Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

All Opioid Pain Meds Get New Safety Warnings

DON’T USE WITH ALCOHOL – April 13, 2023 - The FDA is making several updates to prescribing information for opioid pain medications to provide guidance on safe use, according to a Drug Safety Communication ... opens i... Read More...

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Rob Lowe In “Recovery Club” With His Sober Son

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON – April 3, 2023 - “As any parent will tell you, the relationship that a teenager, 20-something, has with drugs and alcohol, it’s a precarious one,” Rob said. “All you can do is lead by exa... Read More...

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Addiction Recovery and Relapse

IT CAN BE A PROCESS – April 3, 2023 - Though the statistics vary depending on the addiction, they show that between 40 and 85 percent of individuals relapse and return to using within one year of treatment. Mor... Read More...

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Running Club Welcomes Anyone Impacted By Addiction

VIDEO – ONE RUN AT A TIME – April 4, 2023 - “I’m in recovery myself. It’s been a couple of years plus, and it’s just been such an amazing experience. Just a sense of community I’ve never experienced,” said Boston Bu... Read More...

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Doctor Sentenced For Writing ‘medically unnecessary’ Opioid Prescriptions

VIDEO – NOT REALLY A HEALER – April 4, 2023 - A former Baton Rouge doctor has been sentenced after evidence at trial revealed he wrote “medically unnecessary” prescriptions for large amounts of opioids, authorities s... Read More...

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Bold Efforts to Improve Access to Treatment for Opioid Addicts

LET THEM IN – April 4, 2023 - Currently in the United States only three medications are indicated for the treatment of OUD. Buprenorphine is the only one that is routinely dispensed by community pharmacists with... Read More...

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Recovery High Schools Help Kids Overcome Addiction

HIGHER EDUCATION NOT HIGH – April 4, 2023 - The students attend Colorado’s only recovery high school — one of 43 nationwide. These schools are designed for students who are recovering from substance use disorder and ... Read More...

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Coolio Died From Fentanyl

AUDIO – A GANGSTER’S PARADISE IS HEAVEN? – April 6, 2023 -C oolio died due to fentanyl, his manager Jarel (Jarez) Posey confirmed to Variety. The rapper’s family said he also had traces of heroin and metham... Read More...

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The Dismissive Attitude On Solving Addiction Crisis

OPINION – April 6, 2023 - Maybe it was because Kirby was so new to the process, or maybe he was just another Republican delegate in a supermajority that leadership could choose to ignore – and did. Part of w... Read More...

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Texas Has Declared War on Fentanyl and It’s Making the Same Deadly Mistakes.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF – April 4, 2023 - In his February State of the State address, Governor Greg Abbott made addressing the fentanyl crisis an emergency item in this year’s legislative session. Stating that Texas D... Read More...

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White Supremacists, Fentanyl and Meth

DRUG CULTURE IN RED STATES? – April 4, 2023 - The alleged leader of the drug trafficking organization is Jesse James Bailey. Bailey and his cohorts allegedly trafficked huge amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine... Read More...

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12 Artists Who Have Chosen Sobriety

VIDEO – AND THE WORK GOT BETTER – April 2023 - Anthony Kiedis is the life of the party no matter what’s in his system and thankfully the artist has been sober now for several decades. But when that was not the case, ... Read More...

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Has Lamar Odom Become Betty Ford: I Found My Purpose With Rehab Centers

VIDEO – LAMAR MAKES AN ASSIST – April 3, 2023 - Lamar Odom is sharing how he turned his pain into purpose by investing in drug treatment centers ... saying he couldn’t be happier to help others and save lives around... Read More...

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NBA To Banish Ban on Bud For This Season

LOTS MORE 3-POINT SHOTS, WHY NOT? – April 1, 2023 - The National Basketball Association will no longer test or penalize its players for marijuana use under its new and pending seven-year collective bargaining agreeme... Read More...

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Guaynaa Reveals He Struggled with Drug Addiction, Now SOBER

VIDEO – AND MARRIED TOO! – March 31, 2023 - The “Si te Nota” singer did not reveal what drug he was addicted to. Guaynaa got clean when he was getting to know Pons, who sat with tears in her eyes as he told his... Read More...

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California to Seek Beds for Mental Health, Drug Treatment

FREE FALLING – March 19, 2023 - California, home to nearly 40 million people, has nearly one-third of the nation’s homeless population, and their numbers are growing much faster than in other states, according ... Read More...

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Another Inspirational Story

VIDEO – SOBRIETY IS CONTAGIOUS – March 19, 2023 - “I was on probation for some pretty serious felonies and if I revoked I was going to go back for a long time,” said Coleman. “My drug addiction was really strong. I w... Read More...

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Burnout Among Harm Reduction Workers

THE FRONT LINE IS DANGEROUS – March 20, 2023 - There are a great many things a person could be doing every day, Graham continued, but never enough time to do them all. So harm reduction workers and community organiza... Read More...

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Drug Addiction and Adverse Childhood Experiences

NOT A TEST YOU WANT TO ACE – March 27, 2023 - Despite her outward successes, a number of unresolved adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) created vulnerabilities for Malory. Mal was raised by a loving single mot... Read More...

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Addict Shares Recovery Journey at Packed High School Auditorium

VIDEO – EDUCATION THAT SAVES LIVES – March 20, 2023 - Lawson says he grew up in a broken home raised by his mother and grandmother, he has never met his father. He says he tried to fill the void by turning ... Read More...

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Zero-Calorie Sweetener Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death

VIDEO – HOW SWEET IT ISN’T – Feb. 28, 2023 - People with existing risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes, were twice as likely to experience a heart attack or stroke if they had the highest levels of eryth... Read More...

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Mom’s Mission to Reduce Addiction Stigma After Son’s Death

VIDEO – REST IN PEACE – March 20, 2023 - Mom on a mission to reduce stigma about drug addiction after son’s death - NBC 15 WPMI Click@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NhTCEFsoC0&t=96s ... Read More...

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It’s a Miracle Matthew Perry is Alive

FRIENDS WITH MONEY – March 20, 2023 - First, it’s hard to believe that Matthew Perry, one of the stars of the television sitcom Friends, is still alive after everything his body has been through. Second, his ca... Read More...

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DEA Alert About Threat of Xylazine. Philly is F**ked

VIDEO – THE CITY OF BROTHERLY DEATH – March 21, 2023 - The US Drug Enforcement Administration issued an alert Monday about the widespread threat of fentanyl mixed with xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer also commonl... Read More...

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‘Tranq Dope’ Makes Users Zombies

VIDEO – FROM BAD TO WORSE – March 31, 2023 - “There’s a good chance if you are using a pill that you bought on the street and did not buy from a regular pharmacy that this might have xylazine in the pill,” Oz said. ... Read More...

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Hipster City Lawless Hellscape Due to Rampant Drug Use

VIDEO – DUE TO DRUG LAWS? – March 28, 2023 - She’s seen Oregon’s largest city go from a kooky progressive place with great restaurants and reliable public transportation to a ‘post-apocalyptic’ hellscape where ... Read More...

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When Steven Tyler Tried to Help Kurt Cobain Kick Heroin?

DENIAL CAN KILL – March 30, 2023 - As he watched Nirvana’s meteoric rise in the early ‘90s, Steven Tyler says he recognised the “pain” in Kurt Cobain’s eyes and later discovered that Nirvana’s frontman was usin... Read More...

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How ‘Quit Lit’ Helps Women on Their Sobriety Journeys

VIDEO – ONE CHAPTER AT A TIME – March 30, 2023 - “Quit Lit” is a new way women are finding support, with a new genre of self-help books helping to turn the page. VIDEO Click@ABCNews ... Read More...

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FDA Approves Over-The-Counter Narcan

JUST LIKE ASPIRIN – March 29, 2023 - Advocates believe it’s important to get naloxone to the people who are most likely to be around overdoses, including people who use drugs and their relatives. The decision “rep... Read More...

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Darryl Strawberry: Spiritual Outlaw

ANOTHER HOME RUN – March 14, 2023 - Though Darryl was extremely successful in his career, his personal life was plagued with addictions, abuse, divorces, cancer, jail time, and other issues. Darryl finally foun... Read More...

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