Books, Memoirs, Films, and Media

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Media

Sexually Transmitted Diseases: ‘Out of Control’

BE SAFE, NOT SYPHILITIC – Sept. 20, 2022 - Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. are at a crisis point. On Monday, prominent public health experts and government officials raised an alarm over the ongoing a... Read More...

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Doctors Rush to Escape Opioid Charges

SAVING THE PILLMILLIONAIRES – Sept 19, 2022 - Previously, lower courts had not considered a prescriber’s intention. Until now, doctors on trial largely could not defend themselves by arguing they were acting in... Read More...

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Can Dogs Help People Stay Sober?

FEED THEM, NOT YOUR ADDICTION – Sept. 20, 2022 - “Over the years, my patients explained how much their dogs meant to their physical and their mental health,” he said. “The dogs add stability. They give t... Read More...

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Doctors Want Warning Labels On Alcoholic Drinks re: Cancer Risks

LONG TERM RESULTS – Sept. 19, 2022 - Now, researchers say they don’t adequately advertise alcohol consumption’s biggest potential health consequence: cancer, including breast cancer. In a perspective article... Read More...

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Non-Alcoholic Specialty Shop In NYC Is Expanding Fast

AUDIO – NOT A REAL MANHATTAN – Sept. 15, 2022 - The impetus for opening Boisson stemmed from the personal experiences of its two owners, Nick Bodkins and Barrie Arnold, who met when they worked together at an i... Read More...

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Country Singer Luke Bell Dies from Fentanyl Intoxication

TOO MUCH DEATH – Sept. 20, 2022 - According to Saving Country Music, Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and his “mental state took a turn for the worse” over recent months. “Luke fought this as h... Read More...

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Poor Patients Entitled to Free Care Forced to Cough Up Cash Anyway

CORPORATE CRIME IN AMERICA – Sept. 24, 2022 - More than half the nation’s roughly 5,000 hospitals are nonprofitslike Providence. They enjoy lucrative tax exemptions; Providence avoids more than $1 billion a yea... Read More...

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Ibogaine Addiction Treatment In Brazil

WORTH THE AIRFARE – Sept. 21, 2022 - In recent decades, after a strong renaissance of clinical research around ibogaine and other mind-expanding drugs, psychedelic-assisted therapies are becoming increas... Read More...

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P.T. Anderson’s The Master: As Intoxicating as Ever

TIME TO SEE A CLASSIC? – Sept. 15, 2022 - Ironically, his one skill, the uncanny ability to make moonshine out of numerous toxic liquids, only adds to his chaos and decline. From bomb fuel to photo-devel... Read More...

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Chris Dale and Patty Li – A Marriage Saved in Spite of Addiction

AUDIO – HAPPILY EVER AFTER – August 2022 - Christopher Dale is an experienced public relations professional, writer and recovering addict. In addition to being a regular contributor to Addiction Recovery eBulletin, ... Read More...

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Could Monoclonal Antibodies Work For Treating Meth Addiction?

AUDIO – GOD WILLING – Sept. 15, 2022 - Nearly one million Americans are addicted to methamphetamine, or meth as it’s called on the street. Of those, nearly 16,000 regular users are between the ages of 12 and 17... Read More...

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Inside Ottawa’s Bold Experiment to Reduce Overdoses

AUDIO – NEIGHBORLY LOVE – Sept. 15, 2022 - Record numbers of people in the U.S. are dying from drug overdoses, more than 100,000 deaths a year. And now, public health experts here are watching a controve... Read More...

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California’s New Forced-Treatment Law

THREE HOTS AND A FEW STEPS – Sept. 16, 2022 - The CARE Act, in short, runs counter to the evidence-based, person-centered care that activists have been fighting for. Many have cited peer-reviewed studies that s... Read More...

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Huntington Files Lawsuit vs. Lifehouse Sober Living

AND CLEAN HOUSE – Sept. 21, 2022 - The city of Huntington argues that it is a municipal corporation of the State of West Virginia and has specific statutory jurisdiction over matters such as zoning and b... Read More...

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Coronation Street Star Kevin Kennedy on Sobriety and Bringing the ‘Bonkers’

AUDIO – STREET OF DREAMS – Sept. 23, 2022 - But since turning his life around following a stint in The Priory rehab centre in 1998 he says his life has been full of “wonderful things”, including the fact... Read More...

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US: $1.5 Billion Naloxone Purchase to Fight Opioid Crisis

DOES CASH EVER MAKE A DIFFERENCE? – Sept. 23, 2022 - The Biden administration is keen to show it is taking action on a worsening nationwide opioid crisis, which according to U.S. Centers for Disease Cont... Read More...

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Revelatory Account of Mental Illness

IS EVERYBODY CRAZY? – Sept. 23, 2022 - It’s a startling passage in the prologue of “Strangers to Ourselves,” but like so many of the stories in this intimate and revelatory book, the truth of it is real but inc... Read More...

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After partying and rehab, Trevi Moran is starting a new chapter.

MIRRORED BALLS STILL A MUST – Sept. 22, 2022 - Moran, now 23, has been signed to new management and has a new perspective on life. She just released her latest single, “Too Hot to Be Hungover” — which she calle... Read More...

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“Democracy Will Die” If We Don’t End Drug War!

VIDEO – ONLY SOLUTION TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS – Sept. 21, 2022 - In his speech before the UN’s General Assembly, Petro said definitively that the “War on Drugs has failed,” according to a translation. He adde... Read More...

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“The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

THE DRAMA KING – Sept. 16, 2022 - “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call d... Read More...

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Pharoah Sanders Was a Force of Nature, Dies at 81

VIDEO – I THOUGHT GOD’S DIDN’T DIE – Sept. 24, 2022 - The sound Mr. Sanders drew from his tenor saxophone was a force of nature: burly, throbbing and encompassing, steeped in deep blues and drawing on extended ... Read More...

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Put Down Your Devices and Let Your Mind Wander

I THINK THEREFORE I AM THE I AM – Sept. 23, 2022 - The researchers contrasted people’s estimates of how much they would enjoy just sitting and thinking with their actual experiences of doing so in a series of s... Read More...

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5 Popular Medications Doctors Hate Prescribing

BUT THEY WILL ANYWAY – Sept. 20, 2022 - Prescription medications have been making headlines recently, with many common drugs currently facing shortages. Sometimes, however, something other than a supply ... Read More...

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BAYER: Global Drug Manufacturer’s History, Bad Drugs & Lawsuits

SALESMEN WERE JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS – Sept. 14, 2022 - Bayer is the maker of Aspirin. The popular pain reliever is one of the company’s oldest and most iconic products. MiraLAX, Claritin, Alka-Seltzer... Read More...

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Police Repeating Drug War’s Dark History in Fentanyl Era

NO EFFECT ON OVERDOSE VICTIMS? – Sept. 20, 2022 - Facing an unprecedented public health crisis, law enforcement is under enormous pressure to demonstrate to the public that its efforts are making a difference. ... Read More...

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LA schools to Provide Narcan After 7th Student Overdoses

VIDEO – WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? – Sept. 23, 2022 - Officials are sounding the alarm after at least seven students have overdosed according to police. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer reports on how the Los Ange... Read More...

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Life-size Lanterns Raise Awareness of Suicide and Mental Injury

ART CAN HEAL TOO! – Sept. 23, 2022 - “Too often, we see people suffering in silence,” said Emily Norton Ashinhurst, executive director of the Irish Diaspora Center, which organized the one-night display. But... Read More...

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Battling Opioid Addiction Through Medicine and Faith

VIDEO – YOU CAN’T FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT OF A PLASTIC BAGGIE – Sept. 19, 2022 - “It was all I cared about. All. Nothing else mattered, I worked in order to get drug money,” said Ashton Hunt explained. She... Read More...

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Treatment Center’s Push to Save Lives With Methadone

BUT HARD TO GET? – Sept. 20, 2022 - “I was so close to death, on my death bed from endocarditis, from fentanyl, that had I not made the move I did, I would be dead today,” Detzel said. “So it was life or... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Princess Diana

“The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.” – Princess Diana (July 1, 1961 - August 31, 1997) ... Read More...

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