Delaware Is Providing Substance Abuse Treatment for Mothers A STATE OF GRACE – Nov. 17, 2022 - The center is operated by Gaudenzia Inc., one of the region’s largest nonprofit providers of treatment for substance use disorders. The program is funded by $3.2 million in fe... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 22 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘I learnt how to channel my addiction into art’ VIDEO – SO CAN SOME OF US – Nov. 7, 2022 - A former homeless drug addict has turned his life around and is now an up-and-coming graffiti pop artist hosting an exhibition in an east London gallery. Opa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionNov 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Quote of the Week – Dr. Bruce Lipton “Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives.” – Dr. Bruce Lipton ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionNov 15 2022quote of the weekRecovery
A Day at The Wall by Brian Delate WELCOME HOME – Nov. 11, 2022 - It’s a late sunny afternoon when my daughter Tirsa, now in sixth grade, arrives home from school. She runs in, drops her school backpack, and heads upstairs to my home offi... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental HealthNov 8 2022RecoveryTrauma
Tribes Lead Way on Opioid Treatment WISDOM OF THE ELDERS – Nov. 1, 2022 - After five years of active addiction, Clayton applied for a spot at a local inpatient rehabilitation center. In the four months it took for a bed to become available, he lo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyNov 8 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Redemptive Power of Creativity ART LIGHTS THE WAY – Oct. 27, 2022 - In The Creative High, the evolution of the stories of the nine artists begins with the rawest examples, teetering on the edge of relapse, and ends with the most experi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionNov 1 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehab
She Confronted Matthew Perry about ‘scary’ alcoholism A FRIEND IN WEED IS A FRIEND INDEED – Oct. 22, 2022 -The actor - who played Chandler in the hit sitcom - detailed how his drug and alcohol addiction left him with a 2% chance of survival. During his i... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassioninterventionInterviewOct 25 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Woman Who Beat Her Addiction Now Empowering Abuse Survivors VIDEO – EACH ONE, TEACH ONE – Oct. 14, 2022 - “I had tried every avenue to get clean and then I started learning about my addiction, educating myself about why I was relapsing. Every time there was a tra... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewOct 25 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How Hospital Addiction Specialist Saved a Life AUDIO – MORE THAN ONCE! – Oct. 9, 2022 - BEBINGER: This is Liz Tadie. She helped launch a different approach for Marie and other patients at Salem Hospital. That day, when Marie said, please don’t make me g... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOct 18 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Addiction, and Illness Under Capitalism VIDEO – SOCIETY’S CHILD – Oct. 14, 2022 - This is helpful. I’ve never made the connection between societal (in US, etc) expectations related to individualism and the how they facility capitalism and vice versa.... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthOct 18 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Quote of the Week – Angela Lansbury “Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.” – Angela Lansbury, Oct. 16, 1925, London - Oct. 11, 2022, Los Angeles ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionlife expectancyOct 18 2022quote of the week
Angela Lansbury, Star of Stage, Film & TV passes at 96 VIDEO – MRS. LOVETT’S REAL MEAT PIES – Oct. 11, 2022 - For all her stage success, Ms. Lansbury would capture the biggest audience of her career in 1984, when she was cast as the mystery writer and amateur sleut... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionlife expectancyOct 18 2022
Ripped Richard Branson Shares Workout To Keep You Kicking In Your 70s VIDEO – AFTER YOUR MEETING... – Oct. 4, 2022 - We’ve waxed lyrical here at DMARGE about staying ripped in your 50s, but Virgin Group founder Richard Branson just proved you can indeed stay ripped in your 70s to... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthOct 11 2022
Quote of the Week – Robert Bly “It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.” – Robert Bly ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionOct 11 2022quote of the week
14 Years Online of IN THE ROOMS BEFORE THERE WAS ZOOM... – Sept. 30, 2022 - 14 years ago, Ken Pomerance and Ron Tannebaum came up with a revolutionary idea that was to change the face of recovery for people around the world. What started as a... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionOct 4 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Quote of the Week – Rubin Carter “Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost.” – Rubin Carter, May 6, 1937–April 20, 2014 ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionOct 4 2022quote of the week
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusinterventionMental HealthSept 27 2022Sexual AddictionTrauma
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 27 2022
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiongrammy winnerSept 27 2022
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 27 2022suicideTrauma
Are You a Love Addict? Or a Romantic? “WHAT IS LOVE...BABY DON’T HURT ME” – Sept. 16, 2022 - Love addiction is not a formal diagnosis. It is related to other clinical diagnoses under the spectrum of behavioral addictions, impulse control disorders,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 20 2022Sexual Addiction
Quote of the Week – Jean-Luc Godard “A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard (Dec. 3, 1930 - Sept. 13, 2022) ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionquote of the weekREEL Recovery Film FestivalSept 20 2022
Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Fought Injustice, Dies at 81 OBITUARY OF A HERO – Sept. 2, 2022 - Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of more than 20 books on social justice themes ranging from women’s rights to inequality and the inequities of the American healthcare system,... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionlife expectancySept 6 2022
French Montana To Help People In Music Business Struggling With Addiction VIDEO – FROM BAND TO WATER WAGON – Aug. 27, 2022 - Clients battling addiction will receive a treatment team and 24/7 medical and clinical care in the best location for them. French and the Guardian Re... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 6 2022
Sobriety Makes Making Music Better AUDIO – MORE HARMONIES – Aug. 26, 2022 - Amazingly, it took decades for Hull and McGovern to find each other despite being lifelong Lincolnites -- children of the 1960s -- and members of a musical community tha... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 30 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab
Anne Heche Died a Tragic Death. Why Are People Shaming Her? VIDEO – IT HURTS – Aug. 15, 2022 - Heche’s injuries left her brain-dead. On Sunday, her family took her off life support. I wonder whether it’s enough to satisfy those who have been calling for her head.... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 23 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionlife expectancyMental HealthTrauma
How Photographers Help Fight Addiction in Philly VIDEO – STARING IN THE FACE OF HOPELESSNESS – Aug. 16, 2022 - “It just doesn’t feel comfortable for me to continue to drive through this area, walk through this area, catch the train, pass this are... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Mental Health Crisis Tears Fabric Of College Sports PUSHED TO FAR? – Aug. 12, 2022 - Houle saw a sports psychologist as a high school sophomore after massive success in gymnastics, including a national championship. After competing for Ohio State, Houle g... Read More...Aug 16 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionMental HealthRecovery
Man Denied Liver Transplant Because of Alcoholism VIDEO – FAMILY OFFERS ONE – Aug. 12, 2022 - Quebec man denied liver transplant because of his alcoholism. more@CTVNews ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 16 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionlife expectancyRecoveryTrauma
Q&A with Dianne Griffin, Award-Winning Filmmaker STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Aug. 11, 2022 - Dianne Griffin Director, Producer is an award-winning international documentary filmmaker, teacher, public speaker and has been creating films for over thirty year... Read More...Aug 16 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionInterviewRecoveryREEL Recovery Film Festival