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Poor Patients Entitled to Free Care Forced to Cough Up Cash Anyway

CORPORATE CRIME IN AMERICA –  Sept. 24, 2022 - More than half the nation’s roughly 5,000 hospitals are nonprofitslike Providence.…

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Ibogaine Addiction Treatment In Brazil

WORTH THE AIRFARE –    Sept. 21, 2022 - In recent decades, after a strong renaissance of clinical research around…

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Chris Dale and Patty Li – A Marriage Saved in Spite of Addiction

AUDIO – HAPPILY EVER AFTER –  August 2022 - Christopher Dale is an experienced public relations professional, writer and recovering…

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Inside Ottawa’s Bold Experiment to Reduce Overdoses

AUDIO – NEIGHBORLY LOVE –    Sept. 15, 2022 - Record numbers of people in the U.S. are dying from…

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California’s New Forced-Treatment Law

THREE HOTS AND A FEW STEPS –  Sept. 16, 2022 - The CARE Act, in short, runs counter to the…

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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…

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Revelatory Account of Mental Illness

IS EVERYBODY CRAZY? –  Sept. 23, 2022 - It’s a startling passage in the prologue of “Strangers to Ourselves,” but…

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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…

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“The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in Toxic Culture

THE DRAMA KING –  Sept. 16, 2022 - “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of…

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Put Down Your Devices and Let Your Mind Wander

I THINK THEREFORE I AM THE I AM –  Sept. 23, 2022 - The researchers contrasted people’s estimates of how…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Life-size Lanterns Raise Awareness of Suicide and Mental Injury

ART CAN HEAL TOO! –  Sept. 23, 2022 - “Too often, we see people suffering in silence,” said Emily Norton…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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Philip Speer’s Sobriety Led To New Kind of Restaurant

WELL DONE –    Sept. 13, 2022 - Speer described it as a “hazy cycle” of working and partying that…

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The Preacher’s Son is Finally Sober, Happy and Free

GRACE IS EVERYWHERE –  Sept. 9, 2022 - old. Although it started out innocently enough, he found alcohol to be…

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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,…

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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…

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No More Hard-Drinking Japanese College Students as Gen Z Goes Sober

AUDIO – REALITY DOESN’T BITE –  Sept. 12, 2022 - The popularity of low- and non-alcoholic drinks has risen worldwide,…

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

IT’S COMPLICATED –    Sept. 12, 2022 - Yet, the insanity defense has been used in numerous trials involving school…

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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…

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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…

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New Definition of Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder

CUT DOWN AND STAY THAT WAY –  Sept. 14, 2022 - For those experiencing alcohol-related functional impairment and other adverse…

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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…

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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…

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