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Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford on Showtime

THE FIRST LADY OF REHABS – Jan. 21, 2021 - Set in the White House, the political drama is a look at America through the eyes of various first ladies. Season 1 will focus on Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama... Read More...

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How Bad IS Quarantine for my Body?

TRY BENDING OVER – January 22, 2021 - ...Leah Whigman, associate professor at UTHealth School of Public Health in El Paso, told VICE. “Is there any value in saying, I screwed up big time, I’m going to die earlier n... Read More...

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Alcoholics Anonymous Co-founder Had Mayo Roots

She was like nun other – Jan. 9, 2021 - That patient would be the first of millions to participate in the 20-step programme of recovery, the beginning of Alcoholic Anonymous (AA), which she founded with Dr. Bob... Read More...

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Former Opioid Addict Gives Back Through Random Acts of Kindness

WATCH – One good turn at a time – Jan. 8, 2021 - “There’s trash everywhere, there’s people everywhere, like, I was sleeping in abandoned buildings,” she said. “It’s so out of control that they can’t really get... Read More...

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Goats, Soaps and Candles Help Pay Bills and Build Skills

It takes all kinds – Jan. 10, 2021 - Stopped at the gate by Zuzana Poláčková, one of the staff at Hope Farm, Ainsley bleated her disapproval then trotted by the chickens in their coop across the field from two ... Read More...

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Rescued By Kindness, Now She Shares Hope in Philly

What goes around... – Jan. 10, 2021 - For years, Cohen lived in a perpetual state of hunger, trauma and pain. Eventually, she landed on the streets of Kensington, the largest open-air drug market on the East C... Read More...

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N.Y. Drug Reform Activist Anthony Papa Gets Pardon

Barbaric prison system victim – Jan. 9, 2021 - “He is a living example of the inequities in the system that existed due to the Rockefeller-era drug laws and has spent more than a decade working in the pursuit ... Read More...

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Study Finds One Small Drink Daily Raises Risk of Atrial Fibrillation

Is it worth it? – Jan. 13, 2021 - “Many people have palpitations and dizziness, but one of the bad things about atrial fibrillation is that it’s asymptomatic and can lead to other problems such as stroke. In m... Read More...

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Parents Organizing to Save Kids From Drug Addiction Dangers

WATCH – Teach Your Children Well – Jan. 12, 2021 - Taylor’s family said this summer two former classmates overdosed together. Her father, Todd Grzybinski, says he can list at least a dozen kids within the last six m... Read More...

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Therapist Puts New Face on Alcoholism

Not Without Blemishes – Jan. 13, 2021 - “Since the onset of COVID, alcohol use skyrocketed as a coping mechanism. Everyone’s looking for relief. People drink for relaxation, to calm nerves, to sleep, as a ritual, t... Read More...

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Q&A with Dr. Allen Berger

Stick with the Winners! - January 15, 2021 - Dr. Allen Berger’s professional career spans over 49 years, since 1971. After returning from a combat tour of duty in Vietnam in 1971, USMC Corporal Berger became a counse... Read More...

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Acceptance of Death — By Alan Watts

WATCH – On Everyone’s Mind? – Jan. 23, 2020 - “And we can’t say that it’s a good thing for everything to go on living. In a very simple demonstration that if we enable everybody to go on living, we overcrowd ourselv... Read More...

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Drug Rehab For Women – What You Should Know

WATCH – The Steps Are the Same – Jan. 11, 2021 - Keep in mind that addiction does not discriminate among gender. However, women face different physiological and psychological challenges when opting to get back to n... Read More...

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Sober Stars Step Into Spotlight Amid “Dry January” Focus

Abstinence Becomes Them – Jan. 13, 2021 - Helping smack down that notion is Danny Trejo who, at 52 years sober, recently filmed a PSA on behalf of CRI-Help, an L.A.-based nonprofit treatment center. The spot finds ... Read More...

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DRUG USE FOR GROWN-UPS: Chasing Liberty in Land of Fear

Dr. Feelgood – Jan. 12, 2021 - Hart knows this. He knows about the discomfort his readers might feel when they encounter his full-throated endorsement of opiates for recreational use. He offers the information ... Read More...

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New Law Requires Faster Treatment for Addiction

WATCH – Not fast enough – Jan. 1, 2021 - “You’re talking about really sick people with a chronic progressive life-threatening brain disease who are presenting for care, they’re going to be admitted into care. And th... Read More...

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‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ 75 Years Old

BOOK: Approved literature – Jan. 5, 2021 - Paramahansa Yogananda made an indelible impression on the spiritual landscape of the United States. Arriving in America in 1920 from his native India, he established ... Read More...

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9 Creative Ways To Socialize Safely

LISTEN – Staying sane and sober – Jan. 1, 2021 - When Vladimir Celestin and his extended family realized they couldn’t get together on Christmas, they got creative. “My cousins on my father and my mother’s s... Read More...

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Report Calls for More Access to Take-Home Meds for Opioid Addictions

Pandemic relief – Jan. 5, 2021 - “To get methadone, you have to show up in person every day and have people watch you take the medications,” Burke said. “Imagine if you had diabetes and you had to show up to g... Read More...

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County Offering Treatment to Inmates Dealing with Addiction

WATCH – What a good idea – Jan. 6, 2021 - Cumberland County Jail has now hired Medication Assisted Treatment Re-Entry Coordinator Jessica Verdajo, who will work to add more accessibility to medical treatment fo... Read More...

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The Road to This Wedding Was Paved With Theft, Lies, Tears

Sobriety sometimes leads to marriage – Jan. 8, 2021 - The lessons from the love story of Irene Sibaja and Hal Karp are many, but here are some of the more obvious: The old dating adage “right person, wrong tim... Read More...

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Q&A with Jeannie Rabb-Marshall, publisher of Keys to Recovery

Stick with the Winners! – January 5, 2021 - Many of you will remember Jeannie from the Steps for Recovery newspaper, where she worked until 2008 with business partner and good friend Jason Levin, who passed awa... Read More...

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Men Find Community, Self-worth at Recovery Farm

Planting Esteem Seeds – Jan. 9, 2021 - He lost his job and, over the summer, his ex-fiancé beat him up, putting him in the hospital with a broken arm, a fractured foot and a gash across the bridge of his nose.&... Read More...

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Entrepreneur Helping Gamblers Beat Their Addiction

No more suicides, please – Jan. 7 , 2021 - Having tried everything, from parental controls software to gambling-blocking software to curb his activity, he came up with his own solution Gamban. Launched... Read More...

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Mum Shares 10-Step Guide to Sobriety

No boozeyness anymore – Jan. 5, 2021 - Justine quit alcohol when she was 40 years old after she spent most of her thirties ‘medicated from alcohol 24/7’. ‘The single turning point was my nine-year-old daught... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Stacey Abrams

“We must cease being participants in our own oppression.” —Stacey Abrams ... Read More...

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‘Mr. Sobriety’: Robert Cote remembered

We can, he did – Dec. 27, 2020 - He also created the Addiction Counselor Education Program at Westfield State University (then Westfield State College) and served as the director for 25 years (an extension of t... Read More...

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Only Rehab in New South Wales Helping Mothers

LISTEN – Listening to loss – Dec. 28, 2020 - For many mothers, the arrival of a newborn comes with more than enough challenges. Imagine not only trying to take care of a baby, but also trying to withdraw from drugs... Read More...

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Artist Transforms Shattered Ceramics To Highlight “Beauty of Destruction”

Just like us – Dec. 26, 2020 - His deconstructed sculptures take on a variety of forms, but many of them are pieced together using the kintsugi technique. This Japanese method uses a special lacquer that is dus... Read More...

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Musicians Battle Another Epidemic: Addiction

LISTEN – RIP Cady Groves – Dec. 28, 2020 - Groves had a difficult upbringing, losing two older brothers to overdoses in her teens and 20s. She’d found pop-country success in the 2010s (Blake Shelton appeared in... Read More...

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