April 30 2019

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Recovered alcoholic encourages others to look beyond addiction

Pill Bottle Art – April 26, 2019 - The event featured the 34-foot-long Opioid Memorial Wall, which displayed 4,200 pill bottles, one for every 10 Americans who died by heroin and prescription opioid overdoses in 2016. T... Read More...

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Kate Moss enjoys lunch with pals…after 18 months of sobriety

Smokin’ Hot and Sober – April 29, 2019 - Last autumn, it was revealed Kate had been teetotal for an entire year after deciding to focus on her health following the premature deaths of some of her closest friends. A sou... Read More...

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NYC’s sober bar scene is a ‘hip’ oasis for booze-free fun

No Hangovers Either – April 23, 2019 - His friend Sohang Gandhi, who’s 38 and sober, credits the good vibe to a sweeping sense of relief: Finally, a cool, dry place where he didn’t have to “feel weird” about ordering a ... Read More...

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Medical Records of Rehab, Mental Health Centers Exposed

Breach of Confidentiality – April 22, 2019 - Independent researcher Justin Paine discovered the database last month. He said it contained nearly 5 million documents involving what he estimates at about 145,000 patients.... Read More...

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Diet drinks and strokes: Warning for women who drink two diet sodas a day

Not a STROKE of genius – Apr 25, 2019 - You think diet soda is the healthier alternative because it’s lower in calories, right? Experts say for women it’s more harmful than harmless. “The more diet sodas you drink, or i... Read More...

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Formerly homeless addict is now GCU grad and giving back

What Sobriety Can Do – Apr. 25, 2019 - “I don’t want to reach my hand into that fire again,” he continued. Hooked on drugs in high school, Dalla Riva wound up in prison for more than two years. He spent another year on ... Read More...

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Physicians Get Addicted Too

Heal Thyself First – May 2019 - The number of people on pain pills grew from a tiny fraction of Ortenzio’s practice to well over half of his patients by the end of the 1990s. The shift was gradual enough at first that h... Read More...

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AP Poll: Many blame drug firms for opioid crisis

That’s Pushing It – April 25, 2019 - Experts say the overdose epidemic is rooted in a boom in opioid painkiller prescriptions that began more than 20 years ago, which they say fostered addictions that later shifted into... Read More...

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Pete Doherty gets candid on drug addiction

It’s an Inside Job – Apr 26, 2019 - “Because my brain thinks I enjoy it. My heart wants to know what the f**k is going on. Why am I wasting my time and money and friendship and love and energy and creativity on some gro... Read More...

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Lala Kent celebrates six months of sobriety — “I’m feeling blessed”

Twenty-six weeks without drinks – April 25, 2019 - “It’s a day filled with blessings, I cannot tell you how proud I am. 6 months of sobriety, it brings tears to my eyes to see your strength and passion for life. Your my... Read More...

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Many drivers who test positive for marijuana have a child in the car

That’s how they got pregnant in the first place – April 25, 2019 - “One of the things I would like consumers to know is that cannabinoid products can be impairing,” said study co-author Angela Eichelberger, a senior res... Read More...

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John Havlicek, one of the greatest Celtics ever, dies at 79

OBITUARY - Excellence Under Pressure! – April 25, 2019 - “Havlicek stole the ball” is still one of the great rallying cries in sports history, shouted by announcer Johnny Most and quietly repeated by countless numbers o... Read More...

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Alice in Chains bassist credits sobriety for helping him deal with losing grandmother

Knew how to handle situations... – April 27 , 2019 - He told the Press Association he could not imagine how he would have coped with the situation if he had still been “all f***** up”. Inez said: “We played a show in ... Read More...

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A Barren Landscape for Meth Treatment

No High Hopes For These Addicts – April 24, 2019 - Methamphetamine is not a new drug to the United States. Yet with cheaper and more potent forms from Mexico flooding U.S. communities in recent years – as well as instan... Read More...

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Courthouse one-stop-shop aims to ease path to sobriety for opioid addicts

Giving It a Shot – April 28, 2019 - The hope is that the ease of it all will lighten their burdens and clear barriers on the path to better lives, said Municipal Court Judge Eileen Paley, one of the drivers behind the p... Read More...

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Morphine Spoons and Baby Face Masks

The Tiniest Victims – April 26, 2016 - The Urgent Love Initiative – a pilot project focused on fighting addiction, initially within 26 counties and 12 cities in southwestern Virginia – teamed up with ad agency Grey New ... Read More...

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Drug Execs Face First Criminal Charges In Opioid Bonanza

Hard Time Pill to Swallow? – April 23, 2019 - “This prosecution is the first of its kind: executives of a pharmaceutical distributor and the distributor itself have been charged with drug trafficking, trafficking the sa... Read More...

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Starbucks to install more needle disposal boxes in bathrooms nationwide

Reality Bites – April 25, 2019 - “At this point, our focus is installing them where employees need them,” a spokesperson for Starbucks told TODAY. “The opioid crisis is affecting people across the country and our partne... Read More...

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Juul Vows to Curb Youth Vaping. Its Lobbying in States Runs Counter to That Pledge

Lying for Money? – April 28, 2019 - Though Juul supports numerous state bills that would raise the legal age for buying vaping and tobacco products to 21, some of those bills contain minimal sanctions for retailers. Oth... Read More...

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Ex-NFL QB Ryan Leaf gives commencement address

Teacher Teacher – Apr. 27, 2019 - “It was just a rough patch,” Leaf said. “We’re all flawed human beings trying to be better every single day. Sometimes we forget that when we’re placed on this pedestal. That’s the main... Read More...

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John Singleton, ‘Boyz N the Hood’ Director, Dies at 51

A Star is Gone – April 29, 2019 - “When I was 18, I saw ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ ” Mr. Singleton said, referring to Mr. Lee’s 1986 breakthrough film, in a YouTube video in 2013. “The movie was so powerful to me, as a youn... Read More...

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Deadly fentanyl bought online from China shipped through the mail

Thanatos Delivers On Promises – April 28, 2019 - By now, you may know a family shattered by the opioid epidemic. In 2017, there were 47,000 opioid deaths. That’s more Americans than were killed in vehicle accidents or b... Read More...

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How drug decriminalization would help stem an epidemic of drug overdoses

Treat & Teach, Not Prisons for Profits – April 24, 2019 - Treating drug users as criminals isn’t working, especially those in the cold grip of substance-use disorders. It’s expensive to arrest people, put them on tr... Read More...

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Britney Spears’ Meds Triggered Mental Health Crisis

Cocktails Anyone? – April 23, 2019 - We’re told at the same time, Britney’s doctors were adjusting her meds which had lost their efficacy. Britney’s mental health issues were stabilized with a cocktail of medicines that... Read More...

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Marijuana legalization push is ‘about a small number of people who want to get rich’

Money Grows On Bushes – April 26, 2019 - He warned that today’s marijuana has “all kinds of issues,” saying that the new marijuana is being genetically bred to have “astronomical levels of THC.” He added that the rise o... Read More...

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Shuttered Sovereign Health resurrected under new name, wrongful death suit alleges

He’s Baaack! – April 12, 2019 - Sharma, principal of Sovereign and many related companies, “has been targeted by several state and federal agencies for egregious and unlawful conduct, and although many entities under th... Read More...

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John Oliver Revisits the Opioid Crisis, With Some Celebrity Help

The Lighter Side of Tragedy – April 15, 2019 - To shine a spotlight on Purdue, the show decided to have Richard Sackler’s video deposition in one case read out word for word. However, because listening to people read co... Read More...

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