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Kit Harington Opens Up About Sobriety and ‘Exorcising Demons’

VIDEO – GAME OF GROANS – Feb. 24, 2022 - Harington says that when some people find out that he’s playing the role of Henry V, their first thought is of his Game of Thrones character Jon Snow. While he admits t... Read More...

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Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students

THE VEXED GENERATION – Feb. 18, 2022 - This is the way I frame a lot of the talk about happiness on the podcast: Our minds lie to us. We have strong intuitions about the things that will make us happy, and we u... Read More...

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4 U.S. Companies Will Pay $26 BILLION To Settle Claims For Opioid Crisis

AUDIO – WHEN? – Feb. 25, 2022 - “This settlement represents real accountability,” said North Carolina state Attorney General Josh Stein, who helped negotiate the deal. Stein noted that most of the funds are ... Read More...

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Seeing Addiction as a Disease

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET – Feb. 24, 2022 - “We’re in what is now becoming known as the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic. The first wave was the over-prescription of analgesics like oxycodone, morphine and... Read More...

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Amphetamine Use Linked to Heightened Risk of Psychosis Among Women

ISN’T REAL LIFE IS SCARY ENOUGH? – Feb. 19, 2022 - These psychotic episodes usually subside after a few days, but may persist for years in up to 15% of users. While the link between amphetamine misuse and ps... Read More...

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Elton John Is Eminem’s Unofficial Sponsor

GOING THE EXTRA 8 MILES – Feb. 25, 2022 - Elton John has been living sober for over 30 years. And in that time, the Grammy-winning artist has been able to reflect on his life before and after he found his sobr... Read More...

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A Frustrating Path “From Mental Illness to Mental Health”

A FAILED SYSTEM – Feb. 22, 2022 - Dr. Insel, 70, who left N.I.M.H. in 2015, calls the advances in neuroscience of the last 20 years “spectacular” — but in the very first pages of his new book, he says that, fo... Read More...

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Agents Seize $3M in Meth Hidden in Onions

THAT’S A LOT OF TEARS – Feb. 26, 2022 - “This was not only a clever attempt to try and smuggle in narcotics, one I haven’t seen before, but also time consuming to wrap narcotics into these small packages,... Read More...

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Gaming Addiction Is Now a Globally Recognized Illness

VIDEO – NO TIME FOR MANICURES – Feb. 24, 2022 - Among gamers and parents and even within the medical community, there’s disagreement about whether gaming addiction is real. Either way, the WHO’s designation cou... Read More...

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Bitcoin, Recovery and an Addiction to Debt

A GLOBAL OBSESSION – Feb. 23, 2022, - Many people’s lives are characterized by similar obsessive-compulsive behaviors. People can be addicted to work, sex, food, power, wealth, possessions and so on. Any extern... Read More...

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Treating Drug Dealers Like Serial Killers by Chris Dale

EXAMINING THE CHARGES AGAINST 4 MEN CONNECTED TO ACTOR MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS’ DEATH – Feb. 28, 2022 - Twenty years to life. That’s how much prison time 39-year-old Irvin Cartagena faces for allegedly cau... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine

"We know what we are protecting: the country, the land, the future of our children." —President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine ... Read More...

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Lottie Moss sings about drugs and dances to the Euphoria theme song in bizarre videos filmed at rehab – after revealing she has a cocaine addiction

VIDEO – ON THE EDGE – Feb. 17, 2022 - In another video with a kaleidoscope style filter, Lottie danced around to the theme song for Euphoria. The HBO drama stars Zendaya and follows a group of high school stud... Read More...

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West Palm Beach Doctor Convicted of $31 Million Health Care Fraud

VIDEO – MONEY IS ADDICTIVE – Feb. 11, 2022 - A doctor known for his expertise in treating alcoholism and drug abuse faces decades behind bars after he was convicted of helping bilk insurance companies out of mi... Read More...

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CDC To Soften Opioid Prescription Guidelines

VIDEO – GOING BACKWARDS? – Feb. 12, 2022 - Opioids can be an important tool in treating severe pain from cancer, surgery and serious injuries. But they also can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ ord... Read More...

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Woman Beats Addiction

VIDEO – LIVES TO HELP OTHERS – Feb. 15, 2022 - “Pain pills, cocaine ... the one that took me the furthest down was meth,” said Dykes. Dykes continued to struggle with addiction even after her son Addison wa... Read More...

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‘Lisa’s Light’: Couple Aim to Illuminate Addiction

CATHARSIS – Feb. 16, 2022 - Her parents, Gary and Judy Stoefen, have written a book detailing her successes and challenges in hopes that it will steer others from a similar path. The couple, who met while gr... Read More...

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Signs of Porn Addiction and When to Get Help

AUDIO – POWERFUL – Feb. 12, 2022 - “At this point in time, there is no recognized diagnosis of ‘pornography addiction,’ and there is no evidence that pornography is inherently ‘addictive’,” Joshua Grubbs, asso... Read More...

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Delilah Hamlin Celebrates 6 Months of Sobriety After Accidental Overdose

VIDEO – ALIVE AND WELL – Feb. 18, 2022 - “I found a psychiatrist and he over-prescribed me,” she said. “He over-prescribed me with one medication that one of my friends takes for 10 milligrams and he gave me 2... Read More...

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Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Out of Reach for Many Americans

NOT ALL EQUAL – Feb. 17, 2022 - These gaps in care put patients struggling with OUD at risk, and many need effective treatment now more than ever. Understanding these disparities can help state policymakers imp... Read More...

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Is Marijuana Addictive?

HABIT FORMING – Feb. 17, 2022 - Addiction and dependency are two terms that are often used interchangeably. There are differences between the two. Addiction happens when a person uses a substance such as al... Read More...

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Can ‘Safe’ Injection Sites Make a Difference?

IS ICE CREAM COLD? – Feb. 17, 2022 - This month, drug-policy experts also flagged the Department of Justice’s decision to revisit the federal government’s opposition to a safe drug-injection site in Philadelphi... Read More...

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I Am an Alcoholic In Rehab

VIDEO – FIRST HAND ACCOUNT – Feb. 19, 2022 - As I write this in my marble notebook, I am a stereotype, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette, dry just a few days. It’s a chilly morning for Southern California. I... Read More...

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Interview with Leigh Steinberg a.k.a. Jerry Maguire

TOUCHDOWN – Feb. 15, 2022 - The first drink was Russian Roulette. After I took the first drink, it wasn’t clear what would be the eventual outcome. It could be anything from a blackout where I did not remember ... Read More...

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Jane Lynch on Her Sobriety: In and Out and In Again

VIDEO – ON THE PATH – Feb. 16, 2022 - “The first time you , it’s like: ‘Ah, I found it. I feel happy in my body, this feeling of bliss. No one can say anything to me that would make me upset or feel badly about... Read More...

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I Was An Addicted Doctor: Rehab Made Me Question How Much We Understand About Addiction

THE DOCTOR’S OPINION – Feb. 8, 2022 - The next day, I meet with the whole treatment team – half a dozen psychiatrists, therapists and counsellors facing me across a massive table in one of those windowles... Read More...

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Marian Keyes on Sobriety and Marriage

ALL THE RIGHT NOTES – Feb. 15, 2022 - Lauded by contemporaries, including David Nicholls and Jo Jo Moyes, there’s light and dark in all Keyes’ novels, equal measures of hilarity and heartbreak. She has explore... Read More...

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Elle King, Multi-Grammy Nominee on Motherhood and Sobriety

A MOST CREATIVE ACT – Feb. 15, 2022 - Later in the interview, King, 32, publicly disclosed for the first time that she had contracted COVID-19 during the Christmas holidays and that it had spread to at least on... Read More...

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Sackler Family Offers an Extra Billion Dollars to Avoid Prosecution

KILLERS – Feb. 18, 2022 - Members of the billionaire Sackler family have sweetened their cash offer to settle thousands of opioid-related lawsuits against them and their company, Purdue Pharma, offering up to ... Read More...

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Marian Keyes: From Alcoholism To Author of the Year

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE LEXAPRO – Feb. 18, 2022 - After reading the short story, Poolbeg Press contacted Keyes to ask her to write a full-length book which resulted in Keyes writing her first novel, Waterm... Read More...

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