Drug Abuse and Addiction

Online Resources For People Struggling With Addiction

BILL W. & DR. BOB HAD TO MEET, YOU CAN CALL –   Oct. 2021 - Some people who are…

2 years ago

America’s Opioid Crisis Made Worse by Pandemic

WATCH – MUCH WORSE –   Nov. 1, 2021 - “It became a lot harder for some people, for example,…

2 years ago

Rewired: Changing Brains to Beat Addiction

ERICA SPIEGELMAN CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND –   Nov. 5, 2021 - Fifty percent of teens have used drugs at…

2 years ago

South Florida Brothers Who Ran Detox Facilities Convicted in $112M Fraud Scheme

WATCH – GET THEM CRAZY BALD HEADS OUT OF TOWN –   Nov. 4, 2021 - Prosecutors said the brothers…

2 years ago

Delilah Belle Hamlin: “I Was Hospitalized After Accidentally Overdosing”

WATCH – IT’S NOT EASY HAVING 1.6 MILLION FOLLOWERS –   Nov. 2, 2021 - “My body got dependent on…

2 years ago

Rob Lowe’s Advice On Sobriety

WATCH – OLD TIMER’S ADVICE! –   Nov. 3, 2021 - Rob gives a fan advice about staying sober while…

2 years ago

Couple Has Sex While 2-year-Old Daughter Dies of Fentanyl Overdose

MOST REPULSIVE AND HEARTBREAKING STORY OF THE YEAR –    Nov. 3, 2021 - After her death, the Department of…

2 years ago

Nan Goldin Is No Longer Focused on the Sackler Family

MORE HARM REDUCTION –   Oct. 19, 2021 - PAIN now calls attention to syringe service programs under siege, and…

3 years ago

I Wasn’t Fully Honest With You by Colin Wilson

NOW HIS GOAL IS THE TRUTH –    Oct. 25, 2021 - I texted his dad and his wife, Kristen,…

3 years ago

Dentists Still Giving Patients Addictive Painkillers

PAGING DR. SACKLER –   Oct. 21, 2021 - In all, 84% of the 269 respondents said NSAID-acetaminophen combos are…

3 years ago

Overdose Deaths at Historic High, FBI Targets Online Drug Markets

DEATH DELIVERED –   Oct. 26, 2021 - These sites exist on the dark web or darknet, an area of…

3 years ago

Addiction Expert Joins the Department of Psychiatry at NYU

MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS –    Oct. 26, 2021 - “We are delighted to welcome to our faculty Dr. Jordan, an…

3 years ago

She Lost All Hope, Now She’s Saving Others

ONE GOOD DEED... –   Oct. 26, 2021 - She is a devoted grandmother, a children’s church director and a…

3 years ago

The Tragic Addiction That Changed PewDiePie’s Life Forever

ME EITHER, BUT HE HAS OVER 110 MILLION YOU TUBE SUBSCRIBERS –    Oct. 28, 2021 - PewDiePie recently opened…

3 years ago

How the Young Lords Brought the Revolution to Drug Treatment

MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR –   Oct. 25, 2021 - . The Young Lords worked as the doctors’ assistants and translators…

3 years ago

C.D.C. Adds Mental Health Conditions To High-Risk Covid List

THE HOOP YOU HAVE TO JUMP THROUGH IS WIDER THAN YOU THINK –    Oct. 28, 2021 - Preliminary research…

3 years ago

‘Slap in the face’: Woman Who Lost Son Reacts to Rehab owner Selling Fentanyl

WATCH HER – IT’S WHAT WE DO? –    Oct. 27, 2021 - Investigators said Misty Gilley was selling fentanyl…

3 years ago

To Help with Family’s Sobriety There Are Many Options

WATCH – THERE IS ALWAYS HELP, SOMEWHERE –   Oct. 29, 2021 - Daniel says, “I’m not a doctor, I…

3 years ago

Happy Pill Finds Poppy Introspection In Songs Born of Sobriety

DELICIOUS SONG AND STORY –    Oct. 30, 2021 - He’s been here ever since, and in August, Fenton’s band…

3 years ago

Lawyers, Watch Out for These Five Signs of Addiction!

LISTEN – DON’T TAKE THE FIFTH –   Oct. 26, 2021 -  Plate Spinning As the head of a law…

3 years ago

Woman Will Run NYC Marathon to Honor Her Deceased Brother

SO MUCH SADNESS IN THE WORLD –    Oct. 30, 2021 - “Sam is the reason why I started running…

3 years ago

Duchess of Cambridge Says Addiction Can ‘Happen to Any of Us’

AND SOMETIMES IT DOES –   Oct. 19, 2021 - She added that it is crucial to recognize “what lies…

3 years ago

Remi Wolf’s “Juno” Captures Journey to Sobriety

MUSIC MAKES A DIFFERENCE –    Oct. 27, 2021 - Wolf’s songs exude such joy so much that at first…

3 years ago

Woman Accused of Dealing Hard Drugs At Treatment Center

WATCH – WILL SHE DO HARD TIME? –    Oct. 26, 2021 - “When he shared with us that he…

3 years ago

First Responders Discuss addiction, Use of Narcan

PLEASE WATCH – IT’S GETTING WORSE –   Oct. 27, 2021 - “All of a sudden, [women] become every single…

3 years ago

The New Wave of Killer Synthetic Drugs

BODIES ON THE SHORE OF DESPAIR –    Oct. 28, 2021 - Quinones has been on this beat for years.…

3 years ago

Sam Quinones Foretold the Opioid Crisis, Sounds Alarm on the Coming Tsunami of Deaths

LISTEN UP – HE KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BODIES ARE BURIED –   Oct. 29, 2021 - When you finished…

3 years ago

Cheap Antidepressant Lowers Risk of Covid Hospitalization

WATCH – HELP TWO BIRDS WITH ONE PILL –   Oct. 28, 2021 - “Fluvoxamine may reduce the production of inflammatory…

3 years ago

Leading Addiction Recovery Reformer Was on the Payroll of Rehab Center

HAND IN THE TILL –   Sept 27, 2021 - Testifying under a grant of immunity from prosecution, Way said…

3 years ago

Workshop Aims to Combat Artists’ Addiction, Isolation and Death

THE WAY TO MAN’S ART IS THROUGH HIS HEART –    Oct. 2021 - During a recent workshop, seven students…

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