Long-Term Cannabis Use Can Cause Dementia ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? – March 8, 2023 - With this introduction, I want to turn attention to Madeline Meier’s important new article, “Long-term Cannabis Users Show Lower Cognitive Reserves and Smaller Hippocamp... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionlife expectancyMar 14 2023marijuanaMental Healthpotsmoking
Robert Blake, star of ‘In Cold Blood’ dies at 89 NOT AN EASY LIFE – March 9, 2023 - Blake won a 1975 Emmy for his portrayal of Tony Baretta, although behind the scenes the show was wracked by disputes involving the temperamental star. He gained a reputation as one... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMar 14 2023Trauma
Wayne Shorter, Jazz Saxophonist/Composer Passes at 89 KIND OF BLUE – March 2, 2023 - Wayne Shorter, an award-winning saxophonist, composer and bandleader has died. He was 89. Shorter died on Thursday surrounded by his family in a hospital in Los Angeles, his rep conf... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winnerlife expectancyMarch 7 2023
Is Good Chocolate Good For Your Heart? Hell Ya! SWEET! – Feb. 12, 2023 - As myths have evolved over cocoa’s several thousand year history as a food, so too has the scientific pursuit to understand how it may influence our health. Cocoa contains lots of bioac... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 21 2023food addictionlife expectancy
School Chief Claims Dad Michael Refused Drug Rehab for Bullied Girl, 14, Who Killed Herself MOM DIED TOO – Feb. 10, 2023 - Though her father, Michael Kuch, stated Brandy died due to addiction, now, Superintendent of New Jersey’s Central Regional School District Triantafillos Parlapanides claims that she die... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionFeb 21 2023life expectancyMental HealthsuicideteenagersTrauma
Carin Goldberg Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Passes OBITUARY – Jan. 31, 2023 - Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor. Ms. Goldberg, who trained as a painter, was a scholar of designs and typefaces, particularly ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 14 2023life expectancy
Older People Addiction Rates Rising AUDIO – SO IS BLOOD PRESSURE – Feb. 4, 2023 - It’s easy to forget that older people can suffer from what doctors call “substance abuse disorder” just like everyone else. They’re hardly immune. “We normally think ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 14 2023interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Children and Teens Going Limp? NOT THEIR THUMBS – Jan. 30, 2023 - The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that children and adolescents (5-17 years old) get an average of at least 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous intensity physica... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 7 2023interventionlife expectancyteenagers
New Jersey Plans to Offer Free Narcan For All SAVE-A-LIFE-FOR-FREE – Jan. 23, 2023 - New Jersey’s government has held naloxone “giveaways” in years past. Since 2018, the state’s Department of Human Services has distributed around 186,000 two-dose naloxone kits. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 31 2023life expectancyRecoveryRehab
Son Died From Fentanyl He Bought Through Snapchat VIDEO – SNAPDEATH – Jan. 25, 2023 - On Aug. 15, 2020, Nicholas took his last breath after overdosing on a counterfeit pain pill made with fentanyl. “I was trying everything and anything I could to help him,” said... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylJan 31 2023life expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Dr Michelle Humeidan on Pro-Active Pain Management VIDEO – LIFE IS NOT SUFFERING – Jan. 27, 2023 - Dr. Humeidan is providing pain management alternatives with a program for cancer patients. This program sends patients home on a strict and constant 24-hour regimen of... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerinterventionInterviewJan 31 2023life expectancyRecoveryTrauma
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