Trauma

How Business Can End the Addiction Epidemic by Leslie Glass

HONEST, OPENMINDED AND WORKING – July 13, 2021 - The extraordinary effort to combat and end the COVID pandemic included a…

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More women are dying in jail

ENDLESS TEARS –    July 15th, 2021 - Experts told The 19th that the numbers underscore the need to not…

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How ERs Fail Patients With Addiction

LISTEN – THE FAMILY AFTERWARD –    July 15, 2021 - On March 11, 2020, though, Suzanne grew worried. Jameson,…

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Deaths Related To Alcohol And Drugs Are SOARING In State Prisons

LISTEN – EVERYONE IS ON DEATH ROW –    July 17, 2021 - JENKINS: Essentially treating one illicit drug with…

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Vaping During Pregnancy Could Raise Odds for ‘Preemie’ Babies

Little eJimmy, eBritany, eBobby, eJennifer –  July 13, 2021 - “The take-home message is that it’s best to abstain from…

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How Big Pharma Killed 500,000

SALESMEN AND LIES AND SALESWOMEN TOO – July 19, 2021 - ALEX GIBNEY: Purdue didn’t have any evidence that the drug was safe,…

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Drug Deaths Increase Sharply Among Black Americans

LISTEN – COLOR BLIND CONSPIRACY? –  July 12, 2021 - Craig Elazer struggled all his life with anxiety, a feeling…

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Drug Overdoses Killed 93,000 Americans In 2020, Up By 30%

DEATH, DEATH AND MORE DEATH –  July 14, 2021 - Ten states are predicted to have at least a 40%…

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What Can Surfing Tell Us About Addiction?

BOOK REVIEW: THE DROP –  July 7, 2021 - Then came this: “That many surfers have struggled with drug addiction…

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Climate change causing mental health meltdowns

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE –    July 11, 2021 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated climate…

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Drug, alcohol, jail deaths puts spotlight on fallout from ‘war on drugs’

WATCH – ONLY POOR PEOPLE DIE IN WAR –    July 4, 2021 - “The fact that we have criminalized…

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Purdue Settlement Will Unlock Sackler ‘Secrets’

MASS MURDERERS ON PARADE –  July 8, 2021 -  Roger Brunelle Jr, president of the International Union of painters and…

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Methamphetamine in rivers can turn trout into addicts

...AND PERCH INTO PUSHERS –    July 6, 2021 - Previous surveys have revealed low levels of methamphetamines and other…

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Paramedics answer more than 70 non-fatal overdoses in two days

LIVING ON THE EDGE, OR DYING, WHATEVER –    July 2, 2021 - On average, emergency responders receive roughly 14…

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Post-Pandemic Stress is Real

FEAR OF UNMASKING –    June 30, 2021 - That’s not all. Violent crime is up, historic heat waves are…

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Conservatorship: Mental Health Care’s Last Resort

TOXIC –  June 29, 2021 - “As troubling and extreme as Britney’s circumstances may seem,” Erica Schwiegershausen wrote in The…

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Years of Smoking Weed May Leave You Gasping…for Words

IF YOU CAN STILL EVEN SPEAK –    June 21, 2021 - During the follow-up, participants were given standard cognitive…

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Kids In Mental Health Crisis Languish For Days In ERs

DESPERATE –    June 23, 2021 - Emergency rooms are not typically places you check in for the night. If…

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Cannabis Use May Be Linked with Suicidal Thoughts, Plans, Attempts in Young Adults

DYING TO STOP –    June 24, 2021 - Cannabis use has been associated with a higher likelihood of thinking…

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El Paso physician indicted for 5 overdose deaths

DO MUCH HARM –  June 16, 2021 - The board panel found that on May 26, August was indicted on…

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‘RHOBH’ Bravely Discusses Past Struggle With Bulimia

GETTING IT ALL OUT –    June 17, 2021 - Real Housewives of Beverly Hills newcomer Crystal Kung Minkoff bravely…

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Is the drug detox facility actually ‘nursing or convalescent home’ per city code?

LISTEN – ALL OF THE ABOVE? –    June 17, 2021 - For the past nine months, citizens have attempted…

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The Bridge Sober Home Let Client Use Drugs, Die

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT OF CARING –  June 16, 2021 - From the suit: “During the week of February 24,…

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Addiction treatment failed. Could brain surgery save him?

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO TAKE THIS STEP? –  June 18, 2021-More than 600 days after he underwent the experimental…

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YOUR LIFE IS YOUR OWN –   June 1, 2021 - Most would keep such skeletons secreted in the closet,…

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Addiction nightmare in photos

IT’S A FULL-TIME JOB –  June 3, 2021 - ‘During the 19th century the neighbourhood of Kensington in north Philadelphia…

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Parents March To Snapchat’s Headquarters

WATCH – AN APP THAT CAN KILL? –    June 4, 2021 - She lost her son Alexander nearly a…

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‘We Don’t Just Change on Dime’

SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE –   May 28, 2021-  “We’ve been told that we’ve had to stay six…

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How sobriety strategies help anxious people re-enter society after the pandemic

IT’S LIKE WE’RE ALL NEWCOMERS...AGAIN! –  May 27, 2021 - “There’s a sense of anticipatory anxiety around re-navigating and reintegrating …

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American Airlines joins Southwest in delaying alcoholic beverage sales as passenger violence rises

DOWNERS ARE OK? –  May 30, 2021 - in March 2020, American dropped alcoholic beverage service and cut back service…

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