Purdue Pharma $10B bankruptcy plan a farce? SUPER WEALTHY CON JOB? – March 16, 2021 - By Associated Press | March 16, 2021 at 11:53 AM EDT - Updated March 16 at 6:08 PM (AP) - Some state attorneys general and opioid addiction activists pushed ba... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Mich. pharmacist, tech charged in $1.2M opioid distribution conspiracy OVERDOSE OF GREED – March 18, 2021 - A Michigan pharmacist and pharmacy technician have been charged in a conspiracy in which they are accused of illegally distributing more than $1.2 million worth of pre... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Getting Stoned for Science GOOD DE‘TOKE’TIVE WORK – March 19, 2021 - Although adults can buy and consume marijuana legally under Maine law, like alcohol, should they be getting behind the wheel after toking on a joint? And if they do,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Mila Kunis Unrecognizable in ‘Four Good Days’ WATCH – ROTTEN TOMATOES 44% – March 18, 2021 - According to E! News, Kunis’s new role has her playing Molly, a character that’s battling drug addiction in the film. Four days refers to the time that she has bef... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecovery
“Prescription for Sorrow” BOOK REVIEW – Feb. 23, 2021 - Hahn starts at the beginning. Emil Fischer of the University of Strasbourg synthesized iproniazid in 1875, which was used later by the Nazis for V-2 rocket fuel during World ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecovery
Clinical Director, Andrew Sidoli, MSW, MBA, joins Recover Integrity EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL – March 10, 2021 - Andrew’s is passionate about the operational aspects of treatment. He is a visionary that blends creativity with practicality. He has extensive experience developing inno... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Gov. Cuomo Announces Award of $50.7 Million to Enhance Addiction Services in NY State SEE WHERE ALL THE MILLIONS GO – March 10, 2021 - New York has a robust system of addiction care, and with better collaboration and coordination people in need will experience easier access to care, including me... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Harm Reduction Services to Get $30 Million in First-Ever Federal Funding NOT ALL FOR MAT? – March 16, 2021 - Though the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will have to more thoroughly detail the list of programs eligible to receive the funds, the legislation s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthOverdoseRecovery
At Last, Some Help for Meth Addiction CAN SCIENCE CLEAN UP THE METH? – April 2021 - A decade ago I traveled on assignment to a Rocky Mountain rehab facility where the rich and famous go to dry out and confront their drug habits. It offered every im... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthmethRecovery
EQUAL Act would close the cocaine sentencing disparity ROCK - POWDER - PRISON - HYPOCRISY – March 19, 2021 - (Though an Asbury Park Press study found that Black usage of crack was only slightly higher than white usage, crack has been stereotypically associated with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Hazelden Betty Ford Sites in Oregon Designated Blue Distinction® Centers PROOF IT WORKS – March 12, 2021 - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose, which highlights the seriousness of the opioid epidemic and ho... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 23 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather’s Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction BOOK REVIEW – March 2021 - This book has special meaning to me: my son is ‘by-choice’ homeless drug addict. This book helped me understand the why of his choices. They build their own families this way. It was ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionlife expectancyMar 16 2021Mental Health
Steve-O ‘So grateful’ for 13 years of sobriety A HEALTHY ADDICTION – March 11, 2021 - for giving me the loving nudge that started my journey,” he captioned the side-by-side image that referenced his “Jackass” co-star Johnny Knoxville. Steve-O starred on ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Family turns tragic loss into ‘Lissy’s Legacy of Love WATCH – NEW LIFE OF GIVING – March 5, 2021 - “I would appear in court and beg the judge to please don’t let her leave the courtroom because there were days that I felt like if she did that, I wouldn’t see her a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental HealthOverdoseTrauma
‘I have experienced that a life after addiction is possible’ ...AND PLEASURABLE – March 8, 2021 - The road to recovery McCallum said he’s hopeful that his story can help people better understand the reality of overcoming substance addiction, and what they can do to he... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021RecoveryRehab
He overcame addiction and had three strokes before age 40, then it got worse BOOK REVIEW – MARCH 11, 2021 - “I wouldn’t have written ‘Model Citizen’ if I hadn’t had the fourth stroke,” Mohr recalls in a phone conversation from his home in Seattle. In 2015, Mohr learned that he has an 8-... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Kristen Johnston on her past addictions: ‘It gives me chills’ STRENGTH AND BEAUTY – March 10, 2021 - Talking about her struggles with addiction isn’t new for Kristen Johnston, but the “3rd Rock from the Sun” actor is now approaching 14 years of sobriety and is sharing som... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyMar 16 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Davina McCall says it’s a ‘miracle’ she’s still alive QUITTING TIME ONLY COMES TO THE LIVING – March 12, 2021 - I was partying a lot and it was the ecstasy era and it was late Eighties, early Nineties – summer of love. “Everybody hugging each other, and s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Eight Tennessee doctors charged in a Kentucky drug case LISTEN – WHAT’S UP DOC? PROFITS? – March 8, 2021 - At one time, 73 percent of the prescriptions from two Tennessee drug-treatment clinics involved in the case were filled in Kentucky, a federal agent said. T... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental Health
Does Cannabis Cause Psychosis? OPINIONS ARE SPLIFFED – March 11, 2021 - Mr Green’s case is (sadly) all too familiar for clinical practitioners in psychiatry. Substance use comorbidity in psychotic disorders has been described as the rule rat... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 16 2021marijuanaMental Health
I Struggled With Alcohol – Cycling Helped Me Get Sober EASY AS RIDING A BIKE – March 4, 2021 - To cope with my father going missing, I started drinking nonstop. I couldn’t find any way to maintain happiness. I went on like that for two or three years, and I was let go f... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Mackenzie Phillips shares story of overcoming addiction HIGH ON ARRIVAL – March 11, 2021 - Phillips, whose parents were both in popular 1960s folk rock band the Mamas & the Papas, described her struggles with addiction after her tumultuous childhood during the a... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 16 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Why Simon’s parents sent him to the Scientologists for rehab MARKETING? – March 8, 2021 - When Margaret and John Millington’s son Simon was in the grips of an opioid addiction, his parents wanted to send him to a rehabilitation program. The only one available was called ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMar 16 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsRehab
The war on drugs worsened drug use in America PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX – March 8, 2021 - As an emergency medicine physician, I often ask patients about their upbringing. Some describe terrible situations where I admit to myself that if I had been raised s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryWar On Drugs
Long Island doctor charged with murder in 5 opioid deaths DR. DEATH – March 4, 2021 - Blatti pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Nassau County Court and was ordered jailed pending a March 30 court appearance. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Mexico Legalizes Marijuana VIVA LA HIERBA! – March 10, 2021 - MEXICO CITY — Lawmakers in Mexico approved a bill Wednesday night to legalize recreational marijuana, a milestone for the country, which is in the throes of a drug war and cou... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021marijuanasmoking
The True Story Behind ‘Cocaine Bear’ UNLAWFUL URSINE ACTIVITY – March 10, 2021 - If there’s anything people on the internet love more than cute animals, it’s tales of Reagan-era drug-induced depravity. So on Tuesday, when Variety reported that act... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021
Demi Lovato rejects ‘one-size-fits-all’ sexuality WATCH – ENJOY THE BUFFET – March 11, 2021 - “I called and was like, ‘Something’s not right. I’m living one side of my life completely legalizing and this other side following a program that’s telling me if I s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Underlying Twists & Turns of Addiction: Mental Illness or Mental Diversity? by Julie Lyons, LICSW PUTTING OURSELVES BACK TOGETHER – March 12, 2021 - Coming out about addiction to the public, friends and loved ones these days may not have the shame that it did in the past; it may eve... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
1.9 Trillion Rescue Plan Includes SUD Treatment Provider Funding AMERICAN SPRING – March 10, 2010 - Recognizing the increased need for SUD treatment services, the massive spending bill includes funding for numerous substance use disorder programs. While the focus in the bill... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate