Warning Signs of Video Game Addiction Anti-Social Network – July 11, 2019 - Last year, the World Health Organization added gaming disorder to a draft of its latest revision to the International Classification of Diseases. Gaming disorder is defined as “i... Read More...July 23 2019
Prescription opioid overdoses drop, as fentanyl deaths skyrocket United States of Overconsumption – July 19, 2019 - “It’s great that it’s moving in the right direction,” says Adam Leventhal, director of the University of Southern California’s Institute for Addiction Science. “It’... Read More...July 23 2019
Doctor Gets 113 Years For Deadly Pill Mill Med School For This? – JULY 12, 2019 - “It is designed to deter anyone from abusing the trust given to them by patients in need,” said Stark County Common Pleas Judge Kristin Farmer. “While this court does not blame ... Read More...July 23 2019
I Competed in Pageants That Gave Me Lasting Body Image Issues Mirror, mirror on the wall... – July 15, 2019 - I try to remember every piece of choreography I’ve been rehearsing — knee slightly forward, angled just right to pull my core muscles taut. A sharp pivot w... Read More...July 23 2019
The Advantages of Optimism What, Me Worry? – JULY 20, 2019 - “Optimism isn’t about pretending to be happy when you’re not, acting like problems don’t exist, or taking chances on blind faith,” explains Dr. Jerabek, president of PsychTests. “I... Read More...July 23 2019
New York Raises Statewide Smoking Age to 21 Reversing History – JULY 16, 2019 - The change, which takes effect in 120 days, will apply to the sales of traditional tobacco products as well as electronic cigarettes and vaporizers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Demo... Read More...July 23 2019
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom in the Conquest of Happiness Addiction’s Not Boring – By Maria Popova - What applies to drugs applies also, within limits, to every kind of excitement. A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stim... Read More...July 23 2019
Cesar Pelli, Designer of Iconic Buildings Around the World, Dies at 92 If You Build It... – July 20, 2019 - Although Mr. Pelli’s office thrived, the MoMA building didn’t. Completed in 1984, a portion of it was torn down in 2002 so that the museum could replace it with a larger st... Read More...July 23 2019
Hayley Holt: How Sobriety Made Her Braver And Stronger Feeling Good – July 22, 2019 - It has been over a year since Hayley Holt switched from debating politics as a Green Party candidate to talking news, sport and entertainment on Breakfast each morning, but her pa... Read More...July 23 2019
Listening to Ecstasy with Charley Winniger Suggested by Andrew Tatarsky – Published on Jul 21, 2019 - What is the best way to respond to all the fear and madness all around us? In this brief video, I offer a better way to approach a world going insane right b... Read More...July 23 2019
Ivan Neville Dishes on the Stones, Sobriety and the Sweet Life Rock ’n’ Soul Sobriety – JULY 19, 2019 - It was thrilling! very fun, one of those things... you get the opportunity to play a show like that in a venue like the Superdome at home, and things just seem to click... Read More...July 23 2019
Smartphone Addiction is Very Real Where Is Yours? – July 19, 2019 - Today, Americans view their smartphones an average of 52 times per day. Eighty-five percent of smartphone users will also check their device in the middle of conversation... Read More...July 23 2019
‘Hospital Heroin’: How Medical Professionals Cope With Addiction Taming Temptation – July 15, 2019 - “It’s hard to get pain medicine because most doctors are fairly strict about it now, so when you have that addiction being a nurse, it is right there and it is a temptation,” Marti... Read More...July 23 2019
Louvre in Paris Removes Sackler Name After Opioid Protests Even Evil Families Love Art – July 18, 2019 - the Tate group of galleries in London have said they will no longer accept Sackler money, and the Sackler Trust has frozen new donations. The Louvre’s preside... Read More...July 23 2019
Spiritual Adrenaline: Addiction Recovery Through Nutrition and Exercise Higher Muscle Power – JULY 17, 2019, - Founder, and recovering addict, Tom Shanahan, founded Spiritual Adrenaline as a new way to treat addiction by focusing on the body’s overall health. Focusing on nutrition ... Read More...July 23 2019
Executive Corner with Anna David Stick with the Winners! Anna David is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books. She’s been published in The New York Times, Time and The LA Times, among many others, and has appeared repeatedly on The Tod... Read More...July 23 2019
Four Ordinary People Who Took on Big Pharma Burying Their Young – July 20, 2019 - It was the early 2000s, and they usually talked over old-school computer message boards. Occasionally they gathered in person, carrying posters of their children and middle-aged ... Read More...July 23 2019
Story Details Roy Halladay’s Struggle With Drug Addiction No Extra Innings – JULY 17, 2019 - The story also details Halladay’s struggle with fame and restlessness, and fleshes out what we know about Halladay’s relationship with drugs after he retired from baseball. Halladay... Read More...July 23 2019
Scotland on Brink of Becoming the Drug Death Capital of the World Are There No Edens? – July 15, 2019 - Scotland’s biggest challenge is tackling the polydrug habits that see many long-term addicts mix heroin and methadone with alcohol, prescription pills and street drugs tha... Read More...July 23 2019
Drug Company emails Show Indifference to Thousands of Opioid Deaths Salesmen of Death – July 19, 2019 - The Controlled Substances Act requires drug companies to control against diversion, and to design and operate systems to identify “suspicious orders,” defined as “orders of unusual... Read More...July 23 2019
Ex-Pharma Chief Charged with Killing Appalachian Towns with Opioids Guilty As Sin – July 19, 2019 - Rattini is accused of distributing powerful narcotic painkillers for other than medical reasons to more than 200 pharmacies across West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee. Ra... Read More...July 23 2019
Opioid Distributor Sent 6 Million Pain Pills To Small Town Stockholders Rejoice – July 21, 2019 - Federal prosecutors in Ohio indicted a pharmaceutical wholesaler, two former executives, and two pharmacists Thursday for conspiring to illegally distribute millions of addictiv... Read More...July 23 2019
My Child Recovered From Her Addiction. But I’m Not Sure I Ever Really Will. AL-ANON ESSAY – July 20, 2019 - She checked herself back into treatment. Detox and recovery were more difficult this time. When I talked to her, she didn’t sound like herself, and I wondered if her beautiful m... Read More...July 23 2019
Ex-TV anchor reveals turning point from sex and drug addiction Brave Man Speaks Out – July 22, 2019 - Former TV anchor Brandon Lee opens up about his struggles with addiction and his push to change the public perception and stigma surrounding addiction in the US. VIDEO ONLY F... Read More...July 23 2019
‘My Heart Still Beats’: An Intimate Conversation On Addiction And Recovery The Talking Cure – July 19, 2019 - Six Vermonters shared their stories with VPR as part of My Heart Still Beats, a podcast series featuring conversations about addiction and original writing from the recovery communi... Read More...July 23 2019
Paul Krassner, anarchist and leader of the Yippies, dies at 87 Fearless and thorough from the very start – July 21, 2019 - An FBI agent once described him in a letter to Life magazine as “a raving, unconfined nut,” a phrase that Mr. Krassner gleefully adapted for the title of hi... Read More...July 23 2019
Treatment Center Owner Pleads Guilty to $57 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy Green Showers – July 9, 2019 - Kyle Ryan Marcotte, 36, of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Toomey of the Middle District of Florida to a one-count information chargi... Read More...July 23 2019
Buzz Aldrin forced to save Apollo 11 Moon landing after fatal Neil Armstrong error 50 Years - Walking on the Moon – July 15, 2019 - Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and in light of that, a series of stories and documents have been released to mark the event. ... Read More...July 23 2019
See the DEA’s Pain Pill Database INTERACTIVE: This Page is a Trip – July 21, 2019 - The Washington Post sifted through nearly 380 million transactions from 2006 through 2012 that are detailed in the DEA’s database and analyzed shipments of oxycodo... Read More...July 23 2019
Buzz Aldrin on Long-Term Sobriety Walking the Walk, One Day at a Time – FROM August 2, 2016 By John Lavitt – Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, celebrating 37 years (now 40 years) of sobriety, reflects on his challenges after coming back from the Moon and what d... Read More...July 23 2019