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Lost Touch: How Year Without Hugs Affects You

PRIMITIVE NEED NOT BEING MET –  Jan. 25, 2021 - Nina Smith is 40, and lives alone in south London.…

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How Bad IS Quarantine for my Body?

TRY BENDING OVER –   January 22, 2021 - ...Leah Whigman, associate professor at UTHealth School of Public Health in…

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Excessive Drinking During Covid Hits Women Harder

LISTEN – Women Suffer More –  January 14, 2021 - From the earliest days of the pandemic, social media has…

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Prozac Withdrawal, Side Effects, Addiction and Treatment

Read the fine print –   Jan. 2, 2021 - Alternative to Meds Center been tackling antidepressant withdrawal for over…

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9 Creative Ways To Socialize Safely

LISTEN – Staying sane and sober –  Jan. 1, 2021 - When Vladimir Celestin and his extended family realized they…

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42 Books That Made 2020 A Little Less Awful

All Books Matter –  Dec. 30, 2020  - One example: Bea Schumacher is a devastatingly stylish plus-size fashion blogger who…

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What Year of Staring at Our Own Faces on Zoom Has Done To Us

Zoom Zoom on my desk, who’s the fairest? –   December 30, 2020 - This year, we’ve spent an unholy…

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Coping With COVID

Carefully –   Dec. 28, 2020 - With the pandemic monopolizing government time, energy and resources, treatment programs with limited…

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Pandemic Blamed for Oregon’s 40% Increase in Drug Deaths

The most horrible time... –   Dec. 23, 2020 - “Many people who are using substances, they may be hanging…

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Dr. Jennifer Wood, Guiding Patients with Addiction Through Pandemic

No relapses please –  Dec, 25, 2020 - “Patients who were previously well-established in addiction treatment, for example, their clinics…

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GIVING GRIEF MEANING, A Method for Transforming Deep Suffering into Healing & Positive Change

by Lily Dulan, MFT MEDIA: Book Recommendation –  DEC. 2020 - “...In a world where so many people are hurting,…

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What Way to Start My 20’s!

A dream deferred is a dream denied –  December 11, 2020 - The shutdown of society worsened my disordered thoughts…

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Woman’s Overdose Death Shocks Family

Not another statistic –   December 11th, 2020 - After getting clean, she started working there and helped other women…

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Has Diana’s Bulimia Taught Us Nothing?

Weighing the Alternatives –  December 3, 2020 - That’s when she started the binge-purge cycle; uncontrollably eating large quantities of…

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The Social Media Addiction Bubble

Thumbs Down –  Nov. 30, 2020 - The September debut of “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix sounded this alarm for…

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The Crown shines light on an eating disorder

Not to be mistaken for “The Purge” on FOX and Friends –  NOVEMBER 21, 2020 - Currently streaming on Netflix,…

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The Moms Aren’t Alright

Next it’s the “Kids” –  November 21, 2020 - Mothers are also facing a financial reality that becomes more strained…

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Pandemic taking toll on parents

Mommy Merlot and Daddy Doobie –   Nov. 9, 2020 - In a May survey conducted by the Research Triangle…

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Types of Teen Addictions parents should be on the lookout for

LISTEN – Check their phones daily –   Nov. 9, 2020 -  Screen Addiction While almost every parent stresses over…

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Sarah hid her addiction from everyone, then it all unravelled.

WATCH – When suicide is off the table –   Nov. 9, 2020 - hey completed seven rounds of IVF,…

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Kids ER visits for mental-health concerns increase during pandemic

Suffer the little children –   November 13, 2020 - “Many mental disorders commence in childhood, and mental health concerns…

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How to Recognize Teen Cyberbullying

With virtual interaction becoming even more prevalent during this time of social distancing, teen cyberbullying is on the rise. One…

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U.S. Is ‘Facing A National Mental Health Crisis’

LISTEN – WHY? –  Oct. 26, 2020 - For more than a decade, the American Psychological Association has issued a…

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How to Deal with Illness During Addiction Recovery

Avoid narcotics – Oct. 19, 2020 -  No Time to Self-Medicate Most individuals who were actively abusing drugs or alcohol…

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Shocking rise in number of cocaine deaths among women

Be Careful!!! – Oct. 15, 2020 - She said: ‘Loss of addiction psychiatry expertise through lack of training places and…

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How chat with Mother Teresa and Jesus helped Jim Wahlberg

WATCH – What about the Pope? – Oct. 2020 - Jim joined Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden from his Fort…

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Mother’s Little Helper Is Back

“What a drag it is getting old” –   Oct 3, 2020 - That [message] is from a mother in…

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Rural moms recovering from addiction struggle to stay connected during pandemic

Dial Up? – Sep. 25, 2020 - With the pandemic putting programs like these on hiatus, patients like Megan, who…

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87% of people with eating disorders say symptoms are worse during COVID

Feast or Famine –   August 28, 2020 - The study traces 129 people in recovery or treatment, providing a…

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I’m celebrating 64 years of sobriety, I know what isolation does to those in recovery

Trying minds for trying times – August 28, 2020 - By all accounts, the number of relapses nationwide has increased…

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