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Orange County is Now Nation’s Center for Addiction Fraud

A DUBIOUS HONOR INDEED – Dec. 16, 2021 - ...to find vulnerable addicts with good insurance, then pay those body brokers handsomely so that the rehab can bill the insurance company, often for services tha... Read More...

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Ben Affleck Blasts ‘clickbait’ Blaming Alcoholism on Ex-wife Jennifer Garner

MORE HAS BEEN REVEALED – Dec. 16, 2021 - He told Kimmel: “The irony is I was really happy with , you know. I thought, ‘Wow I should do more honest exploratory, you know, self-evaluating things,’ and I started ... Read More...

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Billie Eilish: Addiction to Porn ‘Really Destroyed My Brain’

NOT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Dec. 17, 2021 - She added that watching it initially helped her feel cool and like she was “one of the guys.” Ultimately, however, she admits it led to her suffering nightmares becaus... Read More...

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Exercise Addiction

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING – DEC. 17, 2021 - While exercise addiction has not been accepted as a mental health disorder in the DSM-5, (“Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition”), resea... Read More...

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Media Offers Unique Opportunity to Tell Addiction Stories

MOVIES ARE REEL – Dec. 12, 2021 - Another somewhat common take can be seen in films such as Martin Scorcese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, where a young businessman quickly becomes corrupt as he’s overwhelmed with... Read More...

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Adolescent Females in Texas Face Barriers to Treatment

AND SO MUCH MORE – Dec. 3, 2021 - A birthday without cake, presents and miles from her high school friends, may not be the ideal celebration for most. However, Madero was grateful to spend any time in resident... Read More...

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Treatment Center Hearing Should Be Emotional and Confrontational

NO TIME TO DIE – Dec. 11, 2021 - Others have long lists of questions for Michelle Baass, director of the California Department of Health Care Services, the agency charged with overseeing the industry. How a... Read More...

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Tom Hardy Said He Would Have Sold His Mother For Crack

BUT COULDN’T FIND A BUYER? – Dec. 3, 2021 - Recently, the first look of Hardy’s famous period crime drama, Peaky Blinders Season 6, was unveiled. The actor is back with his iconic role of Alfie Solomons. On top of ... Read More...

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“I was told the 12 steps would cure my addiction. Why did I end up feeling more broken?”

BECAUSE YOU COULD FEEL AGAIN – Dec. 4, 2021 - On check-in, I was told I have a disease that’s progressive, fatal and incurable, and that I have a one in three chance of dying from it. My life had fallen apart so dr... Read More...

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Opioid Reckoning’ Calls Out the Twelve Steps in an Age of Fentanyl

IS SHE CALLING BILL WILSON A MURDERER? – Dec. 4, 2021 - That’s the thorny question raised in “Opioid Reckoning,” a new book published last month by University of Minnesota Press by independent scholar and Maca... Read More...

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Former Alcoholic Targets 70 Triathlons in 70 Days

WHY WOULDN’T HE? – Dec. 3, 2021 - Before the pandemic, Mr Stone worked as a scuba instructor overseas, but had to return to Staffordshire when tourism dried up. He has taken a year off to focus on his lates... Read More...

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Drug Overdose Strategy Pushes Treatment for Some, Prison for Others

WHO DECIDES WHO GETS HELP? – Dec. 8, 2021 - A class-wide scheduling of fentanyl-related substances may sound wonky, but you don’t have to be a doctor to know the dangers of this policy. As a medical professio... Read More...

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As Drug Overdoses Climbed the State Failed to Inspect Residential Treatment Programs

SAY IT ISN’T SO SANTA – Dec. 3, 2021 - “The COVID pandemic wreaked havoc in the lives of many New Yorkers, including those vulnerable to addiction,” said DiNapoli. “Skyrocketing substance abuse over the past 1... Read More...

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Blood Tribe Showcasing Sobriety Success Stories

WATCH – ‘IT’S NOT EASY, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE’ – Dec. 8, 2021 - Four members are a part of the official PWLE team, with community nominations put forward as well. “There has been a tremendous amount of support... Read More...

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Former Browns’ Safety Jordan Poyer’s Battle With Alcoholism

WHEN HONESTY BECOMES THE GOAL – Dec. 3, 2021 - “A big part of my sobriety is to lean into the truth. To be comfortable with who I am. And I’m actually surprised by how easy it’s been to open up to people,” Poyer sa... Read More...

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Drew Barrymore’s “quiet, confident journey” to Sobriety

WATCH – FROM E.T. to FINDING HER WAY HOME – Dec. 9, 2021 - The actress is known for her bright and bubbly personality, but she told “CBS Mornings” that she did not talk to people about her sobriety for years b... Read More...

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When Star Sharon Gless Realized She Was An Alcoholic on ‘Cagney & Lacey’

LIFE IMITATING ART? – Dec. 9, 2021 - But, as it turned out, playing an alcoholic wasn’t that much of a stretch for her. She later realized that she herself had a drinking problem and checked into rehab. She st... Read More...

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Gloria Harrison: A Story of Hope and Healing

SHE’S NEVER GIVEN UP – Dec. 6, 2021 - Gloria’s story, is shocking in the brutality of the reactions she received when she reached out for help. At every turn, as a girl and a young woman, she was knocked down,... Read More...

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Flavor Flav Gets A Taste for Sobriety

TIME’S UP – Dec. 8, 2021 - The 62-year-old former rapper, hip-hop and reality TV star, whose legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., pleaded no contest in Henderson Municipal Court to a misdemeanor nonviol... Read More...

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UK Overhauls Drug Strategy to Focus on Recovery Not Prison

NOT THE AMERICAN WAY – Dec. 5, 2021 - The overhaul has been drawn together by at least six government departments, the BBC understands. It will form part of a wider week of law and order announcements for t... Read More...

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Drug Czar: It’s Time to Treat Addiction Like a Chronic Disease

AND NOT A CRIME – Dec. 8, 2021 - And that support means approaching addiction and substance use not as a moral decision, but as a chronic relapsing brain disease. “It’s no different than many of the other c... Read More...

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SAMHSA Announces Unprecedented $30 Million Harm Reduction Grants

MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING? – Dec. 8, 2021- SAMHSA will distribute $10 million per year over the next three years. Grant recipients must use the funds to support harm reduction services. Harm reduction service p... Read More...

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Australia is the Drunkest Country In the World

NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT – Dec. 3, 2021 - The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education chief executive, Caterina Giorgi, said the statistics were “concerning”, and that a clear picture of the impact of... Read More...

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Alcoholism Within the Black Community

LISTEN – MUSIC AND TALK – Dec. 1, 2021 - Tonight I will be speaking on Alcoholism in the black community. For two hours we will be listening to brave soldiers speak on their experience with dealing with alcoho... Read More...

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Kathy Griffin Details How Living With Drug Addiction Led to Her Attempted Suicide

WATCH – TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES – Dec. 2, 2021 - Griffin was referring to the 2017 photo of her holding a bloody effigy of then-President Donald Trump’s head. She lost her job at CNN over the photo and was inve... Read More...

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Elton John ‘You learn to pass the message on’

ONE DRUNK TO ANOTHER – Dec. 3, 2021 - Elton John has explained why he feels compelled to try and help fellow musicians struggling with drugs and alcohol abuse. Appearing on The Jonathan Ross Show, whi... Read More...

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Recovery Community Mourns Loss of Recovery Coach Laurie Quinn

WATCH – SHE WILL BE MISSED – Dec. 2, 2021 - Courtney Lovell was her long-time friend, and co-founder of Our Wellness Collective in Columbia County. As part of Morgan’s recovery from drug addiction, together th... Read More...

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The Real Substance of Addiction

REQUIEM FOR AMERICA – Dec. 2, 2021 - The junkie narrative tends to reduce addiction to the substance or behavior the addiction revolves around, and/or the aims and griefs that drive it. For the junkies of “Requiem ... Read More...

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Lights, Camera, Recovery w/ Ahbra Schiff

LISTEN – READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP – Dec. 1, 2021 - Almost 6 years after first meeting him, Ahbra has been working alongside Leonard to put on the REEL Recovery Film Festival (Now in its 13th year) and the Experi... Read More...

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Q&A with Nat’l Dir. of Outreach, J. Flowers Health, Claudia Schwarz MFT

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – Dec. 3, 2021 - Claudia Schwarz is a Board Certified, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has decades of experience in various mental health settings. In addition to having a success... Read More...

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