Jan 9 2024

6 Ways To Cure Your Crippling Phone Addiction

YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO READ THIS – Jan. 4, 2024 - Are you resolving to cut down your screen time in 2024? Here are a cyberpsychologist’s best tips for using smartphones mindfully … And while social media can be ... Read More...

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Frankie Grande Says Sobriety ‘Repaired Relationships with Ariana and My Family’

SISTERLY LOVE – Jan. 5, 2024 - “It was a rock bottom moment. It was after the Manchester bombing and I realized that I could not show up to help my family,” he explained, referring to the suicide bombing that l... Read More...

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‘If I Did Not Get Sober, I Wouldn’t Be Here Anymore’

YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE – Jan. 2, 2024 - The Summer House star shares how he turned his life around after a scary rock-bottom moment. I had lukewarm Milwaukee Best Light, and I remember being so sick from a co... Read More...

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Lucy Hale Marks Two Years of Sobriety

AIN’T NO LIE – Jan. 2, 2023 - In a heartfelt post celebrating two years of sobriety, the Pretty Little Liars alum reflected on how the decision to quit drinking has changed her life. “This continues to be th... Read More...

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Suzanne Shaw Gets 4 Years Sober and Shares ‘embarrassing’ Throwback Videos

VIDEO – LOOKING BACK oh my – Jan. 5, 2024 - Suzanne put together a montage video to mark the milestone, including clips of herself that she called ‘embarrassing’ when she did drink, telling fans how it was ‘time to... Read More...

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Matthew Perry’s Death Underscores Significance of Buprenorphine

OPINION PIECE – Dec. 31, 2023 - I think is just as important to point out is what was NOT found in Perry’s system: opioids such as heroin, oxycodone and the highly potent, synthetic fentanyl ... While the exac... Read More...

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Is Ketamine Safe for Depression, and Is It Addictive?

BETTER USE AS DIRECTED – Dec. 21, 2023 - To understand more about ketamine, how it works and when doctors use it to help with depression in supervised settings, we consulted with Dr. Pat Fehling, a psychiatris... Read More...

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‘Immediate’ Benefits of Stopping Drinking

PROFOUND – Jan. 2, 2024 - An hour after stopping drinking, your blood pressure will begin to improve which will in turn benefit brain cells and improve the delivery of nutrients. Then you’ll find balance will ... Read More...

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‘Jesse’s Gift’ Is About Addiction, Forgiveness and Touching Hearts

MOVIES TELL GREAT STORIES – Jan. 6, 2023 - The movie portrays a real picture of someone who has fallen to that low place and, as such, does have scenes of drinking, being drunk and a strip club (with no nudity). “We ... Read More...

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‘I Love Not Drinking’: A Sober Anthem for Dry January music

VIDEO – SING A SONG OF FREEDOM – Jan. 5, 2024 - Eric Hirshberg’s “I Love Not Drinking” is not your typical sobriety song. Released to coincide with Dry January — the month where people attempt to not drink for 31 ... Read More...

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Alcohol-Free Festival for the Sober-Curious

IT’S A START – Jan 2, 2024 - In a city as famously boozy as Philly, the concept of a “dry January” can be hard to envision. But for Philadelphians who are committing to an alcohol-free start to the new year, an upcom... Read More...

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Iran Hangs Nine Drug Dealers

OVERKILL – Jan. 2024 - Iran lies on a major opium-smuggling route between Afghanistan and Europe and has one of the world’s highest rates of domestic opiate use. In June, Amnesty International reported that Ir... Read More...

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JUDAS PRIEST’s ROB HALFORD Celebrates 38 Years

AUDIO – QUITTING WORKS – Jan. 6, 2024 - Each one of you make this sober birthday happen. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is uncharted. Today is all that matters. Prayer, self-inventory, amending, holding out your hand ... Read More...

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Top 7 Addiction Treatment Methods of 2023

USE THEM NOW – Jan. 3, 2024 - Excessive social media use mimics addiction—and can be self-treated. During 2023, a trend gained steam, mostly among young people: the use of so-called “dumb phones” that do nex... Read More...

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Doctors As Vulnerable to Addiction As Anyone

STEALING SCRIPTS NOT NECESSARY – Jan. 4, 2024 - Ariella Morrow, an internal medicine doctor, gradually slid from healthy self-esteem and professional success into the depths of depression. She suffered a strin... Read More...

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How John Coltrane’s ‘My Favorite Things’ Changed American Music

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – Jan./Feb. 2024 - Looking back at the moment when one of our greatest jazzmen raised the stakes for everyone who came after. They gathered one afternoon in late October of 1960, at the At... Read More...

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Infant’s Capability for Consciousness

THEY KNOW! – Jan. 2, 2024 - When does consciousness begin? There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers... Read More...

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My 30-Year Quitting Addiction

ESSAY THIS – Jan. 5, 2024 - I quit meat. Then cigarettes. Then alcohol. Then caffeine. Then eating after 8 p.m. What am I doing? Four times out of five, when I tell a person that I don’t drink, that person res... Read More...

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Flesh Rotting Drug Stays Popular

PHOTO GALLERY – DARE YOU TO LOOK? – Dec. 30, 2023 - Tranq makes life darker. The opioid crisis has morphed into something even scarier: a variable, volatile mix of addictive substances. READ@WSJ ... Read More...

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9 Easy Ways to Be Healthier in 2024

AND NO BOOZE – Jan. 2, 2024 - Sometimes trying to be healthy feels like just another item on your endless, exhausting to-do list. Here on NPR’s health team, we don’t want to add to anyone’s stress. The good news is t... Read More...

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Consulting Company Fined $78 Million For Opioid Deaths

NO JAIL TIME? – Dec, 30, 2023 - Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $78 million to resolve claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that it fueled an epidemic of opioid addiction through its w... Read More...

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Is the “God factor” Necessary For Addiction Recovery?

LIVING IN AWE – Jan. 5, 2023 - “We’ve put fancy names on idolatry like addiction, but things like addiction just provide a temporal satisfaction. If we’re worshiping the creation — or something temporal — rath... Read More...

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Robert Downey Jr.’s Real-Life Story

ARTISTS ARE SO PECULIAR – Jan. 3, 2024 - The role that made critics sit up and take notice of Robert Downey Jr. came in director Marek Kanievska’s “Less Than Zero,” the 1987 adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel ... Read More...

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Danny Trejo Recalls Being ‘Dead Drunk’ Before Getting Sober 55 Years Ago

VIDEO – WALKING THE WALK – Jan. 5, 2024 - ‘Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth’ actor Danny Trejo got sober in 1968 after finding God. We asked the “Machete” actor how he managed to remain sober for more than five decades... Read More...

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Six New Year’s Resolutions for People in Recovery

LIKE 6 STEPS! – Jan. 2, 2024 - For people in recovery, consider the following options for simple self-improvement as you plan your resolutions and attainable goals for the New Year: Simplify Your Life Cl... Read More...

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Overdoses Prevented by Treating Addiction as Health Problem

SICK PEOPLE NEED HELP – Jan. 2, 2024 - Kenneth Purnell knows what it’s like to fight “the monster of addiction.” So does Jerome McNutt. Both men got clean in recent years after multiple stints behind bars and ... Read More...

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Can We Solve Our Addiction to Consumerism?

PODCAST – RENT – Jan. 5, 2024 - Alarmed by the rising tide of waste we are all creating, my family and I decided to try to make do with much less. But while individual behaviour is important, real change will require... Read More...

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Joe Don Rooney on Early Sobriety, Denies Rumors He’s Transitioning

WHAT STEP IS THAT? – Jan, 3, 2024 - Months after finalizing his divorce, Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney is entering 2024 with a new perspective. The country musician, 48, shared a lengthy note to X (fo... Read More...

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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

VIDEO – STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH – March 7, 2008 - Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Isadora Duncan

“You were Wild once. Don’t let Them Tame you.” – Isadora Duncan, 1877-1927 ... Read More...

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