Young Writer’s Road to Sobriety and a New Addiction Novel A NOVEL IDEA, A NOVEL – Nov. 17, 2022 - And he wrote about what drugs do to your soul, about letting yourself be molested for a hit, about stealing a woman’s purse in desperate pursuit of the next high. Sanche... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 25 2022life expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
With 12 Years of Sobriety, Elsa Hosk Flaunts New Outfits MODEL SOBER CITIZEN – Jan. 16, 2022 - The CAA Fashion model is a natural athlete who spent two years playing professional basketball for the Swedish women’s league. Elsa proudly announced her 12-year sobrie... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Lena Dunham: ‘Getting off Klonopin was the hardest’ VIDEO – GIRLS IS GREAT – Jan. 20, 2022 - Back in 2017, at the time, Dunham faced criticism for defending Girls executive producer Murray Miller, who had been accused of rape by actor Aurora Perrineau. Miller d... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Is COVID Depression Driving Labor Shortages Around The World? WATCH – NO REASON TO GET OUT OF BED – Jan. 21, 2022 - While companies struggle to find employees at a time of peak employment, a COVID-related mental health crisis is putting hundreds of thousands of people out... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressioninterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma
The 12 Most Inappropriate Office Behaviors, Ranked TAKE IT EASY ON YOUR NEW EMPLOYEE – SHE’S NEW – Jan. 20, 2022 - Americans broadly agree that just because a behavior is frowned upon doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening in their workplaces. In fact, some of t... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthTrauma
Human Connection and Mental Health LOVE THY NEIGHBOR – Jan. 19, 2022 - After many years of inadequate responses to countless antipsychotic medications, Robert had a dramatic response to one of the newer atypicals, and was heading toward discharg... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecovery
“Single Drunk Female” Makes Recovery Feel Universal L’CHAIM – Jan. 20, 2022 - Just as many people, if not more, are headed in the opposite direction of willful sobriety, a product of pandemic exhaustion and depression. You know, those ongoing concerns we met in... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
X Factor’s Janet Devlin – Transformation, Alcoholism & Health Battle STAR FACTOR – Jan. 18, 2022 - Back in 2011, then-16-year-old Janet Devlin peered out at the judges from underneath a mass of hair, looking utterly terrified. Her voice trembling, she explained she was... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Sia Dealt With Suicidal Thoughts After Backlash to Her Movie ‘Music’ VIDEO – TOO MUCH CRITICISM HURTS – Jan. 17, 2022 - In early 2021, Sia previewed her new movie, Music, centered around a non-verbal autistic girl named Music. Former Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler played the tit... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoverysuicideTrauma
Orange County Ordered Up a Way to Battle Fraud, Abuse & Death in Rehabs, NOTHING Has Happened in 3 Years AUTHORITIES CORRUPT, OR JUST ON THE TAKE? – Jan. 14, 2022 - If the state wouldn’t crack down, local leaders said, Orange County would. County supervisors — save one — embraced the idea. Hopes were high. But... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Calling Addiction a Disease is Misleading AND OLD FASHIONED? – Jan. 15, 2022 - I found little help from my own field, which is divided into sometimes clashing schools of thought about how addiction works. As a result, I looked beyond medicine and scie... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Dr. Drew Applauds “Euphoria” for Its Portrayal of Drug Addiction VIDEO – GOOD CONVERSATION – Jan. 17, 2022 - If your not a drug addict or kicked the stuff or tried it then you shouldn’t have a say on how it is, they say mental health but you had to get to that space somehow... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
This Sobriety App Is One of My Favorite THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT – Jan. 19, 2022 - I don’t remember how or why I settled on I Am Sober in particular when I decided to stop drinking. I think it was because I liked the design sensibility. And I was pan... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Campaign to ‘End Addiction Stigma’ Garnering Attention VIDEO – FROM STIGMA TO STIGMATA – Jan. 17, 2022 - Seivwright said Vermont Department of Health surveys have found 1 in 6 people who recognized they needed help didn’t get it — because they worried stigma would... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionJan 25 2022life expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Life After Drinking Offers More Joy and Fulfillment AND SMILES TOO – Jan. 21, 2022 - ERIN FLAVIN Age 43, owner of Honeycomb Salon My dad owned a bar. I remember loving the taste of sips of beer and the smell of the basement there. We would get home from chur... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusinterventionJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Understanding The Effects of Drugs on the Brain VIDEO – DOPAMINE ANYONE? – Jan. 20, 2022 - There are 100 billion neurons to map, that’s 10-times the amount of stars in the sky. But Kasthuri and his team started their mission in a smaller model: A mouse. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 25 2022life expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Chrissy Teigen Celebrates 6 Months of Sobriety VIDEO – SIX MONTHS GETS A CHIP – Jan. 20, 2022 - I prob won’t be excited til a larger milestone like at leasssst 5 years, and sometimes I don’t even know if I necessarily won’t ever drink again? I have no idea... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 25 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Quote of the Week – Thich Nhat Hanh “Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye.” &n... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJan 25 2022Mental Healthquote of the week
Overdose Rates Higher for Older Black Men THE BLUES – Jan. 12, 2022 - Ripple effects of institutionalized racism, such as disparate access to substance use disorder treatment, racist drug policies, and bias in pain treatment, may also offer answers to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 18 2022Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Lawsuit Highlights Dis-ease With Addiction Centers NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD – Jan. 11, 2020 - Elsewhere, including in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan, communities have also thwarted the opening of such facilities. Treatment advocates say the resi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Importance of Sobriety During Pregnancy BABIES NEED LOVE – Jan. 10, 2022 - Speaking as a mother and employee in human services, the adverse effects of substance use during pregnancy should be addressed. Developmental impact on the child is almost ce... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJan 18 2022life expectancyMental HealthRecovery
I Meditate Before Touching Any Electronics THE LIGHT SWITCH TOO? – Jan. 12, 2022 - My life was starting to shift completely online, like one of those dystopian tech movies where the protagonist starts identifying more with their on-screen avatar than t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionJan 18 2022life expectancyMental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction
Woman Helps Women Toward Recovery ONE ON WON – Jan. 13, 2022 - “I had tried so hard to get to that spot and finally be there,” Pola, 45, said. “Every day before that’s just been this vicious cycle of just trying to get my basic needs met while... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
DJs And Ravers Are Embracing Sobriety DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY HEALTHY – Jan. 14, 2022 - A quarter of people surveyed by charity Action on Addiction said their drinking increased in lockdown, and nearly a quarter of people experiencing problems with... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Jamie Lynn Spears: Dad’s Alcoholism Caused ‘Torment and Sorrow’ WATCH – IT’S A FAMILY DISEASE – Jan. 12, 2022 - Jamie’s struggles with alcohol began after he became a father in 1977, according to his ex-wife Lynne Spears. “Jamie always enjoyed a beer here and there, but... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
Fiesta Black on Beating Alcoholism and Depression COMEBACK – Jan. 14, 2022 - In 2020, I thought I knew what needed to be fixed, but I didn’t,” she tells Drum. ”I needed to experience a few hardships for me to know who I truly am and my full potential.” ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietydepressioninterventionInterviewJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
The Rise In Gambling Addiction LAS VEGAS BLUES – Jan. 8, 2022 - “That’s the date I protect,” Remillard said on a recent afternoon from the crepe restaurant he owns that is a short drive from the Las Vegas Strip. He agreed on that Monday to ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusGamingJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabvideo games
Gambling Addiction Concerns Unaddressed WIN SOME, LOSE PLENTY – Jan. 13, 2022 - It wasn’t long ago when sports gambling discussions were limited to Saturday morning sports talk radio shows. My, how times have changed. Turn on your local sports radio... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaGaminginternetinterventionJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabSmartphone AddictionSuper Bowlvideo games
Sobriety ‘can be lonely’ says Gordon Ramsay’s Daughter Holly AND DRINKING ISN’T? – Jan. 12, 2022 - Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly marked a year of being sober last month after admitting she had reached her “lowest point”. At the time, the 22-year-old said alcohol wasn’t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewJan 18 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehab
How We Look Differently at People With Mental Illness and Addiction DISCRIMINATION RUNS DEEP – Jan. 4, 2022 - The consequences of stigmatizing people with these diseases can be severe. People who face public stigma are less likely to seek treatment, see reduced career opportun... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionJan 11 2022Mental HealthRecovery