Sept 20 2022

Reading 15 Minutes Day Can Significantly Improve Your Brain

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY –    Sept. 13, 2022 - Another bonus: Dr. Willeumier says you don’t have to pick…

2 years ago

Addicted In Film, Book Excerpt

DRUGS ON FILM – Sept. 17, 2022 - Evil Incarnate: Purdue Pharma & Oxycontin Review of the Hulu Drama Series…

2 years ago

How Would Disney Princesses Look with Real Bodies?

SHAME ON YOU WALT! –    Sept. 16, 2022 - “I have my own body image issues that I work…

2 years ago

Controversial Harm Reduction Strategies Slow Drug Deaths

AUDIO – GIVE AND LET LIVE –  Sept. 15, 2022 - Yeah. Addiction care has gotten better in the U.S.…

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Can Multiple Psychiatric Drugs Improve Minority Communities?

SO MANY MOUTHS TO DRUG –    Sept. 14, 2022 - “It has been documented in adults that Black patients…

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Candy, cash, gifts, rewards, help addiction recovery

SOBRIETY IS THE REWARD –  Sept. 13, 2022 - Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has used the…

2 years ago

Philip Speer’s Sobriety Led To New Kind of Restaurant

WELL DONE –    Sept. 13, 2022 - Speer described it as a “hazy cycle” of working and partying that…

2 years ago

The Very Scientific Analysis of Alcohol in Food

FERMENT THIS! –  Sept. 15, 2022 - Millipore Sigma provided the 200-proof ethanol standard and pure t-butanol internal standard (IS)…

2 years ago

The Preacher’s Son is Finally Sober, Happy and Free

GRACE IS EVERYWHERE –  Sept. 9, 2022 - old. Although it started out innocently enough, he found alcohol to be…

2 years ago

Which Red State is Jailing Pregnant Marijuana Users?

IS TRUMP THE GOVERNOR? –  Sept. 15, 2022 - She’s not the only one. Another woman, Hali Burns, was taken…

2 years ago

Providers Face Multiple Challenges Working With Potheads

BUT SO TALENTED –    Sept. 11, 2022 - At the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders, Tanya L. Gouveia,…

2 years ago

Nothing seemed to relieve their depression. Then they tried ketamine.

DO TRY THIS AT HOME –    Sept. 12, 2022 - While the study has limitations, the findings appear to…

2 years ago

No More Hard-Drinking Japanese College Students as Gen Z Goes Sober

AUDIO – REALITY DOESN’T BITE –  Sept. 12, 2022 - The popularity of low- and non-alcoholic drinks has risen worldwide,…

2 years ago

Darius Campbell Danesh Died From Inhalation of ‘Ethyl Chloride’

HUFF OF DEATH –  Sept. 10, 2022 - “The results of medical examinations have confirmed that Darius’s death was an…

2 years ago

“Junk Science” in Our Courts and Forced Drug Treatment are Recipe for Disaster

IT’S COMPLICATED –    Sept. 12, 2022 - Yet, the insanity defense has been used in numerous trials involving school…

2 years ago

Addiction Often Goes Hand-In-Hand With Mental Illness BY NORA D. VOLKOW

THE TRUTH HURTS –  Sept. 12, 2022 - Substance use disorders often accompany other mental illnesses. Half of people with…

2 years ago

Road to Recovery: ‘I dare you to believe’

CAME TO BELIEVE –  Sept. 13, 2022 - We all have value; we all have worth; we all have something…

2 years ago

New Definition of Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder

CUT DOWN AND STAY THAT WAY –  Sept. 14, 2022 - For those experiencing alcohol-related functional impairment and other adverse…

2 years ago

Lala Kent: ‘I Would Have Curled Up In The Fetal Position’

OVERSHARING? –  Sept. 12, 2022 - A lot has changed for Lala over the past year. Besides welcoming her first…

2 years ago

Hiding In Plain Sight: Young Adult Addiction Care

YOUTH QUAKE –    Sept. 14, 2022 - “If your child is diagnosed with a substance use disorder, there’s hope…

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Several L.A. High School Students Overdose, 1 Dies from Pills Laced with Fentanyl

EDUCATE BETTER! –    Sept. 14, 2022 - Earlier in the day, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to separate…

2 years ago

2 Boys Arrested For Fatal Overdose at Hollywood High School

VIDEO – LETHAL AMOUNTS – HOLLYWOOD, CA - Sept. 15, 2022 - The younger boy, who lives with his grandmother, allegedly…

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Cree Nation Chief Calls for Treatment Centres in Wake of Horrible Knife Attacks

METH KILLS...OTHERS –    Sept. 11, 2022 - The chief of James Smith Cree Nation and other Indigenous leaders are…

2 years ago

Jury Finds Operator of Pill Mill Guilty

GREED IS NOT GOOD –  Sept. 12, 2022 - U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Purificacion Cristobal prescribed powerful medications to…

2 years ago

New Street Drug is ‘As Deadly as Fentanyl’

ONLY IF YOU INGEST IT –    Sept. 16, 2022 - Deaths linked to drugs are on the rise. In…

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After years of food addiction & depression, Tamara Walcott says powerlifting ‘saved me from myself’

VIDEO – WORTH THE WEIGHT –    Sept. 13, 2022 - The private, deep-rooted significance powerlifting assumed in her life…

2 years ago

Dope Crisis Strikes Nerve with NY OASAS Commissioner

VIDEO – CATASTROPHE IN ACTION –  Sept. 13, 2022 - The commissioner said this is a scene playing out all…

2 years ago

Can You Get Hooked on Melatonin?

IT AIN’T VALIUM, HOWEVER... –  Sept. 6, 2022 - On TikTok, the hashtag #melatoninaddict has racked up more than a…

2 years ago

Remi Wolf’s Next Project—Her Sobriety

UNIQUELY ECLECTIC –    Sept. 14, 2022 - “There’s something about being 4 months sober where everything starts to get…

2 years ago

Are You Love Addict? Or a Romantic?

“WHAT IS LOVE...BABY DON’T HURT ME” –  Sept. 16, 2022 - Love addiction is not a formal diagnosis. It is…

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