Rehab Programs Promise Recovery Through Work — But Deliver Slave Labor WATCH – It works if you work it? – Dec. 8, 2020 - But many of the workers in these rehab programs are not receiving pay. By not paying recovering drug and alcohol abusers, these programs do not provide the most... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 15 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Lizzo Gets Real About Her Body Image WATCH – Celebrities ... they’re just like us – December 11, 2020 - Lizzo came forth reflecting on her journey of struggling with body image issues. In a Tuesday TikTok video, the American singer revealed sh... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 15 2020Eating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMental HealthRecovery
24-Hour Hotline Launched for People Using Alone Medically Assisted Telephone – December 10, 2020 - New Yorkers who are using drugs alone, and who would like someone to stay on the phone with them and call emergency services if they become unresponsive, can ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol Addictioncell phoneCoronavirusDec 15 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
AJ McLean and Cheryl Burke Discuss Alcoholism on New Podcast WATCH – Talking the talk... – Dec. 11, 2020 - “Dancing with the Stars comes lots of attention, all of a sudden, and something that I was never comfortable with and still am not 100% comfortable with. But I used alco... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 15 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
A Safer Psychedelic Drug to Treat Depression and Addiction Psychedelics For Addicts? – Dec. 9, 2020 - A chemically tweaked version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine appears to relieve depression and addiction symptoms without producing hallucinations or other dangerous ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 15 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
Machine Gun Kelly on undergoing therapy for drug abuse Issues always come up... – Dec. 1, 2020 - “I had my first therapy session… That’s the first time I ever went, ‘Hey, I need to separate these two people’, which is Machine Gun Kelly and (my real name) Colson Ba... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionMental HealthRecovery
Legendary Jockey Completing In-Patient Treatment Hopes to Return to The Saddle Soon Staying on Track – Nov. 23, 2020 - Desormeaux’s highly successful career has been comparatively erratic in recent years, and the rider has made no secret of his struggles with alcohol. Most recently, he was sus... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
“Exercise is Essential for Your Mental Health and Happiness” Jumping Jacks for Joy – November 30, 2020 - Just weeks after working out for 24-hours solid and raising over £2.5 million for Children in Need, Joe Wicks, AKA The Body Coach, shares his thoughts on movement for... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 8 2020interventionMental HealthRecovery
How to Talk to Loved Ones About Their Mental Health WATCH – From the Heart – Dec. 1, 2020 - The year 2020 has exacted a psychological toll on Americans. Levels of anxiety and depression have skyrocketed alongside increases in drug overdoses and alcohol consumpt... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDec 8 2020depressioninterventionMental HealthRecoverysuicide
2020 Most Admired CEOs: Mark Mishek, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Leaving the helm to others... – Dec. 1, 2020 - You must pay to read entire article. When Mark Mishek took the helm in late 2008 of what was then the Hazelden Foundation, it was a turbulent time. As the new ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Moms Are Speaking Out on Drug Laws That Tear Families Apart by Gretchen Burns Bergman Is America a penal colony? – DEC. 4, 2020 - The holidays are always difficult for those who must navigate the mighty and destructive waves of addiction. It’s a painful time for families who are separated becau... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDec 8 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Kentucky Teacher of the Year’s Story of Addiction and Recovery Neither regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it – December 3, 2020 - I thought I could not tell a single beloved colleague about this significant part of my life I have to struggle with daily; I felt so alo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
How Jimmy Page Helped Scott Gorham (of Thin Lizzy) Get Off Heroin I get clean with a little help from my friends – December 5, 2020 - Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham is praising Led Zeppelin counterpart Jimmy Page for helping him beat heroin in 1983. The drug had already... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Lockdown had me drinking again’ Vigilance always – Dec. 6, 2020 - From the beginning of lockdown in March, Pam had been fighting a losing battle. As AA meetings began shutting their doors she was forced inside to face her demons alone. “I... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDec 8 2020interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Chasing the News … stone cold sober – Episode 4 WATCH – Fascinating rhythm – Nov. 17, 2020 - Sobriety, creativity, serenity and laughter in the Coronaverse. A conversation with Paul Williams, Ester Nicholson, Ricky Byrd, John Taylor, Johnny Solomon... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelMental HealthNov 17 2020RecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Q&A with Creator of The Global Sober Series of Giant Books Stick with the Winners! – December 4, 2020 - The Global Sober Series grew out of the Anonymous author’s first book 101 Shares that featured 101 meeting starter topics. Wanting to reach a wider audienc... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Queen’s Gambit Shows Knowledge Can’t Defeat Addiction – OPINION Check(mate)-ing out – November 3, 2020 - Even when she wakes up severely hungover in Paris, she whips her head forward and instantly collects herself, looking like a veritable siren doll with sinuously reflecti... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionGaminginterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Sober living, addiction treatment conflicts return to lawmakers’ crosshairs The good, the bad and the ugly – Dec. 4, 2020 - On Thursday, Dec. 3, three Congress members introduced a bill aimed at improving the quality of care offered to recovering addicts living in sober living homes. ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Tallulah Willis Credits Mom, Demi Moore, for Her Sobriety Sober mother, sober daughter – December 3, 2020 - Willis also said she finds herself “becoming mother in the most complimentary way” and feels that Moore is someone she can “really draw from.” “She’s even,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Social Media Addiction Bubble Thumbs Down – Nov. 30, 2020 - The September debut of “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix sounded this alarm for millions of viewers. The documentary centers on Tristan Harris, the former Google engineer who has ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDec 8 2020GaminginternetinterventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addictionvideo games
Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love Now more than ever... – Dec. 2020 - In the general Buddhist style of befriending complexity through simplicity and with his particular gift for simple words strung into a rosary of immense wisdom radiating imm... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 8 2020interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecovery
12 Step Meetings: What is was like, what happened and what it’s like now! Hindsight IS Indeed 2020 – by Dr. Don Grant, MA, MFA, DAC, SUDCC IV, PhD November 27, 2020 - In the early 2000’s, I began to notice sobriety support “chat rooms” online, and online recovery opportunities inc... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
FDA Study Shows Severe Perils of Benzodiazepines WATCH – Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, oh my – Dec. 2, 2020 - The FDA has not produced a report on the hundreds of thousands of complaints that have been made to them about BZDs, but just 104 “focused case se... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 8 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecovery
From A.A. to Zoom – Treatment Goes Online An Alphabet Soup of Recovery – November 28, 2020 - Though online rehab rose as an emergency stopgap measure, people in the field say it is likely to become a permanent part of the way substance abuse is treate... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDec 1 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Sobriety: an indigenous woman tells her story WATCH – Struggles and successes – Nov./Dec. 2020 - ‘Turning Points’ continues: stories produced, directed and told by indigenous people from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories, part of an empowerment... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 1 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network Convened for First Summit Still working to heal... – Nov. 24, 2020 - “Collaboration is powering 21st century health care, and that’s what our Patient Care Network and this annual summit are all about – working together and learning fro... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 1 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Celebrities who have discussed sobriety in 2020 Talk is cheap? – Nov. 28, 2020 - In some cases, stars speak out to help provide support to other addicts and show a pathway to sobriety. While others share their stories for a sense of freedom and to be open w... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 1 2020interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Recovery is possible’: beating drug addiction to spread hope Never stop trying ... it pays off with life – Nov. 29, 2020 - Henry continued to use and would go on to fail more than 50 drug tests administered through Indiana Department of Child Services, who still allowed ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 1 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Thanksgiving has new meaning for former gang member WATCH – Grateful for a new slice of turkey and sober life – Nov. 28, 2020 - “I never really was thankful for life,” Pennebaker said. He served prison time, and he came to Longview in 2017. At one point, he was h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCompassionDec 1 2020Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabsuicide
Weirdest Mental Health Tips For Winter Freezing My Depression Off – November 27, 2020 - Immerse Your Head In Water "Feeling anxious? Bend over, hold your breath, and immerse put your face in a bowl of cold water for up to 60 seconds. This... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDec 8 2020depressioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecovery