August 18 2020

12 tips for kicking sugar addiction

It’s never too late... – August 9, 2020 -  1. Quit the sugar completely. Throw everything with it out of…

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Dangerous drug GHB has made comeback

Play Safe –   August 13, 2020 - Standing among throngs of concertgoers at a Brooklyn music venue last year,…

4 years ago

Evan Felker Talks of Sobriety & Return to Music

Music is Magic – August 13, 2020 - Today Rolling Stone shared an excerpt of a new book, “Red Dirt:…

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Deadly Overdose Spike During Pandemic

LISTEN – How much more horrible will it get? –   August 13, 2020 - Making matters worse is a…

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Woman kills alcoholic husband in sleep

And from India... – August 14, 2020 - Though Kabita found it difficult to find work due to the Covid…

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Newborn Mothers Get Too Many Opiods, Claim Osteopaths, Then They Circulate Them In Their Community

It’s Complicated –   August 14, 2020  - The authors of the paper try to suggest causal arrows by putting…

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Strive for Rat Park

Mixed Messages –   Aug. 13, 2020 - But in the late 1970s, a young Canadian psychologist named Bruce Alexander…

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James Bransford, who steered himself and many others away from addiction, dies at 89

Obituary –   AUGUST 15, 2020 - “The nation lost a hero when John Lewis passed away, and our community…

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Officer assists woman with drug addiction

Good Cop, Great Cop – August 15. 2020 - Fisher, of Mahoning Township, was called to make an arrest last…

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Screen addiction causes children to lose ability to draw

And to think... –   August 16, 2020 - Bekaroglu said “addiction” in children emerges by the age of 4,…

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Twenty years without drink … then they shut down AA

Opinion: Zoom dooms some – August 16, 2020 - When Covid-19 shuttered the world, it also shuttered AA, which is…

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Yes, I’m Ready by Barbara Mason

MUSICAL RELIEF –   1965 - COMMENTS: “his song we played when my boyfriend and I got married and we…

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Q&A with Recovery 2.0’s Tommy Rosen

Stick with the Winners! – August 9, 2020 - Tommy Rosen is an internationally renowned yoga teacher and addiction recovery…

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Actor overcomes addiction, succeeds in Hollywood

WATCH – From the street to Spago’s –   August 14, 2020 - He wound up in New Mexico, right…

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Steve-O Duct-Tapes Himself to Billboard

Panoramic Putz –   August 13, 2020 - On his Instagram Story, he filmed himself atop the structure. “Hey, everybody.…

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The Highest Good: The 4 Stoic Virtues

If not now, when? –   TODAY - Even bad situations. Even painful or scary ones. If we act virtuously,…

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Overdose Deaths Stratified Among Latinx People

No Walls – August 12, 2020 - Nationally, Hispanic people, the category selected by data, see far lower rates of…

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Pill mill Doctor to spend 20 years in prison

Greed Kills – August 14, 2020 - In some cases, he wrote prescriptions in combinations that were dangerous even if…

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Fourteen health benefits of Dark Chocolate

Milk is for Children – August 14, 2020 -  1. Chocolate increases the production of endorphins, the body’s natural opiates.…

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Oakland’s Darren Waller is living proof you can beat addiction

One yard at a time – August 14, 2020 - “He’s a big inspiration to us,” said Raiders defensive back…

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Demi Moore Had 24/7 Help to Keep Her Sober on the Set of St. Elmo’s Fire

Winner! – August 13, 2020 - Lowe describes their behavior in the St. Elmo‘s days as “f*#king wild.” And Moore…

4 years ago

How Downtown Eastsider battled heroin addiction and won

WATCH – A Happy Story –   August 9, 2020 - After back-to-back months of record illicit drug overdose deaths…

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Teen vapers up to 7 times more likely to get COVID-19

WATCH – Must be awesome – August 11, 2020 - So when an unfamiliar virus began sending scores of patients…

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Recovering writer’s pandemic cautionary tale

WATCH – She’s been there, done that – Aug. 14, 2020 - The Seattle journalist said she missed almost a…

4 years ago

Cady Groves’ cause of death revealed

Alcohol: The deadliest drug of all –   August 7, 2020 - Cady Groves was born in Kansas and was…

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Quote of the Week – Bill W

“No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it” —Bill W.

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