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Princess of Wales Tells Addicts “recovery is possible”

VIDEO – FAIRY TALES DO COME TRUE – Oct. 30, 2022 - The charities leading the Taking Action on Addiction Campaign, along with others, are working across the country delivering life changing work to help people r... Read More...

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Yoga for Addiction Recovery and Mental Health

VIDEO – STRETCHING THE SOUL – Oct. 28, 2022 - Daffner said his recovery process was long, trying many times to get clean and never feeling fully prepared. But nearly nine years ago, something clicked when he be... Read More...

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Carey Price On Alcoholism Demons, and His Legacy

THE BEST THERE IS – Oct. 25, 2022 - Basu had no intention of forcing Price into speaking about his battles with alcohol abuse that led the goalie to enter the league’s Player Assistance Program before th... Read More...

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Americans’ Word Choices Are Part of the Problem

A ROSE IS ROSE IS A ROSE – Oct. 26, 2022 - The terms, of course, mean functionally the same thing. But in the field of addiction medicine, the question presents something of a crisis. Even as drugs and alcohol ... Read More...

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The Voice in My Head Doesn’t Want Me to Get Sober

IT’S A LIE – Oct. 26, 2022 - I hadn’t been doing great before that moment. My career had imploded; my dad was paying my rent at the sober house. My first marriage was over. Oh, and my mom was dying. But I’d put... Read More...

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I’m a Behavioral Scientist. Here’s How I Pull Myself Out of a Funk

GENTLY – Oct. 2022 - This capacity for inward reflection, as remarkable as it is, causes an unending amount of grief, anxiety, and sadness. It’s really too bad that the adaptive story in our long tale of... Read More...

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Redemptive Power of Creativity

ART LIGHTS THE WAY – Oct. 27, 2022 - In The Creative High, the evolution of the stories of the nine artists begins with the rawest examples, teetering on the edge of relapse, and ends with the most experi... Read More...

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Leslie Jordan Was More Than 2 Decades Sober: ‘The Hardest Thing That I Ever Did’

WE LOST A GIANT – Oct. 24, 2022 - “We were Baptist. There was no alcohol in our family. We were teetotalers,” he said in January 2021. “I remember that, all of a sudden, I wasn’t that awkward kid who didn’t kno... Read More...

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‘Chandler Bing’ Spent $9M on His Journey to Sobriety

I GUESS HE DIDN’T HAVE A DOLLAR BILL – Oct. 23, 2022 - Matthew Perry says in a recent interview with The New York Times that he spent a literal fortune to get sober. The Friends alum, 53, noted the es... Read More...

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How Former NBA Player Vin Baker Changed His Life With Sobriety

VIDEO – A HERO ONCE MORE – Oct. 24, 2022 - NBA player Vin Baker was at the top of his game when he lost everything to addiction. Karen Swensen sits down with the athlete to talk about how he found his way back ... Read More...

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Best Movies About Addiction And Recovery

FILMS ARE GENIUS – Oct. 26, 2022 - Movies that detail addiction date as far back as D.W. Griffith’s 1912 Coca-Cola-inspired flick “For His Son,” a silent film about a doctor creating an addictive soft dr... Read More...

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The Miracles of “The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief”

HIGHER POWERS – Oct. 28, 2022 - Truth is hard because it is real, but it does not mean that it is not also loving and compassionate. Truth is what you make of it. Harriet Rossetto explains, “The opposite... Read More...

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Book Excerpt: HOME IS WITHIN YOU by Nadia Davis

A MOTHER’S LOVE CONQUER’S ALL – Oct. 22, 2022 - Since the day of my release from Santa Ana jail my head said, “Go alone and get it done quickly.” But that’s not how recovery from trauma, addiction, and chronic ... Read More...

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She Confronted Matthew Perry about ‘scary’ alcoholism

A FRIEND IN WEED IS A FRIEND INDEED – Oct. 22, 2022 -The actor - who played Chandler in the hit sitcom - detailed how his drug and alcohol addiction left him with a 2% chance of survival. During his i... Read More...

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AA’s Theme Song – The Only Thing You Get to Keep is What You Give Away

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – March 8, 2004 - I believed in Mahatma Gandhi when nonviolence was his faithI believed in Martin Luther when he said “I have a dream”I believed in Winston Churchill when he... Read More...

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Woman Who Beat Her Addiction Now Empowering Abuse Survivors

VIDEO – EACH ONE, TEACH ONE – Oct. 14, 2022 - “I had tried every avenue to get clean and then I started learning about my addiction, educating myself about why I was relapsing. Every time there was a tra... Read More...

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LESLIE JORDAN GONE AT 67

VIDEO – TAKEN TOO SOON – Oct. 24, 2022 - Leslie Jordan became a social media sensation during the pandemic, with his silly video posts helping him skyrocket from about 80,000 Instagram followers to a whopping 5.8 m... Read More...

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Tony-Award Winner Levi Kreis and The Power of Recovery

AUDIO – THE MOST DEPRESSING MINI-SERIES EVER – Oct. 19, 2022 - Listen on the Imagine Paradise Podcast which seeks to help people become chain-breakers, turning addiction to freedom, self sabotage to self love and v... Read More...

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How Hospital Addiction Specialist Saved a Life

AUDIO – MORE THAN ONCE! – Oct. 9, 2022 - BEBINGER: This is Liz Tadie. She helped launch a different approach for Marie and other patients at Salem Hospital. That day, when Marie said, please don’t make me g... Read More...

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Recovery Industry Rife with Abuse, Investigators Say

GREED GREED GREED – Oct. 12, 2022 - The opioid epidemic may have fallen out of the daily headlines, but it continues its deadly rampage in New Jersey, Brewer said. More than 3,100 people died of ... Read More...

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Rehabs in Jersey Engaged in ‘Appalling’ Practices

MONEY MONEY MONEY – Oct. 12, 2022 - At a hearing in Trenton to highlight the flaws in the addiction rehabilitation industry, commission investigators testified about their work and what they found as they looke... Read More...

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Addiction, and Illness Under Capitalism

VIDEO – SOCIETY’S CHILD – Oct. 14, 2022 - This is helpful. I’ve never made the connection between societal (in US, etc) expectations related to individualism and the how they facility capitalism and vice versa.... Read More...

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Encampments & Halfway House Bulldozed, Displacing 100s

WHERE ARE WE TO, WHERE ARE WE EVER TO GO – Oct. 6, 2022 - Minneapolis, MN – On Oct. 6, 2022, the City of Minneapolis evicted three encampments of unhoused people, leaving over 100 people displaced withou... Read More...

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‘My Name Is Bill W.’ Emmy-Nominated Screenwriter William G. Borchert, Passes at 89

LOIS WILSON’S SECRETARY – Oct. 3, 2022 - Born in Brooklyn on Sept. 9, 1933, William George Borchert began his career with the New York Journal-American newspaper and would write for newspapers, magazines... Read More...

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The Benefits of Quitting Alcohol

VIDEO ONLY – MORE THAN YOU THINK – Oct. 4, 2022 - Sober October challenges people to give up booze for 31 days. But what are the benefits of cutting out booze for a month? more@BuffaloNews ... Read More...

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John Stamos opens up about why rehab was ‘the hardest thing ever’

VIDEO – AND MOST WORTHWHILE – Oct. 2, 2022 - Stamos admitted that he had “Peter Pan syndrome,” something he referred to as “dangerous.” Growing up was never his priority, and the youthfulness of his look... Read More...

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Documentary ‘Our American Family,’ Addiction is in the Blood

BEST DOC OF THE YEAR – Oct. 7, 2022 - “I believe that I was an addict from birth,” Nicole says in the opening of the film. “I’ve lost years. I have no idea who I am.” As we will soon find out, Nicole ... Read More...

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Voters Support Treatment Over Criminal Prosecution

IT’S THE MAINE WAY – Sept. 27, 2022 - A new survey from University of Maine researchers finds that a majority of Maine voters support shifting state drug policy away from criminal prosecution in favor of treatm... Read More...

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14 Years Online of IN THE ROOMS

BEFORE THERE WAS ZOOM... – Sept. 30, 2022 - 14 years ago, Ken Pomerance and Ron Tannebaum came up with a revolutionary idea that was to change the face of recovery for people around the world. What started as a... Read More...

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Hospitals have specialists on call for lots of disorders – but not addiction

DUH, GOOD IDEA, YA THINK? – Sept. 30, 2022 - At many hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country, Marie would likely have been discharged anyway, while still in the pain of withdrawal. Perhaps she would l... Read More...

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