Mental Health

2,000 Arizonans Overdosed on Fentanyl in 2020

WATCH – OD Ideation? –  Jan. 1, 2021 - That’s the grim, unfortunate reality of the drug, that Roy and…

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COVID Is Killing the Cocaine Market, So People Are Smoking More Weed

Rolling joints, not hundreds –  Jan. 4, 2021 - Aware of earlier findings that social isolation triggered spikes in drug…

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How President Biden Can Save Lives By Slowing America’s Overdose Crisis

OPINION by Ryan Hampton –   Dec. 31, 2020 - Recovery works — I’m living proof — but it requires…

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‘Autobiography of Yogi’ 75 Years Old

BOOK: Approved literature –   Jan. 5, 2021 - Paramahansa Yogananda made an indelible impression on the spiritual landscape of…

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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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Report Calls for More Access to Take-Home Meds for Opioid Addictions

Pandemic relief –   Jan. 5, 2021 - “To get methadone, you have to show up in person every day…

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County Offering Treatment to Inmates Dealing with Addiction

WATCH – What a good idea –  Jan. 6, 2021 - Cumberland County Jail has now hired Medication Assisted Treatment…

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Addiction Risk Rises For Female Employees

But not wages –   Jan. 7, 2021 - The findings “reinforce the complex and bidirectional relationship between physical and…

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Alcohol Monitoring Devices Work

Careful with your mouthwash –  Dec. 2020 - The OMNI Institute served as the research partner and provided support with…

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The Road to This Wedding Was Paved With Theft, Lies, Tears

Sobriety sometimes leads to marriage –   Jan. 8, 2021 - The lessons from the love story of Irene Sibaja…

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Q&A with Jeannie Rabb-Marshall, publisher of Keys to Recovery

Stick with the Winners! –  January 5, 2021 - Many of you will remember Jeannie from the Steps for Recovery…

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Serious Side Effects of Smoking Pot Every Day

Gray matter matters –   Jan. 2, 2021 - “Make no mistake about it, smoking marijuana daily carries with it…

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Eminem re-learned to rap after near-fatal overdose

Thank God he did –   Jan. 5, 2021 - “Like the rhyme schemes didn’t even sound like familiar to…

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Biggest Danger Sign You’re Drinking Too Much

You’re reading this article –   Jan. 9, 2021 - “If your pattern of drinking results in repeated significant distress…

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Men Find Community, Self-worth at Recovery Farm

Planting Esteem Seeds –  Jan. 9, 2021 - He lost his job and, over the summer, his ex-fiancé beat him…

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Entrepreneur Helping Gamblers Beat Their Addiction

No more suicides, please –  Jan.  7 , 2021 - Having tried everything, from parental controls software to gambling-blocking software…

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Mum Shares 10-Step Guide to Sobriety

No boozeyness anymore –  Jan. 5, 2021 - Justine quit alcohol when she was 40 years old after she spent…

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Juggling My Children, Their Alcoholic Sitter and My Own Sobriety

All in a days daze –   Jan. 8, 2021 - But the struggle doesn’t end with the physical. It’s…

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Memoir Reflects on Prison, Addiction

LISTEN – Yourself, destiny, fate, dreams, public defender –   Jan. 4, 2021 - In describing his memoir, “The Five…

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Artist Transforms Shattered Ceramics To Highlight “Beauty of Destruction”

Just like us –  Dec. 26, 2020 - His deconstructed sculptures take on a variety of forms, but many of…

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Covid Poses ‘greatest threat to mental health since WWII’

From across the pond... –   Dec. 27, 2020 - The coronavirus crisis poses the greatest threat to mental health…

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Musicians Battle Another Epidemic: Addiction

LISTEN – RIP Cady Groves –  Dec. 28, 2020 - Groves had a difficult upbringing, losing two older brothers to…

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Illinois Expunges 500,000 Cannabis Arrest Records

WATCH – Decency has come to the USA –  Jan. 1, 2021 - In a unique twist, the law also…

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Bartender Starts Ben’s Friends to Help Restaurant Workers With Addiction

Extended families matter –   Jan. 1, 2021 - If he hadn’t already started drinking hours before with patrons while…

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Community Leader Celebrates 25 Years of Sobriety

WATCH – And just getting started –   Jan. 1, 2021 - “I probably should have gone to detention, but…

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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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Rumer Willis Celebrates Four Years Sober

It’s True –   Jan. 1, 2021 - “This year has brought up so many challenges but I know that…

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Dax Shepard: About His Struggle With Addiction

Talk is cheap –   Jan. 2, 2021 - Shepard celebrated a major milestone in his sobriety journey in September…

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Addicts to Get Vaccine, Gov. Cuomo says

The chosen ones –  Dec. 28, 2020 - Residents and staffers will be vaccinated at both the state-run and privately…

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Louis Theroux’s Grounded podcast – Frankie Boyle: Alcoholism and the ‘horror’ of Early Life

The Horror –   Dec. 29, 2020 - Boyle told Theroux he was drinking vodka as a child and “was…

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