Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

Lily Allen Celebrates 18 Months of Sobriety

ONE YEAR AND A HALF AT A TIME – Jan. 27, 2021 - She “got clean” but six months later she fell off the wagon again and “lost everything.” “I lost my marriage. I lost my house I worked for 10 years to buy. My ... Read More...

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While US Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – WHEN WILL IT END? – Jan. 29, 2021 - “Our country is facing many simultaneous crises and President Biden understands that,” an administration official wrote in an email. “The President has laid out key ... Read More...

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Alcoholics’ Silent COVID Suffering: What’s a Recovering Addict to do in Isolation?

WHAT WOULD BILL AND BOB SAY? – Jan. 27, 2021 - Some of this is well-publicized. Unsurprisingly the anxiety, fear and isolation COVID-19 has caused lends itself to increased risks for alcoholism and substance a... Read More...

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Mum Uses Tik Tok to Spread Message of Self Love

WATCH – WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW – Jan. 29, 2021 - “You know what, I had one of those mamas, too, that used to tell me I was fat and ugly from the time I could remember,” Nichols admits in her own clip. “... Read More...

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5 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone With An Addiction

YOU HOLDING? – Jan. 28, 2021 - The most important thing you can do to help someone with a substance use disorder is to be there for them without judgment. “You want to be supportive of someone seeking... Read More...

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Macklemore passionately details his sobriety journey: Treatment ‘continues to save my life’

THE RECOVERY SHOW – Jan. 29,2021 - Though the Grammy Award-winner recalled years of shame, he reminded fans that there is always hope and self-growth in the road to recovery. “You work these 12 steps and you... Read More...

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Thousands of Recovery Homes in PA. Operate Without State Oversight

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME – Jan. 25, 2021 - Department officials said earlier this month that they were completing an internal review of draft regulations and planned to send them to the Attorney General’s Office b... Read More...

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Drug Rehab Counselor Arrested for Stalking and Sexual Assault of Client

ONE ROTTEN APPLE? – Jan. 25, 2021 - According to the Boulder Police Department, detectives began investigating Yepes earlier this month after a female client reported he “repeatedly contacted her and initiated ... Read More...

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When I Was Labeled a ‘Troubled’ Teen, I Obliged

WHEN IS IT TOO TOUGH? – January 12, 2021 - The years leading up to my being taken and the eventual break out is now a blur of misanthropy. I was reckless, taking my mom’s car out for joy rides without permissio... Read More...

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The Pandemic’s Toll on Children’s Mental Health

SUFFER THE CHILDREN, AND TEENS, TOO – Jan 12, 2021 - KRISSY WILLIAMS, 15, had attempted suicide before, but never with pills.The teen was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 9. People with this chronic mental... Read More...

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Opioid Deaths Occur Less Often in Areas with More Cannabis Storefronts

WAKE AND LIVE – Jan. 30, 2021 - “Our findings suggest that higher storefront cannabis dispensary counts are associated with reduced opioid-related mortality rates at the county level,” the authors write. “While... Read More...

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Nitrous Nation

USE ONLY FOR TOOTHACHES – Jan. 30, 2021 - There are “stories of pool parties, people filling inflatables in the pool with nitrous oxide, so you could be just floating on it and huffing on it,” said Mike Jay, th... Read More...

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Watch All-Star Cast Take On The Opioid Epidemic EXCLUSIVE Preview of CRISIS

BATTLING A DEMON – Jan. 20, 2021 - Those interwoven storylines follow Dr. Tyrone Brower (Oldman), a university professor who battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a major pharmaceutical com... Read More...

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‘Body Brokers’ Frank Grillo Runs a Crooked Drug Rehab Scam

WATCH – HOLLYWOOD FICTION? – Jan. 26, 2021 - Over the past couple years, I’ve read several articles about shady rehab facilities and treatment programs, so when I was offered the opportunity to check out the new ind... Read More...

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Two-Drug Combo May Help Fight Meth Addiction

LET’S PRAY IT DOES – Jan. 20, 2120 - Standard behavioral treatment for meth addiction typically involves highly structured group therapy, Volkow explained. Another option is a rewards-based motivational therapy... Read More...

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The Sackler Family and Mine

THEM AND US – Jan. 19, 2021 - On May 23, 2019, the day my son was coming home from college, I was flying to Warsaw for an awards ceremony. He texted me that he’d gotten home all right but complained that he wa... Read More...

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Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction

READ THEM AND WEEP – Jan. 19, 2021 - This was the place where it happened, and the person on whom everything hinged was her mother — beautiful, capricious, cruel. Ditlevsen was a bright girl and a good student... Read More...

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A Retired DEA Agent’s Plea: Time to Reschedule Marijuana

TIME TO FREE ALL POT DEALERS – Dec. 2020 - In the 1960s, I was the first federal drug agent to arrest a student on a college campus for sale of marijuana. In the 1970s and ‘80s, as head of the Drug Enforcement ... Read More...

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Zooming Through Recovery

PASS THE ELECTRONS – Jan. 15, 2021 - Group therapy helps build up the strength necessary for recovery through the essential process of validation. Coping with addiction is unbelievably challenging — doing so wi... Read More...

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Kate Moss From Coke Scandal and Sobriety

A ROLLING STONE... – Jan. 16, 2021 - The model mum called herself “so emotional” when the teen made her catwalk debut for Miu Miu back in October, days after she turned 18. And throughout lockdown Kate has bee... Read More...

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Hip-hop Drug Use Explained

ALIVE AND WELL, MAYBE? – Jan. 21, 2021 - Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, was the cause of 151 deaths in our county in 2019 compared to the 92 deaths reported the year before, said the November report. While 275 d... Read More...

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Fentanyl Is in Everything

IS NOTHING SACRED? – Jan. 21, 2120 - 2020 was the deadliest year ever for overdoses in Philadelphia. The surge is being fueled by deaths among methamphetamine and PCP users. The city’s top substance abuse offi... Read More...

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Family’s Struggle With Mental Illness Comes to an End

WATCH – ALL-AMERICAN DISEASE – January 21, 2020 - His mother, Pat, 91, of Wauwatosa, agreed. “Sheer torment,” she said of her son’s life. “For him and for us.” Spoerl was born and raised in Wauwatosa, the third... Read More...

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Mobile Clinic Helps Las Vegas Homeless Combat Addiction

A SAFE BET – January 23, 2021 - Services include: clean needle exchange, wound care, substance abuse rehabilitation, and doses of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses. Linkage to Action will also provide ... Read More...

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‘Addiction and Recovery’ Series Challenges Stigma

TUNE IN AND TURN IT UP – Jan. 24, 2120 - The overweight kid from the suburbs of Philadelphia — who had an identity crisis in second grade where he asked his African-American father and Italian-East Indian moth... Read More...

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How ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Can Help You Cope

WINTER READING TO KEEP YOU WARM – April, 2020 - Holden’s taste in food is pure postwar American. Bacon, eggs, hamburgers and steak all feature in the book. Mainly, however, this 16-year-old survives on cigaret... Read More...

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Q&A with Chris Herren, Founder of Herren Wellness

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – January 20, 2021 - An extraordinary basketball player, Chris Herren was a celebrated star in his native Fall River, MA before graduating high school. He went on to play at Boston Colle... Read More...

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699 People Died in SF in 2020: 235 From COVID-19

INSANITY IN AMERICA – Jan. 15, 2021 - The DOPE Project has also seen an increase in the number of overdoses prevented by Narcan, a medication commonly sprayed up the nose to reverse an opioid overdose. This yea... Read More...

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‘Words Can’t Describe How Much I’ll Miss You’

TOO YOUNG, TOO SOON, TOO MANY – January 20, 2021 - The teenager added, “You lit up my world and my heart is full of love for you. a piece of you will remain with me forever. I love you indefinitely harry. you ... Read More...

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Using Analytics to Attack Addiction

NUMBERS CAN’T LIE – Jan. 19, 2021 - The students designed an approach grounded in finding “unobvious and of interest” information. First, they determined what defined a “typical” patient at Hazelden Betty Ford—... Read More...

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