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Drug Abuse and Addiction

Buvidal Approved for Treatment of Opioid Dependence

Subcutaneous injection once a week – Dec. 18, 2020 - Camurus AB (NASDAQ STO: CAMX) announced today that the Swiss agency for therapeutic products, Swissmedic, has approved weekly and monthly Buvidal® prolonged... Read More...

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Overdose epidemic needs state action to remove barriers to care

Make it Free? – DEC. 16, 2020 - “SADLY, THE DRUG OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC CONTINUES, AND IT HAS BECOME MORE COMPLICATED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” SAID PATRICE A. HARRIS, M.D., M.A., CHAIR OF THE AMA OPIOID TASK F... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths Outpace COVID-19 Deaths in SF

Heaven’s Overcrowding... – Dec. 19, 2020 - The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn’t for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the begi... Read More...

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Writers In Treatment: Melding Recovery, Arts, and The Information

Praise for the eBulletin – Nov. 11, 2020 - Driving his Volvo home one night from his job at a Los Angeles rehab, Leonard experienced a life-changing event. Without warning, a distracted driver in an SUV ran a r... Read More...

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Unmasking Mental Illness and Addiction in Pandemic World

Madness of America – Dec. 18, 2020 - New York City struggled and then regained its footing after becoming the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring. Like the rest of the United States, it is again exp... Read More...

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Man guilty in $32,000,000 pawn shop scheme targeting drug addicts

Crime pays, for a while – Dec. 16, 2020 - The defendants “specifically recruit boosters who are opioid addicts and who use the proceeds of their ‘sales’ to purchase illegal drugs,” IRS special agent Giulio Scoc... Read More...

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Outbreak Grows at Green Mountain Treatment Center Part of Granite Recovery, N.H.

LISTEN – I wish this was fake news – Dec. 18, 2020 - Rick Ganley: Yeah, and per your reporting this week, clients and staff say a lot of this could have been prevented if the company had just been prepared for it. ... Read More...

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U.S. Overdose Deaths Reach Record Highs

WHY? – Dec. 17, 2020 - The primary driver behind the record-breaking numbers appeared to be the use of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which increased 38.4%. Of 38 U.S. jurisdictions with available synth... Read More...

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Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn’t Mean

Holiday Fun – 2015 - So, you’ve got your score. Now what? First, remember that the ACE score isn’t a crystal ball; it’s just meant as guidance. It tells you about one type of risk factor among many. It doesn... Read More...

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Waxahatchee’s ‘Saint Cloud’ Confronts Sobriety & Recovery With Vivid Empathy

WATCH – Music soothes the savage addiction – December 18, 2020 - Katie Crutchfield grew up in Alabama and lives in Kansas City, but the story behind Saint Cloud, her fifth and best album as Waxahatchee, begins... Read More...

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Elton John On NPR’s Fresh Air

LISTEN – Great share! – Dec. 18, 2020 - Sir Elton John spoke with Terry Gross after the publication of his memoir, ‘Me.’ The book was pretty forthcoming about family, addiction and sexuality, and so was the convers... Read More...

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Addicted Australia

WATCH – America should do one... – Dec. 9, 2020 - Ten Australians fighting their addictions. What does it take to change a life? New series, Addicted Australia. We gain extraordinary access to the lives of a gr... Read More...

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New Luxury Recovery Center Opens in North Alabama

WATCH – The sumptuousness of sobriety – Dec. 7, 2020 -The recovery center offers a non-clinical approach to the problem of drug and alcohol dependence by using the 12 steps. “Hard things happen in life, but... Read More...

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Police commander asks if drug use is really crime?

War on Addicts! – Dec. 10, 2020 - But there’s also fallout from alcohol and even second-hand smoking. Both these legal drugs often have unwanted side effects on the individual who chooses to use them. We deal with a... Read More...

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Staten Island doctor admits to prescribing opioids in return for sexual favors

Creep of the Week – Dec. 9, 2020 - He took particular interest in his younger patients who were struggling with substance abuse and prescribed them powerful narcotics in exchange for sexual favors, officials said. ... Read More...

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Relapse as a Path to Sobriety

Voice of recovery – December 8, 2020 - If you had told me 15 years ago that I would grow up to be an IV-using, heroin-addicted shell of a person, I would have never believed you. I grew up in a devoutly religi... Read More...

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Emily Summit with Leonard Buschel

Happy. Sober. Free! – December 2020 – Learn secrets on how to cultivate freedom, confidence, joy and abundance in sobriety! Free online show! Hosted by Emily Killeen. more@HappySoberFree ... Read More...

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Danny Trejo, 52 Years Sober, Urges Those Fighting Addiction to Seek Treatment During Pandemic

What a wonderful way to live! – Dec. 13, 2020 - The spot — part of CRI-Help’s “Fight” campaign — debuts on the eve of the center’s 50th anniversary and is aimed at raising awareness around substance abuse recov... Read More...

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Peter Young, priest who lifted up the downtrodden, dies at 90

One soul helping another... – Dec. 9, 2020 - At first, he said, the politicians saw his priest’s collar and dismissed him as just another do-gooder but, after presenting them with the cost of incarceration, he ... Read More...

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Prison ‘aha’ moment leads to research into mental health and addiction

It works if you work it... – Dec. 10, 2020 - For a study funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Vest and his colleagues examined assessments on 406 people diagnosed with both mental illness and sub... Read More...

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Thousands of California Inmates Waiting for Access to Addiction Treatment

Prisoners of War – Dec. 9, 2020 - “They understand our concerns and recognize there is a substantial backlog,” he said. “What’s not clear yet is how quickly the backlog can be reduced.” Despite concern about... Read More...

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HBO’s ‘The Flight Attendant’: how does she cope with alcoholism?

Do not offer to buy her one drink... – Nov. 26, 2020 - How she deals with it is a whole different story - if she hadn’t had that much of a booze-filled night with Alex, she maybe could have pieced the night to... Read More...

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Sobriety’s Pied Piper

One solo at a time – Dec. 11, 2020 - The Bronx native’s drive to help fellow addicts led to his diving into a four-day-a-week, five-month training program to become a substance abuse counselor in training and ... Read More...

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Philadelphia Nearing Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses

Death Marches On – December 6, 2020 - In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry this week, researchers monitoring an emergency medical systems database in 47 states found that medics were responding to more than... Read More...

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Rehab Programs Promise Recovery Through Work — But Deliver Slave Labor

WATCH – It works if you work it? – Dec. 8, 2020 - But many of the workers in these rehab programs are not receiving pay. By not paying recovering drug and alcohol abusers, these programs do not provide the most... Read More...

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McKinsey Apologizes For Helping Purdue ‘Turbocharge’ Opioid Sales

Too little too late – December 9, 2020 - In one internal email sent in July 2018, a McKinsey executive appears to acknowledge the growing legal risk faced by Purdue Pharma over its opioid business. “It prob... Read More...

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24-Hour Hotline Launched for People Using Alone

Medically Assisted Telephone – December 10, 2020 - New Yorkers who are using drugs alone, and who would like someone to stay on the phone with them and call emergency services if they become unresponsive, can ... Read More...

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Woman’s Overdose Death Shocks Family

Not another statistic – December 11th, 2020 - After getting clean, she started working there and helped other women in recovery keep tabs on their medications and appointments. She had found her purpose hel... Read More...

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AJ McLean and Cheryl Burke Discuss Alcoholism on New Podcast

WATCH – Talking the talk... – Dec. 11, 2020 - “Dancing with the Stars comes lots of attention, all of a sudden, and something that I was never comfortable with and still am not 100% comfortable with. But I used alco... Read More...

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A Safer Psychedelic Drug to Treat Depression and Addiction

Psychedelics For Addicts? – Dec. 9, 2020 - A chemically tweaked version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine appears to relieve depression and addiction symptoms without producing hallucinations or other dangerous ... Read More...

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