - Oatly’s new ‘Help Dad’ campaign and website are designed to help young persuade their parents to give up dairy and switch to oat milk and is filled with recipes, t... Read More...

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Zooming Through Recovery

PASS THE ELECTRONS – Jan. 15, 2021 - Group therapy helps build up the strength necessary for recovery through the essential process of validation. Coping with addiction is unbelievably challenging — doing so wi... Read More...

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Could Psilocybin End Our Addiction Crisis?

OR MAKE YOU A DEADHEAD? – Jan. 22, 2021 - “If this keeps going the way it looks like it’s going, I think it will lead to a large phase 3 trial that could be part of getting psilocybin rescheduled,” NYU psychia... Read More...

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‘Addiction and Recovery’ Series Challenges Stigma

TUNE IN AND TURN IT UP – Jan. 24, 2120 - The overweight kid from the suburbs of Philadelphia — who had an identity crisis in second grade where he asked his African-American father and Italian-East Indian moth... Read More...

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How ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Can Help You Cope

WINTER READING TO KEEP YOU WARM – April, 2020 - Holden’s taste in food is pure postwar American. Bacon, eggs, hamburgers and steak all feature in the book. Mainly, however, this 16-year-old survives on cigaret... Read More...

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Q&A with Chris Herren, Founder of Herren Wellness

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – January 20, 2021 - An extraordinary basketball player, Chris Herren was a celebrated star in his native Fall River, MA before graduating high school. He went on to play at Boston Colle... Read More...

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