The Gift of Getting Weirder With Age EVERYONE ONE DAY – May 1, 2026 - I recently came across “The Smallest of Joys,” the new book by Diane Shiffer, the 69-year-old TikTok star known as Your Chubby Vintage Nana. In it, she writes that weirdness isn’t “a ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeatured Articleslife expectancyMental Health
Program Allows Addicts to Choose Treatment Over Justice System VIDEO – MOVING ON UP – Mar. 31, 2026 - A woman who was homeless for years is sharing her story of survival after she was able to avoid jail time and seek treatment instead. Those involved with the program knew that T... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 07 2026Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Self-Love Is the Missing Link in America’s Mental Health and Addiction Crisis DR. DONNA MARKS – March - 2026 - Rising addiction and mental health challenges worldwide are prompting new questions about what is truly driving the crisis. While many solutions focus on treatment, a growing conversa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 31 2026Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
How Mental Health Treatment Saved My Life GRIEF HURTS – March 24, 2026 - Faced with grieving the tragic death of a close friend and bandmate a few years after losing her father, Chris Cornell, mental-health advocate Lily Cornell Silver explains how she turne... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionMar 31 2026Mental Health
7+ Things You Get from a Good Relationship STAYING IN LOVE – Mar. 20, 2026 - Upon the rarest of occasions (okay maybe weekly), my wife gets a little tweaked at me. I don’t know what I did, my head is buried in a book or the computer, I’m an innocent by-sitter... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 24 2026Mental Health
Dr. Joycelyn Elders – A PIONEER FOR THE AGES AMERICAN HERO – Mar. 2026 - VISION, VOICE, VICTORY: The Joycelyn Elders Story is a documentary film that tells the extraordinary story of the life and work of Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who became the first African America... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 24 2026
Outreach and Reentry Support Made the Difference 2nd CHANCES MATTER – Mar. 12, 2026 - Sarah Newberry first connected with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Transitional Assistance Reentry Team (START) while incarcerated within the County Sheriff’s correctional sy... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 17 2026RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Boogie On Rosie Woman Podcast Celebrates Women – Sobriety and the Jam Scene MUSIC MATTERS – Mar. 13, 2026 - Boogie On Rosie Woman taps into that tradition, offering a space where women in the jam community can share stories of sobriety, resilience, and connection. Hosted by longtime fan Rosi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 17 2026
‘RHOSLC’ star Mary Cosby shares heartbreaking tribute to son Robert Jr. days after confirming his death TOO DAMM SAD – Feb. 28, 2026 - The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star wrote on Instagram Friday night. Mary included an image of herself and a young Robert Jr., set to the song “Time After Time” by Jes... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionMar 10 2026teenagersTrauma
TIME’S 100 Health Advocates 2026 – Ryan Hampton MAN WITH A PLAN – Feb. 11, 2026 -A hiking accident in 2003 almost cost Ryan Hampton his life—not because of the injury he sustained, but because of the addiction he developed to the opioid OxyContin, which was prescr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 24 2026life expectancyMental Health
Recovery Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Shift from Incarceration to Treatment AUDIO – IT’S AN ILLNESS NOT A CRIME – Jan. 23, 2026 - “Recovery starts with keeping people alive long enough to get help,” Nelson said. As lawmakers prepare to make those funding decisions, they are also considering ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 10 2026interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Homeless Veteran Gains Stability and Starts Non-profit to Help Veterans Call Center for Homeless Veterans 877-424-3838 – Jan. 14, 2026 - Veteran Esther Frias grew up in Los Angeles after her parents immigrated from Mexico. She remembers watching news coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riot... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 03 2026homelessinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Officials Considering Program to Help People Get Into Stable Sober Housing EVERYONE NEEDS A FRIENDLY HOME – Jan. 13, 2026 - After a push by an Albuquerque city councilor to get more housing for people recovering from drug addiction, the city is considering starting up a more-than $1 m... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 27 2026RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Quote of the Week – Martin Luther King, Jr. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15, 1929, Atlanta, GA. – April 4, 1968, Lorra... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJan 20 2026quote of the week
Woman Challenged Herself to Have Sex Every Day For a Year Shares Wild Impact it Had THAT’S GOT TO HURT – Jan. 8, 2026 - A blogger who had sex every day for a year has revealed the wild impact her stunt had on her. Brittany Gibbons said she and her husband had sex every day for one full year, and set... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJan 13 2026Mental HealthSexual Addiction
Finding Freedom AND BEST FRIENDS – Dec. 24, 2025 - “It has grown in a way we never anticipated.” When Mickey Bakst and fellow hospitality industry vet Steve Palmer founded Ben’s Friends in Charleston, S.C. nine years ago, they we... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 30 2025Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Senator’s Sobriety Sparks Bill to Give Medicaid to Prisoners COMPASSION MATTERS – Nov. 6, 2025 - State Sen. Jesse James, R-Thorp, will celebrate 28 years of sobriety from drug and alcohol use next month. He’s deeply proud of the milestone and said his own life informs how he a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionNov 11 2025
Fighting Addiction With Compassion and Hope NOW AND ALWAYS – Sept. 25, 2025 - “We have medicines that can help people quit tobacco, alcohol and opioid use. For opioid addiction, treatments like Suboxone, methadone, and naltrexone can help patients stay in reco... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 30 2025
‘God, take me or fix me’: Ex-Addict Helps The Broken PASS IT ON – Sept. 12, 2025 - John Bartholomew, recovery pastor at Splitlog Baptist Church in Goodman, Mo., and head pastor of In Christ Alone Church in Fairview, Missouri, is following Jesus’ example of helping heal... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 16 2025
‘You’re not alone’ VIDEO – TAKE HEART – Sept. 3, 2025 - More than 1,400 Virginians died from drug overdoses last year — a sobering statistic of an epidemic plaguing countless Virginia families. Some government agencies and area reso... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionOverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 16 2025
“Mother of Methadone” Stigma in Addiction Medicine HEROINE – Aug. 26, 2025 - With Dr. Melody Glenn’s new book—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, A Forgotten History, And A Modern-Day Crisis—Dr. Marie Nyswander is finally getting her flowers. “Narcotic agent... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 02 2025
Service Dog Company Brings New Approach to Addiction Recovery DOG GOD DOG – Aug. 1, 2025 - She says sobriety unveiled past trauma she hadn’t yet healed from, so when someone suggested a service dog to help with her PTSD, she jumped at the suggestion. “The value of a service ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 26 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Confronting Addiction, Stigma, and the Path to Recovery in Ukraine NO BOUNDARIES – Aug. 19, 2025 - In times of war, the burden of SUDs deepens. War fuels substance use through trauma, displacement, and breakdown of services, while simultaneously weakening the health and social syste... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 26 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Illinois Bans “AI Therapy” GET A THERAPIST! – Aug. 15, 2025 - The law prohibits any person or company from using AI to deliver psychotherapy services, diagnostics, treatment plans, crisis intervention, or therapeutic follow-up, as well as from... Read More...Aug 19 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental Health
Morgan Baine – beloved Nashville substance abuse treatment executive dies at 32: ‘She spoke truth with compassion’ HEART BREAKING! – Aug. 15, 2025 - Morgan Baine with her son, James, and her fiance, Logan Terry, at a Nashville Predators game in 2024. Hundreds in Nashville’s substance abuse recovery community are grieving the sudd... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 19 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Gen Z’s Sex Recession OH MY – July 16, 2025 - For her new book, journalist Carter Sherman interviewed over 100 young people about why they’re not having sex. She says they’re “very horny” but also more isolated, self-conscious, and fearfu... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 22 2025Sexual Addictionteenagers
Black Patients Less Likely to Receive Treatment Referrals NOT JUST IN THE SOUTH – July 2, 2025 - Referrals for outpatient treatment after a suspected opioid overdose ranged from 8% to 44%, and Black patients were less likely to receive such a referral versus white patients,... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 08 2025life expectancy
Man’s Disability Caused Police to Arrest Him as a Drunk VIDEO – MISTAKEN IDENTITY – June 17, 2025 - Roger Lewis admits when Mt. Juliet police arrived on his call for help, he was in a real mess. Body camera footage showed the 66-year-old Hendersonville man stand... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 01 2025Mental Health
Trump Regime to SHUT DOWN LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline NOT SURPRISED? – June 18, 2025 - The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer use its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black called the decision “devastating,” adding, “Sui... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJuly 01 2025suicideteenagers
Singing Is Good For Your Brain! HUMMING IS TOO – June 10, 2024 - If there is a song in your soul, sing it out loud — whether in your car on your morning commute or at karaoke with friends. It’s okay if you are not the next Taylor Swift. Ma... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJune 17 2025life expectancyMental Health