The Rich Pay Top Dollar to Get Clean. What If They Don’t? QUANTITY NOT QUALITY – Feb. 16, 2025 - THE ACTRESS was drunk. Again. She was trying to live sober after leaving Passages Malibu, a tony rehabilitation center nestled into the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 11 2025RecoveryRehab
‘Body Brokers’ Take Advantage of Lack of Care in Hawaii VIDEO – HULU HUSTLE – Feb. 29, 2025 - Hawaii’s chronic shortage of treatment resources may be one reason mainland drug rehab recruiters, known as “body brokers,” are working to lure patients to unregulated trea... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Opioid Settlement | on 60 Minutes WATCH – NEVER ENOUGH – March 9, 2025 - With Ryan Hampton! Cecilia Vega investigates how the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement— potentially one of the largest opioid settlements ever— will compensate victims of the opio... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 11 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
USA Sues CVS and Walgreens for So Many Deaths DANGER AT YOUR DOOR – March 7, 2025 - The CSA states that narcotics can only be used for “a useful and legitimate medical purpose.” By filling prescriptions that were invalid, the pharmacies “made choices that ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 11 2025
The Other AA FAMILY FRIENDLY – March 6, 2025 - This is all a hacky way to introduce Al-Anon — a program that has helped to improve my life and the lives of many others. Al-Anon is not the same program as AA, and it’s not just a s... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
False Beliefs About Drug Use, Users, and Addiction THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE – Feb. 20, 2025 - Myths and misconceptions increase stigma and decrease the likelihood that someone with an addictive illness will receive prompt, effective treatment. We need early... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Exploitative Marketing Practices on Social Media Target Addicts ONLINE PIRATES – Feb. 24, 2025 - Among people trying to quit or reduce their use of alcohol or other substances, engagement with clinical treatment remains low. More typically, people with alcohol use disorder ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Midlife: The New Battleground for Addiction VIDEO – MIDLIFE CRISIS – Feb. 26, 2025 - According to the National Library of Medicine, more older adults in the 50s and 60s are turning to drugs, alcohol and potentially dangerous behavior to cope with mental healt... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Mental Health
From Crack Addict in NYC to CEO of High Watch Recovery Center VIDEO – MAN MAKES GOOD – Feb. 25, 2025 - In this powerful conversation, Andrew takes us through his decades-long sobriety journey—from getting sober at 20, drinking again after 14 years over a single drink, and ulti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Where Fentanyl is Traded for Candy SICK WORLD – Feb. 26, 2025 - When we visited Monday night, drug dealers hid in the bushes. A park ranger shuffled groups of users and illegal vendors around the block. People lay slumped in nearby doorways. All in, t... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMar 04 2025
Three-year-old Dies From Methadone VIDEO – HORROR STORY – Feb. 26, 2025 - A man has been arrested for neglect after a three-year-old in his care died from a methadone overdose. CONTINUE@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7w-E5Jna5s ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Trauma
Grace Slick: ‘I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake’ STILL VITAL – Feb. 25, 2025 - She topped the charts, dropped the F-bomb on US TV, was ghosted by Jim Morrison and planned to spike Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD. Now 85, the legendary singer tells all! ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Senator Explains Bill That Makes Opioid Treatment Illegal VIDEO – SAY WHAT? – Feb. 24, 2025 - The bill is intended to outlaw stand-alone methadone clinics. He says these types of clinics are mills that keep people in the cycle of addiction. He also said methadone has a hig... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Homeless Say Cost of Addiction Forcing Them Into Modern Slavery IT’S ROUGH OUT THERE – Feb. 28, 2025 - Patrick is 32 years old and has been homeless on and off in Edinburgh since growing up in care. He speaks with a rasping quality due to the ravages of sleeping outdoors in... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessMar 04 2025
Trump’s Backs Death Penalty for Drug Sales SOON? – Feb. 25, 2025 - “If you notice that every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem,” Trump falsely claimed at a meeting of the National Governors Association, at the White House on Feb. 21... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Study Links Vaping to Serious Illnesses MODERATION IS THE KEY – Feb. 25, 2025 - Vaping might just be more harmful than traditional smoking, with a new study suggesting it increases the risk of dementia, heart disease, and organ failure. The ground-breaking... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Vaping
For 18 Years Celebrities Have Come to Talk About Recovery MENTORING FROM THE HEART – Feb. 23, 2025 - Casey King launched the series in 2008, systematically growing the event into a Who’s Who of featured celebrity speakers including actors Louis Gossett Jr., Todd Bridges, Cr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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