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Lawmakers Champion MDMA as a ‘game-changer’ in PTSD Treatment

VIDEO – LET IT WORK IF IT WORKS – Feb. 15, 2024 - Advocates and lawmakers across the political spectrum are optimistic about its chances for approval and pushing for a speedy rollout of so-called “MDMA-assisted the... Read More...

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Owner of Sober Homes Facing Felony Gun and Drug Charges

LOADED – Feb. 2, 2024 - The owner of a faith-based sober living & behavioral health counseling non-profit in Lexington is facing several charges after police found drugs and guns at his home. Steven Smith, the ow... Read More...

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‘Just say no’ can kill kids.’

TEACH, DON’T PREACH – Feb. 3, 2024 - Melanie Ramos was only 15 years old when she died of a suspected overdose in a high school bathroom in Hollywood. Police reported that she and a friend had purchased pills they th... Read More...

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Lack of Oversight In Treatment Industry Leads To Corruption

HEALTH-CARE IS WEALTH-CARE – Feb. 7, 2024 - The report highlighted questionable practices at treatment facilities and sober living houses that the state has been investigating for years. They included allegations of ... Read More...

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‘From Rags to Riches’: Musician Talks About Addiction

SINGING A NEW TUNE – Feb. 3, 2024 - In 2020, Johnson told his story about how he initially got started in music: his mother having a keyboard around the house and learning how to play the piano. Over the last four ye... Read More...

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Fake Scientific Papers Push Research Credibility to Zero?

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? – Feb. 3, 2024 - Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg. Tens of thousands of bogus research papers... Read More...

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SNL Player on 40-Year Coke Habit & Surviving Gunshot Wound

LIVES TO TELL THE TALE – Feb. 3, 2024 - Garrett Morris has had quite the Hollywood ride.”Some producers didn’t want a Black cast member but Lorne Michaels knew the show needed one,” Morris, who just received a... Read More...

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We Document Our Whole Lives Online – but Should We?

YOUR 15 MINUTES IS OVER – Feb. 8, 2024 - ‘You Don’t Need To Document Everything’ questioned it all. The essay was promoted by a video taken on New Year’s Eve in Paris, which showed hundreds of people recording the f... Read More...

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Online Sports Betting Rises Due to Online Gambling

VIDEO – YOU CAN’T LOSE, IF YOU DON’T BET – Feb. 7, 2024 - Brian Meister once gambled and lost a year’s salary in one night of sports betting. He is a recovering sports gambling addict who now shares his story in th... Read More...

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Minnesota Treatment Centers Closing Down

SAD FOR THE LOCALS – Feb. 3, 2024 - Minnesota teens struggling with drugs or alcohol have few options for help after several treatment centers closed last year. Clinics that prescribed opioid addiction medi... Read More...

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Scientology-Linked Rehab Left People’s Minds Shattered

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE – Feb. 3, 2024 - An unregulated rehab centre linked to the Church of Scientology put mentally ill people through intense psychological drills that allegedly left them “traumatised” and... Read More...

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Podcast Details Sexual Misconduct in the Treatment Industry

AUDIO – LOCK THEM UP – Feb. 3, 2024 - Her reporting details two women’s efforts to bring to justice the owner of a network of treatment centers in California and Colorado who was routinely sexually assaulting clien... Read More...

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Addicts Not Self-Destructive?

JUST SELF DELUSIONAL – Jan. 27, 2024 - One of many misunderstandings about addiction is that it is self-destructive. However, people suffering from addictions are not either intending to harm themselves or uncaring a... Read More...

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Kids Don’t Get Science-Backed Drug Prevention

IS SCIENCE TOO WOKE? – Jan. 11, 2024 - As science teacher Zach Lazar looks out across his classroom at South Eugene High School, he sees more kids struggling than he did before the pandemic. In the past two ye... Read More...

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Can a Brain Implant Treat Addiction?

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO... – Jan. 31, 2024 - Some experts tout deep brain stimulation as a lifeline for people struggling with opioid use. Others question the hype. Elena Daly was packing for a family vacatio... Read More...

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As Opioid Deaths Soar, Biden Fills Up The Methadone Pitchers

RELIEF IS IN SIGHT – Feb. 2, 2024 - Now for the first time in more than 20 years, the Biden administration is publishing new federal rules for methadone treatment aimed at widening access for more patients. But patie... Read More...

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Discrimination Suit vs. Pa. Courts for Withholding Suboxone Settled

IS IT THAT COMPLICATED? – Feb. 1, 2024 - Pennsylvania’s court system will pay a total of $100,000 to six people who were prevented from taking medication prescribed to treat opioid addiction while under court ... Read More...

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Experimental Pain Medication May Work Without Risk of Addiction

IT’S ABOUT TIME – Feb. 2, 2024 - The drug, called VX-548, works by blocking pain signals from nerves in the body before they get to the brain. Unlike opioids, it works only on peripheral nerves, and not on the... Read More...

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Doctor Who Prescribed 500k Opioid Doses Gets Conviction Nullified

NOW WHAT? – Feb. 2, 2024 - A Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses in less than two years had his conviction and 40-year prison sentence thrown out by a federal appeals court on Friday.... Read More...

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My Month in Rehab – Alcohol Was Killing Me

TREATMENTS WORKS – Jan. 23, 2024 - I was sitting on the bathroom floor, sobbing. The room was spinning. It was the heart of lockdown and I wasn’t coping – or, rather, I was attempting to cope by drinking heavi... Read More...

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Nearly Half of All UK Teens Feel Addicted to Social Media

SO AM I – Feb. 2, 2024 - In recent years, there has been growing concern about the addictive qualities of social media. Last year, the US surgeon general issued a public health advisory on the risks that social media... Read More...

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Rewiring Your Brain!

IT HAS TO HAPPEN – Jan. 26, 2024 - Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as rewarding when you are hungry and water as rewarding when you are thirsty. But addictive substanc... Read More...

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Abstinence-Based Treatment Isn’t Dead…Yet

NOT AFTER 89 YEARS – Jan. 26, 2024 - The SUD treatment industry is beginning to move away from an abstinence-only approach to care and towards harm-reduction and medication-assisted treatment approaches. Resea... Read More...

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Mayor Defends Drug-Screening Plan for Welfare Recipients

IT’S COMPLICATED – Jan. 18, 2024 - People will be asked questions during a screening process and may be referred to a doctor, said Cedric Akbar, the director of Positive Directions Equals Change, an addiction ... Read More...

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Fentanyl Forum Tells parents to Talk With Their Children

AUDIO – COMMUNICATION IS KEY – Jan. 24, 2024 - The message during a recent public health forum was clear and chilling: Don’t do drugs. They could kill you – or, at the very least, ruin your life. About 30 peo... Read More...

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Emma Corlett – Social Media Star: Meth Addict’s Recovery Story

VIDEO – EVERYONE CAN CHANGE – Jan. 20, 2024 - “It’s really hard to believe, looking back at the old Emma, to who I am now. I would never have imagined I would do modelling.” Who Emma is now is a long way away from ... Read More...

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Children of Narcissists and Addicts

HANDLE WITH CARE – Jan. 20, 2024 - Narcissistic parents are ignoring, controlling, blaming, self-absorbed, and intolerant or unaware of their children’s needs and of the effects of their behavior on other people. Chi... Read More...

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Hunter Mayhew Dedicated to Helping People Defeat Addiction

DON’T GIVE UP THE FIGHT – Jan. 25, 2024 - Daniel Hand High School graduate Joe Deane lost his life due to fentanyl poisoning in 2018 after numerous attempts to shake his addiction and get his promising future ... Read More...

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Recovery Cafe Helping People Overcome

VIDEO – MORE THAN COFFEE – Jan. 24, 2024 - Accepted. Loved. Worthy. Those are the feelings tied to the mission of the Recovery Cafe. A vision spread around the country to help people battle their inner demons an... Read More...

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Did Popular 1892 Sedative Lead to Death of Alice O’Riley?

THE ’90s WERE DANGEROUS – Jan. 24, 2024 - Alice was given a room although it was evident to everyone that she was acting very abnormally. She moved in a slow dreamlike state which no one could attach a reason to unti... Read More...

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