Alcoholics Anonymous to Celebrate 90 Years of Recovery at International Convention in Vancouver, CAN, July 3-6 PARTY HEARTY – April 16, 2025 - Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) will bring together tens and tens of thousands of members and guests from around the world, July 3–6, 2025, for its International Convention in Vancouver, B... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Media
Winter in America – Gil Scott-Heron – LIVE VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – TODAY - A great performance from Gil Scott-Heron and the Midnight Band, live at the Wax Museum Nightclub. Ripped from Channel 4 and Robert Mugge’s brilliant documentary Black Wax about Gil... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winner
Supporting Your Partner on Their Sobriety Journey HELPING HAND – April 4, 2025 - “Recovery affects both people in the relationship—not just the one with addiction. Partners might feel stressed or anxious. Sometimes even resentful, especially if trust has been an iss... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Every Sip of Alcohol Increases Your Risk of Cancer AIN’T NO GOOD – April 8, 2025 - Alcohol, whether consumed regularly or only on special occasions, takes a toll on your body. From your brain and heart, to your lungs and muscles, to your gastrointestinal and im... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancer
Artificial Sweetener Tricks Your Brain Into Feeling More Hungry Bon Appétit – April 4, 2025 - Nothing in life comes free, not even a sugar-free drink. Scientists have now linked the artificial sweetener sucralose (sold as Splenda) to yet another potential health downside... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addiction
Needle Exchange Program Feels Effects of Trump’s Aid Cuts DIRTY BUSINESS – April 3, 2025 - PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of people with drug ad... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductionintervention
U.S. Fentanyl Deaths Plunging LIFE MATTERS – April 10, 2025 - Federal spending cuts instigated by the White House threaten to reverse a steep decline in American overdose deaths and are jeopardizing other gains in the battle against synthet... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyl
Doctors Prescribing Heroin? VIDEO – INNOVATION – April 8, 2025 - A complementary but no less controversial harm reduction strategy, heroin-assisted treatment involves administering pharmaceutical-grade heroin under medical supervision. It stabi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionMental Health
17-Year-old Develops Irreversible ‘POPCORN LUNG’ From Vapes and e-Cigarettes VIDEO – DON’T SMOKE – April 9, 2025 - Christie Martin received a panicked call from her daughter Brianne Cullen who claimed she was struggling to breathe. Horrified, Christie rushed the 17-year-old to a nearby ER... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediasmokingteenagersVaping
36 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Became a Psychotherapist HE SHOULD KNOW – March 2025 - The aspiration of becoming a great or even just competent psychotherapist is, at its root, somewhat paradoxical. Over the past 15 years of daily practice I have learned that psycho... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental Health
Maternal Diabetes Linked to Higher Risk of Autism BE CAREFUL – April 9, 2025 - Children born to mothers with diabetes face significantly higher risks of developing neurodevelopmental disorders, according to a sweeping new meta-analysis involving over 56 million moth... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaTrauma
A Perfect Family Couldn’t Save Me From The Most Destructive Middle-class Addiction Of All IT’S THE DOPAMINE – April 8, 2025 - Kate’s family was about discover a devastating secret she’d kept hidden for years - one that was going to turn their financial lives upside down. Grasping for the words to expla... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetvideo games
Spencer Matthews On His Sobriety Journey STUNNING SHARE – April 10, 2025 - Spencer Matthews has been open about his journey with alcohol after suffering with alcohol dependency between the ages of 15 and 30. He admitted that during that time period he wo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
Oxytocin’s Role in Guilt and Shame in Depression and Alcohol Addiction SCIENCE – April 10, 2025 - Investigators found that maladaptive guilt and shame were influenced more by individual characteristics than by specific disorders. They suggested incorporating guilt and shame dimens... Read More...Alcohol AddictionArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and Addictionoxycontin
“California Sober” or Abstinence? HARM REDUCTION – April 9, 2025 - Cali sober describes a lifestyle intent on both using drugs and reducing harm from drug use. However, the term has been adopted by others rejecting abstinence as the only path a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductionsobriety
Help for Those With Addictions is in Jeopardy CLEVELAND DESERVES BETTER – April 10, 2025 - As our country faces the possibility of federal health care funding cuts, it’s critical that we raise awareness about what’s at stake — especially for low-income individua... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Thinking of Going Boy Sober? OR WITHOUT WOMEN – April 9, 2025 - Hope deleted all her dating apps and made a promise to herself: No more dates for a year. Then, armed with a catchy new term coined by her sister, Hope started documenti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetSmartphone Addiction
Eight Days a Week of Booze Doubles Risk of Brain Damage BARFLY – April 9, 2025 - Boozers who down eight or more alcoholic drinks every week have an increased risk of brain lesions associated with memory and thinking problems, say scientists. They explained that t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental Health
I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 297,835 views since Jan 17, 2014 - My brother, a friend and I, saw Phil Ochs in Greenwich Village in 1964. We each bought an album from him. In 1977 I picked up a woman hitchhiking across... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiongrammy winner
$4 Billion Sex Abuse Settlement After Childhoods of ‘Pure Hell’ WHAT PRICE TRAUMA? – April 7, 2025 - Shirley Bodkin remembers the smell of the staff member there who would put her on his lap and make her hold a Raggedy Ann doll while he hurt her. J.C. Wright remembers the s... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental HealthSliderTrauma
Addiction Hijacks Teenagers’ Brains FROM GUTTER TO GOOGLE – April 9, 2025 - Addiction is not limited to substances like alcohol and drugs but extends to behaviours such as smartphone use, gaming, gambling and pornography. The essence of addiction is es... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetMental HealthSliderSmartphone Addictionteenagers
‘Rhino Tranq’ Linked to Overdose Death SYNTHETIC COUNTRY – April 10, 2025 - A powerful street drug that began showing up alongside “tranq” (xylazine) and fentanyl in Philadelphia and other cities last year, medetomidine or “rhino tranq,” may be making its... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylSlider
Comedy Shows Focus on Addiction Recovery WE ARE NOT A GLUM LOT – April 9, 2025 - Recovering from addiction may not be a laughing matter but Aims Community College students hope they can give their peers a reason to smile. They said they wanted to bring the&... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSlider
Quote of the Week – Albert Einstein “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein, b. 1879 Germany – d. 1955 U.S. ... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week
Beyond Belief Sobriety w/Author of HIGH! – Confessions of a Cannabis Addict VIDEO – IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD(S) – June 2022 - Things could have played out very differently for Leonard Lee Buschel. A powerful combo of early-childhood trauma, temperament, a “professional” opportuni... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Book Excerpt: HIGH Confessions of a Cannabis Addict by Leonard Lee Buschel HIGH-lights – Jan. 30, 2022 - Once I was back home, selling the hash was no problem, until I was dealing my last quarter ounce to some guys in a friend’s basement in the Kensington and Allegheny neighborhood of Phil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Publisher Turns 27* and is subject of a piece in Shout Out LA A PUFF PIECE ON AN EX-POTHEAD – August 2, 2021 - Occasionally the gang and I would wait at the news stand for the ‘bulldog’ edition, dropped off at 11pm. An early edition of the morning Inky, nickname for the Phila... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Robert Downey Sr., Filmmaker and Provocateur, Is Dead at 85 A MAN OF HIS TIME, A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME, A MAN FOR ALL TIME – July 7, 2021 - The film, though probably a financial success by Mr. Downey’s standards, made only about $2.7 million. (By comparison, “Butch Cass... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionLeonard Buschelnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Writers In Treatment: Melding Recovery, the Arts, and Information The accident that led to a Film Festival November 12, 2020 - For the past twelve years, Leonard Buschel has been an instrumental force in adding flavor and culture to the recovery community by filling ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyExperience Strength and HopeExperience Strength and Hope AwardsLeonard Buschelnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalWriters In Treatment
Leslie Jordan Fan Mail “Who knew when Leonard started his recovery bulletin years ago, how pertinent and necessary it would become in the days of hunkering down from the Covid 19 virus. When one has exhausted all the available online... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery Advocate