Woman’s Journey from Addiction to Advocacy ZERO to HERO – Nov. 10, 2025 - When city leaders gave Dani Sims a proclamation recognizing how her program helped people struggling with addiction, few may have realized what it took for her to get there. Today, Sims... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
From Homelessness To Clean & Sober Living NICE STORY – Nov. 12, 2025 - Selina Baylis, 44, said she is now the woman she was always meant to be. Describing herself as having been an alcoholic since her teens, Selina is now living in her own flat and plans to ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
There’s More Than One Way To Get Sober AUDIO – JUST DO IT – Nov. 12, 2025 - The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world a more libertarian—or at leas... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Why Your Rehab Center Needs a Strong SEO Strategy COMPETITION? – Nov. 11, 2025 - Getting found online can make or break a rehabilitation center’s success. When someone searches for help with addiction or recovery services, you want your facility to show up first. Th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeatured ArticlesRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Hollywood’s Recovery Guru Richard Taite Opens Up About the Industry’s Hidden Addiction WEALTH vs. HUMILITY – Nov. 7, 2025 - As Executive Chairman of Carrara Treatment & Wellness, where celebrities go to rehab, and 1 Method Center, Taite has spent more than two decades guiding high-profile clients t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSlider
SF Mayor Plans to Arrest Addicts – Give Them Treatment & Housing in New Sobering Center VIDEO – THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO – Nov. 12, 2025 - San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a new plan to tackle the city’s drug crisis: a law enforcement sobering center to get people who are doing drugs off th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehabSlider
Can Revenge Be Addictive? YES - UNLESS YOU DO THE STEPS – Nov. 3, 2025 - Alongside painkillers, food, and technology, one psychiatrist worries about the addictive potential of getting back at people — or even thinking about it. James Kimme... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 11 2025RecoveryRehab
Pre-addiction Intervention Could Save Lives ELEVENTH HOUR RESCUE – Nov. 3, 2025 - The mistaken belief that people with substance use disorders (SUDs) must “hit rock bottom” has shaped addiction care for decades. This model contrasts with how medicine manages c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaNov 11 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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
$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
Trump Regime Cuts Decimate Federal Addiction/Mental Health Agency WHO NEEDS HEALTH CARE – Oct. 30, 2025 - Since January, layoffs and funding cuts at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration have ground much of the agency’s work to a halt. At the Center fo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental HealthNov 04 2025RecoveryRehab
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
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
Woman Escaped Death: Now 2 Years Sober GRATEFUL EVERY DAY – Oct. 16, 2025 - Ellie McLean will never forget the day that saved her life. “My dad came into my room and he said, ‘Are you trying to kill my baby girl?’” “I said, ‘No, Dad.’” McLean was 43, ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 21 2025RecoveryRehab
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
See Inside the Rehab Program For Addicted Doctors VIDEO – PRIVILEGE MATTERS – Oct. 8, 2025 - In an exclusive “CBS Mornings Plus” report, a unique program is giving doctors battling substance abuse a second chance. The initiative allows physicians to keep treating pa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 14 2025RecoveryRehab
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
Life Inside a Taxpayer-funded Rehab FLORIDA WITHOUT A KEY – Oct. 10, 2025 - The moment she walked into Keeton House – a dilapidated, unmarked warehouse – Harris was pulled in to a six-hour meeting with an employee who told her she was above all “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 14 2025Rehab
Drug Rehabs Lure In Addicts for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street BUSINESS AS USUAL? – Oct. 8, 2025 - Penny Lamb and Jeffery Lichtenberg were 1,500 miles from their home in Oklahoma with no money and no prospects when they were kicked out of their drug rehab program. None of it ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 14 2025Rehab
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
Allina Health’s Inpatient Clinic To Close Down VIDEO – NOT ENOUGH PROFIT? – Sept. 27, 2025 - In a public hearing on Thursday, Allina Health leadership explained why they’re closing the inpatient chemical dependency unit at Mercy Hospital in Fridley. “For the last... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 07 2025RecoveryRehab
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