Oct 21 2025

Governor Signs Bill to Study Psychedelics for PTSD & Better Mental Health

CRAZY NOT TO – Oct. 16, 2025 - The nonprofit organization Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) is a big believer in the power of psychedelic therapies such as ibogaine, which co-founder and former Navy SEAL ... Read More...

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Connecticut Residents Debate Hillbilly Heroin / Kratom Ban

AUDIO – NOT GOOD – Oct. 16, 2025 - The vast majority of the more than 100 testifiers during Wednesday’s marathon seven-hour hearing agreed that 7-OH, which researchers have estimated could be 15 times as potent as mo... Read More...

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Celebrating Husband Jason Ritter’s Sobriety: ‘12 Years of Accountability’

AND NO HANGOVERS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Lynskey wrote, “12 years of accountability, of showing up, of answering the phone, of driving home safely, of quiet nights, of loud fun nights, of laughing and laughing, of be... Read More...

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Ben Fuller: What Almost Cost Him 6 Years of Sobriety?

VIDEO – A STAR STAYS BRIGHT – Oct. 16, 2025 - Fuller was nominated for Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year for his collaboration with Carrie Underwood on his song “If It Was Up To Me.” Underwood later m... Read More...

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FILM: Daughter’s Searing Portrait of Family Addiction and Mental Illness

VIDEO – MOVIE REVIEW – Oct. 8, 2025 - Film-maker Myrid Carten, who holds the camera much of the time as well as directing, exposes here the open wound that is her relationship with her mother Nuala, who has both bipo... Read More...

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Recovery Center to Stop Providing Pipes to Drug Users

VIDEO – GOOD IDEA – Oct. 9, 2025 - According to the Howard Center, it helps people and communities by providing services to address mental health, substance use and developmental needs The organization provides le... Read More...

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Why People Use or Get Addicted to Cannabis?

JAZZ OR ROCK? – Oct. 13, 2025 - The tendency to use cannabis is associated with genes linked to impulsive behavior, obesity, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other traits. 24 states legalized recreatio... Read More...

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Cannabis Use Links Genetics to Psychiatric, Cognitive and Physical Health

GOOD JEANS COUNT TOO – Oct. 13, 2025 - The study found that lifetime cannabis use was associated with two genes. The first was Cell Adhesion Molecule 2 (a gene involved in cell assembly and in signaling between nerve... Read More...

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Woman Escaped Death: Now 2 Years Sober

GRATEFUL EVERY DAY – Oct. 16, 2025 - Ellie McLean will never forget the day that saved her life. “My dad came into my room and he said, ‘Are you trying to kill my baby girl?’” “I said, ‘No, Dad.’” McLean was 43, ... Read More...

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Country Singer Makes Bold Admission About His Sobriety

VIDEO – AND HAVING A BALL – Oct. 17, 2025 - “I never was a big drinker, but when I did drink, I was just a total jerk,” he explained. “I always told people I’ve been mistaken as someone, a kid that was a bit cocky an... Read More...

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Alcoholic Who Relapsed Shoplifted Wine Seven Times In One Month

HE NEEDS SOME MONEY – Oct. 17, 2025 - The court was told that the items taken were all alcohol on six occasions from SuperValu in Macroom and on one occasion from Aldi in the town. The court was told that O’Drisco... Read More...

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Libraries in Chicago Reduces Overdose Deaths

GO BEARS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Even libraries have become part of the city’s arsenal in the fight against drug overdose deaths. Chicagoans can get free drug test strips at the city’s public libraries – as well as naloxon... Read More...

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When Darren Waller Puts Sobriety First, His NFL Career Falls Into Place

VIDEO – MIAMI DOLPHINS – Oct. 17, 2025 - He had been in the NFL’s drug program for a while, but still didn’t stop him from abusing alcohol, marijuana, painkillers, anything to numb him from his struggles in life, and... Read More...

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Man Ferrying Cocaine from UK to Dubai in His Stomach – Dies of Overdose

TOO SAD – Oct. 6, 2025 - Jensen Westhead - the 20-year-old British man swallowed several bags of cocaine at a hotel in Manchester, and two days later, they exploded on a flight to Dubai. Jensen Westhead was found dea... Read More...

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Larry Coryell – Call To The Higher Consciousness

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE for JAZZ LOVERS ONLY – Released, 1971. Electric Lady Studios, New York - The BIG 3, A Love Supreme - The Creator has a Master Plan. and Call to a Higher Consciousness. Transcend your m... Read More...

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Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marching Anymore

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 1965 - Phil Ochs wrote “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” to protest the Vietnam War, criticizing America’s continuous cycle of military conflict. The song is written from the perspective of a sol... Read More...

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Person of the Week: TJ Woodward

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – TJ Woodward is a revolutionary recovery expert, bestselling author, inspirational speaker, and addiction treatment specialist who has helped countless people through his simple, yet powerful... Read More...

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Paris Jackson Got Her ‘Life Back’ After Sobriety

SHINING STAR – October 13, 2025 - Paris Jackson is reflecting on her sobriety journey and how it feels “getting my life back.” Paris attended the 35th annual Friendly House Awards Luncheon, and was awarded the Shinin... Read More...

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Medications Prescribed to Millions ‘raise your risk of cancer’

CAVEAT EMPTOR – Oct. 14, 2025 - The medicines get rid of the “good” bacteria in the gut which boosts the digestive system’s protective barrier. Antidepressants and heartburn tablets are among the drugs that can wreak... Read More...

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“Could the cure be worse than the disease?”

WE THINK NOT – Oct. 10, 2025 - Two new books chronicle ‘an American Scandal’ and point the way forward. Insurers, legislators, Congressfolk, listen up! Forgive the imagery, but we long to box the ears of every Cal... Read More...

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Americans Are Living Longer

SENIOR SENIORS – Oct. 15, 2025 - "Believe it or not, longevity is quite new, we've always had older people, but never this many older people living this long, A 65-year-old woman has a 40% chance of living to age 90:... Read More...

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The Drug That Took Away Her Appetite and Cocaine Addiction

BRING IT ON – Oct. 14, 2025 - She began taking a drug similar to Ozempic while living at a Rhode Island nonprofit for formerly incarcerated and homeless people. She gets the medication, called a GLP-1, free thr... Read More...

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Blowing the Lid Off U.S. Rehabs

THIS STORY WON’T DIE – Oct. 16, 2025 - Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make you cry and scream. Cry for how people in need are treated with such cruelty in addicti... Read More...

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Medications taken by HALF Americans raise risk of colorectal cancer years after taking them…

OPERATIONS NOW – Oct. 14, 2025 - Beta-blockers, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure and heart conditions, were linked to changes in gut bacteria that were detectable. The same held true for anti-anxiety me... Read More...

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Nonprofits Profit On Homeless While the Crisis Deepens

AUDIO – NOT SO POOR ANYMORE – Oct. 14, 2025 - In Los Angeles, much of the work is carried out not just by government agencies, but largely by a vast network of nonprofits funded with public money. Over the past de... Read More...

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Deadly Mix Drives Staggering Rise in Overdose Deaths of Seniors

MARKETING MATTERS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Among adults 65 and older, overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants — like cocaine and methamphetamines — have surged 9,000% in the last eight years, which matches rates... Read More...

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Ben Stiller ‘Resented’ His Father for Not Knowing How to ‘Handle’ His Mom’s Alcoholism

ALANON ANYONE? – Oct. 17, 2025 - “When was drinking, my dad never really knew how to handle it,” Stiller, 59, explains in his new documentary, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, which details his parents’ love st... Read More...

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More Kids Losing Parents to Overdose, Suicide and Homicide

HOME GROWN ORPHANS – Oct. 16, 2025 - “Parental deaths from overdoses, homicides, suicides, and other substance-related causes are associated with more adverse health outcomes and higher rates of early mortality in th... Read More...

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Lily Allen: Suicidal and Her Struggle with Sobriety After Split

LIFE ON LIFE’S TERMS SUCKS – Oct. a6, 2025 - ‘The feelings of despair that I was experiencing were so strong. It was excruciating to sit with that,’ said the 40-year-old singer. She had suicidal thoughts and struggle... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Jack Kerouac

“People waste all their time. They’re alive for just so long, and they waste their time on recriminations and retributions and all such nonsense.” – Jack Kerouac, b. 1922 – d. 1969 ... Read More...

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