Big Rise of Cocaine Processing in Europe CROSSING THE LINE – May 6, 2022 - While most cocaine manufacturing still occurs in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, EU experts are worried by the processing now taking place inside the 27-nation bloc, particularly ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 10 2022RecoveryRehab
Police Seize 1,000 lbs. of Cocaine at Nespresso Factory THAT’S WHY IT’S SO EXPENSIVE! – May 5, 2022 - Police analysis determined the substance was cocaine. A search of five shipping containers “delivered the same day by train allowed for the seizure of more than 500... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 10 2022Recovery
12 Medical Professionals Charged with Fueling Opioid Epidemic In Appalachia VIDEO – GREED: AMERICAN STYLE – May 5, 2022 - Over a dozen defendants across eight federal districts have been charged in connection with the illegal prescription and distribution of 5.1 million opioid pills, ... Read More...Big PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 10 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Then Mommy Became Addicted To Oxycontin REVERSE GENERATIONS – May 7, 2022 - A week earlier, my phone buzzed as my husband and I waited on the tarmac at Denver International Airport, bound for a much-anticipated island vacation. “Ignore it,” Andy s... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 10 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecovery
Overdoses Leading Cause of Pregnancy Deaths WHAT WORLD ARE WE IN? – April 30, 2022 - When one Baton Rouge woman’s daughter became pregnant while addicted to opioids, she did everything she could to get her daughter the right resources. Unable to locate a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 10 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Beloved Police Officer, Football Star Dead From Fentanyl WHY? HOW? WHY? – April 30, 2022 - “This behavior is not something we condone, and we will continue to assist Milpitas PD with their investigation,” Mata said. “We need to be mindful of the fact that we are ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyllife expectancyMay 10 2022OverdoseTrauma
Fake Adderall Kills Two On Campus REAL DEATH – May 6, 2022 - Ohio State University officials sounded the alarm Thursday over the circulation of “fake Adderall” pills laced with fentanyl following the death of a student and the hospitalization o... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 10 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Dr. Louise Stanger and Katie Couric Talk About Addiction AUDIO – TELLING THE TRUTH – April 21, 2022 - On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie invites her friend and award winning broadcast journalist Elizabeth Vargas to co-host and help find some u... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Forced Addiction Treatment Fails MORE HARM THAN GOOD? – April 30, 2022 - To do better, the United States needs more evidence-based treatment. And since the data shows that the best treatment is compassionate and inviting, coercion should be th... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 10 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Walgreens Accused Of Fueling Opioid Addiction To Get More Customers MONEY MONEY MONEY – April 25, 2022 - The companies have denied the allegations, saying that they sold opioid medications that were prescribed by doctors. The defendants will make their opening statements in th... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Fighting the Stigma of Addiction VIDEO ONLY – SMASH STIGMA, SAVE LIVES – April 27, 2022 - Dr. Omar Abubaker shares the story of his son’s losing battle with heroin addiction. Dr. Abubaker believes that his son, Adam’s addiction beg... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
California Considering Safe Injection Centers AUDIO – LIFE SAVING SITES – April 28, 2022 - MCCLURG: At the time, he was grappling with his sexuality in a conservative town in Virginia. MCCOY: I wasn’t quite in the closet, but I wasn’t really open ab... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Woman With Global Fashion Success: There Is ‘Life After Addiction’ VIDEO – A BETTER LIFE TOO – April 27, 2022 - She later moved to London, as she needed medical treatment following an accident after she overdosed. “I’d caused myself a severe head injury through an overdose ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022OverdoseRecoveryRehabTrauma
Runner Raises Money After Son’s Dad Dies From Drugs VIDEO – DOING HER BEST – April 28, 2022 - “I saw it as an opportunity to combine two things that I am really passionate about which is running and advocating for people with substance use disorders and their fa... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 3 2022Recovery AdvocateTrauma
Breaking the Misconceptions of Sobriety AUDIO – ROSECRANCE PRODUCED – April 27, 2022 - Tune in while Rosecrance’s Director of Alumni Relations Colleen Fry and Paul Gilmet who is the Director of Access at Rosecrance’s Lakeview Campus join WGN’s John ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
How to Talk to Kids about Drugs VIDEO – EARLY AND OFTEN – April 28, 2022 - “You have to have a very direct conversation,” she said. “You have to say, ‘I’m not saying you’re going to do it, but in the event you’re around people and doing it, I... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionlife expectancyMay 3 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryteenagersTrauma
Addiction Recovery High School MIGHT Open VIDEO – WHAT GOOD? – April 26, 2022 - “This school keeps those students separate from the general education students, so they can work on their recovery and continue in their recovery and not be subject to thos... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabteenagersTrauma
CBD for Opioid Withdrawal? TRY EVERYTHING – April 28, 2022 - Medications for OUD treatment, such as methadone (Methadose), buprenorphine (Subutex), and buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone), help reduce opioid withdrawal symptoms. H... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
Ireland Baldwin Recalls Being “Tortured” by Eating Disorders VIDEO – WHEN SNACK FOODS KILL – April 26, 2022 - “I just hit a total breaking point,” she told the talk show’s co-host Willow Smith. “I was self-medicating with Xanax and I was drinking. And I have a lot of al... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
U.S. Army Sued Over Discharging Soldiers with Drug Addiction AUDIO – GET LOST ADDICTS – April 28, 2022 - Army veteran Mark Stevenson, with help from students at Yale Law School, is suing Army Secretary Christine Wormuth in federal court in Connecticut, seeking to force ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Pharmacies Block Telehealth Adderall Prescriptions NO PILLS FOR YOU! – April 27, 2022 - Online mental-health companies Done and Cerebral have grown quickly since they were founded in 2019 and serve tens of thousands of patients between them. Both companies char... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022RecoveryRehab
Did Doctors Kill His Son? Now Dad is Fighting Back VIDEO – ADDICTING YOUTH FOR PROFIT and LOSS – April 27, 2022 - “I promised for the rest of my life, I would change the killer of addiction, everywhere I can and anyway I can,” the professor of oral and maxillo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionMay 3 2022Mental HealthOverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateTrauma
The Dark Side of Life Trading Crypto INSOMNIA, ADDICTION, DEPRESSION, OH MY – April 28, 2022 - Therapists, such as Aaron Sternlicht of New York, say they are seeing an influx of people seeking help for crypto addiction, though treatment is availa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionGaminginternetinterventionMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Empire of Pain – Audiobook Review LISTENING TO CRIMINALS – April 29, 2022 - A remarkable piece of narrative reporting and a sweeping family saga, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s award-winning book about the Sackler family and its role... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecovery
Quote of the Week – James Brown “The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.” —Happy Birthday, James Brown (May 3, 1933 - Dec. 25, 2006) ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerMay 3 2022quote of the week
Artist Uses Woodworking To Overcome Addiction VIDEO – 12 WOODEN STEPS – April 19, 2022 - “It’s kind of amazing how many times I’ve heard the story that led them to woodworking,” Hardin said. One tool Hardin still keeps in his shop today is his Lufkin ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Opioid Crisis Leaves Families Shattered and Grieving LET THE HEALING BEGIN – April 19, 2022 - In 2010, there were about 21,000 overdoses involving opioids in the U.S. By 2020, that number had ballooned to 68,630. And during the isolating, stressful, and financia... Read More...April 26 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
I Took A Break From Weed After Smoking For 3 Years HOW LONG DID THAT LAST? – April 20, 2022 - Before I share how my “No Marijuana March” went, let me make a couple things clear: I love weed (still do), and I am certainly not condemning anyone who partakes in d... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewmarijuanapotRecoveryRehabsmokingweed
Keith Urban’s ‘Lucky’ That Addictions, Sobriety ‘Hasn’t Defined Creativity’ THE MUSE NEVER LEFT HIM – April 18, 2022 - Keith Urban says he’s “lucky” that his music and creativity remain unaffected by his sobriety now 15 years later. He told the Sunday Times, “I’m glad it didn’t change ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Is the Opioid Crisis Masking Real Rates of Suicides? WHO CAN TELL? – April 21, 2022 – Suicides and drug overdoses can happen in clusters when people become desensitized to death, says Connery, who’s also the clinical director of McLean Hospital’s Division of Alc... Read More...April 26 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmasuicideTrauma