Drug Abuse and Addiction

Lawsuit Highlights Dis-ease With Addiction Centers

NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD –   Jan. 11, 2020 - Elsewhere, including in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan, communities…

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Sold Car to Buy Cocaine – Ex-addict Now Activist

DRIVING TOWARDS RECOVERY –   Jan. 9, 2022 - He, however, stressed that the best way to beat a drug…

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Forgotten Approach To Recovery May Help Today

COMMUNITY –   Jan. 9, 2022 - In its early days Synanon ran on a dime and depended on a…

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Non-profit with ZERO Track Record Awarded $10 million Dollars to Fight Opioid Crisis

VIDEO – NO CORRUPTION HERE –   Jan. 10, 2022 - State filings showed the organization was founded in July…

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To End Opioid Scourge, Rethink Sober Home Rules by Mae Baltz

IT’S FLORIDA JAKE –   Jan. 23, 2022 - In 2015, Gov. Rick Scott created a voluntary certification system for…

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Woman Helps Women Toward Recovery

ONE ON WON –   Jan. 13, 2022 - “I had tried so hard to get to that spot and…

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A Good Life After Being an Addict or Alcoholic Is the Norm

AUDIO – WE DO RECOVER –   Jan. 15, 2022 - Americans often see the more destructive side of addiction,…

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DJs And Ravers Are Embracing Sobriety

DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY HEALTHY –   Jan. 14, 2022 - A quarter of people surveyed by charity Action on…

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Fentanyl Causes More Deaths in Americans Ages 18-45

USA USA USA –   Jan. 4, 2022 - In the year ending in April 2021, fentanyl claimed the lives…

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Most Americans Do Heal From Addiction

AUDIO – LIVE AND PROSPER –   Jan. 23, 2022 - The U.S. is facing the deadliest drug overdose epidemic…

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Marijuana Abuse and Addiction

AS SAFE AS FIRE –   Jan. 13, 2022 - Marijuana comes from the Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant.…

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Removing Brain Cells May Lessen Symptoms of Opioid Withdrawal

HOW MANY? –   Jan. 12, 2022 - In 2000, UCLA sleep researchers discovered that human narcolepsy – a condition…

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Overdose Deaths at Historic High. Could These Strategies Save Lives?

SOMETHING NEW? –   Jan. 23, 2022 - As evidence-based drug treatment and interventions became increasingly difficult to obtain during…

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Fentanyl Becoming Accessible To Kids on Social Media

VIDEO – CHILDHOOD IS DANGEROUS –   Jan. 13, 2022 - “I walked into my son’s room at 8 o…

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New York Plans to Install ‘Vending Machines’ With Anti-Overdose Drugs

HARM REDUCTION –   Jan. 8, 2022 - This is really about expanding access to health and wellness services,” he…

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How Did COVID Change Addiction Treatment?

PIVOT NOT DIVOT –   Jan. 3, 2022 - “They are always told to go get help, usually at a…

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Will Overdose Deaths Force An End to the US ‘war on drugs’?

WHY WOULD IT? –   Jan. 3, 2022 - “I revived a guy who OD’ed on the street this morning…

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Granite Recovery Centers Bought by BayMark Health Services

SOLD –   Jan. 5, 2022 - Granite Recovery Centers, which operates two residential addiction treatment centers and several sober…

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Treatment Centers See Decline in Numbers of Those Seeking Help

WATCH – MAYBE THEY’RE NOT THERE –   Jan. 5, 2022 - Margaret Pederson who works as a counselor for…

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Logan Paul Gets Honest About His Addiction

ADDICTED TO FOLLOWERS? LIKE JESUS –   Jan. 6, 2022 - “Weed is a very powerful drug. I don’t care…

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Investing In Long-Term Addiction Recovery

WATCH – AA OBSOLETE? –   Jan. 6, 2022 - Ewer kept showing up. Along the way she lost over…

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Am I Addicted to Caffeine?

BEAN THERE DOPPIO THAT –   Jan. 7, 2022 - Instead of going from six caffeinated cups of tea, coffee…

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Oregon’s Decriminalization Measure Fails to Fund Treatment

FOLLOW THE MONEY –   Jan. 7, 2022 - Instead, money is going toward things like referring people to treatment,…

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Addiction Programs Struggle With Staffing

LISTEN – VACANCY –   Jan. 7, 2022 - “High Point’s admissions team provides all callers with the BSAS hotline,…

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Trending Now: Psychedelic Therapy

WATCH – WHAT GOES AROUND... –   Jan. 7, 2022 - “It’s understandable that it’s taken a while to get…

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Demi Lovato Completed Rehab Stint

WATCH – IT’S A JOURNEY –   Jan. 8, 2022 - “I think the term that I best identify with…

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Researchers Developing Vaccine Against Addictive Drugs

ANOTHER VACCINE? –   Jan. 5, 2022 - It’s been nearly 50 years since a group of researchers in Chicago…

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Anaheim Sees Four Drug Overdose Deaths In One Hour

DON’T FORGET TO WRITE –   Jan. 3, 2021 - Two of the men were pronounced dead at the scene,…

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Nevada Joins $26 Billion Opioid Settlement

$63 MILLION to $5 BILLION –   Jan. 4, 2022 - Amerisource Bergen and McKesson declined to comment. Cardinal Health…

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Reinvent Addiction Recovery For Young People by Eve Goldberg

TRUTH AND COMPASSION –   Dec. 29, 2021 - It has been seven years since my son passed away from…

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