Abstinence NOT Required: Program Prioritizes Saving Lives STAYING ALIVE – June 11, 2023 - Doctors used metal plates to reconstruct his lower legs and Kelly spent months learning to walk again. So began his plodding journey into the depths of substance use disorder, a downwa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Corrections Employee Charged with Bringing Suboxone into Jail IS THAT WRONG? – June 15, 2023 - The charges against the ex-employees, 40-year-old Jessica Schroeder and 27-year-old Amanda Caban, date back to an incident last June in which an inmate at Wildwood was allegedly found... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Israeli Pharma Co. Pays $193M Opioid Settlement To Nevada PETTY CASH – June 7, 2023 - “This settlement is the most recent example of my office’s work to hold accountable those who contributed to the opioid epidemic facing Nevadans,” said AG Ford. “I am proud of the w... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Cara Delevingne Found Community Through Sobriety ANYONE CAN BE SOBER – June 15, 2023 - “It’s something you can’t hide. You can only be cured by talking about it,” Delevigne said about anxiety, which has been struggling with for years, according to PEOPLE. “I’m done... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Anthony Hopkins’ Raging Alcoholism Made Him Insufferable SILENCE OF THE DRINKING – June 11, 2023 - During his younger days in the industry, Sir Anthony Hopkins suffered from severe alcohol abuse, which goes back to his days as a theatre artist. But this addiction wo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJune 20 2023
Graduating from High School for Teens in Recovery AUTHENTIC HIGHER EDUCATION – June 16, 2023 - This was a moment they, at one point, believed would never happen, because they lived in fear that their young loved ones would end up dead of an overdose or flunki... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabteenagers
Escape Addiction and Sin No More SPAGO’S SERVES GOD and MAMMON – June 16, 2023 - When people experience something that they enjoy, the chemical dopamine is released in their bodies, creating a temporary feeling of pleasure. Since people enjoy that p... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 20 2023Mental Health
Use of Non-LSD Hallucinogens Increasing WHY BOTHER? – June 9, 2023 - “The use of psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs for a range of therapeutic uses is increasing, given accumulating yet still preliminary data from randomized trials on clinical effectiven... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023Psychedelics
Doctor Gets 12 Years for Bogus Prescriptions for Tens of Thousands of Pills HOW MANY OVERDOSED? – June 9, 2023 - Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham, 61, was sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison on Friday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The Tustin-based physician also was fined ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Teens Addicted to Opioids May Not Get Lifesaving Addiction Medication at Treatment Centers TEENAGE WASTEDLAND – June 15, 2023 - Only 1 in 4 residential addiction treatment programs for teenagers provide buprenorphine — or even know what it is, according to research published Tuesday in the Journal o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Suicide, Addiction, Abuse: Can ChatGPT Help? ONE CHAT AT A TIME – June 14, 2023 - The researchers also found ChatGPT provided evidence-based answers 91% of the time. ChatGPT is a large language model that picks up nuance and subtle language cues... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJune 20 2023Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Americans Drinking Same Amount of Alcohol As in Civil War RED BLUE SOUTH NORTH – June 14, 2023 - Alcohol consumption reached a national high in 1980, with Americans drinking an average of 2.8 gallons. 2021 saw the largest two-year increase since 1969 — 5.5% — and ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJune 20 2023
Request To Expand Number Of Beds At Recovery Home Denied BASTARDS – June 14, 2023 - “It really seems to serve as a disservice to the county made by this commission, county council to not not serve others that would need help,” he said. But neighbors like Amanda M... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Admit Future Patients Before They Even Know They’ve Hit Rock Bottom? WE ARE ALL DATA – June 8, 2023 - What words would you use to describe yourself? You might say you’re a dog owner, a parent, that you like Taylor Swift, or that you’re into knitting. If you feel like sharing, you migh... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionJune 20 2023Recovery
Golf Pro Inspires: “We all deserve a mulligan in life.” VIDEO – SOMETIMES TWO – June 16, 2023 - Frattarelli said, “That business (golf industry) was so prideful you had to be arrogant you had to unfortunately to survive. Being in the golf business, it was accepted; golf... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Cormac McCarthy, Celebrated Novelist, Passes at 89 THE END – June 13, 2023 - Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1933, McCarthy chronicled – in pared-back, dense, austere prose that prompted comparisons with authors including Herman Melville and William Faulk... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 20 2023
Whey Jennings Talks Sobriety in New Doc VIDEO – COUNTRY MUSIC IS ADDICTIVE – June 15, 2023 - I’ve been working my whole life to try and be the man I am today, up and down a lot of different roads,” Jennings says. “I was kind of a wild kid, got in a ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Making it Easier for Kids to Prevent Overdoses AUDIO – IMAGINE – June 12, 2023 - The U.S. is in the midst of a drug crisis, with opioid overdose deaths climbing to epidemic proportions. And overdose deaths among young people, between the ages of 10 and 1... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023OverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Heavy Drinkers Misjudge Impairment Levels SCIENCE KNOWS BEST – June 15, 2023 - The study tested the commonly held assumption that people who regularly drink in excess are better able to ‘hold their liquor’ than people who don’t regularly drink as much. Resea... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJune 20 2023Recovery
SEIZED: Fentanyl Enough to Kill San Francisco’s Entire Population 3 Times Over SUMMER OF LOVE IT’S NOT – June 15, 2023 - California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced late Wednesday that the state’s highway patrol has seized enough fentanyl in San Francisco in the past six weeks to kill the cit... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylJune 20 2023Overdose
Tailoring Recovery for LGBTQ+ EVEN IN FLORIDA!!! – June 12, 2023 - For many people, misusing substances becomes a way to numb negative emotions and offers a temporary escape from daily stress and challenges. They rely on substances as a pr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictiongayinterventionJune 20 2023marijuanamethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Playboy Model Who ‘glamorised drugs’ Gives Stark Message After sobriety Saved Her PINNED. BUT NOT FOR LONG – June 15, 2023 - The Brazilian model, who has featured on front covers of huge magazines such as Playboy and FHM, candidly opened up to Mirror Online about her previous battles with addictio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Food Addiction: A Form of Insanity? Experts Can’t Agree. EAT YOUR HEART OUT? – June 15, 2023 - Despite its apparent prevalence, food addiction hasn’t been officially recognized as a real addiction, disorder or diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diag... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating Disorderfood addictionJune 20 2023
Dealing with Alcoholism in the Family MOM, DAD, SON & DAUGHTER – June 12, 2023 - You have, for example, asked if alcoholism runs in families and by extension if your daughter might have the same or similar medical needs as her father concernin... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
The Age of Drug Normalization IT’S ALL GOOD? – June 11, 2023 - In addition to crystal methamphetamine, Blanchard said she also used heroin and “lots of different things under the sun.” A trans woman, she said she began using drugs while engaging ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionJune 20 2023methOverdoseRecovery
Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower, Gone at 92 VIDEO – GOD, PLEASE MAKE MORE MEN LIKE HIM – June 16, 2023 - Ellsberg’s demise came about four months after he announced on Twitter that he had been diagnosed with “inoperable pancreatic cancer.” “I’m sorry to r... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJune 20 2023life expectancy
Flavor Flav Celebrates His Sobriety HIS MEETINGS ALWAYS START ON TIME! – June 16, 2023 - He continued, “To everyone out there struggling with addiction, it is a real battle you fight every day. But I’m still here and you know what ... I DID IT ... and ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionInterviewJune 20 2023RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
REAL HOUSE WIFE Gina Kirschenheiter On Being “California Sober” VIDEO – HARM REDUCTION IN THE O.C. – June 14, 2023 - In an April interview with People, Gina explained why she made the decision to stop drinking alcohol. “Drinking was a big part of my life and to eliminate it was... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJune 20 2023RecoveryRehab
Quote of the Week – Tina Turner “This is what I want in heaven ... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.” – Tina Turner, b. 1939 Tennessee - d. 2023 Switzerland ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiongrammy winnerJune 20 2023quote of the week