Aug 21 2018

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Vaping ‘can damage vital immune system cells’

Plume in Love – August 14, 2018 - Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in t... Read More...

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Painting Portsmouth, by Sam Quinones

Painting the Town Clean – August 12, 2018 - With the town blasted by this huge supply, and the sense of community shredded by job loss and more, widespread pain-pill addiction was a fact of life in Portsmouth by the end... Read More...

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HMP Acquires Vendome Group’s Behavioral Healthcare Unit

Progress and Perfection? – July 10, 2018 - HMP’s third acquisition in 18 months as part of a pivot toward an events-focused strategy under CEO Jeff Hennessy, the deal includes the quarterly magazines Addiction Professio... Read More...

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Johnny Kline, dead at 86, Harlem Globetrotter Turned Drug Abuse Counselor

A Real Mensch – August 17, 2018 - “I was a stinking, drugged-out dope fiend,” Kline wrote in “Never Lose” (1996), his autobiography. “People who knew me would cross the street to avoid seeing me.” His daughter Sharon sa... Read More...

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American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis – and How to End It by Ryan Hampton

MEDIA: Book of the Month – August 2018 - Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of ... Read More...

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Elvis’ addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death

Even the Good Die Young – August 16, 2018 - But on this day 41 years ago, millions of music lovers wept to the news that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, was dead. He was only 42 years old and a bloated, fading... Read More...

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DEA Wants More Marijuana Grown and Fewer Opioids Produced In 2019. Really.

Who’s Smoking What? – August 16, 2018 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana legalization, added that “the opioid epidemic that we are facing today is the worst drug crisis in American h... Read More...

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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

MEDIA: BOOK for Gamblers – 2014 - Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state t... Read More...

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What is synthetic marijuana?

It’s Garbage – AUGUST 16, 2018 -No deaths were reported, but two people suffered life-threatening symptoms. Synthetic marijuana — also known as “K2,” “spice,” “crazy monkey,” and “Scooby snacks” — is a designer drug. It... Read More...

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Deep brain stimulation might one day treat the worst cases of alcohol addiction

Science May One Day... – August 17, 2018 - That’s because once alcohol hooks you in, it becomes extremely difficult to break free. To make matters even worse, even existing therapies are rather ineffective and bear a hi... Read More...

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Fighting drug addiction in teens: What parents should know

Talking Helps – August 14th 2018 - The stress of school and pressures from friends might be factors that could lead them to use and become addicted to drugs and substances. “Typically what we’re seeing in terms of stat... Read More...

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An Overdose Left Him With Brain Damage. Now What?

The Needle and the Damage Done – August 18, 2019 - It was a Sunday afternoon, and in the cozy house at the end of the street, Andrew Foote sat in his usual chair while a movie played on the television. The young man’s h... Read More...

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Epidemic: Two Recent Gifts to Fight Drug Addiction Are the Exception, Not the Rule

Meet the Hero and the Hypocrite – August 16, 2018 - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the country’s largest public health funder, has stayed out of the fray even though it led the philanthropic community in addressing... Read More...

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Hundreds attend opioid addiction protest in Stamford Friday

Purdue Pharma: Guilty as Charged – August 17, 2018 - A couple hundred protesters gathered outside of the Stamford headquarters of drug maker Purdue Pharma on Friday... Full Story @ WTNH.com... Read More...

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US multinational buys into UK rehab centres as demand grows

Money Money Money – August 17, 2018 - The UK private rehab market is set to grow exponentially, one of the largest addiction firms in the country has said after receiving US investment. Addiction treatment centres have ... Read More...

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Sister of man found dead gives tearful testimony after seeing ‘Oxy Doc’

Prescribing Death for New Yorkers – July 11, 2018 - The sister of a Staten Island man who died of a drug overdose two days after visiting a Manhattan physician dubbed the “Oxy Doc” dissolved into tears on the stand Wedn... Read More...

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Josh Gordon returns to Browns, vows to put sobriety first

Trying NOT to Score – August 18, 2018 - Gordon, who’s been in a treatment program at the University of Florida, announced on Twitter Saturday that he’s back with the Browns, but that he must continue to work hard on sta... Read More...

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Gov. declares September addiction ‘recovery month’

Set to Save Lives – August 16, 2018 - n March, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown declared addiction a crisis and requested state leaders to come up with a strategy to combat it. Several hundred people met in downtown Portland Thur... Read More...

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Rash of overdoses show dangers of powerful synthetic drugs

FAKE DRUGS are Our Enemy – August 16, 2018 - On the same day that more than two dozen people were raced from a New Haven, Conn., park to emergency rooms after violent reactions to synthetic marijuana, federal authoritie... Read More...

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Betty Ford Foundation Claims Groups Fraudulently Using Name

Freedom Healthcare Crooks – August 15, 2018 - Websites associated with Freedom Healthcare of America and Addiction Enders are using deceptive practices and unauthorized trademark material to mislead consumers seeking ad... Read More...

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Will Self Interview: Rehab and Bristol’s “nasty” drug problem

For Our UK Fans: Totally Entertaining – August 17, 2018 - “At a spiritual level it’s a disaster, it’s just basically saying we’re going to lie around in our own shit.” Novelist Will Self thinks as a society we’re faili... Read More...

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Behind Aretha Franklin’s successful career was a life of failed marriages and alcoholism

I Say a Little Prayer – August 17, 2018 - But Aretha’s life was far from sunshine and rainbows, and amid a wildly successful career spanning nearly six decades, the singer struggled with alcoholism, abusive marriages an... Read More...

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This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand

That's Very Rare – August 18, 2018 - Every year, thousands of people addicted to opioids show up at hospital emergency rooms in withdrawal so agonizing it leaves them moaning and writhing on the floor. Usually, they’re ... Read More...

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Seven Things That Inevitably Happen to Your Personal Life When You Get Sober by Holly Glenn Whitaker

There is a Solution – August 17, 2018 - This year, I celebrated five years sober. It’s been over six years since I first started seriously questioning my relationship with alcohol and considered a life without it ... Th... Read More...

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Purdue Pharma’s Sales Pitch Downplayed Risks of Opioid Addiction

Sackler Family - Guilty as Sin – August 17, 2018 - Two decades ago, Purdue Pharma produced thousands of brochures and videos that urged patients with chronic pain to ask their physicians for opioids such as OxyContin, a... Read More...

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‘The devil’s aspirin’: why do so many celebrities like Elon Musk blame Ambien?

Such a Friendly Sounding Word... – August 17, 2018 - “It is often a choice of no sleep or Ambien,” Musk told the New York Times in an interview published on Thursday, which came after the Tesla founder claimed on Twitt... Read More...

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Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017

American Dream Denied – August 15, 2018 - The death toll is higher than the peak yearly death totals from H.I.V., car crashes or gun deaths. Analysts pointed to two major reasons for the increase: A growing number of A... Read More...

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76 people non-lethal overdose on K-2 at Connecticut park

Keeping it Unreal – August 15, 2018 - 71 people suffering from apparent overdoses were transported to local hospitals from the New Haven Green, according Dave Hartman with New Haven Police. Another 5 people refused medi... Read More...

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‘Patrick Melrose’: How Benedict Cumberbatch Became an Expert in Addiction to Deliver His Career Best

Act As If – August 18, 2018 -Not only is Showtime’s five-part mini-series “Patrick Melrose” a superb cinematic adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s five searing novels, it marks Benedict Cumberbatch’s best performance ever. ... Read More...

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