Oct 8 2019

Elton John’s ROCKETMAN on the BIG SCREEN in Los Angeles – This Friday at 8pm Tickets $10

2019 LA REEL Recovery Film Festival – New York Times: The film casts Taron Egerton as the flamboyant Mr. John…

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Fentanyl deaths spurs OD prevention program in SF residential hotels

Safe Proofing Residences – Sep. 30, 2019  - Friends have dragged Nic Atamaniuk back from the edge of death from…

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Ways to Process the Death of Friend in 12-Step Recovery

Grief and Gratitude – Oct. 1, 2019 - Once a sober friend is gone, the best way to process that…

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Can We Please Stop Describing Sober People as ‘Clean’?

OPINION – September 29, 2019 - How we talk about addiction and substance use matters.  It affects our understanding of…

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DEA on massive opioids production: So What?

Governmental Population Control? – Oct. 2, 2019 - The agency’s production quota for oxycodone, for instance, jumped about five times…

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Doc Gets 40 Years For Prescribing More Than Half A Million Opioid Doses

With Perfect Handwriting –  October 2, 2019 - He was also convicted on hundreds of counts of unlawfully distributing a…

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Federal judge rules safe injection site can legally open in Philly

City of Brotherly Life – OCTOBER 02, 2019 - he Department is disappointed in the Court’s ruling and will take…

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Man died after ingesting ‘8-ball’ of cocaine while being booked in jail

INSANITY ON EVERY LEVEL –  October 4, 2019 -  A 26-year-old San Ramon man ingested an eighth of an ounce…

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Overcoming Addiction: Better Late Than Never

Or Now or Never? – October 1, 2019 - I began experimenting with opioid painkillers early in high school. I…

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Police: 70 cases now under investigation involving clinic

You Call This Healthcare? – Oct 3, 2019 - Lakeview Behavioral Health was still in operation on Thursday, despite a…

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A Warning About Benzodiazepines

The V is for Valhalla? –   Oct. 4, 2019 - A recent study from the University of Michigan found…

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Sia reveals she suffers from rare neurological disease

Making Suffering Comfortable – October 5, 2019 - The songstress, 43, previously opened up about her health issues to Billboard…

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‘Recovery Pod’ is First-Of-Its-Kind Drug Treatment

Spectacular Idea –  October 4, 2019 - The pod is made up of 10 dormitory-style cells. Men and women are…

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Why I don’t believe in ‘Sober October’

Yes, It’s an English OPINION – Oct. 5, 2019 - These PRs wonder in their emails if I have thought…

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Stop The Stigma forum focuses on the neuroscience of addiction

Stop Calling Them “Druggy Buggies” – Oct. 4, 2019 - “Truly it is about raising awareness and educating our community…

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10 Dead within 26 hours in one Ohio county

Why? –  September 30, 2019 - The most common cause of death in Franklin County is fentanyl overdose, Ortiz said.…

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Scottish Police oppose naloxone overdose kits: ‘not our job to save lives’

What would Craig Ferguson say? – Oct. 5, 2019 - Training to use the drug – available in injectable form…

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Recovery Through A.A. Meetings

COLLEGE DIPLOMAA? – October 5, 2019 - During the meeting, members pulled out a book about alcoholism entitled “The Big…

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Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician’s Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope, and Recovery

MEDIA: Book Recommendation –  October, 2019 - Then while in recovery from active addiction, he lost a colleague to suicide,…

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Why were millions of opioid pills sent to West Virginia town of 3,000?

Money Means More Than Lives? – Oct. 2, 2019 - Twenty minutes’ drive to the north, the Sav-Rite Pharmacy in…

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A Former College Athlete’s Life Completely Changed After Giving Up Alcohol

No More Keggers –  October 1, 2019 - When Billy Murphy, a former college basketball player at Lafayette College, realized…

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“Emergency Poet” Opens Literary Pharmacy to Support Mental Wellbeing

Word Play for Sobriety –  Oct. 2, 2019 - Literature academics from Keele University are opening an innovative “Poetry Pharmacy”…

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1 Million People Acquire Sexually Transmitted Infections Everyday

It’s a Crowded Planet – October 5, 2019 - As bad as sexually transmitted diseases sound, their prevention is not…

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Legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker dies at 80

RIP Ginger Baker – Oct. 6, 2019 Mr. Baker’s appearance behind the drum kit — flaming red hair, flailing arms,…

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Methadone pioneer Herbert Kleber’s approach still helps people today

Worth The Effort – October 1, 2019 - And though the worsening opioid overdose crisis has helped other medications and…

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Federal Agents Raid! Inspire Malibu, BLVD Centers Inc.,Victory Detox Center, Reflections Recovery LLC

Just in Time for Group? –  Oct. 7, 2019 - The Southern California News Group has chronicled disturbing reports of…

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Treatment Scam May Be Coming to Your State

Preying on the Dying –  October 7, 2019 - People with addiction and their families often don’t want to ask…

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Addiction Experts are Outraged as Addiction Policy Forum Ex-Pharma Lobbyist is on Federal Drug Abuse Panel

Fox in the hen house? – October 5, 2019 - Now her appointment to the NIDA panel has drawn criticism…

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Lung Damage From Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns

New Flavor: Agent Orange – Oct. 2, 2019 - “All 17 of our cases show a pattern of injury in…

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He Was Dealing Fentanyl. And Helping Addicts. Then Planned Visit from the VP Blew It All Up

Sidelined – Oct. 2, 2019 -  I. THE VP On the morning of July 2, Eric Spofford awoke early, pulled…

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