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Fentanyl-Laced Vape Pens Among Teens Concern

WATCH – STILL DON’T BELIEVE IN EVIL? – Dec. 2, 2021 - The DEA says they know just the smallest presence of fentanyl in powder form poses a public safety risk, but what’s concerning about the danger of ingestin... Read More...

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Drugs Nearly Destroyed This New Mexico Town. Meet the Survivors

THE LAND OF RE-ENCHANTMENT – Dec. 3, 2021 - My family has called Chimayó home for more than 300 years, and I spent most of my summers there with my grandmother in the 1960s and 1970s, surrounded by relatives w... Read More...

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New York City’s NEW Supervised Injection Sites Reversed 9 Deaths In Less Than a Week

WATCH – HEAVEN CAN WAIT – Dec. 4, 2021 - The mayor says workers intervened as overdoses were happening. The drug injection centers are the first of their kind in the nation. Overdose Prevention Cen... Read More...

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New York Opens First Supervised Safe Injection Sites

NEW YORK ENLIGHTENED STATE OF MIND – Nov. 30, 2021 - Mayor Bill de Blasio began championing safe injection sites in 2018, citing their use and success in European and Canadian cities. The decision to officiall... Read More...

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Teen Making a Difference for Those Impacted By Addiction

WATCH – NEVER TOO YOUNG TO HELP – Nov. 24, 2021 - “Seeing Mom going through rehab and jail, it made me feel like I was alone,” Smith said. “My anger kept building up, and I didn’t know. I felt worthless. I fel... Read More...

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One Drink Can Age Your Brain by ‘11 years’ if Consumed More Than Twice Daily

DON’T FORGET TO QUIT – Nov. 21, 2021 - One study from Boston University School of Medicine followed a cohort of 4,200 people, who periodically underwent cognition and memory tests. Participants were asked t... Read More...

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Volunteers of America Launches Program for Parents with Addiction

WATCH – MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION – Nov. 23, 2021 - More than four years later, Compton, 33, is sober, has a job with Volunteers of America Mid-States, the non-profit agency that helped her, and is studying for... Read More...

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Marc Lee Shannon Celebrates Sobriety

NOT TOO MANY NOTES! – Nov. 25, 2021 - “I’m ... just celebrating that whole feeling of if you would have told me eight years ago that I’d be sitting here talking to you (from Joshua Tree) getting ready to relea... Read More...

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America’s Gambling Addiction is Metastasizing

THAT’S A BIG SPREAD – Nov. 2021 - As a direct result, sports-betting revenues grew 69 percent from 2019 to 2020 and another 270 percent during the first quarter of 2021. Total gambling revenues in the U.S. are... Read More...

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He Overcame Childhood Trauma to Become an MMA Champ

THE REAL FIGHT OF HIS LIFE – Nov. 26, 2021 - He was too young at the time to truly understand that this was the result of alcohol addiction, but his family tried to explain it to him anyway, referring to those... Read More...

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Woman Suing Former Rehab CEO Speaks Out

WATCH – SHE’LL HAVE HER DAY IN COURT – NOV. 24, 2021 - Speaking under conditions of anonymity to protect her identity, the woman who goes by the fictitious name of “Gahyne Doahe” to protect her identity explai... Read More...

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5 Main Benefits of Visiting an Addiction Medicine Specialist

A SECOND OPINION – Nov. 24, 2021 - Some addiction medicine specialists treat only alcohol addictions. Others will go beyond this and offer treatment for dependency on other drugs. As a patient, you’ll benefit great... Read More...

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Ketamine Klinics Treating Mental Injury Emerge in Seattle

KINDA KOOL IF IT WORKS – Nov. 28, 2021 - Carnahan is the director at a Westlake clinic opened last month by Field Trip Health, a Nasdaq-listed company selling medically supervised “psychedelic journeys.” She c... Read More...

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A New Wearable Could Detect and Reverse Overdoses

WORTH PUTTING ON CLOTHES – Nov. 28, 2021 - “Discreetness and comfort are high priorities for these sorts of devices. Traditionally, naloxone is administered either nasally or through intramuscular injection. S... Read More...

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DMX Doc Director on DMX: “I partially owe my sobriety to him”

WE ALL OWE SOMEONE – Nov. 27, 2021 - “You know that thing when you meet somebody famous and you’re super disappointed. It was the complete opposite of that,” Frierson said. “It was like everything I hoped for ... Read More...

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2019 Experience Strength and Hope Awards Recipient, Jodie Sweetin, on Getting Sober

SOBRIETY IS THE SWEETEST THING – Nov. 22, 2021 - “How do I manage my own head that is just loud and negative and awful to me sometimes, but nobody else can hear it? You’re stuck in it,” the 39-year-old told Al... Read More...

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In UK Alcoholics & Addicts Who Died While Receiving Treatment Rose by a 25%, ‘Shocking’ Stats Show…Due to Lack of Face-to-Face Care

WE CAN’T SEE YOU NOW – Nov. 25, 2021 - But ‘changes to lifestyle and social circumstances during lockdowns’, as well as Covid itself, may have also driven the death rate upwards, it added. Ian Hamilton, a d... Read More...

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‘Epic’ Oregon Seizure of Marijuana in 6 Staggering Photos

WEED USUALLY PREVENTS SEIZURES – Nov. 21, 2021 - Oregon State Police said it had seized roughly 500,000 pounds of processed marijuana in the latest large-scale bust in southern Oregon. Troopers served a war... Read More...

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How to Buy Used Gifts This Holiday to Save The Earth

PASSING IT ON – Nov. 24, 2021 - I love the double dopamine hit that comes from buying something new—the rush when you click “purchase,” and the second one when it arrives at your door and you tear open the box... Read More...

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South Dakota’s Supreme Court Says NO to Legalization of Marijuana

TOURIST TRAPS BUMMED OUT – Nov. 24, 2021 - The South Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that nullified a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution that would have legalized recre... Read More...

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Rumer Willis Talks Sobriety, Family & Mom’s 2012 Relapse

REAL SOBER SISTERHOOD – Nov. 24, 2021 - Following the traumatic event, Willis and her sisters stopped communicating with the “Ghost” actor for three years. Willis is now shedding light on that period of estran... Read More...

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Visited Mother’s Grave First Time After Spending 43 Years In Prison Because He’s Black

RESPECT YOUR ANCESTORS – Nov. 24, 2021 - The first thing Kevin Strickland did after being exonerated for a triple murder he didn’t commit was visit his mother’s grave. “To know my mother was underneath that... Read More...

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Social Media Addiction – How It Changes OUR Brains

WATCH – SHRINKAGE? – Nov. 28, 2021 - • All desire comes from us feeling like we lack something, which can bring us into a dangerous, vicious habit because there will always be another model to find. W... Read More...

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Deny Public Housing Over Marijuana Use Insists Biden Administration

HOMELESS FOREVER? – Nov. 10, 2021 - “Absent a change in federal law, HUD does not have the discretion to admit users of marijuana, including medical marijuana, to the Public Housing program,” the letter states... Read More...

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So Many Choices for Treatment

ANY IS BETTER THAN NONE? – Nov. 16, 2021 - As we’ve mentioned, both inpatient and outpatient programs use a variety of therapy techniques for addiction counseling. Some of the more common types of behavioral t... Read More...

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From Addict to Amazing

MOST OF US ARE – Nov. 15, 2021 - Recovering from addiction sometimes takes years, or working through multiple programs before it sticks. Pile a mental health condition on top, and recovery can seem in... Read More...

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32 Years Clean and Sober

STRAIGHT UP – Nov. 19, 2021 - To celebrate 32 years of sobriety, I ran a 5k (3.1 miles) in West Burlington at a benefit for Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice called “Miles and Memories.” Considering how close to... Read More...

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A Rabbi Helped Me Understand the Stigma Addiction Carries

CARRY THAT WEIGHT – Nov. 18, 2021 - Waves of agony repeatedly knocked the breath out of me, as pressure built behind my eyes, producing visual auras that blurred my sight and made me nauseous. The pain was so ... Read More...

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