Drug Abuse and Addiction

Powerful memoir of addiction and hope

MEDIA: BOOK REVIEW –  April 30, 2021 - So many of her family members — her parents and her children,…

3 years ago

Million $ Listing star Fredrik Eklund Shares Sobriety Milestone

WATCH – MILLION DOLLAR FAMILY –  April 30, 2021 - Eklund also thanked MDLNY for allowing him to be his…

3 years ago

Kelly Osbourne Opens Up About Relapsing

WATCH – CAN A PICKLE EVER BE A CUCUMBER AGAIN? –  April 27, 2021- “I don’t know why my nervous…

3 years ago

Q&A with Founder of Healing House in Kansas City, Bobbi Jo Reed

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! –  May 4, 2021 - Bobbi-Jo Reed is a person in long-term recovery with 25 years…

3 years ago

Landmark opioid crisis trial starts next week at ground zero

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY AS SIN –  May 1, 2021 - Why is the trial in West Virginia? A year…

3 years ago

FDA official who approved OxyContin got $400,000 gig at Purdue Pharma year later

GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL FOR SALE — May 2, 2021 - Purdue Pharma's sale of OxyContin, a formulation of the narcotic oxycodone that…

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A Survivor’s Perspective on San Francisco’s Drug Crisis

WHAT CAN BE DONE? –  April 26, 2021 - Mr. Wolf, whose mother immigrated from Mexico, spoke to the dealers…

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The United States Of Meth

SPEEDING TOWARDS OUR DEMISE –  April 27, 2021 - As the pills piled up, Jon DeLena was shaken. He’d lived…

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Addiction Treatment With Dark Side

DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK –  Nov. 16, 2013 - “I didn’t know you could overdose on Suboxone,” Mr. Verrill…

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Addicted America

WATCH – VIDEO WORTH WATCHING –  April 27, 2021 - “It’s called the CAGE test - C is for cut-down…

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A Flawed System

WHO CAN WE TRUST? –  April 29, 2021 - What his family didn’t know was that Addiction Specialists Inc., often…

3 years ago

EPA “Exposed American Children” To Brain-Damaging Pesticide

MAKES OPIATES LOOK LIKE CANDY APRIL 29, 2021 - According to a team of researchers led by Leonardo Trasande, organophosphate…

3 years ago

US lifts barriers to prescribing Suboxone

GIVE PILLS A CHANCE –  April 27, 2020 - Because of how opioids act on the brain, people dependent on…

3 years ago

HAPPENING TODAY $30M Betty Ford Center Expansion

A WORTHY INVESTMENT –  April 28, 2021 - The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage is getting set to launch…

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Leslie Jordan once hated himself for being gay

5.7 MILLION FANS LOVE HIM FOR BEING GAY & SOBER –  April 26, 2021 - He now has 5.7 million…

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10 Reasons Why Your Addiction Treatment Efforts Are Failing

SO MUCH WORK TO DO –  April 2021 - Some people fail to respond to treatments because they have an…

3 years ago

Single dose eases anxiety and depression for five years

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN –  April 23, 2021 - At the four-and-a-half year follow-up, 71 to 100 percent of…

3 years ago

Man gets 10 years in prison for selling psychedelics

HYPOCRITICAL SOCIETY –  April 24, 2021 - A man who prosecutors say ran an extensive network selling psychedelic and party…

3 years ago

A Tribute to Terence Gorski

HIS WORK CONTINUES –  April 1, 2021 -  I benefited from this article as much as any information I received…

3 years ago

Dedee Pfeiffer Talks Road To Sobriety

WATCH – IT TAKES ALL KINDS –  April 20, 2021 - Dedee Pfeiffer, best known for her role in the…

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Sober for years she helps addicts through pandemic

JUST LIKE MOTHER TERESA –  April 22, 2021 - Oh, and the pandemic. She almost did not have time for…

3 years ago

Mother about son’s fatal fentanyl overdose to reignite opioid conversation

WATCH – SO MANY GONE –  April 20, 2021 - Debbie had walked downstairs in her home that morning to…

3 years ago

‘Saying YES to Drug Addiction, One Drug Den at Time’

CALIFORNIA DREAMING –  April 22, 2021 - The State Senate Republicans noted they are fighting to combat the deadly fentanyl…

3 years ago

Wavelengths’ Founder Warren Boyd, Opens Rehab in Hometown Petaluma

YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN –  April 13, 2021 - One unique addition Boyd brings to his Petaluma location is…

3 years ago

The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want

MUSICAL INTERLUDE –  1968 - The Rolling Stones performing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” From The Rolling Stones…

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Jerry Lee Albin, Who Found Sobriety After Hard Life, Dies, 75

WHAT A LOVE STORY!!! –  April 19, 2021 - They divorced in 1952; Mr. Albin’s mother cited “extreme cruelty and…

3 years ago

Jack Osbourne celebrates 18 years: ‘It’s life on life’s terms’

STILL NEEDS ALANON –  April 22, 2021 - Alongside a screenshot of an app which tracks his sobriety, he wrote:…

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Cost and value of opiate detoxification treatments

IT’S SIMPLE & IT’S COMPLICATED –  April 23, 2021 - The difference is still clearly evident when comparisons are made…

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Is fear of opioids leaving patients in pain?

DOCTOR’S DILEMMA –  April 23, 2021 - We heard from someone who has reached the end of his rope: “In…

3 years ago

Macklemore talks about his 2020 relapse to Dax Shepard: ‘The disease of addiction is crazy’

WATCH – BACK TO BASICS –  April 20, 2021 - “I really, really resonated with the episode,” the 37-year-old songwriter…

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