Can ‘Safe’ Injection Sites Make a Difference? IS ICE CREAM COLD? – Feb. 17, 2022 - This month, drug-policy experts also flagged the Department of Justice’s decision to revisit the federal government’s opposition to a safe drug-injection site in Philadelphi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022harm reductioninterventionRecoveryRehab
I Am an Alcoholic In Rehab VIDEO – FIRST HAND ACCOUNT – Feb. 19, 2022 - As I write this in my marble notebook, I am a stereotype, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette, dry just a few days. It’s a chilly morning for Southern California. I... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Julia Cameron’s ‘Seeking Wisdom’ Goes Deeper than ‘The Artist’s Way’ AUDIO – MORE WISDOM – Feb. 21, 2022 - When author Julia Cameron first got sober, she was told to pray. In her new book, Seeking Wisdom, Cameron writes about the connection of spirituality and creativity, and he... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Interview with Leigh Steinberg a.k.a. Jerry Maguire TOUCHDOWN – Feb. 15, 2022 - The first drink was Russian Roulette. After I took the first drink, it wasn’t clear what would be the eventual outcome. It could be anything from a blackout where I did not remember ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabWriters In Treatment
Jane Lynch on Her Sobriety: In and Out and In Again VIDEO – ON THE PATH – Feb. 16, 2022 - “The first time you , it’s like: ‘Ah, I found it. I feel happy in my body, this feeling of bliss. No one can say anything to me that would make me upset or feel badly about... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
I Was An Addicted Doctor: Rehab Made Me Question How Much We Understand About Addiction THE DOCTOR’S OPINION – Feb. 8, 2022 - The next day, I meet with the whole treatment team – half a dozen psychiatrists, therapists and counsellors facing me across a massive table in one of those windowles... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Marian Keyes on Sobriety and Marriage ALL THE RIGHT NOTES – Feb. 15, 2022 - Lauded by contemporaries, including David Nicholls and Jo Jo Moyes, there’s light and dark in all Keyes’ novels, equal measures of hilarity and heartbreak. She has explore... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietydepressionFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Elle King, Multi-Grammy Nominee on Motherhood and Sobriety A MOST CREATIVE ACT – Feb. 15, 2022 - Later in the interview, King, 32, publicly disclosed for the first time that she had contracted COVID-19 during the Christmas holidays and that it had spread to at least on... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Marian Keyes: From Alcoholism To Author of the Year THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE LEXAPRO – Feb. 18, 2022 - After reading the short story, Poolbeg Press contacted Keyes to ask her to write a full-length book which resulted in Keyes writing her first novel, Waterm... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Brain Surgery May Help People Overcome Drug Addiction VIDEO – IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – Feb. 15, 2022 - By his 20s, Buckhalter was using heroin, and drugs were all he could think about. By the time Mahoney proposed surgery, Buckhalter was at the end of his rope.&nbs... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
‘Relentless Advocate’: Chef Gabriel Rucker Opens Up About Sobriety VIDEO – GOURMET COFFEE ONLY? – Feb. 17, 2022 - “I’m lucky that I have also a father that’s in recovery, too,” he said. These days, Rucker also finds support in a group called Ben’s Friends. “There’s winem... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 22 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Jails Finally Allowing Medical Care For Opioid Addiction FINALLY SOME HUMANITY – Feb. 18, 2022 - Sedgwick’s joins at least a few other Kansas jails that do so, including Crawford County in southeast Kansas. “I mean, something’s got to change,” Crawford County She... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022interventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Fake ‘crack pipe’ Story Hurts Battle Against Addiction A CRACK IN THE STORY – Feb. 15, 2022 - It started with a story in the Washington Free Beacon that falsely said a federal Department of Health and Human Services grant was handing out free “crack pipes” to Black... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 22 2022harm reductioninterventionRecoveryRehab
Who Owns Addiction Treatment Medicine? PHARMA PHARMA? – Feb. 10, 2022 - In April 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took steps to lower some barriers for doctors (and nurse practitioners and physician assistants) to prescribing ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
“15 Years Ago I Was Waiting To Die” FROM HEROIN TO HEROINE – Feb. 2, 2022 - Parker is honest about what it took to recover, hard work, medical attention and a lot of help from agencies dedicated to providing support for those in recovery. “I h... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Hugh Wallace On Going To Rehab and ‘falling off wagon’ During Lockdown TV IS ADDICTIVE TOO – Feb. 8, 2022 - “I was in rehab for alcoholism in Stanhope Street and there were people there who couldn’t tell their partners they were attending.” Hugh and his partner Martin Cor... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 15 2022RecoveryRehab
Drug and Alcohol Addiction, OH MY EDUCATE AND ELUCIDATE – Feb. 8, 2022 - Addiction viewed through an existential-humanistic lens. I view addiction, and the road to recovery, through an existential-humanistic lens. This includes the fo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Parker McCollum Committed to Sobriety AUDIO – NEW COUNTRY MUSIC – Feb. 2022 - He wrote the song in seven minutes, and he did it sober. This was a turning point for the rising star, because he realized he didn’t need to use drugs to produce the son... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Mom Says 17-Year-old Son Was Denied Treatment For His Drug Addiction VIDEO – KEEP TRYING AND STAY ALIVE – Feb. 8, 2022 - Benton says she was stunned when her 17-year-old son was discharged from Novant without receiving any treatment. “Told my dad, you have to come get him. W... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
6 Sobriety Books That Might Help You give Up Booze ONE PAGE AT A TIME – Feb. 9, 2022 - Less of an instruction manual and more of an inspirational tale, Clare Pooley, a high flying Cambridge-grad, career woman and mum of three kids, opens up about her transforma... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 15 2022interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Biden Administration Is Not Giving Out Crack Pipes AUDIO – IT’S SO 1980s – Feb. 9, 2022 - “These comments are misleading and misinformed,” an HHS spokesperson told McClatchy News in a statement about the crack pipe claims that have sparked some outrage online. ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022harm reductioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Drug Refuge Lets San Francisco’s Addicts Inject DEATH REDUCTION? – Feb. 11, 2022 - A short distance from the headquarters of technology giants on Market Street in San Francisco, Pauline Wise left a city-run drug addiction facility after smoking fentanyl. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionRecoveryRehabTrauma
Chrissy Metz in Drug Addiction Drama ‘Stay Awake’ VIDEO – MOVIES ARE MAGIC – Feb. 10, 2022 - Chrissy Metz, the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated star of “This Is Us,” stars alongside “It” actor Wyatt Oleff and Fin Argus in Jamie Sisley’s drama “Stay Awake,” whic... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionRecoveryRehabTrauma
“I appreciate life”: Dan O’Toole On One Year of Sobriety VIDEO – 24/7, 365 – Feb. 10, 2022 - “I got fired on a Wednesday, the Super Bowl was on a Sunday. So once my kids got picked up on their usual schedule on Thursday, it was game on. I was like, ‘Okay, so I’ve go... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
The Show That Takes Millennial Drinking Seriously SINGLE WHITE FEMALE – Feb. 7, 2022 - Freeform’s Single Drunk Female takes a stark look at the morning after. The show follows Sam (Sofia Black-D’Elia), a 28-year-old blogger forced into confronting her alcoholi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 15 2022RecoveryRehab
She Celebrates 10 Years of Sobriety With State Trooper Who Arrested Her VIDEO – SUPER TROOPER – Feb. 10, 2022 - Martin’s parents were summoned to pick up her daughter, while Martin rode with trooper Hathaway to the Hennepin County Jail. Ten years later, Hathaway and Martin recal... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 15 2022interventionRecoveryRehab
Rob Delaney on 20 Years of Sobriety: ‘My life is unrecognizable’ VIDEO – On The HERO’S JOURNEY – Feb. 4, 2022 - “I got a lot of help from a lot of wonderful people. I started doing volunteer work after I’d been sober for a while, and through that I met my wife 18 years ago,”... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
‘Euphoria’ Finally Shows Dark Reality Addiction VIDEO – NOT A NETWORK PROGRAM – Feb. 8, 2022 - “You’re not a good person, Rue,” her mother Leslie tells her while she scans her eyes for remorse during an intense standoff, while Rue stares back in search of an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
Addiction: More Than a Disease? AUDIO – WORTH A LISTEN – Jan. 29, 2022 - Carl Erik Fisher: I’m glad you asked about the term “disease,” specifically, because it’s a real stumbling block. And different people mean a lot of different things by ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety GROWING UP – Feb. 9, 2022 - In his book, Dr Berger suggests that Bill Wilson concluded that the ultimate purpose of practicing the 12 Steps was to achieve emotional sobriety. (2021, p.23) Wilson wrote about the... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionFeb 15 2022interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab