Nov 27 2018

How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

More from Gabor – Nov. 24, 2018 - Part of that price was addiction – whether to alcohol or drugs, gambling or sex, overwork or porn, extreme sports or gaming – but essential to understanding it, says Maté, is to realize... Read More...

The New York Review of Books – OPIOID EDITION

READING is for WINNERS – Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic (Expanded and Updated Edition) by Barry Meier, Random House, 223 pp., $27.00 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the ... Read More...

Comedian Artie Lange reveals he’s clean for 18 days

Keep Going Back – Nov. 23, 2018 - The 51-year-old performed in New Brunswick on Wednesday. He said he was allowed to temporarily put a stop to his treatment at the rehab that day, an unusual privilege granted by the tre... Read More...

How One Gym Uses Exercise to Fight Addiction

One Push-Up at a Time – Nov 20, 2018 - The nonprofit was founded in 2006 by 33-year-old triathlete and climber Scott Strode after experiencing firsthand how sports and adventure outings assisted in his own recovery from... Read More...

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Juelz Santana Opens Up About His Drug and Alcohol Addiction in the Extended Love & Hip Hop New York

Soul Sacrifice – 11/21/2018 - It’s one big happy reunion in the beginning of the sneak peek to the Love & Hip Hop New York season premiere when Rich Dollaz, Safaree Samuels, Joe Budden and his beautiful baby boy Lex... Read More...

Some pharmacies thwart efforts to improve access to the opioid overdose reversal drug

Why? – November 16, 2018 - In states with access laws, pharmacies dispensed 79 percent more naloxone between 2007 and 2016 than those in states without such laws, one study found. Another study linked access and Good Sa... Read More...

He’s Shed Almost 400 Pounds

Letting Go – Nov. 24, 2018 - No matter how much I hurt, I would go to Penn Station to get those doughnuts,” Mr. Warner said. “I loved those doughnuts.” He made the trips in secret for fear of how loved ones might react.... Read More...

No charges in the mass opiate overdose at state prison

Lock Up or Shoot Up? – Nov. 21, 2018 - The unconscious prisoner’s cellmate, laughing, told McKee the man needed to go to the hospital, the patrol report said. The cellmate then came out of the cell, raised his arm towar... Read More...

Vermont needle exchange isn’t just giving out syringes. It’s offering treatment on the spot.

Each One, Teach One! – Nov. 20, 2018 - “Some people are good at writing. Some people are good at public speaking,” Blake said. “I’m a good doctor. And I feel like that’s where I can fill a role to help with this epidemi... Read More...

21 Reasons Why Soda Is Killing You

Carbonated Death? – 3/31/2016 - Soda may be available wherever you turn, but do your body a favor and stay away from it. To pour such nasty stuff into your system is to poison your body. There is no nutritional benefits... Read More...

Student trains public to give life-saving overdose antidote

Something to Learn – November 23, 2018 - A Montreal social work student is on a mission to save lives by teaching people how to administer the drug naloxone, which can counteract the effects of an opioid drug overdose w... Read More...

Cleaning lady wrote Suboxone prescriptions at Johnstown addiction clinic office

MAT = Medically Assisted Tidying – Nov. 19, 2018 - Even the cleaning lady was filling out prescriptions after hours, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cessar said Monday during a plea hearing for Ruth Jones. Dr. Jones, 57,... Read More...

The other victims: Children bearing witness

Save the Children – November 23, 2018 - Children routinely watch drug users inject themselves — and they also see paramedics race to reverse overdoses. Every morning, school janitors scour the playgrounds for discarded... Read More...

Should Kiwis go to south-east Asia for addiction treatment?

Worth the Trip? – Nov. 24 2018 - But people with severe addictions can benefit from being removed from their environments - their responsibilities and stressors, triggers and temptations - to “break the cycle”: detox, s... Read More...

Millionaire couple threatening to create a magic mushroom monopoly

Hell or Help is On the Way? – November 8, 2018 - Compass Pathways has set itself up to be the first legal provider of psilocybin, having recently launched a massive clinical study across Europe and North America to test... Read More...

It melts plastic and can kill – so why is club drug GHB on the rise?

SO SAD – Nov. 24, 2018 - GHB’s popularity among young women and clubbers in general marks the third stage of its evolution as a drug: first, it was best known as a potent and dangerous date rape drug, slipped into the ... Read More...

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) Offers A Solution To Those Who Struggle With Food And Weight Related Issues

One Bite at a Time – Nov 21, 2018 - FA understands food addiction as a physical, mental, and spiritual disease, and addresses these three dimensions with a structured, balanced food plan, daily help from a sponsor and f... Read More...

Former Portland football star details long road to sobriety

Touch Down – November 24, 2018 - He loved it. “It was an opportunity for me to release anger, frustration, and just a lot of things. Just a way for me to release my emotions,” said Bailey. He was really good. A highligh... Read More...

‘Not going back’: Longtime alcoholic wows others with turnaround

A 180 – November 23, 2018 - After the ceremony, Riley held a chocolate cupcake and reflected on her journey. She hardly drank until she was 32, she said, but then a string of turmoil in her family, including her daughte... Read More...

Is Social Media Addiction Worse Than Cigarettes?

Try Going a Day Without – Nov 21, 2018 - • FOMO: The fear of missing out, a phenomenon first identified in 2000 by marketing strategist Dan Herman and later allegedly coined by Patrick McGinnis, is apparently one of th... Read More...

Academy of Creative Arts offering group music classes to recovering addicts

Hitting the Right Note – Nov. 21, 2018 - Ryan Snuffer is the director of arts at the Academy of Creative arts. He said “We want to give them something positive and productive. We want to equip them with a lifelong hobby... Read More...

Investors pour money into addiction treatment, but quality questions remain

Beds Better Get Filled – November 24, 2018 - But some investors are focused on developing high-end residential facilities for self-pay and commercially insured patients rather than comprehensive outpatient services for ... Read More...

Could a garden tended by drug users be the thing that unites fractured neighborhood?

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – November 20, 2018 - We wanted to create something beautiful in his name,” said Cherashore of the pollinator garden that he, Reed, and a handful of helpers planted on the lot (a Pennsylvania Ho... Read More...

I stopped drinking for six weeks — here are 10 surprising things I learned

It Was Enlightening – Nov. 23, 2018 - Here are 10 things that surprised me when I temporarily quit drinking: ...I didn’t touch an alcoholic drink for a month and a half — or, as I like to say, my longest period of stone... Read More...

Lessons from ‘American Overdose’ on the Opioid Crisis

They Are All Guilty – November 22, 2018 - Anti-opioid activists Andrew Kolodny, MD, founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), and PROP President Jane Ballantyne, MD, sounded warnings about opioids... Read More...

A bold exploration of the pursuit of sobriety

The Art of Recovery – November 23, 2018 - Lee, who ran the Northcote Storytellers events during those drinking years, experienced a minor epiphany about four years ago after watching a documentary about Charles called B... Read More...

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