Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

For Miami addicts, recovery is tough enough. Then came the virus

Pray for the newcomers – MARCH 29, 2020 - Getting clean is challenging enough in regular times, and the coronavirus has also upended South Florida’s fragile care system for people battling alcohol and substance... Read More...

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NIDA Director outlines risks to people who smoke and do drugs during pandemic

Another GOOD Reason to Quit! – April 2, 2020 - The Ideas and Opinions piece raises several important concerns regarding COVID-19 for specific vulnerable populations, including: Patients with already compromised lu... Read More...

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DOJ unleashes $163 million to fight drug addiction

Unleashes wild dogs? – April 3, 2020 - • Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program, $1.75 million available. This program provides financial and technical assistance to ... Read More...

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Why Coronavirus is making people hoard illegal drugs?

So They Don’t Run Out – April 5, 2020 - UK drug policy and crime experts told CNN they were worried over a growing number of reports of shortages and escalating prices for drugs, as international borders close ... Read More...

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Potential of using psychedelic drugs in psychiatry

Eight hours to salvation – April 2, 2020 - Brain imaging over the past 20 years has taught scientists a lot about how these drugs act on different areas of the brain, says first author David Nutt, a professor a... Read More...

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Quarantining patients at PA. drug treatment centers could pose risk, but many have nowhere else to go

Damed if you do... – March 24, 2020 - “We have people who do not have a home to go back to,” said Paul Bacharach, president and CEO of Gateway Rehab, which owns 14 treatment facilities across Western Pennsylva... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 31 2020Recovery

During COVID-19, L.A.’s Rehab Centers Are Still Addressing the Drug Crisis

Still Working Hard – March 25, 2020 - More recently, overdose deaths from stimulants have surged, potentially representing the next phase of the drug crisis. Overdoses from psychostimulants like cocaine and methamphe... Read More...

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Ben Cousins opens up on drugs and prison in new ‘explosive, emotional’ interview

Once We Were Giants – March 21, 2020 - “I’m close to the Ben Cousins story and have been for a long time now. I didn’t think anything he could say would surprise me, but even I was shocked,” Channel 7 reporter ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 24 2020

How smoking cigarettes, vaping and drug use may worsen symptoms of COVID-19

Even More Deadly – MARCH 22, 2020 - “When someone’s lungs are exposed to flu or other infections the adverse effects of smoking or vaping are much more serious than among people who do not smoke or vape,” Stan... Read More...

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A doctor’s radical treatment for pregnant addicts? Get them clean

And Love Them – FEB. 26, 2020 - Towers didn’t need a drug test to confirm Lenderman, 14 weeks pregnant, was in the throes of opioid addiction, and this morning still showed the effects of having used the drug t... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 17 2020RecoveryRehab

Opinion: Jailing individuals for drug addiction is immoral

War On The Wounded – March 3, 2020 - The Controlled Substance Act distinguished five different “schedules” for drugs to huddle underneath. Ignorance was on full display: schedule one drugs — the most “dangerous... Read More...

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‘Strung Out’ Tackles Pain, Stigma And Shame Of Drug Use

MEDIA: Book Review – February 28, 2020 - In her new memoir, Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, essayist and advice columnist Erin Khar writes candidly and at length about this partic... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020

17% addicts hooked on de-addiction drug

It’s Punjab Jake – Mar. 8, 2020 - De-addiction seems to have become a new addiction in the state. As per a government report, there is widespread addiction of de-addiction drug buprenorphine. At present, abo... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020Rehab

Laura McKowen on Addiction, Recovery and We Are the Luckiest

We Are Miracles, Too! – MARCH 2, 2020 - I just don’t think the labels are very helpful. Nobody hears the word “addict” or “alcoholic” and thinks something positive, or even neutral. Those words carry with them... Read More...

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Science Suggests Loneliness Is Tied To Addiction

Come Together – MAR 5, 2020 - As the United States struggled with a crisis of addiction to opioids and other drugs over the past few years, ... Read More...

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Mother with opioid addiction died in police custody after officers ignored her calls for help

Arrested to Death – MAR. 7, 2020 - “Yeah I’m literally ill right now. I can’t even think straight. I’m gonna like literally pass out from pain,” Linsemeir tells Sgt. Moises Zanazanian who is listed as a defenda... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020opioids

Opioid Epidemic Might Be Much Worse Than We Thought

And Getting Worse? – FEBRUARY 27, 2020 - The undercounting of opioid deaths is important because “you need to know the scale of a problem to know how to intervene in the problem,” Venkataramani says. Dealing wi... Read More...

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Indiana County to Start Bringing Charges Against Residents Who Overdose

Locking Up The Dead – February 29, 2020 - The person who has overdosed is given the opportunity to plead guilty, and if they go that route, “the prosecutor’s office would agree to offer treatment services through pro... Read More...

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Truly Radical Idea to Address Drug Addiction in Mia Donovan’s “Dope is Death”

THEATER “Dope is Death” – March 6, 2020 - “You don’t want to fight on drugs,” says Felipe Luciano, the founder of the Young Lords, in “Dope is Death.” “ I found out I was political.” His epiphany contributes to a ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020

Eating disorders and drug addiction are often related illnesses

THE HOLE WITHIN – FEBRUARY 24, 2020 - Oftentimes, food disorders do not exist in isolation. It is not uncommon for those who suffer from eating disorders to also experience substance addiction. Singer and ac... Read More...

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Why Do Christians Deny William Wilberforce’s Drug Addiction?

History Lesson – FEB 27, 2020 - The most widely known telling of Wilberforce’s life, the 2006 movie... Read More...

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Congressional Candidate Overdoses

It Can Happen To Anyone – Feb. 24, 2020 - Taylor’s decision to drop out of the Republican primary in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District was first reported by The Arizona Republic and the Gila Herald. Taylor, ... Read More...

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Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office

MEDIA: Whacked Non-Fiction – Feb. 11, 2020 - It remains a bit of a mystery how the 28-year-old Peres, who was working as a correspondent in Paris, got the head job at a major Condé Nast title, and an even bigg... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Vicodin

This Is What Happens When You Take 550 Doses of LSD At Once

Not Recommended! – Feb. 21, 2020 - A trip can sometimes last 12 hoursor more, pumping up heart rate, intensifying colors and sounds, and altering the perception of time. Because the LSD molecule, which mimics s... Read More...

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Addicts & Alcoholics to Spend $31.17 Billion on quitting by 2027

Steps, Stock Markets and Meds – Feb. 20, 2020 - For the addicts of drugs like opioids, the addiction initiates with receiving medications with relatives & friends who have been prescribed with... Read More...

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It’s time to get real about heroin addiction. It’s time to decriminalize this drug!

Decriminalize Heroin! – February 19, 2020 - I CAN SAY without a shred of doubt that the most stigmatized people in our society are those who use illicit drugs. ‘Junkies’, ‘dopeheads’ and ‘crackheads’ are some of the... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2020Heroin Addiction

Yale doctors take on opioid addiction

There’s a Pill for Everything – Jan. 30, 2020 - In 2008, when D’Onofrio and Yale collaborator David Fiellin, M.D., director of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, received a grant from the National Institut... Read More...

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