Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

California’s New Forced-Treatment Law

THREE HOTS AND A FEW STEPS – Sept. 16, 2022 - The CARE Act, in short, runs counter to the evidence-based, person-centered care that activists have been fighting for. Many have cited peer-reviewed studies that s... Read More...

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Huntington Files Lawsuit vs. Lifehouse Sober Living

AND CLEAN HOUSE – Sept. 21, 2022 - The city of Huntington argues that it is a municipal corporation of the State of West Virginia and has specific statutory jurisdiction over matters such as zoning and b... Read More...

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US: $1.5 Billion Naloxone Purchase to Fight Opioid Crisis

DOES CASH EVER MAKE A DIFFERENCE? – Sept. 23, 2022 - The Biden administration is keen to show it is taking action on a worsening nationwide opioid crisis, which according to U.S. Centers for Disease Cont... Read More...

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“Democracy Will Die” If We Don’t End Drug War!

VIDEO – ONLY SOLUTION TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS – Sept. 21, 2022 - In his speech before the UN’s General Assembly, Petro said definitively that the “War on Drugs has failed,” according to a translation. He adde... Read More...

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5 Popular Medications Doctors Hate Prescribing

BUT THEY WILL ANYWAY – Sept. 20, 2022 - Prescription medications have been making headlines recently, with many common drugs currently facing shortages. Sometimes, however, something other than a supply ... Read More...

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BAYER: Global Drug Manufacturer’s History, Bad Drugs & Lawsuits

SALESMEN WERE JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS – Sept. 14, 2022 - Bayer is the maker of Aspirin. The popular pain reliever is one of the company’s oldest and most iconic products. MiraLAX, Claritin, Alka-Seltzer... Read More...

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Police Repeating Drug War’s Dark History in Fentanyl Era

NO EFFECT ON OVERDOSE VICTIMS? – Sept. 20, 2022 - Facing an unprecedented public health crisis, law enforcement is under enormous pressure to demonstrate to the public that its efforts are making a difference. ... Read More...

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LA schools to Provide Narcan After 7th Student Overdoses

VIDEO – WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? – Sept. 23, 2022 - Officials are sounding the alarm after at least seven students have overdosed according to police. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer reports on how the Los Ange... Read More...

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Battling Opioid Addiction Through Medicine and Faith

VIDEO – YOU CAN’T FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT OF A PLASTIC BAGGIE – Sept. 19, 2022 - “It was all I cared about. All. Nothing else mattered, I worked in order to get drug money,” said Ashton Hunt explained. She... Read More...

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Treatment Center’s Push to Save Lives With Methadone

BUT HARD TO GET? – Sept. 20, 2022 - “I was so close to death, on my death bed from endocarditis, from fentanyl, that had I not made the move I did, I would be dead today,” Detzel said. “So it was life or... Read More...

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Addicted In Film, Book Excerpt

DRUGS ON FILM – Sept. 17, 2022 - Evil Incarnate: Purdue Pharma & Oxycontin Review of the Hulu Drama Series DopesickChapter Excerpted from the Upcoming BookADDICTED IN FILMMovies We Love About th... Read More...

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Controversial Harm Reduction Strategies Slow Drug Deaths

AUDIO – GIVE AND LET LIVE – Sept. 15, 2022 - Yeah. Addiction care has gotten better in the U.S. - better therapies, better medications. But getting that kind of quality treatment is still super hard in most of ... Read More...

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Can Multiple Psychiatric Drugs Improve Minority Communities?

SO MANY MOUTHS TO DRUG – Sept. 14, 2022 - “It has been documented in adults that Black patients with mental illness are more likely to receive substance care and more likely to be diagnosed with psychoti... Read More...

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Candy, cash, gifts, rewards, help addiction recovery

SOBRIETY IS THE REWARD – Sept. 13, 2022 - Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has used the method with 5,700 veterans. Rewards are vouchers the vets redeem at their local canteen. Over the years... Read More...

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Which Red State is Jailing Pregnant Marijuana Users?

IS TRUMP THE GOVERNOR? – Sept. 15, 2022 - She’s not the only one. Another woman, Hali Burns, was taken to the Etowah county jail just six days after giving birth to her son, with police saying that she had test... Read More...

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Providers Face Multiple Challenges Working With Potheads

BUT SO TALENTED – Sept. 11, 2022 - At the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Tanya L. Gouveia, MS, MPA, LCDP-II, LADC-I, who runs Addiction Recovery Counseling and serves as an adjunct professor ... Read More...

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Nothing seemed to relieve their depression. Then they tried ketamine.

DO TRY THIS AT HOME – Sept. 12, 2022 - While the study has limitations, the findings appear to illuminate how ketamine could offer more than just brief relief to people whose depression is resistant to o... Read More...

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Darius Campbell Danesh Died From Inhalation of ‘Ethyl Chloride’

HUFF OF DEATH – Sept. 10, 2022 - “The results of medical examinations have confirmed that Darius’s death was an accident caused by chloroethane, which is used to treat pain and that tragically lead to respirato... Read More...

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“Junk Science” in Our Courts and Forced Drug Treatment are a Recipe for Disaster

IT’S COMPLICATED – Sept. 12, 2022 - Yet, the insanity defense has been used in numerous trials involving school or community shootings. Found incompetent to stand trial or guilty but “mentally ill,” perp... Read More...

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Addiction Often Goes Hand-In-Hand With Mental Illness BY NORA D. VOLKOW

THE TRUTH HURTS – Sept. 12, 2022 - Substance use disorders often accompany other mental illnesses. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa. For ... Read More...

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Road to Recovery: ‘I dare you to believe’

CAME TO BELIEVE – Sept. 13, 2022 - We all have value; we all have worth; we all have something to contribute, and we don’t want to hang onto that,” Clemmer said. “...When I can give back, it just works.” It ... Read More...

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Lala Kent: ‘I Would Have Curled Up In The Fetal Position’

OVERSHARING? – Sept. 12, 2022 - A lot has changed for Lala over the past year. Besides welcoming her first child — one-year-old daughter Ocean — she went through a public breakup with movie producer Randall Emm... Read More...

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Hiding In Plain Sight: Young Adult Addiction Care

YOUTH QUAKE – Sept. 14, 2022 - “If your child is diagnosed with a substance use disorder, there’s hope for recovery. It includes evidence-based counseling, family treatment, recovering peer groups, medic... Read More...

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Several L.A. High School Students Overdose, 1 Dies from Pills Laced with Fentanyl

EDUCATE BETTER! – Sept. 14, 2022 - Earlier in the day, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to separate calls reporting possible overdoses of two teens in the area of Lexington Park, a few blocks fr... Read More...

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2 Boys Arrested For Fatal Overdose at Hollywood High School

VIDEO – LETHAL AMOUNTS – HOLLYWOOD, CA - Sept. 15, 2022 - The younger boy, who lives with his grandmother, allegedly sold a pill to two 15-year-old girls on the Bernstein campus, causing both of them to overdose... Read More...

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Cree Nation Chief Calls for Treatment Centres in Wake of Horrible Knife Attacks

METH KILLS...OTHERS – Sept. 11, 2022 - The chief of James Smith Cree Nation and other Indigenous leaders are calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centr... Read More...

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Jury Finds Operator of Pill Mill Guilty

GREED IS NOT GOOD – Sept. 12, 2022 - U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Purificacion Cristobal prescribed powerful medications to patients, some of whom had no medical need for them and were likely selling th... Read More...

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New Street Drug is ‘As Deadly as Fentanyl’

ONLY IF YOU INGEST IT – Sept. 16, 2022 - Deaths linked to drugs are on the rise. In their report issued Sept. 16, Jessica Korona-Bailey and colleagues said that “four times as many nitazene-involved over... Read More...

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Dope Crisis Strikes Nerve with NY OASAS Commissioner

VIDEO – CATASTROPHE IN ACTION – Sept. 13, 2022 - The commissioner said this is a scene playing out all over New York and across the country. She believes it is going to take every family in every neighborhood, ... Read More...

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Can You Get Hooked on Melatonin?

IT AIN’T VALIUM, HOWEVER... – Sept. 6, 2022 - On TikTok, the hashtag #melatoninaddict has racked up more than a million views, with people swapping stories about craving the supplement, or being unable to sleep... Read More...

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