Coronavirus

A Happy News Year Letter

From the Editors – December 29, 2020 - As the year finally comes to an end and the world transitions into 2021, there…

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Heather Graham Gets Candid About Sober Living

WATCH – Not skating the issue... –  Dec. 20, 2020 - She said: ‘I don’t drink or do drugs ...…

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Struggling With Addiction? Here’s NYE Lifeline

Start 2021 SOBER –   Dec. 23, 2020 - Last year, Garcia launched the Dallas Sober New Year’s Eve party,…

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Dr. Jennifer Wood, Guiding Patients with Addiction Through Pandemic

No relapses please –  Dec, 25, 2020 - “Patients who were previously well-established in addiction treatment, for example, their clinics…

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Navigating the “Bermuda Triangle” of addiction

WATCH – Don’t disappear –   Dec. 22, 2020 - We’re in a very festive season. But we should keep…

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Beacon House in Pacific Grove Closing

A champ goes down swinging –  Dec. 22, 2020 - An important player in the drug and alcohol addiction treatment…

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Heartwarming! Drug Rehab Centre Offers Free Treatment Via Christmas Raffle

Win Win –   Dec. 18, 2020 - Even before the COVID-19 pandemic put millions of Americans out of work,…

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Addiction specialist may get the rose

What is a bachelorette? –  Dec. 18, 2020 - Clark recently shared a story about someone who played a major…

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Overdose epidemic needs state action to remove barriers to care

Make it Free? –  DEC. 16, 2020 - “SADLY, THE DRUG OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC CONTINUES, AND IT HAS BECOME MORE COMPLICATED…

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Overdose Deaths Outpace COVID-19 Deaths in SF

Heaven’s Overcrowding... –   Dec. 19, 2020 -  The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far…

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Unmasking Mental Illness and Addiction in Pandemic World

Madness of America –   Dec. 18, 2020 - New York City struggled and then regained its footing after becoming…

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Outbreak Grows at Green Mountain Treatment Center Part of Granite Recovery, N.H.

LISTEN – I wish this was fake news –  Dec. 18, 2020 - Rick Ganley: Yeah, and per your reporting…

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Danny Trejo, 52 Years Sober, Urges Those Fighting Addiction to Seek Treatment During Pandemic

What a wonderful way to live! –  Dec. 13, 2020 - The spot — part of CRI-Help’s “Fight” campaign —…

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Philadelphia Nearing Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses

Death Marches On –   December 6, 2020 - In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry this week, researchers monitoring…

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What Way to Start My 20’s!

A dream deferred is a dream denied –  December 11, 2020 - The shutdown of society worsened my disordered thoughts…

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24-Hour Hotline Launched for People Using Alone

Medically Assisted Telephone –  December 10,  2020 - New Yorkers who are using drugs alone, and who would like someone…

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How to Talk to Loved Ones About Their Mental Health

WATCH – From the Heart –   Dec. 1, 2020 - The year 2020 has exacted a psychological toll on…

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‘People Are Having very Hard Time Maintaining Recovery’ in Pandemic’

WATCH – When the going gets tough... –  Dec. 4, 2020 - Addiction specialists are encouraging employers to understand that…

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Moms Are Speaking Out on Drug Laws That Tear Families Apart by Gretchen Burns Bergman

Is America a penal colony? –   DEC. 4, 2020 - The holidays are always difficult for those who must…

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Kentucky Teacher of the Year’s Story of Addiction and Recovery

Neither regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it –   December 3, 2020 - I thought…

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The Pandemic Is Making US Drug Policy Even More Deadly

Let’s hope we outlive the Drug War –  December 3, 2020 - Access to methadone and buprenorphine—the most effective forms…

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Central Florida Overdose Deaths up 70% During Pandemic

WATCH – The madness is horrific –   Dec. 4, 2020 - Sheriff Dennis Lemma talks to Good Day Orlando…

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‘Lockdown had me drinking again’

Vigilance always –   Dec. 6, 2020 - From the beginning of lockdown in March, Pam had been fighting a…

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Chasing the News … stone cold sober – Episode 4

WATCH – Fascinating rhythm –   Nov. 17, 2020 - Sobriety, creativity, serenity and laughter in the Coronaverse.  A conversation…

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12 Step Meetings: What is was like, what happened and what it’s like now!

Hindsight IS Indeed 2020 –  by Dr. Don Grant, MA, MFA, DAC, SUDCC IV, PhD November 27, 2020 - In…

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From A.A. to Zoom – Treatment Goes Online

An Alphabet Soup of Recovery –   November 28, 2020 - Though online rehab rose as an emergency stopgap measure,…

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Drug deaths were on rise locally; then the virus hit

The American way of death –  Now, 2020 - Overdose deaths have spiked in San Diego County this year, as…

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Weirdest Mental Health Tips For Winter

Freezing My Depression Off –  November 27, 2020 - Immerse Your Head In Water  "Feeling anxious? Bend over, hold your breath,…

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The Other Health Crisis: A Resurgent Drug Epidemic

The Opiate of the Masses is Opioids –   November 28, 2020 - More than 70 public health organizations in…

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This therapist fights online toxicity, one TikTok video at time

Scrolling for Sanity –   November 27, 2020 - The thought of joining TikTok last year made clinical psychologist Julie…

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