Denver Successfully Used Mental Health Pros, NOT Police NURSES NOT NIGHTSTICKS – Feb. 6, 2021 - Denver police responded to nearly 95,000 incidents over the same period, suggesting that an expanded STAR program could reduce police calls by nearly 3%, according to the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Why Addiction Isn’t a Disease BECAUSE YOU CAN STOP IT YOURSELF – August 20, 2015 - The prevalent theory in the United States, and to some degree in Australia, is that addiction is a chronic brain disease – a progressive, incurable condition... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionRecoveryRehab
He Agreed to Rehab Just Days Before His Death WATCH – GET HELP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! – Feb. 8, 2021 - Bibby explained the only way to get Juice to go was to stage an intervention. Despite their best efforts, the “Lucid Dreams” rapper allegedly refused to q... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionOverdoseRehab
Woman’s Drug Recovery Tweet Goes Viral ANYONE CAN DO IT – Feb. 29, 2021 - “On my 49th birthday, I woke up in Butte County Jail again,” shared Sullivan. “I was clean, there are a lot of drugs in jail I was clean at that moment. That is what sta... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Huge Colorado Trafficking Bust BIG PHARM COMPETITION FOILED – Feb. 12, 2021 - Federal, state and local law enforcement in Adams County announced on Friday the dismantling of a drug trafficking operation that has led to state-level indictment... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanylHeroin Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontin
Attorney General Stops Deceptive Marketing by Treatment Center BOTTOM LINE MATTERS MORE – Feb. 12, 2021 - Additionally, the settlement said that their website funneled consumers to what were called “treatment specialists” for a consumer to call for assistance in deciding w... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Carl Hart: PhD, Parent, Author, Speaker, Columbia Professor and Heroin User DOCTOR FEELGOOD – Feb. 6, 2021 - As Hart continues: “I do not have a drug-use problem. Never have. Each day, I meet my parental, personal and professional responsibilities. I pay my taxes, serve as a volunteer ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021Heroin AddictionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
As Overdose Deaths Surge, Rehab Industry Faces ‘Severe Ethical Crisis’ LISTEN – GETTING HELP – Feb. 15, 2021 - “It’s a very hard system to navigate,” said Ryan Hampton, who spent years trying to get help for his addiction to prescription opioids and heroin. His family “was preyed ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Q&A with Stevie Mack, Actor and Comedian STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – February 12, 2021 - Stevie Mack voted top dancer by People magazine in the Oscar nominated Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, “Can’t Stop the Feeling” music video by Justin Timberlake... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021internetinterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery Advocate
This Message Will Self-Destruct: Snapchat & the Tragic Death of a 16-year-old by Christopher Dale WHAT A PRICE TO PAY – Feb. 16, 2021 - On Sunday, February 7, 16-year-old Samuel Chapman asked his father for a cheeseburger, then went to his room to play video games. An hour later his m... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanylinternetinterventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseteenagersTrauma
Teen’s Deadly Overdose Prompts Warning About Snapchat’s Role in Selling Drugs WATCH – WHEN DOES IT STOP? – Feb. 11, 2021 - “I thought the worst thing that can happen on Snapchat were nude pictures or saying something inappropriate or something like that,” Berman said. “I had no idea ther... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021internetlife expectancyMental HealthOverdose
Breaking the “Body Brokers”: California Non-Profit That Stood Up to Patient Kickback Business PETE NIELSEN DOES HIS THING – Feb. 12, 2021 - CCAPP knew they had to act to stop this new adversary that threatened to abuse patients and cast a cloud of doubt over the legitimacy of the treatment itself. As soon as... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Day Trading, It Can Be Addictive IT’S NOT GAMBLING ... OR IS IT? – February 13, 2021 - Day trading can be very, very addicting! However, that doesn’t exactly mean that day traders are addicts. I myself am an addict. This March I will be sober ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021GaminginternetMental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addictionvideo games
Rob Lowe Gets Candid About His 30-Years Of Sobriety ‘CLASS’ OF 1991 – Feb. 9, 2021 - “It was no different than craft services,” he explains. “Where are the Red Vines, and where is the great Peruvian blow...? Cocaine was the thing that successful people did. Ther... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America POISONED AMERICA c/o BIG PHARMA – 2020 - “I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma, the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Legalizing All Drugs Is Just the Beginning SET OUR PEOPLE FREE – Feb. 13, 2021- All the evidence, for decades, shows that the drugs that children under 17 or 18 years old are most likely to use are marijuana, alcohol and tobacco. That’s where my educati... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Is Social Media Bad for Sobriety? MAYBE – Feb. 10, 2021 - Pro Tip: If you’re on social media and see things that trigger you, you should try to counter that with enjoyable things to ruminate on in positive ways. Some people think of a memory, o... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021internetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Sia’s Awful Movie Portrays Drug Addiction and Abuse With Colorful Musical Numbers WATCH – CRAPUE du SOLEIL? – Feb. 10, 2021 - Hold on. The worst moment in “Music” is the quick-cut, frenetic, orange-tinted fantasy musical number when the title character flails about making exaggerated facial and b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021Mental HealthOverdoseRecoveryTrauma
A ‘Family’ of Artists of the Downtown Eastside PAINTING THE TOWN CLEAN & SOBER – February 9, 2021 - They’re just a few of the artists who live or work in the Downtown Eastside and are part of a new group called the Downtown Eastside Artists Collective. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthOverdoseRecoveryRecovery Advocate
TV Host Dr. Laura Berman’s 16-year-old Son Dies from Overdose from Drug Dealer on Snapchat WATCH – DEAR GOD, MAKE IT STOP – Feb. 8, 2021 - Berman first shared the news of her son’s death on Instagram Sunday, writing that her son got “the drugs delivered to the house” in an “experimentation gone bad.” “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanyllife expectancyMental HealthOverdoseteenagersTrauma
‘It’s a Pandemic Within a Pandemic’ WATCH – YET, THERE IS SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR – Feb. 4, 2021 - They say increased isolation and dwindling access to support has been a huge blow to those in recovery. “We have a pandemic within a pandemic happe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021insomniainterventionlonelinessMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryrelapseTrauma
Wendy Williams Revisits Cocaine Use and Sober Living in New Biopic WATCH – TOO MUCH EVERYTHING – Jan. 30, 2021 - Among the many romantic relationships featured in the film was one with a man who Williams said “ruined” her credit by renting cars on her credit cards without tell... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Oregon Addicts Get Rehab Instead of Prison FINALLY! – Feb. 1, 2021 - For Janie Gullickson, rock bottom came both slowly and all at once. A long time drug and alcohol addict, Gullickson pushes back on the idea that one terrible day on the street leads to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Jamie Lee Curtis Marks 22 Years Sober SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT – Feb. 4, 2021 - “A LONG time ago … In a galaxy far, far away … I was a young STAR at WAR with herself,” she began. “I didn’t know it then. I chased everything. I kept it hidden. I ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Oregon Treats Addiction as a Mental Health Issue LISTEN – FORTY-NINE MORE STATES NEEDED – Feb. 5, 2021 - And on February 1, the new law, called the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, went into effect. To help break down this act, Portland Monthly spoke wit... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Megadeath’s David Ellefson, “The Beauty of Sobriety is That You Get to Have a Second Life in One Lifetime.” WATCH – REBORN LIKE THE MASTER – Feb. 6, 2021 - Since I wasn’t getting drunk passing out on airplanes I had plenty of free time to read. That’s what actually started it. That’s the beauty of sobriety; you get t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Cameron Douglas Writes Book About His Famous Family and Overcoming Addiction ROMANCING THE STONED – Feb. 6, 2021 - The experience was tough on his relationship with his father, but these days they are doing great, and Cameron even joined his father for an interview with Good Morning Ame... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Hazelden Betty Ford Expands Addiction Services in Montana COWBOY UP – Feb. 5, 2021 - Other RecoveryGo™ resources and services now available in Montana and nationwide include a free one-day virtual Family Program, available in English and Spanish; a virtual Chil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionMental Healthnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Jack Osbourne & Dad Ozzy Osbourne On Getting Sober in the Spotlight THE SHOT GLASS DOESN’T FALL FAR FROM THE TUMBLE – Feb. 5, 2021 - Addiction experts often say that the disease runs in the families who struggle with substance abuse, and Jack and Ozzy Osbourne are sharing their... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How Variety’s Marc Malkin Owned His Sobriety ONCE A MENSCH, ALWAYS A MENSCH – Feb. 4, 2021 - And then we walked two blocks up Eighth Avenue. We made a right on 24th Street and headed east. I went to my first 12-step meeting at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis’... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab