Articles of Interest

Articles of Interest

Brennan Ward: Addiction, Sobriety and Starting Over

AUDIO – IT’S HARD TO FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT OF A PLASTIC BAG – Jan. 20, 2022 - The conversation went on for a while before it was time for another consultation. Ward was going through his lifelines. The next numbe... Read More...

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Give Your Liver a Better Longer Life

AND NOT SO MANY PAIN AU CHOCOLATE – Jan. 16, 2022 - When excessive fat accumulates within the liver due to alcohol, it is known as alcoholic fatty liver disease. However, when the same happens due to excessive... Read More...

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Young Writer’s Road to Sobriety and a New Addiction Novel

A NOVEL IDEA, A NOVEL – Nov. 17, 2022 - And he wrote about what drugs do to your soul, about letting yourself be molested for a hit, about stealing a woman’s purse in desperate pursuit of the next high. Sanche... Read More...

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With 12 Years of Sobriety, Elsa Hosk Flaunts New Outfits

MODEL SOBER CITIZEN – Jan. 16, 2022 - The CAA Fashion model is a natural athlete who spent two years playing professional basketball for the Swedish women’s league. Elsa proudly announced her 12-year sobrie... Read More...

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Opioid Addiction Treatment in Jail Could Change Lives

YES, GREAT IDEA – Jan. 19, 2022 - Not offering treatment to people with opioid use disorder in jails and prisons can have devastating consequences, including a return to use and heightened risk of overdose and... Read More...

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Radio Host Vic Vela on Sobriety, Living With HIV, and Betty White

WALKING THE TALK – Jan. 18, 2022 - For queer people, especially, it’s almost impossible to separate Rose—uh, Betty, we mean—from episodes of The Golden Girls that were slyly revolutionary for taking on ’80s-ve... Read More...

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“I Think I Have a Problem With Drugs…Now What?”

CALL ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS? – Jan. 18, 2022 - One viable option is to seek professional help in the form of counseling. By definition, counseling is a “professional relationship that empowers diverse individual... Read More...

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EMT’s Revive 9 People Who Overdosed in 48 hour Period

FENTANYL KILLS – Jan. 20, 2022 - Emergency medical providers in Helena have successfully treated at least nine people facing life-threatening drug overdoses in a 48-hour period, Lewis and Clark County Sheriff ... Read More...

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Lena Dunham: ‘Getting off Klonopin was the hardest’

VIDEO – GIRLS IS GREAT – Jan. 20, 2022 - Back in 2017, at the time, Dunham faced criticism for defending Girls executive producer Murray Miller, who had been accused of rape by actor Aurora Perrineau. Miller d... Read More...

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Perry Gaidurgis – Shattering the Silence

43 YEARS IN THE MAKING – Jan. 20 2021 - Perry Gaidurgis (oldest of eight children) was released in 1979 from the Southern Maryland Correctional Camp after serving three years of an eight year sentence for an ei... Read More...

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Is COVID Depression Driving Labor Shortages Around The World?

WATCH – NO REASON TO GET OUT OF BED – Jan. 21, 2022 - While companies struggle to find employees at a time of peak employment, a COVID-related mental health crisis is putting hundreds of thousands of people out... Read More...

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The 12 Most Inappropriate Office Behaviors, Ranked

TAKE IT EASY ON YOUR NEW EMPLOYEE – SHE’S NEW – Jan. 20, 2022 - Americans broadly agree that just because a behavior is frowned upon doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening in their workplaces. In fact, some of t... Read More...

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Human Connection and Mental Health

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR – Jan. 19, 2022 - After many years of inadequate responses to countless antipsychotic medications, Robert had a dramatic response to one of the newer atypicals, and was heading toward discharg... Read More...

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Treating Serious Bacterial Infections in Drug Users

A NEW ABCESSION – Jan. 2022 - This was initially reported with infective endocarditis (IE), of which there was a more than 12-fold increase over a 6-year period (2010 to 2015) in North Carolina, from 0.2 to 2.... Read More...

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BOOK REVIEW – Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction

LIBRARIANS KNEW EVERYTHING – Jan. 22, 2022 - Unable to let it go, she comes to believe seeking knowledge and understanding about opioid addiction, how to overcome addiction and the nature of the disease itself,... Read More...

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“Single Drunk Female” Makes Recovery Feel Universal

L’CHAIM – Jan. 20, 2022 - Just as many people, if not more, are headed in the opposite direction of willful sobriety, a product of pandemic exhaustion and depression. You know, those ongoing concerns we met in... Read More...

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Understanding Alcohol and Cancer Link

VIDEO – WHAT’S TO UNDERSTAND? – Jan. 21, 2022 - We know exercise, we know diet, we know to not use tobacco or to try to quit if you are ... So those are the ones we hear about a lot, but I hadn’t heard about al... Read More...

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Life After Drinking Offers More Joy and Fulfillment

AND SMILES TOO – Jan. 21, 2022 - ERIN FLAVIN Age 43, owner of Honeycomb Salon My dad owned a bar. I remember loving the taste of sips of beer and the smell of the basement there. We would get home from chur... Read More...

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Understanding The Effects of Drugs on the Brain

VIDEO – DOPAMINE ANYONE? – Jan. 20, 2022 - There are 100 billion neurons to map, that’s 10-times the amount of stars in the sky. But Kasthuri and his team started their mission in a smaller model: A mouse. ... Read More...

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Chrissy Teigen Celebrates 6 Months of Sobriety

VIDEO – SIX MONTHS GETS A CHIP – Jan. 20, 2022 - I prob won’t be excited til a larger milestone like at leasssst 5 years, and sometimes I don’t even know if I necessarily won’t ever drink again? I have no idea... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye.” &n... Read More...

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EDITOR’S CHOICE FILMS OF 2021

LOVED to LOATHED – Jan. 1, 2022 - I've seen most of these in the theater, a couple at home. Missed last year's list. You can imagine why. (Ratings based on personal reaction, opinion, enjoyability and my ... Read More...

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Experience, Strength and Hope Awards Honors Leigh Steinberg & Courtney Friel

THE RECOVERY EVENT OF 2021 – The 11th Annual, at the Skirball Cultural Center, returned Wednesday, December 15, honoring Leigh Steinberg, author of The Agent and the in... Read More...

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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...

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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...

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True Works of Genius: Global Sober Books

THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS – April 13, 2021 - Peter T. has authored eight books, and very few folks know his full name. Such is a life and a lifestyle shaped by Alcoholics Anonymous. In early 2020, j... Read More...

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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...

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Meet Ahbra Kaye of REEL Recovery Film Festival

A Star is Re-Born – Oct. 15, 2020 - Sobriety, not property and prestige, has given me the most meaningful gifts. I am part of a fellowship of people who understand what I’ve been through, who loves me as I am and who... Read More...

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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...

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