MTV Star Madison Channing Walls Unrecognizable VIDEO – SOBRIETY AWAITS – Feb. 21, 2025 - The MTV alum was unrecognizable in a new mugshot after she was arrested for meth and fentanyl possession. Madison, 34, appeared on MTV’s Real World: Skeletons in 2... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025fentanyl
Revolutionary Non-opioid Painkiller Hits Pharmacies Soon VIDEO – NO PAIN NO GAIN? – Feb. 12, 2025 - It’s the first new type of painkiller in 20 years. And it’s just a few weeks away from being in local pharmacies. Here are some details from a neurosurgeon about what you... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025opioid crisis
Benjamin Lerner: Musician and Recovering Fentanyl Addict WITH A SONG IN HIS HEART – Feb. 21, 2025 - As a recovering IV fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine addict, now sober since June 2016, Lerner fearlessly channels the lessons he has learned over the course of his ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025fentanyl
Opiate Crises Remedy Ignored!!! CONSPIRACY? – Feb. 19, 2025 - France was one of the first countries to most fully exploit the drug’s potential. In the 1990s, French health authorities began allowing any doctor to prescribe buprenorphine. By the ear... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Shutting Down Safe Injection Sites In New York City VIDEO – LET THEM DIE – Feb. 14, 2025 - Drug users can take their drug of choice from heroin to cocaine inside the centers and supervisors intervene, most times with oxygen, if the user starts to overdose. They also ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025harm reductionintervention
RFK Jr. Says Antidepressants More Addictive Than Heroin SMACK DOWN – Feb. 18, 2025 - Part of Trump’s sweeping “Making America Healthy Again” order is to “assess the prevalence of and threat” posed by the prescription of antidepressants and other medications. During Kenned... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025Heroin Addiction
‘Hillbilly Heroin’ A New Threat AT GAS STATIONS EVERYWHERE – Feb. 16, 2025 - Approved for use as an antidepressant in some European, Asian and South Americas countries, tianeptine is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for any medical ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025Heroin Addiction
Nancy Reagan’s War on Drugs Is Back TERRY COLE'S MISTAKE – Feb. 11, 2025 - Cole’s stance on cannabis appears to align with late former first lady Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign that took off during the 1980s as part of the country’s drug war. Tr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025War On Drugs
Her Daughter Died From Kratom AUDIO – SCARY WORLD – Feb. 5, 2025 - Kratom contains dozens of psychoactive compounds or alkaloids that are not well understood, and a main one is mitragynine. It binds to the same opioid brain receptors as morphine ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025Trauma
Tariffs Can’t Solve America’s Fentanyl Crisis CAN NOTHING? – Feb. 5, 2025 - Ending the fentanyl crisis won’t be easy. Speaking as a professor who studies social policy, I think both fentanyl and the proposed import taxes represent significant threats... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025fentanyl
‘There has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs’ LIFE OR DEATH – Feb. 7, 2025 - Three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin. Unknown to th... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
Film Review: Drug Addiction Overwhelms Appalachia in ‘Hazard’ VIDEO – Harlan County, USA – Feb. 7, 2025 - Roe and Bacon effectively portray the troubled couple, still in love with each other but facing different ends of the addiction spectrum. If some scenes in the film seem li... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
Dangerous Drugs Available at Corner Stores AUDIO – AND DRUG STORES – Feb. 11, 2025 - Hundreds of convenience stores are selling untested, highly addictive and potentially deadly drugs as over-the-counter dietary supplements, and law enforcement is not keeping... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
House FINALLY Passes Bill Making Fentanyl a Schedule I drug — joining LSD and Weed WHAT TOOK SO LONG? – Feb. 6, 2025 - “It’s the most obvious thing in the world to be in support of,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said in a speech backing the bill. “Fentanyl is supposed to be used in the operating roo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025fentanyl
Brooklyn Pharmacists Convicted of Running ‘pill mills’ BIG PHARMA FRIENDS – Feb. 13, 2025 - Following a three-week trial, Yousef Ennab, 27, and Mohamed Hassan, 34, both of Brooklyn, were found guilty on charges of conspiracy to dispense and distribute oxycodone, as... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
New Drug for Mitigation of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms AUDIO – HIGH-Ho – Feb. 14, 2025 - The CDC reports that among individuals who use cannabis, approximately 3 in 10 have cannabis use disorder. The risk of developing cannabis use disorder is even higher for individual... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025marijuana
12-Step Programs Have Pros – and Cons SO DOES WATER – Feb. 13, 2025 - With the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the US is heading into its next chapter of healt... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
Patients Used as ‘Human Pin Cushions’ For Profits HORRIFIC COMPANY – Feb. 13, 2025 - The clinic claimed the injections were steroids that would relieve her pain, Shaw said, but with each shot her agony would grow. Shaw said she eventually tried to decline the shots,... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025interventionTrauma
Charity for Addiction Chaired by Russell Brand Closed BRAND SOURS – Feb. 14, 2025 - The Charity Commission said it was told that Brand’s Stay Free Foundation “no longer operates and should be removed from the register of charities”. The charity, which was... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
‘Cantankerous’ Seniors Adamant: We don’t want drug rehab nearby! NO STEPS – Feb. 8, 2025 - Residents, already upset over the possibility of a nearby La Quinta hotel being converted into low-income housing for seniors, showed up in force at a zoning hearing Thursday, Feb. 6, ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Woman Murdered at Landmark Recovery’s Treatment Center VIDEO – TRAGIC – Feb. 13, 2025 - One month after 13 Investigates reported on a troubling pattern of problems inside addiction treatment centers operated by Landmark Recovery, another patient has died inside a Landmar... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Schizophrenia Cases Triple Due to Heavy Cannabis Use WEEDS IN THE WIRING – Feb. 4, 2025 - Experts say the new study, which looked at more than 13.5 million medical records of all individuals aged 14 to 65 between 2006 and 2022, adds to growing evidence that heavy... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025marijuanaMental Healthpotweed
Addicted: How the World Got Hooked HAPPY PILLS – Feb. 3, 2025 - Having spent most of my career researching the human toll of drug use at almost every stage of the supply and consumption chain, I believe a complete shift in the way we think about... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025
Pregnant Addict Turns Her Life Around VIDEO – BABIES MATTER – Feb. 4, 2025 - Thirty-year-old Lydia Kareha knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom. “My decisions led me down a really rough path,” Kareha said. “I had a lot of felonies. I thought I was g... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025RecoveryRehab
High-Achieving Men Get Free From Addiction VIDEO ONLY – ARE WE NOT MEN? – Feb. 6, 2025 - To learn more about Soberman’s Estate, including their discreet location, services and various treatment options, go to SobermansEstate.com or call 480-400-0677. CONT... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Emotional Lawmaker Describes Fentanyl Crisis VIDEO – MORE OUTRAGE PLEASE – Jan. 2025 - “I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve had to listen to the screams on the other end of a phone when family members are notifying other family members about their sister... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025fentanyl
As Fatal Overdose Rates Fall – Black Drug Deaths Remain High NO OVERSIGHT – Feb. 4, 2025 - But a closer look reveals a dark cloud around that silver lining. Black people are still dying from drug overdoses in higher numbers than whites. That’s due in part to system... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025Overdose
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: Cocaine ‘no worse than whisky’ NO BETTER – Feb. 6, 2024 - Colombia is the world’s biggest cocaine producer and exporter, mainly to the United States and Europe, and has spent decades fighting against drug trafficking. “If you want peace, you have ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025
Addict Gets Prison for OD Deaths of Two Sisters HELL ON EARTH – Feb. 4, 2025 - Prosecutors called Anthony Del Valle an “enemy of the public,” a man so greedy that he preyed on and poisoned two disabled, drug-addicted women who considered him a friend. His la... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025life expectancyOverdoseTrauma
Will RFK Jr. Fix The Overdose Crisis? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE – Jan. 29, 2025 -Kennedy now credits his faith; 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous-style programs, which also have a spiritual foundation; and the influence of a book by philosopher Carl Jung for helpi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 04 2025Overdose