Recovery Center’s CEO Faces Accusations of Sexual Misconduct AUDIO – FROM CASH TO CRASH – March 22, 2022 - Elizabeth is not alone. An NHPR investigation has discovered multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, abusive leadership, and retaliation by Spofford while he wa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocaterelapseTrauma
What’s Driving the Dramatic Rise In Alcohol Deaths VIDEO – BOOZE KILLS TOO...MANY – March 2022 - Judy Woodruff: We have regularly reported on the continuing rise in opioid and overdose deaths during the pandemic. But what’s gotten far less attention is a sh... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusinterventionlife expectancyMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapseTrauma
Macklemore Shares The Truth About Relapsing VIDEO – THE FOUNTAIN OF TRUTH – Jan. 25, 2022 - I first took a drink of alcohol when I was 14 years old. I stole it from my parents’ liquor cabinet, which was above the refrigerator. I had one shot and I wonder... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 1 2022interventionInterviewRecoveryRehabrelapse
San Francisco Approves Emergency Declaration In Tenderloin WATCH – DRASTIC ACTION – Dec. 24, 2021 - “We know this increase in police presence will disproportionately impact Black and brown unhoused community members who — due to lack of dignified housing options — are... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDec 28 2021depressionDrug Abuse and Addictionhomelesslife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabrelapseTrauma
Relapse Driven By Drug-Seeking Habit, Not The Drug “IT’S THE SNEAKING AROUND THAT’S ADDICTIVE” RDJ – Dec. 17, 2021 - Given the importance of the drug itself in the development and perpetuation of SUD, the research community has understandably focused on the br... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 21 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapseTrauma
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh On His Recovery As Nation Endures Addiction Crisis IS POLITICS A RELAPSE? – Oct. 13, 2021 - During the pandemic, there’s been more stress spurred by job insecurity, job risks, illness and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of loved ones. There’s been less capacity... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthOct 12 2021OverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
John Mulaney on His Addiction and Recovery WATCH – WHERE HE’S AT – Sept. 12, 2021 - The Chicago native also revealed that he was expecting his first child with Munn and reflected on his future, adding, “You guys saved me from drugs, and Olivia and this... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabrelapseSept 14 2021
Hospitals see rise in alcohol-related liver disease WATCH – NOW THAT’S A DISEASE! – July 17, 2021 - White is not an outlier. The number of Americans being treated for severe liver disease from alcohol increased during the pandemic, experts told NBC News. “What we’... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusinterventionJuly 27 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
Lala Kent calls Demi Lovato’s ‘California sober’ mentality ‘offensive’ TO BE SOBER...OR NOT TO BE SOBER – July 19, 2021 - Lala Kent slammed Demi Lovato’s “California sober” lifestyle — whose adherents drink and smoke weed in moderation — as “extremely offensive.” “I don’t li... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 27 2021marijuanaMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
Author Kelsey Darragh On Being ‘Terrified’ She’d Break Her Sobriety During The Pandemic STAYING SOBER NO MATTER WHAT – May 30, 2021 - I started gardening and thrifting and DIY’ing all over my home. I read and played games and practiced yoga and wrote a book. It took some experimentation and ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusinterventionJune 8 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabrelapse
America STILL Has a Drinking Problem WHAT GOES AROUND... – July/August 2021 - George Washington first won elected office, in 1758, by getting voters soused. (He is said to have given them 144 gallons of alcohol, enough to win him 307 votes ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJune 8 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
Kelly Osbourne Opens Up About Relapsing WATCH – CAN A PICKLE EVER BE A CUCUMBER AGAIN? – April 27, 2021- “I don’t know why my nervous breakdown happened at the end of the lockdown, I made it all the way through, everything was great, and my life was perfe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMay 4 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
Addicted America WATCH – VIDEO WORTH WATCHING – April 27, 2021 - “It’s called the CAGE test - C is for cut-down meaning if you think that you need to start cutting down on your intake,” Dr. Garcia said. “The A is for annoyance-... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 4 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsRecoveryRehabrelapse
Mother about son’s fatal fentanyl overdose to reignite opioid conversation WATCH – SO MANY GONE – April 20, 2021 - Debbie had walked downstairs in her home that morning to where Matthew and his young son were sleeping. “I found Matthew collapsed on the floor and I knew he was gone,... Read More...April 27 2021Drug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
Stimulus money fueling addictions WATCH – BAD MONEY AFTER GOOD – April 1, 2021 - She said the correlation became clearer when checks rolled out. Some people relapsed or would stop showing up for treatment. “Engagement specialists, recovery c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionApril 6 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthOverdoseRecoveryrelapse
Overdose Deaths Spiked To 88,000 During Covid-19 LISTEN – HUNGRY GHOSTS – April 1, 2021 - The White House plan drew praise from Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who represents one of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic. “I have long pushed to expand ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 6 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthOverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
‘Another Round’ a not-so-sobering look at alcoholism FILM REVIEW – March 25, 2021 - As opening credits roll, we hear the sound of a drink being mixed and the first thing we see are cherubic teens participating in a beer bottle rally race. It generates a lot of ca... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMar 30 2021Mental HealthRehabrelapse
What state has the biggest drug problem? MOUNTAIN HIGH – March 17, 2021 - Delaware, Tennessee, Louisiana and Maryland followed next, rounding out the top five states that the epidemic has hit. Kansas, meanwhile, was the least affected, and while more than ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 23 2021Mental HealthOverdoseRecoveryrelapse
Ex-addict who ‘used crack & heroin at 15, overdosed 19 TIMES’ reveals sober transformation ANYONE CAN DECIDE TO STOP – Feb. 28, 2021 - She is now eager to tell her story and help show people there is a “solution to this disease”. “I lived a life full of misery and prayed every time that I slept to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionMar 9 2021OverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
John Mulaney is in Outpatient Sober Care WISHING HIM THE BEST – Feb. 25, 2021 - When Mulaney was a teenager, his parents sent him to a psychiatrist, who told him that he was one part nice kid, one part “gorilla that wants to kill the other half.” A... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 2 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
Demi Lovato’s New Doc Details Singer’s 2018 Overdose, “She Should Be Dead” WATCH – A STAR IS REBORN – FEB. 17, 2021 - Viewers will see a glimpse at Lovato “during the most trying time of her life as she unearths her prior traumas and discovers the importance of her physical, emotional... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 23 2021grammy winnerinterventionMental HealthOverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
Alcohol Abuse Rises During Pandemic, Hospitals See Wave of Deadly Liver Disease NOT THE BEST MOVE – Feb. 8, 2021 - Socially, the “stress of the pandemic has, in some ways, particularly targeted women,” said Dr. Jessica Mellinger, a hepatologist at the University of Michigan. Lower wages, l... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeb 16 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
‘It’s a Pandemic Within a Pandemic’ WATCH – YET, THERE IS SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR – Feb. 4, 2021 - They say increased isolation and dwindling access to support has been a huge blow to those in recovery. “We have a pandemic within a pandemic happe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021insomniainterventionlonelinessMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryrelapseTrauma
Alcohol deaths hit record high during Covid pandemic EMPTY BOTTLES, FULL COFFINS – February 2, 2021 - Between January and September, 5,460 deaths were registered with this cause - up 16% on the same months in 2019. It is the biggest toll recorded since reco... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeb 9 2021interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRehabrelapse
While US Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding LISTEN – WHEN WILL IT END? – Jan. 29, 2021 - “Our country is facing many simultaneous crises and President Biden understands that,” an administration official wrote in an email. “The President has laid out key ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 2 2021interventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
‘Lockdown broke me: After 15 years of sobriety, I drank. Secretly, alone.’ KEEP COMING BACK – Jan. 25, 2021 - This January, I would have been 15 years sober. In 2006, after 24 years of drinking addictively, I crawled — metaphorically — into a meeting of recovering alcoholics, got wit... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCompassionCoronavirusFeb 2 2021interventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabrelapse
699 People Died in SF in 2020: 235 From COVID-19 INSANITY IN AMERICA – Jan. 15, 2021 - The DOPE Project has also seen an increase in the number of overdoses prevented by Narcan, a medication commonly sprayed up the nose to reverse an opioid overdose. This yea... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 26 2021Overdoserelapse
Experts Say Why Pandemic is Causing More Relapse and Overdose WATCH – Despair and Addiction – Jan. 8, 2021 - “She was staying with a mutual friend.” It’s still very fresh in Danielle Owen’s mind as she recounts a tragic story of personal loss. Owen says her friend’s husb... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 19 2021life expectancyMental HealthOverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
Overdose Concerns Following Latest Round of Stimulus Checks WATCH – What we worry – Jan. 13, 2021 - “When you give them $600 they’re going to really take it to the limit and that really will raise your chances of losing your life,” said Thomas Gooch, the Prevention Dire... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 19 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoveryRehabrelapse
I Thought of Relapsing When Rioters Stormed The Capitol. Then an Amazing Thing Happened. A New Dawn Coming – Jan. 13, 2021 - Feeling means knowing deep down that these were the heinous acts of truly free people ― people who operated without fear of consequence. And feeling meant acknowledging that I, an... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJan 19 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabrelapse