Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

Mindfulness Therapy Reduces Opioid Craving and Addiction

IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – April 30, 2025 - The study included 160 individuals with chronic pain — both with and without OUD — recruited from primary care and pain clinics. Participants completed a positive emotion regu... Read More...

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First Couple of Family Recovery Court Celebrates Sobriety

IT’S GOOD LAW – April 30, 2025 - Austin Warfield and Pleasant Davis walked into Hardin Circuit Court Room 3 with a new future ahead of them. With them Tuesday morning were their three children Micah Davis, w... Read More...

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Disease Model of Addiction Lacks Empirical Support

SAY, SO IT AIN’T SO? – May 1, 2025 - Substance addiction is commonly described as a “chronic, relapsing brain disease,” both in scientific and public discourse, and has been compared to other chronic diseases s... Read More...

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‘I smoked weed like it was crack’: The addiction crisis no one’s talking about

PUFF THE MAGIC DRAG ON – April 27, 2025 - It was fun in the beginning. As a high school student in San Diego, Zach would get high with his friends at an abandoned construction site next to his school. Afterward... Read More...

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D.C. Shuts 50th Weed Shop Amid Cannabis Crackdown

GET DRUNK INSTEAD? – April 24, 2025 - The city is moving aggressively to shut down the once-thriving gray market — a matter of public safety, and also essential for the legal medical cannabis industry to ... Read More...

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Meet the Cavan Man Embracing Sobriety

DRUMMING FOR GOD – May 1, 2025 - “What society and communities at the moment are dealing with is a disconnection. People are grasping in all directions to try and find a bit of peace in their souls and what oft... Read More...

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Pill Mill Kingpin Set To Walk Free

VIDEO – A PARDON? – May 1, 2025 - Jeff George, convicted in the overdose death of a 24-year-old customer, is getting out of prison early. He apologized to the victim’s grieving family in a Palm Beach County courtroom... Read More...

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South America’s Only Supervised Drug Consumption Room

SAVING LIVES – APRIL 27, 2025 - The left arm of Christian Camilo Amaya is tattooed with a skull pierced by a syringe, which he says represents the use of cocaine and heroin. He frequently shot up on streets of ... Read More...

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Are We Getting High ’Cause the Thrill is Gone?

Dysfunctional brain Dopamine caused by Reward Deficiency Syndrome – April 29, 2025 - What happens when the thrill is gone? In fact, what if the thrill was never there to begin with? The sun is setting ... Read More...

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40 Percent Decline in Overdose Deaths Linked to Fewer Kids Entering Foster Care

IT’S COMPLICATED – April 23, 2025 - Year-over-year figures for the 12 months ending in November 2024 reveal a 37.7% decline in drug overdose deaths in West Virginia, surpassing the national average decrease of ... Read More...

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San Francisco Considers ‘recovery first’ Drug Policy

VIDEO – DYING BY THE BAY – April 24, 2025 - “I think having a city policy that says, listen, the cessation of illicit drug use and long-term recovery is the primary objective of our drug policy,” Dorsey said. “That’s... Read More...

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Podcast Gives Man a Voice in Addiction Recovery

VIDEO – WE ARE LEGION – April 23, 2025 - For Ronnie LeDuff, therapy doesn’t come in the form of a counseling session. It comes through a microphone. “I didn’t know how to be vulnerable,” LeDuff said. “I didn’t un... Read More...

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Methadone Pioneer Who Freed People From the Cruel Clinic System

LIFE SAVER – April 23, 2025 - Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered its use to treat opioid use disorder back in the 1980s. “God almighty. So many p... Read More...

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Elev8 Centers to Address Growing Addiction Crisis in New York

TALL ORDER – April 23, 2025 - Elev8 Centers has announced the launch of an enhanced alcohol rehab program designed to meet the increasing demand for effective addiction treatment services in New York City. The compre... Read More...

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Pea-Sized Node in the Brain to Treat Drug Addiction

NO PEA BRAIN JOKES – April 23, 2025 - Major scientific discoveries can arise from simple decisions: say, by simply looking where virtually no one else has. Such was the case for Ines Ibañez-Tallon, a research associa... Read More...

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RFK Jr. Recounts Heroin Addiction and Spiritual Awakening

VIDEO – WHAT HAPPENED? – April 24, 2025 - Kennedy called addiction “a source of misery, but also a symptom of misery.” In a speech that mentioned God more than 20 times, he pointed to his own experience feeling as th... Read More...

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Man Sentenced 7 Years for “Body Brokering” at Sober Living Homes

BUSINESS AS USUAL? – April 24, 2025 - Darius Moore, 31, formerly of Santa Ana but most recently of North Carolina, was sentenced Thursday to seven years behind bars for soliciting and receiving nearly $500,000 in ill... Read More...

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Trump Wants to End $56 Million Grant Giving Narcan to First Responders

VIDEO – LET THEM DIE – April 25, 2025 - A preliminary budget document, obtained by The Washington Post, reportedly calls for deep cuts to federal health programs and targets multiple addiction prevention and treatme... Read More...

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‘No More Tears’ Exposes Johnson & Johnson

BOOK REVIEW – April 23, 2025 - The story of direct marketing to physicians — of drug reps offering doctors convenient free samples, fancy dinners and luxury trips — is never comfortable for a doctor to read. In... Read More...

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Helping the Homeless with Substance Abuse

WITH GOD ON THEIR SIDE – April 24, 2025 - The place I call Deliverance Alley is a vacant lot of grass and dirt in a neglected south Dallas neighborhood. Drive by and you won’t see much. A sign on a deli across ... Read More...

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EAT! Revolutionizing Addiction Treatment to Prevent Relapse

BOOK REVIEW – April 22, 2025 - Eating Protein Saves Lives, Inc. announces the release of EAT!: A Guide to Radiant Recovery Using Food and Amino Acids to Repair the Addicted Brain and Reduce Cravings, a groundbr... Read More...

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Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?

WHY INDEED? – April 12, 2025 - Mallory berry was ready to give up. It was 2019, and her addiction—prescription opioids had led her to heroin—had left her bedridden. An infection had eaten through parts of her pelvic ... Read More...

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Linda Beckstrom: ‘In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter’

AUDIO – SHE WAS THERE – April 13, 2025 - Linda Beckstrom, co-author (with Angalia Bianca) of ‘In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter‘ joins Rick Kogan to highlight ... Read More...

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Addict II Athlete: Overcomes Addiction, Jail and Cancer

AUDIO – COMEBACK TO LIFE – April 18, 2025 - She lost two children, cycled through jail and survived breast cancer — now, 13 years sober, this woman is turning her pain into purpose. “I kept going down that n... Read More...

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Bravo Productions Bummed When Cast Members Get Sober

TOO CALM FOR TV – April 12, 2025 - Beloved producer Patrick McDonald, who recently stepped back from his work on reality TV to launch an OnlyFans career, appeared on Bethenny Frankel’s “Just B” podcast on Frida... Read More...

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Faces From a Meth Surge

METHICATED – April 16, 2025 - John once fielded customer complaints for a telecommunications company. Now he usually hangs out with friends in the courtyard of a center offering services to help people who use ... Read More...

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Rehab Clinic Doctor Gets Sentenced for Opioid Scheme

BAD BOY – April 16, 2025 - A former Grantham physician was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution for unlawfully distributing opioid medication to clients at drug ... Read More...

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Is SAMHSA Dead? Health Orgs Face Funding Shut Off

FUNDING FIASCO – April 17, 2025 - Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia sought a restraining order to protect the $11 billion in funding. In early April, a federal judge granted a temporary injunctio... Read More...

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Health Seekers Say Microdosing Psychedelics Helps Them

BETTER THAN MICRO-PLASTICS – April 17, 2025 - “I started microdosing and within a couple of months, I had a general sense of well-being that I hadn’t had in so long,” said Marine Corps combat veteran Matt Metzger. He... Read More...

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Psilocybin Gives Man 2nd Chance After 10-year Opioid Addiction

WHATEVER WORKS – April 16, 2025 - Over 10 years, Schaefer had tried recovering from what began with dependence on a prescription for the pain killer Percocet and later spiraled into an all-consuming heroin addi... Read More...

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