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Treatment center using art to bust addiction stigma

WATCH – SKETCH NOT SKETCHY – April 27, 2021 - The staff at the Walker Center said their focus this month is on spreading awareness and reducing the stigma associated with alcohol addiction. They offer outpatien... Read More...

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New Guidelines For Opioid Treatment Are A ‘Big Deal’

LISTEN – LET THE HEALING BEGIN – April 27, 2021 - “Some physicians actually don’t want to prescribe it because they don’t want to go to the extra burden of doing the training,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of... Read More...

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Ex-police dog still on duty

WATCH – JUST SAY WOOF! – April 28, 2021 - A former police dog in Australia has rocked TikTok with the reminder that law enforcement is never off duty after the pup’s concerned reaction to hearing the word “coca... Read More...

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The Case for Legalizing Heroin

NO MORE FENTANYL!!! – April 29, 2021 - The addiction researcher Carl Hart argues against the distinction between hard and soft drugs. Hart, who was one of the first Black scientists to attain tenure at Columbia... Read More...

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Powerful memoir of addiction and hope

MEDIA: BOOK REVIEW – April 30, 2021 - So many of her family members — her parents and her children, a brother and former husbands in particular — were addicted to drugs and alcohol, as she was, and were in and ... Read More...

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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 most vulnerable. “The miscarriages, having the kids, getting married … all of these things leading up to ... Read More...

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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 breakdown happened at the end of the lockdown, I made it all the way through, everything was great, and my life was perfe... Read More...

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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 of continuous sobriety. She has provided safe, transitional housing for thousands of individuals over the pa... Read More...

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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 and a half later, Cabell County, which filed its lawsuit in 2017, will argue that the drug distributors failed to re... Read More...

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

GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL FOR SALE — May 2, 2021 - Purdue Pharma's sale of OxyContin, a formulation of the narcotic oxycodone that was said to slow down the release of the strong painkiller when taken as prescribed, h... Read More...

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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 in Spanish and helped them wire money to their families in Honduras. They showed him pictures of the home... Read More...

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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 through a spike in cocaine trafficking in Miami in the early 2000s and the dramatic rise in heroin and fen... Read More...

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Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side

DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK – Nov. 16, 2013 - “I didn’t know you could overdose on Suboxone,” Mr. Verrill said in an interview at a federal prison in Otisville, N.Y. “We were just a bunch of friends getting high and... Read More...

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Addicted America

WATCH – VIDEO WORTH WATCHING – April 27, 2021 - “It’s called the CAGE test - C is for cut-down meaning if you think that you need to start cutting down on your intake,” Dr. Garcia said. “The A is for annoyance-... Read More...

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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 known as ASI, had a history of violating state rules. In a later federal investigation into the facili... Read More...

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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 pesticides, of which chlorpyrifos is the most widely used, accounted for an estimated $594 b... Read More...

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US lifts barriers to prescribing Suboxone

GIVE PILLS A CHANCE – April 27, 2020 - Because of how opioids act on the brain, people dependent on them get sick if they stop using. Withdrawal can feel like a bad flu with cramping, sweating, anxiety and slee... Read More...

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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 its most significant expansion since opening almost four decades ago, it was announced Tuesday. The four... Read More...

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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 followers. Fans, old and new alike, were cheered by his quirky posts delivered in Jordan’s distinctive Southern draw... Read More...

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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 untreated dual diagnosis. A dual diagnosis is a situation in which a patient has to deal with an untreated proble... Read More...

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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 participants credited improvements in levels of anxiety and depression to the single-dose psilocybin an... Read More...

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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 drugs around the Santa Cruz area, including at UC Santa Cruz, was sentenced to a decade i... Read More...

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A Tribute to Terence Gorski

HIS WORK CONTINUES – April 1, 2021 - I benefited from this article as much as any information I received while in treatment. The insight and knowledge I gained has compelled me to pass it on to patients, ... Read More...

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Dedee Pfeiffer Talks Road To Sobriety

WATCH – IT TAKES ALL KINDS – April 20, 2021 - Dedee Pfeiffer, best known for her role in the hit ‘90s sitcom “Cybill”, is back on the small-screen after taking a 10-year break to sober up and get her masters in... Read More...

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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 it, she says. She’s not being cavalier or reckless, Ross says. “I have literally just been so busy,” she said. “... Read More...

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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 where Matthew and his young son were sleeping. “I found Matthew collapsed on the floor and I knew he was gone,... Read More...

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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 equine therapy, where clients feed, groom, and ride horses. This therapeutic approach helps build communicati... Read More...

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

CALIFORNIA DREAMING – April 22, 2021 - The State Senate Republicans noted they are fighting to combat the deadly fentanyl epidemic, while their Senate Democrat colleagues appear to be normalizing substance abus... Read More...

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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 Rock and Roll Circus Recorded before a live audience in London in 1968, The Rolling St... Read More...

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

WHAT A LOVE STORY!!! – April 19, 2021 - They divorced in 1952; Mr. Albin’s mother cited “extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty.” Mr. Albin said his father had once shot his dog to teach a lesson. Jerry Lee le... Read More...

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