Cindy Williams, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star, Passes at 75 SCHLEMIEL, SCHLIMAZEL, HASENPFEFFER INCORPORATED! – Jan. 30, 2023 - Cindy Williams, the energetic actress who appeared in a pair of Oscar best picture nominees before starring as the idealistic Shirley Feeney&nb... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJan 31 2023life expectancy
Book Review: How Is Your Phone Powered? THROUGH CAPITALISM – Jan. 23, 2023 - A lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Kara has written on sex trafficking and other forms of so-called modern slavery, part of a new group of abolitionists who claim expli... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneJan 31 2023life expectancySmartphone Addiction
David Crosby, Long Time…Gone at 81 MUSIC LEGEND – Jan. 19, 2023 - The death came as a surprise to those who followed his very active Twitter account, which he’d kept tweeting on as recently as Wednesday. One of Crosby’s final tweets the day before he... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerJan 24 2023life expectancyRecoveryRehab
David Crosby’s Music Always Lifted Me Up A NATURAL HIGH – Jan. 21, 2023 - It was about something larger and deeper, a sense of hope that my generation, which came of age in the late 1960s and 70s, had once clung to fiercely but had gradually be... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietygrammy winnerJan 24 2023life expectancy
Priscilla Presley Tried To Save Lisa Marie From Drugs By Turning To Scientology VIDEO – GOING TO ANY LENGTHS – Jan. 17, 2023 - For a very long time, Priscila Presley joined the contentious church and even reared her kid there. But in 2013, Lisa Marie Presley left Scientology. As a result o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 24 2023life expectancyRecoveryRehabTrauma
Portugal’s Response to Addiction Sparks Global Envy VIDEO – COMPASSIONATE AND INTELLIGENT – Jan. 16, 2023 - While many European countries are struggling to tackle a rise in drug trafficking and drug use, some are looking to Portugal for inspiration on how to succes... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 24 2023life expectancyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Thich Nhat Hanh Documentary Premieres VIDEO – WALKS TALL – Jan. 11, 2023 - The new documentary comes from filmmaker Max Pugh, who has previously created two additional films about Nhat Hanh’s life and community: Cloud Never Dies and Walk With Me. ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJan 24 2023life expectancyMental HealthRecovery
How to Incorporate Meditation Into Your Daily Life 15 MINUTES A DAY! – Jan. 19, 2023 - Existential tension can be thought of as a resistance to being here on earth, incarnated into lives filled with threats, hostile forces, violence and unexpected and uncontro... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 24 2023life expectancyMental HealthRecovery
13 Predictions for Life in 2023 LUCKY 13 – Jan. 10, 2023 - Justice for hoodie-and-shorts guys: Congressional elections are all about representation. And while I am a Californian, at no other point in history have I felt more represente... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetJan 24 2023life expectancyMental Health
Sobriety is About More Than Extending Your Life QUALITY NOT QUANTITY – Jan. 13, 2023 - I’m a recovering alcoholic, and I lost my father to alcoholic liver disease six and half years ago. I’m also a former nurse who worked in mental health and addictio... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 17 2023life expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Scientists Say Planet Facing Sixth Mass Extinction VIDEO – IT WAS NICE WHILE IT LASTED – Jan. 1, 2023 - Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live. The scientists you’re about to meet say the Earth is suffering a crisis of mass extinction on a ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 10 2023life expectancyTrauma
Dr. Gabor Maté: Who Gets Sick, and How to Prevent it VIDEO – AT IT AGAIN – Nov. 2022 - Dr. Gabor Maté (addiction, stress, and childhood development speaker & bestselling author) joins us to explain which groups of people tend to be most prone to chronic illness,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 3 2023life expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateTrauma
Middle-Aged Smokers May Suffer Neurological Damage IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – Dec. 27, 2022 - Jenna Rajczyk, lead author of the study says that the findings support prior research that linked smoking with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of neurological ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 3 2023life expectancyMental Healthnicotinesmoking
Clive Davis: Whitney Houston made ‘valiant attempt’ to give up drugs before death THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL – Dec. 25, 2022 - The “I Will Always Love You” singer was found unconscious in a Beverly Hilton suite, submerged in the bathtub on Feb. 11, 2012. Paramedics performed CPR but she... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 3 2023life expectancyOverdoseRecoveryTrauma
When Chris Farley Went to ‘the place in Alabama’ To Get Sober NOW WE KNOW – Dec. 16, 2022 - By the end of 1992, Chris Farley was already riding an incredible wave. Farley, who had joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in 1990, had already done several charact... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 20 2022Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyRecoveryRehabTrauma
How Frighteningly Strong Meth Has Supercharged Homelessness HOME SPEED HOME – Dec. 6, 2022 - In your book The Least of Us and in an Atlantic piece last year, you wrote about the rise of very pure meth, which is produced in a different way than the variety t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 13 2022Drug Abuse and Addictionhomelessinterventionlife expectancymethRecoveryTrauma
Mental Health Is Biggest Health Concern Says Surgeon General VIDEO – ONLY A CONCERN – Nov. 2, 2022 - Dr. Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General, says the mental health crisis is the biggest concern facing the country because it impacts so many people and different facets of li... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 6 2022interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecovery
TikTok’s Viral Challenges Keep Luring Kids to Their Deaths SOCIAL DILEMMA DEATH – Nov. 29, 2022 - The game had a name: the blackout challenge. Kids around the world were choking themselves with household items until they blacked out, filming the adrenaline rush they go... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 6 2022internetinterventionlife expectancyMental HealthSmartphone AddictionteenagersTraumavideo games
Brilliant Documentary Shows Recovery Process of Family of Drug Addicts VIDEO – THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOUS (Philly accent) FREE – Dec. 1, 2022 - “Our American Family” shines a light on how a family battled and overcame substance use disorder for one year. Click@Yahoo ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 6 2022Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyRecoveryRehabTrauma
Jonathan and Drew Scott Recall Leslie Jordan VIDEO – HE WAS A BIG MAN – Nov. 14, 2022 - In the show, A-listers surprise friends and mentors with a home makeover. Jordan gifted his dear friends of 40 years, Rosemary Alexander, 81, and Newell Alexand... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewlife expectancyNov 22 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Best Places in The World to Go in 2023 AND AWAY WE GO – Nov. 2022 - What’s travel without a little turbulence, right? Tourism’s big return following the easing of Covid restrictions has been bumpier than we all hoped, thanks to understaffed airports... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMental HealthNov 15 2022Recovery
Trauma During Childhood Triples the Risk of Suffering as an Adult CHILDHOOD IS A DANGER ZONE – Nov. 4, 2022 - Trauma in adulthood is also associated with a four-fold increase in the risk of a later mental disorder. The researchers point out, however, that there is less eviden... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediainterventionlife expectancyMental HealthNov 15 2022RecoveryTrauma
Why walking in nature is good for mind, body and soul SITTING IN NATURE IS OK TOO – Oct. 30, 2022 - Studies of walking’s benefits date back to the 1950s, with the last decade of research preoccupied with the rise of “10,000 steps a day” challenges and the use of p... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMental HealthNov 8 2022
Bronx Had Third-Highest Overdose Rate APOCALYPSE NOW? – Nov. 2, 2022 - When it comes to opioid outpatient treatment, the highest rate per 100,000 population is greatest in Manhattan and the Bronx, and there are estimated 30,000-plus methadon... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancymethNov 8 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Tribes Lead Way on Opioid Treatment WISDOM OF THE ELDERS – Nov. 1, 2022 - After five years of active addiction, Clayton applied for a spot at a local inpatient rehabilitation center. In the four months it took for a bed to become available, he lo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyNov 8 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Sugar Rush: Mexico’s Addiction to Fizzy Drinks Fueled Health Crisis COKE ADDS LIFE? – Nov. 4, 2022 - “Femsa, which bottles Coca-Cola in Mexico, has enormous power,” says Alejandro Calvillo, director of Consumer Power, a campaigning association. “It operates more than 20,000 Oxx... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderinterventionlife expectancyNov 8 2022Recovery
Nick Carter says his ‘heart has been broken’ amid brother Aaron’s death LIFE GOES ON, FOR EVERYONE – Nov. 6, 2022 - The Backstreet Boys singer wrote that he “always held onto hope, that (Aaron) would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietylife expectancyNov 8 2022Trauma
Got 420?… seconds? Brisk 7-Minute Walk Can Help Prevent Heart Disease ONE STEP AT A TIME – Oct. 27, 2022 - Researchers add that easy activities such as washing the car or doing laundry, which have counted as exercise in earlier research, are not enough to stave off heart problems... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMental HealthNov 1 2022
Addiction, Mental Illness Rampant in Red States VIDEO – BORN TO BE BLUE – Oct. 27, 2022 - They merged that information with mortality data spanning from 1999 to 2019, and found liberal policies were associated with lower deaths among people aged 25 to 64, ac... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMental HealthNov 1 2022
Over 50? Sleeping Under 5 Hours Has Health Hazards YOU DON’T SNOOZE, YOU LOSE – Oct. 19, 2022 - Are you over 50 and getting five hours or less sleep a night? This could be a problem for your long-term health, warns a study published this week. Researc... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMental HealthOct 25 2022Recovery