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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. They enjoy lucrative tax exemptions; Providence avoids more than $1 billion a yea... Read More...

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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 ibogaine and other mind-expanding drugs, psychedelic-assisted therapies are becoming increas... Read More...

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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 addict. In addition to being a regular contributor to Addiction Recovery eBulletin, ... Read More...

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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 drug overdoses, more than 100,000 deaths a year. And now, public health experts here are watching a controve... Read More...

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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 evidence-based, person-centered care that activists have been fighting for. Many have cited peer-reviewed studies that s... Read More...

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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 of the State of West Virginia and has specific statutory jurisdiction over matters such as zoning and b... Read More...

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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 like so many of the stories in this intimate and revelatory book, the truth of it is real but inc... Read More...

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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 Assembly, Petro said definitively that the “War on Drugs has failed,” according to a translation. He adde... Read More...

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

THE DRAMA KING – Sept. 16, 2022 - “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call d... Read More...

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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 much they would enjoy just sitting and thinking with their actual experiences of doing so in a series of s... Read More...

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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 drugs currently facing shortages. Sometimes, however, something other than a supply ... Read More...

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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 reliever is one of the company’s oldest and most iconic products. MiraLAX, Claritin, Alka-Seltzer... Read More...

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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 enormous pressure to demonstrate to the public that its efforts are making a difference. ... Read More...

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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 Ashinhurst, executive director of the Irish Diaspora Center, which organized the one-night display. But... Read More...

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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 all I cared about. All. Nothing else mattered, I worked in order to get drug money,” said Ashton Hunt explained. She... Read More...

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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 from endocarditis, from fentanyl, that had I not made the move I did, I would be dead today,” Detzel said. “So it was life or... Read More...

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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. - better therapies, better medications. But getting that kind of quality treatment is still super hard in most of ... Read More...

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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 with mental illness are more likely to receive substance care and more likely to be diagnosed with psychoti... Read More...

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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 method with 5,700 veterans. Rewards are vouchers the vets redeem at their local canteen. Over the years... Read More...

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Philip Speer’s Sobriety Led To a New Kind of Restaurant

WELL DONE – Sept. 13, 2022 - Speer described it as a “hazy cycle” of working and partying that was encouraged by restaurant managers and owners because of how it kept staff tight-knit and locked in. A ha... Read More...

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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 a crutch that he couldn’t live without. Well into his twenties, Kenan appeared to be a functioning hu... Read More...

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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, MS, MPA, LCDP-II, LADC-I, who runs Addiction Recovery Counseling and serves as an adjunct professor ... Read More...

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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 illuminate how ketamine could offer more than just brief relief to people whose depression is resistant to o... Read More...

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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, accelerated by the pandemic, which led many people to be more health conscious. The global ma... Read More...

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

IT’S COMPLICATED – Sept. 12, 2022 - Yet, the insanity defense has been used in numerous trials involving school or community shootings. Found incompetent to stand trial or guilty but “mentally ill,” perp... Read More...

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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 a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa. For ... Read More...

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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 to contribute, and we don’t want to hang onto that,” Clemmer said. “...When I can give back, it just works.” It ... Read More...

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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 consequences, recovery is often marked by the fulfillment of basic needs, enhancement... Read More...

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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 for recovery. It includes evidence-based counseling, family treatment, recovering peer groups, medic... Read More...

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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 calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centr... Read More...

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