Drake Bell Opens Up on Abuse at Nickelodeon After Finding Sobriety HE MADE IT OUT ALIVE! – July 11, 2024 - The 38-year-old actor appeared in the recent documentary ‘Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV’ where he opened up on the “extensive and brutal” abuse he suffered at t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 16 2024sobrietyTrauma
Motel Transformed into ‘forever home’ for Women FEMININE MYSTIQUE – July 10, 2024 - The Beacon, provides various programs such as counseling, career development and educational classes for women in crisis. The Beacon Village in Highland Park is a 32-u... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 16 2024Mental HealthTrauma
Neuroscientist Shares 3 Foods To Grow New Brain Cells MORE THAN SALAD – July 8, 2024 - 1. Sardines are packed with nutrients essential for brain health. 2. Sauerkraut puts good bacteria into your gut,” explains Dr. Love. 3. “Herring is one of the healthy fat fish... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 16 2024life expectancyMental Health
Quote of the Week by William Stafford “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.” – William Stafford, 1914–1993 ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 16 2024quote of the week
PETROL ADDICTION VIDEO – JUDGE NOT... – July 5, 2024 - Despite warnings that her strange craving could kill her, 20-year-old Shannon developed a habit of drinking gasoline daily. Horrifying footage shows her trudging into her bathr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 9 2024life expectancy
Getting Sober and Staying Sober are Two Different Animals ONE IS FOREVER – June 29, 2024 - Maree McLean has published her much-requested follow up to her first book, The No Bullshit Guide to Getting Sober. Now with the No Bullshit Guide to Staying Sober ( $29.99) she hope... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024RecoveryRehab
Coach Scott Cochran Reveals Opioid Addiction FREE AT LAST – June 29, 2024 - Cochran rose to a prominence in college football, he battled debilitating headaches. His doctors tried multiple medications until, in 2010, eventually landing on a solution: oxyc... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Lori Murphy Overcame Alcoholism & Weight Struggles: Listen to Her Podcast GUIDING WOMEN TO A NEW LIFE – July 1, 2024 - Lori Murphy has overcome alcoholism and other struggles. Now she wants to help others. Murphy hosts the “Influential Women” podcast and serves as an empowerment ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 9 2024
They Hand Out Overdose Reversing Meds at Festivals PHOTO GALLERY – June 30, 2024 - Columbus, OH, USA; This Must Be the Place founders Ingela Travers-Hawyard and William Perry distribute Kloxxado, a medication that can be used to reverse the effects of an opioi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductionJuly 9 2024
Lawyer Stopped Drinking to Launch a Recovery Boom IT’S BUSINESS NOW – July 2, 2024 - Tim Robinson, CEO of Kentucky’s largest substance treatment provider, says his for-profit company “had to grow to survive.” He was photographed June 27 at Addiction Rec... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 9 2024RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Only 25% of Americans With Opioid Addiction Receive Medication TO BIG PHARMA’S DISMAY – July 5, 2024 - That’s according to new data from the CDC, which found that in 2022, 4% of U.S. adults needed OUD treatment. While more than half of the adults who needed OUD treatment ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 9 2024
Laura Nyro @ Monterey Pop Festival VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 1967 - It looks good and dirty on shiny light strip - And if you don’t get beat you got yourself a tripYou can see the walls roar, see your brains on the floor - Become God, become cripp... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winnerJuly 9 2024
The Roller-Coaster of a Child’s Tragic Addiction THE GOOD ARE DYING YOUNGER – July 5, 2024 - The first time my son, Zack, died was just after his 18th birthday. The kind, funny, charming young man who never failed to light up a room, died slowly. Though his ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024life expectancy
Interest in Psychedelic Microdosing Has Surged ONE PILL MAKES YOU SMALLER... – July 1, 2024 - Public interest in microdosing marijuana and psychedelics has been spiking amid the reform movement in the United States. Google searches related to the dos... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024Psychedelics
Experimental Drug Supercharges Overdose Reversal Medicine YES! APPROVE IT FAST – July 3, 2024 - Now, researchers have found an approach that could extend naloxone’s lifesaving power, even in the face of ever-more-dangerous opioids. A team of researchers from Washington Un... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024Overdose
Social Media Addiction Among Young People Very Worrisome GENERATION ILLITERATE? – July 4, 2024 - I am writing this in light of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s op-ed in The New York Times and the recent article published about that op-ed by ABC News. Many current... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJuly 9 2024Smartphone Addiction
Rehab Workers Seek Back Pay after Bosses Double Suicide TURMOIL & CHAOS – July 3, 2024 - Those abrupt closures coincided with the suicides of two corporate executives in five days; the stiffing of hundreds of employees on their latest biweekly paychecks; the ma... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 9 2024RehabsuicideTrauma
Large Marijuana Operation Busted by NYC Sheriffs VIDEO – CONFUSING – July 2, 2024 - Behind the unmarked doors of a small storefront was what NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda described as a million-dollar illegal weed operation, one that included the packaging of marij... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024marijuanapot
Using Cognitive Therapy for Gambling Addicts DON’T BET THE DOG – July 6, 2024 - “I didn’t steal unless I lost my money,” said Rebik, 63, a former Nevada prison corrections officer. “You know, I had to keep the addiction going.” On the way back t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGamingJuly 9 2024Super Bowl
New Haven Students Make Film about War on Drugs OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES – July 6, 2024 - This spring, a group of New Haven students documented the episode’s impact on the neighborhood where some of them live and have family in a 45-minute film. “It destr... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024War On Drugs
Robert Towne, Screenwriter ‘Chinatown’ & ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, Dies at 89 CONVERSATIONS MATTER – July 2, 2024 - Mr. Towne’s Academy Award was part of a phenomenal run. He was nominated for best-screenplay Oscars three years in a row; his “Chinatown” win, in 1974, came between nomina... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 9 2024life expectancy
Zac Efron: “There Was Something Lacking, Some Sort of Hole…” FILL IT WITH LOVE – June 30, 2024 - The High School Musical star added, “I mean, you’re in your 20s, single, going through life in Hollywood, you know? Everything is thrown at you. I wouldn’t take anything bac... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 9 2024
Valerie Bertinelli Celebrates Six Months of Sobriety WELCOME ABOARD – July 4, 2024 - Bertinelli’s boyfriend, writer Mike Goodnough, revealed that they’ve been on the same journey together. He commented on her post, “Funny how we both just randomly decid... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 9 2024
Shifty Shellshock Talked Sobriety Months Before Fatal OD VIDEO – REMEMBERING SETH BINZER – JULY 5, 2024 - Late Crazy Town frontman was sober and happy a few months before his accidental drug overdose ... and seemed committed to staying on the wagon. Shifty’s friend and s... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024Overdose
Celebrity Chef Andrew Zimmern On His Sobriety THE TASTE OF RECOVERY – June 29, 2024 - “Bizarre Foods” TV host Andrew Zimmern has been sober for 32 and a half years, and often uses his platform to talk about mental health; he’s vocal about his experience o... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 9 2024RecoveryRehab
Patients on These Antidepressants Likely to Gain Weight VIDEO – HAPPILY PLUMP? – July 2, 2024 - Users of escitalopram (which is sold under the brand name Lexapro), paroxetine (Paxil) and duloxetine (Cymbalta) were 10% to 15% more likely to gain at least 5% of their base... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadepressiondiet sodaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024
Comedian Learned Her Son’s Struggle with Drugs Wasn’t ‘Rebelliousness’ FUNNY PUNCH LINE? – July 6, 2024 - In April 2019, after his parents confiscated cash he’d planned to use for drugs, Luka became enraged, shattering a glass against a wall. He spit in his mother’s face and trie... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 9 2024
Man to Bike 429 Miles to Share His Free Recovery Program VIDEO – NO FLAT TIRES – July 1, 2024 - LT Weaver, a person in recovery and founder of the nonprofit Recovering Addict, is pioneering a different approach that emphasizes peer-oriented practices. In September, Natio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 9 2024RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Dean McDermott Celebrates 1 Year of Sobriety DOING THE RIGHT THING – July 2, 2024 - On July 1, the Canadian actor, 57, shared a photo of a countdown board on Instagram alongside a card that read, “You are literally the most amazing person. A special than... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 9 2024
People Rush to Save Man from Overdosing VIDEO – ALMOST DEAD – July 1, 2024 - Sarah Nazorek remembers the scary experience when she saved her son from an overdose by using Narcan. One of the people sent us the video as others worked to wake up the un... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 9 2024OverdoseRecovery