Drug Abuse and Addiction

Unraveling Mystery of Kansas City Chiefs Fans’ Frozen Fentanyl Deaths

THE END –   Feb. 3, 2024 -  She walked upstairs, looked out the large back windows and saw a…

11 months ago

After Struggling With Opioids Jamie Lee Curtis Is 25 Years Sober

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY – Feb. 3, 2024 - I was an opiate addict, and I liked to get opiate buzz,” the…

11 months ago

Minnesota Treatment Centers Closing Down

SAD FOR THE LOCALS –   Feb. 3, 2024 - Minnesota teens struggling with drugs or alcohol have few options…

11 months ago

Scientology-Linked Rehab Left People’s Minds Shattered

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE –   Feb. 3, 2024 - An unregulated rehab centre linked to the Church of Scientology…

11 months ago

Podcast Details Sexual Misconduct in the Treatment Industry

AUDIO – LOCK THEM UP –   Feb. 3, 2024 - Her reporting details two women’s efforts to bring to…

11 months ago

Addicts Not Self-Destructive?

JUST SELF DELUSIONAL – Jan. 27, 2024 - One of many misunderstandings about addiction is that it is self-destructive. However,…

11 months ago

First of-its-kind Opioid Center Coming to  Las Vegas Colorful

VIDEO – IT TAKES A VEGAS – Jan. 29, 2024 - “It will have 240 beds and an intake for…

11 months ago

Kids Don’t Get Science-Backed Drug Prevention

IS SCIENCE TOO WOKE? –   Jan. 11, 2024 - As science teacher Zach Lazar looks out across his classroom…

11 months ago

Can Brain Implant Treat Addiction?

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO... – Jan. 31, 2024 - Some experts tout deep brain stimulation as a lifeline…

11 months ago

As Opioid Deaths Soar, Biden Fills Up The Methadone Pitchers

RELIEF IS IN SIGHT – Feb. 2, 2024 - Now for the first time in more than 20 years, the…

11 months ago

Tylenol PM and Advil PM and Benadryl Linked to Dementia?

VIDEO – SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS – Feb. 2, 2024 - Dr. Charles Puza, a New York–based physician,…

11 months ago

Discrimination Suit vs. Pa. Courts for Withholding Suboxone Settled

IS IT THAT COMPLICATED? –   Feb. 1, 2024 - Pennsylvania’s court system will pay a total of $100,000 to…

11 months ago

French PR Agency to Pay $350 Million for its Role in Our Opioid Crisis

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING – Feb. 2, 2024 - A subsidiary of the French advertising giant Publicis will pay…

11 months ago

From Prague to Vietnam – an Expat’s Sobriety Journey

THE ADVENTURESS –   Feb. 2, 2024 - Hailing from California, I was more inclined toward other legal substances to…

11 months ago

Experimental Pain Medication May Work Without Risk of Addiction

IT’S ABOUT TIME –   Feb. 2, 2024 - The drug, called VX-548, works by blocking pain signals from nerves…

11 months ago

Doctor Who Prescribed 500k Opioid Doses Gets Conviction Nullified

NOW WHAT? –   Feb. 2, 2024 - A Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses in less…

11 months ago

Four Caught Transporting 370 Gallons of Liquid Heroin

VIDEO – SMACK ON TAP? –   Feb. 1, 2024 - Police had a search warrant on the defendants’ motel…

11 months ago

Josh Eagle Talks About Creativity In Sobriety

AUDIO – GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME –   Jan. 23, 2024 - Getting sober, I felt like that I…

11 months ago

Did The DEA Make Up Faux “Fentanyl Facts” Quiz?

IMAGINATION DISTORTED – Jan. 29, 2024 - The tournament part of the “One Pill Can Kill Game Over Tournament,” where…

11 months ago

ADHD Meds Recalled Because Bottles Contain Different Drug

OOPS! –   Jan. 29, 2024 - Patients who have received the wrong medicine have a higher risk of getting…

11 months ago

Author Breaks Silence Surrounding Addiction

THIS MAN KNOWS –   Jan. 20, 2024 - Sam Quinones has been on the front line of reporting on…

11 months ago

Rewiring Your Brain!

IT HAS TO HAPPEN – Jan. 26, 2024 - Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your…

11 months ago

Abstinence-Based Treatment Isn’t Dead…Yet

NOT AFTER 89 YEARS –   Jan. 26, 2024 - The SUD treatment industry is beginning to move away from…

11 months ago

Mayor Defends Drug-Screening Plan for Welfare Recipients

IT’S COMPLICATED –   Jan. 18, 2024 - People will be asked questions during a screening process and may be…

11 months ago

Fentanyl Forum Tells parents to Talk With Their Children

AUDIO – COMMUNICATION IS KEY –   Jan. 24, 2024 - The message during a recent public health forum  was…

11 months ago

Relapse Pays Big on the Florida Shuffle

CAVEAT EMPTOR – Jan. 19, 2024 - Drug addiction, a disease that takes hundreds of lives in Palm Beach County…

11 months ago

Emma Corlett – Social Media Star: Meth Addict’s Recovery Story

VIDEO – EVERYONE CAN CHANGE –   Jan. 20, 2024 - “It’s really hard to believe, looking back at the…

11 months ago

Children of Narcissists and Addicts

HANDLE WITH CARE – Jan. 20, 2024 - Narcissistic parents are ignoring, controlling, blaming, self-absorbed, and intolerant or unaware of…

11 months ago

New Synthetic Opioids Could Make Fentanyl Crisis Look Like ‘the good old days’

THE GOOD OLD DAYS WEREN’T – Jan. 23, 2024  - Chemists refer to this category of drugs as “nitazenes,” even…

11 months ago

Get To Know “gas station heroin”

DON’T USE AND DRIVE! –   Jan. 24, 2024 - Many tianeptine users are taking the substance because they believe…

11 months ago