Quote of the Week – Ketanji Brown Jackson “You can’t always expect to be the smartest person in the room but you can promise to be the hardest working.” —KETANJI BROWN JACKSON ... Read More...April 12 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionquote of the week
Staying Active Is a Must INERTIA IS NOT KOSHER – April 2, 2022 - It was at his little brother’s funeral in Georgia that 39 year-old Tripp Freeman had a sobering realization. If he were to die that day, the only constant in his life wo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehab
What’s Wrong with Calling Love an Addiction? SOMETIMES IT HURTS LIKE ONE – Mar. 22, 2022 - It’s typical to find your mind preoccupied with a love interest during the “honeymoon phase,” when you’re first falling for someone, explains Omar Ruiz, licensed th... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecovery
What Pets Can Teach Us About Mindfulness THE POWER OF THE DOG - AND CAT, ETC. – Mar. 24 2022 - Being brought back to the present with your pet can happen in a variety of ways. Maybe you’re walking your dog, or listening to your cat’s purrs, wat... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusinterventionMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma
How Qigong Can Treat Addiction MOVING AND GROOVING – March 25, 2022 - Attending one of Miller’s virtual classes during lockdown, it was easy to see that participants’ stress and anxiety was high. At first the screen was filled with scrunche... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Prolonged Grief Disorder’ Now a Mental Health Diagnosis THEIR TURN TO CRY – Mar. 22, 2022 - It will most likely open a stream of funding for research into treatments — naltrexone, a drug used to help treat addiction, is currently in clinical trials as a form of grie... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionInterviewMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateTrauma
Rabbi Details His Story of Addiction and Recovery SHALOM – March 14, 2022 - “What’s significant is that today I sent somebody to rehab, I kissed my kids and walked my dog and I didn’t have to lie to anybody and I can be as honest as I want to and it’s an amaz... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Mrs. Doubtfire Co-Star Says Robin Williams Gave Him important Addiction Advice WISHED HE HEARD WHAT HE SAID – March 13, 2022 - Lawrence said Williams gave him a ‘gift’ by being so candid about drug addiction, and gave him an important piece of advice. ‘Don’t ever do drugs. Especially coc... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoverysuicideTrauma
Israel Cason, Founder Of Treatment Program, Dies AUDIO – OF SUPREME SERVICE – March 13, 2022 - He also joined the Fruit of Islam in the Nation of Islam and worked in its local bakery. But after the death of Elijah Muhammad, he resumed drug use. That lifest... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionMarch 22 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
William Hurt Eschewed Opioids to Maintain his Sobriety NO MATTER WHAT – March 16, 2022 - “He was totally against taking opiates because he had been sober for decades,” the source also said. Hurt’s friend told the Daily Mail that the actor sought out alternative tre... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 22 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Christy Carlson Romano Says It Was ‘Challenging to Be Sober During COVID’ AND SHE DID IT – March 13, 2022 - She added that, as a mother to two daughters — Isabella, 5, and Sophia, 3, whom she shares with husband Brendan Rooney — there were times she felt alone despite being surround... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusinterventionInterviewMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Jamie Lee Curtis Helps LaKeith Stanfield With His Sobriety CELEBRITIES 12th STEP TOO! – March 16, 2022 - “My experience is that when you feel you are alone, that’s a very scary feeling,” Curtis said about her decision to reach out to Stanfield in 2021 to support his so... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Women’s History Month: Authors Share Stories of Overcoming Drug Addiction VIDEO – THAT’S RIGHT, THE WOMEN ARE SMARTER – March 10, 2022 - NBC 5’s Christian Farr talked to two Chicago area authors who are sharing their inspirational stories through their new books detailing their figh... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Dr. Peter Hayden, Recognized Pioneer of Black Sobriety SOBER BROTHERHOOD – Mar. 10, 2022 - “What I had to do then is buy into the system. So all my friends were White because I wanted to stay sober. For those seven years, I did whatever it took, aside break the law... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Is Atlanta Ready for a Zero-Proof Cocktail Bar? MOCKTAILS? OR MOCKTALES? – March 8, 2022 - “Back then, the majority of places would have a token lemonade with fresh herbs or something with ginger beer, drinks that were very one dimensional,” he explains. “J... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMarch 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Jane Goodall and Margaret Atwood Still Have Hope for the Planet OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES – March 1, 2022 - In 1960, at age 26, Goodall relocated from the U.K. to what is now Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park to live with and study the Kasakela chimpanzee community. Th... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Quote of the Week – Emily Dickinson “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” —Emily Dickinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGVFTsyqxc ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMarch 15 2022quote of the week
Sobriety Walk For Tribal Members To Share ONLY ONE FAMILY – March 3, 2022 - The legacy of alcohol and drug use as a coping mechanism among generations of Native Americans is one that Mariesha Keith does not want to see passed on. Keith, Tribal Liai... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 8 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Beyond Ed Buck’: When Will Black Queer Lives Matter? VIDEO – SO SICKENING – Feb. 24, 2022 - The film asks why a predator was allowed to do this time and time again. Better yet: Why did so many of us do and say nothing? Five years in the making, the film pi... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiongayMarch 8 2022Mental Health
‘Devastating’: London Addiction Recovery Centre to Shut NO SALVATION? – Feb. 25, 2022 - That means many London-area residents seeking help with long-term addiction must go back to waiting months for a treatment centre bed while remaining in the same circumstances e... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 8 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Exciting Results Treating Opioid Habit with ‘Mindfulness’ LET’S PLAY CONCENTRATION – Feb. 28, 2022 - “Rather than getting caught up in the pain or craving,” Garland explained, “we teach people how to step back and observe that experience from the perspective of an ob... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 8 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRehab
Man Changes Lives After Losing Son To Addiction CHANGE OF HEART TOO – Feb. 27, 2022 - After dealing with the tragic loss of a son to addiction in 2019, Paul Williamson and his wife have built a thrift store and ministry for people battling the disease. Ou... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 8 2022OverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Woman Uses Life Experience To Help Women Tackle Sobriety A FOUR LEAF CLOVER – Feb. 25, 2022 - Having grown up familiar with alcoholism, binge-drinking and using recovery coaches in her own life, Joanne wanted to add to the chain of recovery by forming a specialised p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionInterviewMarch 1 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Mom Shares Son’s Battle with Addiction in Obit THE GOOD DIE YOUNG – Feb. 25, 2022 - Hunter Lee Clemons died on Feb. 10 “after a long battle with addiction,” his mother, Christy Couvillier, wrote in his obituary, according to CBS affiliate KLFY. Sharing ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictionInterviewMarch 1 2022Mental HealthOverdoseRecovery AdvocateTrauma
Michael Keaton’s Emotional Speech After Winning His SAG Award for Dopesick TEARFUL ACCEPTANCE – Feb. 28, 2022 - Michael Keaton was teary-eyed as he accepted the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Award for best male actor in a television movie or limited series. He won the award for “Dopesic... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 1 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecovery
Quote of the Week – President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine "We know what we are protecting: the country, the land, the future of our children." —President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 1 2022quote of the weekRecoveryTrauma
‘Lisa’s Light’: Couple Aim to Illuminate Addiction CATHARSIS – Feb. 16, 2022 - Her parents, Gary and Judy Stoefen, have written a book detailing her successes and challenges in hopes that it will steer others from a similar path. The couple, who met while gr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Can ‘Safe’ Injection Sites Make a Difference? IS ICE CREAM COLD? – Feb. 17, 2022 - This month, drug-policy experts also flagged the Department of Justice’s decision to revisit the federal government’s opposition to a safe drug-injection site in Philadelphi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022harm reductioninterventionRecoveryRehab
Jails Finally Allowing Medical Care For Opioid Addiction FINALLY SOME HUMANITY – Feb. 18, 2022 - Sedgwick’s joins at least a few other Kansas jails that do so, including Crawford County in southeast Kansas. “I mean, something’s got to change,” Crawford County She... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Father Sues Pharmacy After Son Overdoses J’accuse – Feb. 7, 2022 - Facts of the Case - Mr A was a 21-year-old university student who had a problem with recreational drugs. His childhood friend, Mr Z, 20, also was struggling with substance... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022life expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma