Leah McSweeney Shares Her Sobriety ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK – May 6, 2022 - Once COVID hit, I knew quarantining and the way I drink would not work well together...to say the least,” Leah said at the time in an interview with Us Weekly. “Not drin... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusinterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRehab
Brad Pitt Credits Bradley Cooper For Helping Him Overcome Addiction LIKE BINARY STARS – May 7, 2022 - Following the announcement of his split from Jolie in 2017, Pitt opened up about his struggles with addiction. “I can’t remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn’t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Ex-Derby-Winning Jockey Reveals Suicidal Struggle With Alcoholism NEW DOCUMENTARY – May 1, 2020 - “When I think back to that night , I wonder how could I have been thinking like that? Imagine all I would have missed,” he says. “My thinking was completely gone by then. So whet... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRehabTrauma
Sobriety Boosted Their Careers NO MORE 3 MARTINI LUNCH – April 30, 2022 - “I wasn’t an alcoholic and never went to a 12-step program, yet I didn’t have a healthy relationship with alcohol. It had become the place I turned to numb, self-sooth... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusinterventionInterviewMay 10 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
The Big Happiness Interview IF NOT NOW, WHEN? – May 1, 2022 - ‘We are not seeing “rock-bottom alcoholics” who look like they have no choice but to quit. Instead, we are seeing people who do not look on the outside like they have a proble... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
CrossFit Legend Reveals How Sobriety Makes Him Stronger VIDEO – ONE BENCH PRESS AT A TIME – May 5, 2022 - His wake up call came when he got yet another drinking citation at 17, bringing it home to his father who was so used to the summons that he didn’t react. Fras... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Dr. Louise Stanger and Katie Couric Talk About Addiction AUDIO – TELLING THE TRUTH – April 21, 2022 - On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie invites her friend and award winning broadcast journalist Elizabeth Vargas to co-host and help find some u... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 10 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Terry Crews on Abusive Upbringing In His New Memoir VIDEO – BEAT THEM TO THE PUNCH – April 29, 2022 - Entertainer Terry Crews joins Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager to discuss his new memoir, “Tough: My Journey to True Power,” which takes readers behind the curtai... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Woman With Global Fashion Success: There Is ‘Life After Addiction’ VIDEO – A BETTER LIFE TOO – April 27, 2022 - She later moved to London, as she needed medical treatment following an accident after she overdosed. “I’d caused myself a severe head injury through an overdose ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022OverdoseRecoveryRehabTrauma
Breaking the Misconceptions of Sobriety AUDIO – ROSECRANCE PRODUCED – April 27, 2022 - Tune in while Rosecrance’s Director of Alumni Relations Colleen Fry and Paul Gilmet who is the Director of Access at Rosecrance’s Lakeview Campus join WGN’s John ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Megan Fox Opens Up About Her Sobriety SOUNDS COMPLICATED – April 27, 2022 - And, she says it all comes down to how it makes her feel. “I’m not saying you have to be like that. I’m saying for me, that’s how I feel the best. When I was in Costa Rica,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRehab
Dave Coulier Says His Sobriety Helped Him Grieve the Deaths of His Brother, Dad and Bob Saget VIDEO – AND YOU GET YOUR FEELINGS BACK – April 29, 2022 - “He was texting me and making me laugh and we were texting back and forth and making each other laugh very, very hard,” recalled Coulier. “The last thin... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Wife On Kit Harington’s Sobriety: It’s His Deal! Al-ANON ANYONE? – April 29, 2022 - Leslie and Harington married in 2018 and welcomed a baby boy in 2021. He checked into a wellness retreat in 2019 “to work on some personal issues,” according to his represent... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRehab
Why Alcoholism Is More Complex for Black Women AUDIO – IN HER SHOES – April 26, 2022 - It’s hard to see you have a problem when nobody around sees it. That was the experience of Khadi Oluwatoyin, the founder of Sober Black Girls Club. Growing up, Oluwat... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Ireland Baldwin Recalls Being “Tortured” by Eating Disorders VIDEO – WHEN SNACK FOODS KILL – April 26, 2022 - “I just hit a total breaking point,” she told the talk show’s co-host Willow Smith. “I was self-medicating with Xanax and I was drinking. And I have a lot of al... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Empire of Pain – Audiobook Review LISTENING TO CRIMINALS – April 29, 2022 - A remarkable piece of narrative reporting and a sweeping family saga, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s award-winning book about the Sackler family and its role... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 3 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecovery
Florence Welch Talks Sobriety & The Lure of Motherhood SOBRIETY IS BIRTHING – April 26, 2022 - The photographer and director Autumn de Wilde, responsible for the album’s artwork and Welch’s new music videos, was instrumental in creating Florence’s new liberated wor... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewMay 3 2022RecoveryRehab
Artist Uses Woodworking To Overcome Addiction VIDEO – 12 WOODEN STEPS – April 19, 2022 - “It’s kind of amazing how many times I’ve heard the story that led them to woodworking,” Hardin said. One tool Hardin still keeps in his shop today is his Lufkin ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Denise Welch Celebrates 10 Years of Sobriety: ‘The best decision I ever made’ A DECADE WELL SPENT – April 19, 2022 - ‘10 yrs ago today I took my last alcoholic drink. Not a sherry trifle since and it’s been the best decision I ever made. It changed my life and the lives of everyone I lov... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
‘It cost me everything’: Coach Shares Sobriety Journey VIDEO – FROM SAUCE TO SPORTS – April 19, 2022 - For him, sobriety is a daily process. “Fourteen years, three months, and three days,” Dodd says. “I was 48 when I got sober.” Dodd shares his elite level m... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
The Ins and Outs of Recovering from Addiction FAMILY TIES – April 20, 2022 - By 24, Lisa was no longer in a relationship and started drinking more. The drinks allowed her to forget about her ex-boyfriend and feel free of any thoughts that would bring her d... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
I Took A Break From Weed After Smoking For 3 Years HOW LONG DID THAT LAST? – April 20, 2022 - Before I share how my “No Marijuana March” went, let me make a couple things clear: I love weed (still do), and I am certainly not condemning anyone who partakes in d... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewmarijuanapotRecoveryRehabsmokingweed
Keith Urban’s ‘Lucky’ That Addictions, Sobriety ‘Hasn’t Defined Creativity’ THE MUSE NEVER LEFT HIM – April 18, 2022 - Keith Urban says he’s “lucky” that his music and creativity remain unaffected by his sobriety now 15 years later. He told the Sunday Times, “I’m glad it didn’t change ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Nicki Minaj Opens Up About Sobriety VIDEO (at your own risk) – PUTTING AWAY THE GANGA – April 22, 2022 - “I used to b happy when I was high,” Nicki wrote in part. “Now I’m happy when I’m sober. No judgment to anyone. Be gentle with yourself.” Sh... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
‘Teen Mom 2’ Star Shares Uplifting Message About His Sobriety UP BUT NOT HIGH – April 20, 2022 - In an April 20 Instagram post, Sean shared a series of photos of him with his girlfriend, “Teen Mom” star Jade Cline, and their daughter, Kloie, alongside a lengthy capt... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
I Stopped Drinking And My Sex Life Changed FOR THE BETTER – April 19, 2022 - For three years, Liam and I hooked up in parks, parties, cars and alleys. For us, this was an act of defiance against anyone ― nuclear family members, acquaintances, strangers ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Steve-O’s Good Life In Sobriety VIDEO – CHANGE IS FREE OF CHARGE – April 22, 2022 - Approximately a year after announcing his sobriety, Steve-O, whose real name is Stephen Gilchrist Glover, teamed up with Lacey Schwimmer to compete on the ei... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 26 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
What Happens When You Lose Both Parents To Addiction PAIN & GRIEF – April 16, 2022 - Her dad’s addiction “spiraled” after her mom’s death. She lived with her dad and grandmother until she was five years old, and then her dad moved to Arizona; she continued to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 19 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthOverdoseRecoveryTrauma
Janet Devlin ‘almost died many times’ On Booze MORE THAN NINE LIVES – April 11, 2022 - It was just really bad I was literally going missing for days. “I wasn’t able to do any work and I wasn’t a functioning human at all, so something had to give. ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 19 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Emily Weir Says She Goes to AA Meetings for Her Battles with Alcoholism VIDEO – STEPS TO RECOVERY – April 13, 2022 - Weir said she first began experiencing anxiety and panic attacks when she was just 19, shortly after her parents divorced. She went through ‘what was effectivel... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 19 2022Celebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab