Sober Living House Founder’s Trial Set for September VIDEO – OUT ON BAIL – March 12, 2025 - Dawn Holland, the founder and former executive director of the sober living rehabilitation facility DAWNS House in Bend, will go on trial in September for charges related to all... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Home-Based Recovery is a Lifeline for Many CANADIAN SUNRISE – March 13, 2025 - Opinion: Treatment at home is crucial for those facing barriers, such as stigma, to accessing traditional treatment or simply because there is often not a detox bed ava... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Addiction swallowed up 15 years of my life’ SHE’S A WINNER NOW – March 20, 2025 - Tanya started drinking. It began a downward spiral of drug and alcohol addiction that took 15 years for her to escape. Now 45, Tanya, from Cambridge, says she has never been happ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRehab
Person of The Week: Brette Taylor STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – March 25, 2025 - Brette Taylor is an acclaimed actress and filmmaker. She actively works as a writer, producer, actor, and director on projects that highlight her connection to s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewNews BoxesRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Sobriety For Profit VIDEO – KEEP IT $IMPLE – March 13, 2025 - Unlike non-profit sober living homes in Bloomington such as Amethyst House and Courage to Change, Malibu House is registered with the state as a Domestic Limited Liability P... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeatured ArticlesRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Recovery Cards Have Messages of Hope SPREADING THE WORD – March 12, 2025 - The Recovery Card Project was created over five years ago and more than 150,000 cards have since been distributed. According to Shadia Lemus, BHA marketing supervisor, the projec... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMar 18 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocatesobriety
Person of the Week: David Cohen STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – March 18, 2025 - David Cohen, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is the Clinical Director and COO at Harmony Place in Woodland Hills, CA. Since 2003, he’s been a leader in addiction an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewMar 18 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Film ‘Shuffle’ Reveals How Rehab Facilities Prey on Addicts for the Sake of Profit NEW DOCUMENTARY – March 12, 2025 - Benjamin Flaherty spent three years shooting “Shuffle,” a documentary that follows three addicts who are trying to stay alive in rehab facilities that are scamming insurance c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 18 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Say Everything: A NEW Memoir by Ione Skye BOOK SUGGESTION – Publication Date, March 4, 2025 - Deserted by her dad, the folk singer legend Donovan, Skye was a ninth-grade dropout who sought solace and validation in the eyes of audiences and dreamy costa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyMar 18 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocatesobriety
Tarzana Treatment Centers Launches Learning Portal MISSION TO EMPOWER – March 7, 2025 - The TTC Learning Portal brings decades of expertise in mental health treatment, substance use disorder recovery, and healthcare services to a broader audience. With a mission to ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMar 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Person of the Week: Barbara Nicholson Brown STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – March 11, 2025 - Barbara Nicholson Brown is the owner of Together AZ Newspaper, published monthly in Arizona, focusing on addiction recovery and behavioral health resources for the com... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewMar 11 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
The Rich Pay Top Dollar to Get Clean. What If They Don’t? QUANTITY NOT QUALITY – Feb. 16, 2025 - THE ACTRESS was drunk. Again. She was trying to live sober after leaving Passages Malibu, a tony rehabilitation center nestled into the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 11 2025RecoveryRehab
‘Body Brokers’ Take Advantage of Lack of Care in Hawaii VIDEO – HULU HUSTLE – Feb. 29, 2025 - Hawaii’s chronic shortage of treatment resources may be one reason mainland drug rehab recruiters, known as “body brokers,” are working to lure patients to unregulated trea... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Supervisor Sentenced in Scheme to Defraud Federal, State & Private Health Insurers AMAZING WOMAN – March 5, 2025 - A clinical social worker nicknamed by her co-workers as the “Five Minute Queen” who, at times, substituted a one or two sentence conversation for a billed 45-minute therapy session for... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMar 11 2025RecoveryRehabTrauma
Famous Cash Family Shares Story of Addiction in Documentary. VIDEO – CASH & CARRY – March 4, 2025 - “When you’re in the middle of addiction, you’re lost,” said Mark Alan Cash. “You don’t think there’s a way out. That’s this disease. It’ll sneak up on ya and kill ya. You e... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyMar 11 2025Recovery
The Other AA FAMILY FRIENDLY – March 6, 2025 - This is all a hacky way to introduce Al-Anon — a program that has helped to improve my life and the lives of many others. Al-Anon is not the same program as AA, and it’s not just a s... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
From Crack Addict in NYC to CEO of High Watch Recovery Center VIDEO – MAN MAKES GOOD – Feb. 25, 2025 - In this powerful conversation, Andrew takes us through his decades-long sobriety journey—from getting sober at 20, drinking again after 14 years over a single drink, and ulti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Running Club Helps Men on Road to Recovery VIDEO – RUN LOLA RUN? – Feb. 25, 2025 - A few years ago, a mentor challenged him to run a half marathon. “Half marathon? I can’t even run like half a mile,” said Carlson, “All of a sudden I was running one mile, tw... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Funeral Home is Now Recovery Center MAKES SENSE SADLY – Feb. 24, 2025 - “We’re living in a time of a lot of different uncertainties, and this is a story of hope,” said Becky Flood, interim chief executive officer. “People deserve that, too.” Limen Reco... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Person of the week: Ronald Tannebaum STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Mar. 4, 2025 - Ronald (RT) Tannebaum – InTheRooms.com Co-Founder RT is the Co-Founder of InTheRooms.com the Largest FREE Online Social Network for the Global Recovery Community for tho... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
He Died as S.F.’s Largest Treatment Provider Turned Him Away AUDIO – WHY WHY WHY? – Feb. 27, 2025 - Jonathan Martin was face down, his head in his pillow, when Shy Baniani went to shake his roommate awake. As soon as Baniani’s hand touched Martin’s bare skin, th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
For 18 Years Celebrities Have Come to Talk About Recovery MENTORING FROM THE HEART – Feb. 23, 2025 - Casey King launched the series in 2008, systematically growing the event into a Who’s Who of featured celebrity speakers including actors Louis Gossett Jr., Todd Bridges, Cr... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
A Raw, Honest & Deeply Moving Experience VIDEO – HAVE A BALL – Feb. 25, 2025 - RAVING REVIEW: MY OWN NORMAL doesn’t ask for sympathy but exists as an unapologetic and deeply personal account of life, love, and self-definition. It doesn’t try to change mind... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025Recovery
An intervention saved his life. 23 years later they meet again. A STORY TO LOVE – Feb. 17, 2025 - Jean-Philippe Desjardins-Dufour began drinking at the age of 13. He stole his parents’ alcohol and drank alone in the evening. Then he fell into chemical drugs. The day of his ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaFeb 25 2025Recovery
Duo Poured $1.1M Into a New Addiction Treatment Centre VIDEO – BEST WISHES – Feb. 21, 2025 - Ryan Kirby and the former camp’s co-owner, Mark Lane, aren’t focused on turning a profit from the vast waterfront property. Instead, they’re pouring their own savings — about ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Professional Skater ‘Dancing 4 Recovery’ VIDEO – AMAZING ROUTINES – Feb. 21, 2025 - Cory Cooper is leveraging his passion for skating to inspire others and promote a message of hope. You’ll often find him skating alongside newbies and naturals alik... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
How a community rallied for trans and nonbinary recovery homes after LA fires VIDEO – STICKING TOGETHER – Feb. 20, 2025 - “At 6:49 p.m., I got the first phone call that there were flames and fire, fire within blocks from the Start House, which is a 20-bed facility in Altadena, and so we sent ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 25 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Demon Copperhead’ Profits Built a Rehab Center WORDS SAVES LIVES – Feb. 7, 2025 - Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery. When she was writing “Demon Cop... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
What Did Sobriety Do For Me? by Jorge Estupinan, a Queer Chicano based in Florida ROMANTIC PUZZLES – Feb. 8, 2025 - I was on my first date in 14 years, and I was excited, nervous and sober. In my car, waiting for my date to approach, I was feeling and looking good. I got this. He texted me h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 18 2025RecoveryRehabsobriety
Person of the Week: Joan Borsten Vidov STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Feb. 18, 2025 - Joan Borsten Vidov was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her mother was one of the Navy’s first female officers (then known as WAVES). Her father had a long career in the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 18 2025InterviewRecoveryRecovery Advocate