Transforming Addiction Recovery VIDEO – CHANGE IS GOOD – Nov. 6, 2025 - The Antidote is pioneering a holistic approach that starts with gut health. Founded by licensed counselor Meg Wilson, the program combines amino acid therapy, nutritional suppo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Person of the Week: Susan Campanaro STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Nov. 11, 2025 - I am a director, actor, entertainer, creative coach & teacher in NYC. I have a nightlife persona Lavinia Draper IG/FB/TikTok @mslavinianycI wrote a musical Doing Time Wit... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaInterviewNov 11 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
$53 Billion Rehab Industry Fails Those It’s Supposed To Help AUDIO – ONE CLENT AT A TIME – Nov. 3, 2025 - A new book explores the dark side of the drug rehabilitation industry. It’s called “Rehab: An American Scandal,” and it’s written by Shoshana Walter, an investigative repo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionNov 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Families Stay Together As Parents Recover From Addiction TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL – Nov. 6, 2025 - Our Place, housed in an apartment building provides free housing to adults and their children as parents go through recovery and receive mental health treatment, employment a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Court Battle Exposes Ugliest Strategies of Rehab Business MONEY MONEY MONEY – Nov. 6, 2025 - “Bro,” the text chain says, “you can make so much fucking money off these junkies. Their (sic) going to use anyway.” “What do you mean I can make more,” came the reply. “U can ma... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionNov 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
New Jersey Town Legally Blocked Housing For People in Recovery WTF – Oct. 29, 2025 - A federal appeals court has given a sober living nonprofit a second chance to press its discrimination claims against a Hudson County town over its right to operate. Oxford House originally sued... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 04 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Paramedics Are Changing The Front Line of Addiction Care THEY SEE IT UP CLOSE – Nov. 1, 2025 - Many people who survive an overdose decline to be taken to the hospital, which leaves EMS personnel as their only point of contact with the health care system. Those interactions... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 04 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Person of the Week: Ryan Whittaker STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Nov. 4, 2025 - Ryan Whittaker got clean when he was 15 years old in 1997. He started a company called Sober Water in 2024 to “Help people. End plastic.” He donated 40 acres in Southern Color... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaInterviewNov 04 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Private Treatment Centres Put Patients in Danger AUDIO/VIDEO – OH CANADA – Oct. 24, 2025 - Quebec and Alberta are only provinces that provide some regulation for all private facilities. After past struggles with alcohol, she was battling prescription drug addiction... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Treatment Center Feels Impact of State Crackdown on Sober Living Fraud WATCH – VIDEO ONLY – Oct. 15, 2025 - Local treatment center the Haven feels impact of state crackdown on sober living fraud. See Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45g2ATJOCk ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Embattled Kentucky Treatment Center Sold to Ethema Health AUDIO – GUILTY AS SIN – Oct. 22, 2025 - One of Kentucky’s largest for-profit residential addiction care treatment providers, which has been the subject of an FBI investigation for more than a year, is being sold. Add... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Person of the Week: Shireen Janti STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Oct. 28, 2025 - Shireen Janti has been a force in the field of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency for over 36 years. Her credentials include becoming a (CPC) Certified Professional ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaInterviewOct 28 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 21 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 1 2024Oct 21 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
“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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 21 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 21 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Walk Highlights Growing Global Sobriety Movement HEALTHY PEOPLE RISE UP – Sept. 28, 2025 - Almost 100 people gathered at Mount Royal Park for a wellness walk organized by Sober Is the New Cool on Saturday. The event is part of a growing international movement, with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 14 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocatesobriety
Saving Teens from Addiction, Vaping, and Social Media Dangers AUDIO – THEY ARE OUR FUTURE – PODCAST - On this episode of the WGNS Rutherford Issues Podcast, Scott Walker fills in for Bryan Barrett to discuss the Steered Straight program with guest Jennifer Sanchez. Together, th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 14 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabteenagers
Person of the Week: Dr. Cali Estes STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Oct. 14, 2025 - Dr. Cali Estes is a celebrity addiction specialist, psychologist, and founder of The Addictions Academy and Sober On Demand®. A six-time best-selling author and media expert,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryInterviewOct 14 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Recovery Group Helps Equine Expert Facing Hard Times COMPASSION IN ACTION – Sept. 27, 2025 - Stable Recovery volunteers and community members spent the day cleaning up a house and five acres of land for Elizabeth Blythe, a well-known figure in the equine industry who h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Alex Pereira and Sister Aline Credit Each Other in Heartfelt Confession About Overcoming Alcoholism SOBRIETY ON THE ROAD – Sept. 29, 2025 - In July this year, Aline Pereira joined her brother, Alex Pereira, as a champion. Aline was crowned the Karate Combat flyweight champion in Miami after she defeated Fani Peloum... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabsobriety
Giving up alcohol for Sober October? TRY THIS – Sept. 29, 2029 - Curious about trying Sober October, the global challenge to give up alcohol for 31 days to benefit your health and raise awareness for cancer? Life Kit is here to help. Staying sober fo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocatesobriety
Person of the Week: Paulina Pinsky STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Oct. 7, 2025 - Paulina Pinsky is a writer, ice skater, writing coach, and educator based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she has taught Comedy Writing to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyInterviewOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Recovery Saved My Life. It Can Also Save Our Democracy. FAITH AND VOTING TOO – Sept. 29, 2025 - Recovery is not just a personal journey. It is a political one. It provides a roadmap for how we might mend and heal our seemingly broken democracy: people of different faiths,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Sober Eats Serving Up Awareness About Overcoming Addiction VIDEO – SOBRIETY ON THE ROAD – Sept. 30, 2025 - “Everybody knows somebody in recovery, but they don’t know it a lot of times because we don’t talk about it.” On top of overcoming addiction– people in recover... Read More...Addiction RecoveryOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Five Ways We Can Support Women in Recovery IMPORTANT – Sept. 29, 2025 - In honor of National Recovery Month, this installment of Women & Democracy is presented in partnership with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health at Georgetown Law, exp... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 07 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Fighting Addiction With Compassion and Hope NOW AND ALWAYS – Sept. 25, 2025 - “We have medicines that can help people quit tobacco, alcohol and opioid use. For opioid addiction, treatments like Suboxone, methadone, and naltrexone can help patients stay in reco... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 30 2025
Recovery Is Real: Restoring Every Aspect Of Life VIDEO – SOBRIETY IS A VICTORY – Sept. 25, 2025 - Mid-Michigan Recovery Services executive director Patrick Patterson says just like those smokes stacks are a beacon, the lighthouse on his organization’s logo is a sym... Read More...Addiction RecoveryRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 30 2025
Person of the Week: Denise Klein STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Sept. 30, 2025 - I was born in North Dakota, in a farming community. I went to the same school for 12 years. I have such fond memories of my beautiful classmates and teachers and there are s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaInterviewMalibuRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 30 2025
The Rehab Playbook Helps Individuals Struggling with Addiction BOOK REVIEW – Sept. 16, 2025 - The Rehab Playbook helps both individuals struggling with addiction and the community of people—family, friends, therapists, and physicians—who care about them by providing a deeper und... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 23 2025