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The Drama of Jimi Hendrix’s Early Childhood: Cheating, Foster Care, and Alcoholism

VIDEO – ALANON THE WATCHTOWER – Oct. 22, 2022 - Philip Norman’s 2020 book Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix, detailed Hendrix’s life prior to fame as well as his career after his breakout... Read More...

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Robbie Coltrane, Gone at 72

HARRY POTTER and the PHILOSOPHER’S STONE – Oct. 14, 2022 - On Friday, Fry honored his former co-star in a statement posted to Twitter. “I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago. I was a... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyOct 18 2022

Men Who Eat This Have 29 Percent Higher Rate of Colorectal Cancer

WHY NOT BE HEALTHY – Oct. 10, 2022 - Medical Journal, men who frequently eat ultra-processed foods are at a 29 percent increased risk of developing colorectal cancer, compared with men who eat this type ... Read More...

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Why Are Kids So Sad?

FASCISM? – Oct. 11, 2022 - But the technology thesis hasn’t performed well under critical examination, as the Times package notes. What possible reason could there be for American young people to be particularl... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Angela Lansbury

“Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.” – Angela Lansbury, Oct. 16, 1925, London - Oct. 11, 2022, Los Angeles ... Read More...

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Angela Lansbury, Star of Stage, Film & TV passes at 96

VIDEO – MRS. LOVETT’S REAL MEAT PIES – Oct. 11, 2022 - For all her stage success, Ms. Lansbury would capture the biggest audience of her career in 1984, when she was cast as the mystery writer and amateur sleut... Read More...

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Ripped Richard Branson Shares Workout To Keep You Kicking In Your 70s

VIDEO – AFTER YOUR MEETING... – Oct. 4, 2022 - We’ve waxed lyrical here at DMARGE about staying ripped in your 50s, but Virgin Group founder Richard Branson just proved you can indeed stay ripped in your 70s to... Read More...

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How Ugly Will Life in the Metaverse Become?

HUMANITY’S SWAN SONG? – Oct. 7, 2022 - I choose a world with a four-story comedy club under a starry sky. When I enter, a man in a gray hoodie comes up to me. “Hello,” I say. He stares at me in reply, so... Read More...

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Coffee Drinking Associated With Increased Longevity

LONG LIVE STARBUCKS & PEETS & other DRIPPERS – Sept. 27, 2022 - “In this large, observational study, ground, instant and decaffeinated coffee were associated with equivalent reductions in the incidence ... Read More...

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Doctors Want Warning Labels On Alcoholic Drinks re: Cancer Risks

LONG TERM RESULTS – Sept. 19, 2022 - Now, researchers say they don’t adequately advertise alcohol consumption’s biggest potential health consequence: cancer, including breast cancer. In a perspective article... Read More...

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Country Singer Luke Bell Dies from Fentanyl Intoxication

TOO MUCH DEATH – Sept. 20, 2022 - According to Saving Country Music, Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and his “mental state took a turn for the worse” over recent months. “Luke fought this as h... Read More...

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“The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

THE DRAMA KING – Sept. 16, 2022 - “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call d... Read More...

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Darius Campbell Danesh Died From Inhalation of ‘Ethyl Chloride’

HUFF OF DEATH – Sept. 10, 2022 - “The results of medical examinations have confirmed that Darius’s death was an accident caused by chloroethane, which is used to treat pain and that tragically lead to respirato... Read More...

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Some People Are Happier (And Healthier) Being Single

SOLITUDE MEANS FORTITUDE – Sept. 8, 2022 - “I was trying to find someone for 10 years, and for 10 years I couldn’t,” Silver, 40, said. Then she had an epiphany. “I was completely feeding into what dating cul... Read More...

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LSD Therapy Induces Rapid, Lasting Reductions in Anxiety and Depression

BILL W. WAS A PIONEER – Sept. 8, 2022 - LSD-assisted therapy could provide benefits to patients struggling with anxiety disorders, according to new research published in Biological Psychiatry. The findin... Read More...

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The Deadly Financial Aspect of Addiction

VIDEO – IT’S ALL ABOUT LOSSES – Sept. 8, 2022 - After losing her husband to accidental overdose, Cheryl shares his journey through active addiction, road to recovery and his final battle lost to overdose. By ex... Read More...

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Heroin Overdoses Down in D.C. The Sad Reason? Fentanyl.

THE CAPITAL OF DEATH – Sept. 8, 2022 - Now heroin, synonymous with illicit drug use in Mid-Atlantic cities since the 1960s, is close to vanishing from the streets of the nation’s capital. D.C.’s lates... Read More...

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‘I’m on the Verge of Dying’: Ailing Mike Tyson Once Made Brutally Honest Admission About His Struggles With Alcoholism and Drugs

VIDEO – WEED WITH A BITE – Sept. 9, 2022 - The admission came during an ESPN Friday Night Fights post-fight press conference in Verona, New York. Tyson, in detail, talks about sobriety and how he longed t... Read More...

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Adriana Marchione on Addiction, Cancer, Dance & Grief

CREATION STORY EVERY DAY – Aug. 27, 2022 - Sometimes I wish the world were a little smaller, so I could meet my guests in person. Adriana is one of those people who I’d love to spend time with. This, f... Read More...

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Jury Awards $77M in Suit Against Treatment Center

WHO’S MINDING THE REHAB? – Sept. 8, 2022 - Lawyers for MARR wrote in a court filing that a doctor discontinued Carusillo’s lithium treatment after he complained of side effects. Carusillo knowingly viola... Read More...

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Did Michael Jackson’s Ex-Wife Debbie Rowe Confess Aiding In His Drug Addiction? Says, “In Some Way I Was Part Of It”

MEA CULPA? – Sept. 7, 2022 - As per the report in The International News, in the documentary, Debbie Rowe admitted that she had worked for the famous dermatologist Dr Arnold Klein, who gave Michael Jacks... Read More...

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What is the Best Diet for Mental Health?

LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE BE THY FOOD – Sept. 9, 2022 - Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at the King’s College in London in the United Kingdom investigated exactly how nutrition m... Read More...

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What Makes Your Brain Different From a Neanderthal’s?

INSTAGRAM? – Sept. 9, 2022 - “What we found is one gene that certainly contributes to making us human,” said Wieland Huttner, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Queen Elizabeth II

“The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.” – Queen Elizabeth II ... Read More...

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People Who Inject Drugs Can Develop Dangerous Heart Defects

NOT TO MENTION HEP C – Aug. 31, 2022 - Infections also may arise from other sources, such as poor dental hygiene, implanted medical devices, chronic skin disorders or burns. The new statement wa... Read More...

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Tyreek Lewis, 35, Died For Seeking Pain Relief — And Unknowingly Bought a Fentanyl Pill

THE INVISIBLE SNIPPER KILLS AGAIN – Sept. 3, 2022 - Desperate for relief, Lewis bought two. But the pills Lewis had purchased were illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. They had been pressed ... Read More...

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Barbara Ehrenreich, Author Fought Injustice, Dies at 81

OBITUARY OF A HERO – Sept. 2, 2022 - Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of more than 20 books on social justice themes ranging from women’s rights to inequality and the inequities of the American healthcare system,... Read More...

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Diet Can Influence Mood, Behavior and More

VIDEO – THINK BRAIN FOOD – Aug 24, 2022 - As with vitamin C, deficits in other vitamins and minerals can also precipitate nutritional diseases that adversely impact the brain in humans. For example, low dietary... Read More...

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Overdose Prevention Should Be Part of Each College’s Core Curriculum

BEFORE ALGEBRA – August 11, 2022 - I’m not being alarmist: During that same spring break, four students in Florida overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl; when two friends began to perform CPR, they were expo... Read More...

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Risk Of Mental Illness And Brain Disease Increases After Covid

THE FOG OF...WHAT? – Aug 17, 2022 - People who have had Covid-19 are at an increased risk of mental health and neurological conditions—including seizures, dementia, psychotic disorders and brain fo... Read More...

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