California to Pay Addicts to Stay Sober DOUBLE WINNERS – August 26, 2021 - Meanwhile, a similar proposal is moving through California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature. It’s already passed the Senate with no opposition and is pending in the ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Biggest Robert Downey Jr. Moments That Transformed His Life TAKING THE RIGHT ‘STEPS’ – August 25, 2021 - After a few small parts in movies, Downey got what seemed like his big break in 1985. That year, “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels assembled an en... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Nurse Shares Story of Recovery at South Jersey Ministry PLEASE WATCH – REAL HEROES – August 25, 2021 - “I had tried to commit suicide numerous times. I had been in and out of programs. I had lost my nursing license. There was nowhere for me to go,” she said. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabsuicideteenagers
Understanding Connections Between Substance Use and Other Life Problems AWARENESS IS THE FIRST STEP – August 25, 2021 - Delivered virtually, Hazelden Betty Ford’s RecoveryGo® online solutions bring our world-class outpatient addiction and mental health care, recovery support... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmarijuanaMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Man Walking 700 Miles to Help Fight Addiction ONE MILE AT A TIME – August 26, 2021 - The 54-year-old is walking from Okeechobee County to Snow Camp North Carolina. After 40 years of addiction, he’s been sober for nearly five years. He’s walking t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Boxing Legend Julio Cesar Chavez Told Drug Lords To “Go To Hell” COMING OUT SWINGING – August 26, 2021 - “There were about one thousand years worth of jail time the day I defeated ‘Macho’ Camacho. And they all wanted to meet me and I was standing in the middle,” Chave... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionInterviewRehab
Maybe One Day The Mentally Ill Will Get Treatment Not Punishment LISTEN – DO LESS HARM – August 26, 2021 - Over 70% of those incarcerated have at least one mental health diagnosis or substance use disorder, and nearly 30% have a serious mental illness, much higher than the ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Raiders DE Maxx Crosby is 18 months sober DEFENDING HIS LIFE – AUGUST 27, 2021 - Crosby, who turned 24 on Aug. 22, was a Day 3 draft pick of the Raiders in 2019 out of Eastern Michigan, the No. 106 overall selection in the fourth round. He racked up 1... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Donald Newlove Explored the Depths of Drink, Dies at 93 FROM DEAD DRUNK TO DEAD SOBER – August 27, 2021 - The novelist Frederick Busch wrote in The New York Times Book Review that “The Drunks” was “a convulsion of ghastly laughs and gorgeous writing.” The New Yorke... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRehab
A Chat with Heroes of Al-Azeema Rehab ADDICTION WITHOUT BORDERS – August 28, 2021 - Hassanein Ahmed, 27, also decided to quit drugs after a decade of addiction. “I decided to seek treatment for myself. I did not want to continue what I was doing,”... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Chrissy Teigen: I was “Basically A Functioning Alcoholic” YOU GET YOUR FEELINGS BACK – August 25, 2021 - Chrissy Teigen has opened up about her relationship with alcohol and revealed that she’s dealing with unresolved trauma over losing her baby last year. Chrissy... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Dreamland Author Pens Second Book On Addiction MEDIA: THE LEAST OF US by SAM QUINONES – August 26, 2021 - The Least of Us deepens the story of our nation’s opioid epidemic, including the spread of mass supplies of synthetic drugs, as well as delving into the ne... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Tim McGraw ‘Went Straight’ to Faith Hill to Get Sober WATCH – LOVE CONQUERS ALL – August 26, 2021- McGraw previously told PEOPLE that whiskey was his drink of choice, but that he had difficulty limiting the amount he drank, and that it got “to the point where I f... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietygrammy winnerinterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Legislature May Reexamine Forced Sobriety Program ATTRACTION NOT COERCION – August 25, 2021 - The law originally limited the program to people with a previous drug or alcohol conviction. But the 2019 amendment expanded the program to people accused but not co... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Today! International Overdose Awareness Day PRAYER FOR THE DYING August 31, 2021 - “He grew up in a good decent home,” said Campos’ grandmother. “He had trouble sleeping.” Her grandson took a pill given to him by a friend to help him sleep, and it was lac... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Have AA Meetings Become Superspreader Events? by Christopher Dale MASK UP! – EXCLUSIVE by Christopher Dale for the Addiction/Recovery eBulletin August 24, 2021 - Alcoholics Anonymous is supposed to save lives, not risk them. And that, in ten words, is why if... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Jessica Wilde: She Chose Sobriety On “Daylight” WATCH (X-rated) – LIVING THE SOBER LIFE – August 20, 2021 - Filmed and edited by Nathaniel, and direction and styled by Toby Corton, the visual takes place in a somewhat sketchy-looking hotel room as Wil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Quantifying Risk of Cognitive Dysfunction Among People in Drug Treatment Programs HELPFUL AND USEFUL – August 16, 2021 - Shrestha and Copenhaver, who are both researchers in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, have been studying drug treatment interventions and HIV prevention am... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Q&A with Kristabell Stansbury, CEO Chrysalis CC HEALING IN THE ROCKIES – August 17, 2021 - Hi Kristabell, where are your from? We’d love to hear about how your background has played a role in who you are today? I was born and raised in what used to be... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Pandemic Changes Young People’s Relationship to Substances CLOSER? – August 18, 2021 - By the end of 2020, Tan said she was finishing multiple bottles in one night—until one particularly jarring experience forced her to reflect on her habit. “I remember there was a sn... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
Bravo’s Captain Sandy Marks 33 Years of Sobriety ANCHORED IN THE PROGRAM – August 17, 2021 - A lot of hard work has gone into maintaining that sobriety for more than three decades, a process that Captain Sandy has been open about on Below Deck Me... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
What Can Surfing Tell Us About Addiction? BOOK REVIEW – July 8, 2021 - How convincing this book is as a therapeutic primer, I am utterly unqualified to judge. What I can say is that you don’t need to love or even be interested in surfing to feel passa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Why We Missed Hugs WARMTH AND AFFECTION – August 16, 2021 - Similar to regular hunger, touch hunger serves as an alert that something important is missing – in this case, the sense of security, intimacy, and care that come... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
The Hidden Pandemic: Addiction NO VACCINE ‘CEPT GOD – August 20, 2021 - Because many who are already addicts are having to self-isolate or remain at home during a lockdown, there is also great risk of overdose. Emergency services are ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Lisa Riley ‘so bloody happy’ celebrating six years of sobriety LIVING THE SOBER LIFE ONE ARTICLE AT A TIME – August 19, 2021 - Well done young lady,’ a Twitter user replied. Another posted: ‘Well done x I’m at 8 years x you are a lovely and beautiful lady x.’ ‘Congratula... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
10 Things Marlee Matlin Suggests Doing Now NOW AND FOREVER – August 9, 2021 - 6. Get good sleep I used to go to bed at 2 or 3 a.m. and sleep till noon. Now I like going to bed at 9:30. I need my energy to do the things I have to do during t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
ERs New Approach To Those Who Struggle With Addiction LOVE THEM – August 21, 2021 - For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRehab
Stevie Nicks on Drug addiction: ‘I survived by myself’ YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY – August 18, 2021 - Nicks added that the concept of publishing her life story has taken her years to think about. If she ever did, she added, it would need to be chopped up into four di... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Addiction Rehab CEO Dead at 51 SAD ENDING – August 16, 2021 - Last year, Greiss pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and paying for patients at two addiction rehabs where was chief executive, South Coast Counseling and Elite ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Man charged in woman’s death approved to enter rehab program EVERYONE DESERVES RECOVERY? – August 2, 2021 - During the investigation, officers were able to quickly connect Tyler Anglin, 33, as a person of interest connected to Hinkle’s death. According to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 17 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehab