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Understand “neuronal ensembles” and Revolutionize Addiction Treatment

IMPROVE YOUR GAME NOW – July 3, 2025 - I am a behavioral neuroscientist studying addiction, and my team is interested in how reward memories are formed and processed in the brain. We study how memories linked to natu... Read More...

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Feds Arrest CEO for Devising Conspiracy to Intimidate Journalists

BAD MOVE – May 31, 2025 - Eric Spofford, 40, was accused of targeting journalists employed by New Hampshire Public Radio in retaliation for publishing an investigation that allegedly revealed multiple allegations of ... Read More...

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The Brain’s Reward Network Could Explain Addiction

IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – June 11, 2025 - In the case of addiction, memories of rewarding experiences, like using drugs, are often tightly tied to spatial locations. “Someone who first uses drugs at a concert might alw... Read More...

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Kennedy Is Shrinking the Agency that Helps The Mentally Ill and Addicts

GOODBYE SAMHSA – June 6, 2025 - The country’s main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more th... Read More...

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The Pleasures of Addiction Keep People Hooked − But Altering The Neurons…

VIDEO – SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO... – June 4, 2025 - People rely on memories of rewards to function and survive. Associated with positive experiences, these memories provide context for evaluating present and future... Read More...

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‘Meals on Wheels’ Marks Great First Year of Recovery Program

VIDEO – NUTRITION MATTERS – May 26, 2025 - Meals on Wheels is making a difference in the lives of individuals recovering from substance abuse through a new program. Graduates of the program emphasize that the meals p... Read More...

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Teen Hip-hop Star’s Rise Derailed By Abuse at N.J. Rehab

HORRIFICAL – May 22, 2025 - A now-defunct youth drug rehabilitation program subjected a budding hip-hop artist to years of abuse in the early 1990s, derailing what his attorneys describe as a promising music career, ... Read More...

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Booze Has Negative Impact on People with ADHD

VIDEO – FOCUS ON THAT – May 13, 2025 - Alcohol use disorder is a chronic condition marked by an inability to control alcohol consumption despite harmful consequences, resulting in significant distress or impairment. ... Read More...

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‘I’m only 24 and will have no bladder’

KETAMINE – May 15, 2025 - A 24-year-old has opened up about how his party drug addiction destroyed his life. He was just a child when he was first introduced to the substance and now has life-changing health struggle... Read More...

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Undermining Health for Populations at Home and Abroad

USA USA USA – April 25, 2025 - U.S. foreign assistance has generally led to substantial improvements in security and political and economic stability, including a reduction in the number of people living in ext... Read More...

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The Revolving Door We Call Addiction Treatment

CURED PATIENTS NEVER RETURN – May 7, 2025 - We treat addiction today like an acute crisis, not a chronic condition. Care is designed around getting someone through detoxification—which alone can be a significant hurd... Read More...

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Vets Want to Legalize Ibogaine to Treat PTSD

AUDIO – MEMORY LANE DREAMS – May 7, 2025 - U.S. vets and lawmakers are leading an effort to get clinical trials up and running for a potent psychoactive drug. Ibogaine is illegal in the U.S., but it’s proving to be ... Read More...

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Mindfulness Therapy Reduces Opioid Craving and Addiction

IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – April 30, 2025 - The study included 160 individuals with chronic pain — both with and without OUD — recruited from primary care and pain clinics. Participants completed a positive emotion regu... Read More...

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First Couple of Family Recovery Court Celebrates Sobriety

IT’S GOOD LAW – April 30, 2025 - Austin Warfield and Pleasant Davis walked into Hardin Circuit Court Room 3 with a new future ahead of them. With them Tuesday morning were their three children Micah Davis, w... Read More...

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40 Percent Decline in Overdose Deaths Linked to Fewer Kids Entering Foster Care

IT’S COMPLICATED – April 23, 2025 - Year-over-year figures for the 12 months ending in November 2024 reveal a 37.7% decline in drug overdose deaths in West Virginia, surpassing the national average decrease of ... Read More...

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San Francisco Considers ‘recovery first’ Drug Policy

VIDEO – DYING BY THE BAY – April 24, 2025 - “I think having a city policy that says, listen, the cessation of illicit drug use and long-term recovery is the primary objective of our drug policy,” Dorsey said. “That’s... Read More...

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Methadone Pioneer Who Freed People From the Cruel Clinic System

LIFE SAVER – April 23, 2025 - Dr. Edwin Salsitz is a methadone OG. He was one of a coterie of New York City doctors who pioneered its use to treat opioid use disorder back in the 1980s. “God almighty. So many p... Read More...

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Man Sentenced 7 Years for “Body Brokering” at Sober Living Homes

BUSINESS AS USUAL? – April 24, 2025 - Darius Moore, 31, formerly of Santa Ana but most recently of North Carolina, was sentenced Thursday to seven years behind bars for soliciting and receiving nearly $500,000 in ill... Read More...

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Trump Wants to End $56 Million Grant Giving Narcan to First Responders

VIDEO – LET THEM DIE – April 25, 2025 - A preliminary budget document, obtained by The Washington Post, reportedly calls for deep cuts to federal health programs and targets multiple addiction prevention and treatme... Read More...

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Psilocybin Gives Man 2nd Chance After 10-year Opioid Addiction

WHATEVER WORKS – April 16, 2025 - Over 10 years, Schaefer had tried recovering from what began with dependence on a prescription for the pain killer Percocet and later spiraled into an all-consuming heroin addi... Read More...

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FDA Shuts Down Food Safety Checks

YOU WANT FRIES WITH THOSE MAGGOTS? – April 18, 2025 - In a move raising major concerns across the food industry, the FDA shuts down food safety quality checks amid staff cuts, putting key food testing programs ... Read More...

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Lawyer’s Ties to ‘Corrupt’ Drug Clinics

VIDEO – LAWYER TO JAIL? – April 17, 2025 - When Brett Ryan was arrested for DUI in 2023, the Lakewood defense lawyer he hired quickly referred him to a substance abuse treatment clinic. … we were just trying to make ... Read More...

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Needle Exchange Program Feels Effects of Trump’s Aid Cuts

DIRTY BUSINESS – April 3, 2025 - PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of people with drug ad... Read More...

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Judge Halts JFK Jr.’s Plan to Withhold $11 Billion in Govt. Health Grants

MAJOR DOUCHE – April 4, 2025 - A federal judge in Rhode Island froze a Trump administration plan to cut more than $11 billion in public health grants to state and local health departments that Congress allocate... Read More...

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Texas Has Interactive Map to Help Find Overdose Medication Sites by Sophia Fox-Sowell

AUDIO – TEXAS IS BRILLIANT – April 4, 2025 - The new online map includes a search bar where visitors can type in an address or zip code to see nearby Naloxone locations. Information displayed for each location inclu... Read More...

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Getting Away from Psychiatric Medications

POISONING PATIENTS? – March 17, 2025 - Ms. Delano is not a doctor; her main qualification, she likes to say, is having been “a professional psychiatric patient between the ages of 13 and 27.” During those years, when... Read More...

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BIG CUTS at Department of Health and Human Services

“Make America Healthy Again” – March 27, 2025 - The agency will cut 20,000 positions, a sweeping reduction of the agency that protects Americans’ health, oversees Medicare and Medicaid and ensures the safety of... Read More...

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Alarms Raised Over Freeze of Federal Funding for Addiction

WHAT CAN YOU DO? – March 26, 2025 - Senator Nathalia Fernandez, Chair of the Senate Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders Committee, is raising urgent concerns following the sudden and unlawful termination of critic... Read More...

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Man Sentenced to Prison for Paying Nearly $2.9 Million in Kickbacks for Drug Addiction Patient Referrals

14th STEP? – March 21, 2025 - Casey Mahoney, 48, was sentenced by United States District Judge Josephine L. Staton, who also fined him $240,000. A Hollywood Hills man was sentenced today to 41 months in federal... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 25 2025

Expert Talks NIH Cuts And the Limits of RFK Jr.’s 12-Step Work

INSIDE WOMAN – March 13, 2025 - “They have increased my blood pressure and heart rate,” Volkow said before declining to answer specific questions about Trump administration policy changes, instead referring them to t... Read More...

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