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As Overdoses Soar in America, Clinicians are Prescribing More Addiction Medicine

VIDEO – BIG PHARMA BIG HAPPY – Nov. 30, 2022 - The central Iowa clinic, owned by the nonprofit agency Primary Health Care, has offered buprenorphine since 2016. “We were kind of a unicorn in this part of the st... Read More...

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Florida Rejects New Opioid Guidelines

AND HUMANITY – Nov. 21, 2022 - Opioid use disorder is a chronic life-threatening disease that people contract through exposure to opioids, either illicit or prescribed by a physician. In recognition of t... Read More...

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School Lambasted for Weighing Students in Front of Peers

LEARNING THE HARD “WEIGH.” – Nov. 25, 2022 - An Australia primary school is under fire for weighing young students in front of their peers before the kids were publicly ranked based on their number on th... Read More...

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Mom drank wine while pregnant birthed a son with developmental issues

“THE BUZZ WASN’T WORTH IT” – Nov. 2022 - A few times during that pregnancy, Battaglia drank a full glass of wine. At least once, she had two. It was “definitely enough to feel the effects,” she said. S... Read More...

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Sleep Medicine Linked to Increased Risk of Overdose in Teens

TO SLEEP PERCHANCE TO DREAM – Nov. 24, 2022 - Researchers found young people using benzodiazepines for common sleep conditions .. “Given the frequent co-use of benzodiazepines with other substances, it i... Read More...

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Taking Advil Makes Arthritis WORSE

IT COULD BE EXERCISING TOO – Nov. 21, 2022 - A team from the University of California recruited 277 participants with moderate to severe osteoarthritis in their knee and who had taken NSAIDs for at least a year... Read More...

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Mental Illness is More Than Dysfunction

DARWINIAN MEDICINE? – Nov. 14, 2022 - The first name that came to my mind was Sigmund Freud. To me, his most important idea wasn’t the Oedipus complex (which nobody believes in anyway), infant sexuality, or the... Read More...

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Horrifying Drug Called ‘Tranq Dope’ Is Spreading

VIDEO – ANIMALS ARE DEALING DRUGS – Nov. 15, 2022 - After two years of sobriety, Allie Gramlich began using drugs again in April. This time around, Philadelphia’s street opioid supply was infiltrated wit... Read More...

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Meet the Officer Spreading Awareness After Losing His Daughter to Overdose

A BIG SOUL – Nov. 18, 2022 - It was during this call that Norman realized that something was terribly wrong with his daughter. “They said, ‘Mr. Norman, Alyssa overdosed last night.’ So my response was... Read More...

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Walmart Offers to Pay $3.1 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits

HOW MUCH DID THEY MAKE? – Nov. 15, 2022 - The deals are the product of negotiations with a group of state attorneys general, but they are not final. The CVS and Walgreens deals would have to be accepted ... Read More...

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Dramatic Footage Shows Two Teens Saved by Narcan

VIDEO – ROBBING DEATH – Nov. 4, 2022 - Authorities administered three doses of Naloxone, also known as Narcan, which is an opioid overdose treatment, to both teens while administering CPR. Within minu... Read More...

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“Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America” Now Streaming on Pluto

MEDIA MATTERS – Nov. 9, 2022 - The documentary was made possible through the active participation and leadership of Horizon Media. Bill Koenigsberg, CEO and founder of Horizon Media, serves on the board at Part... Read More...

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Trauma During Childhood Triples the Risk of Suffering as an Adult

CHILDHOOD IS A DANGER ZONE – Nov. 4, 2022 - Trauma in adulthood is also associated with a four-fold increase in the risk of a later mental disorder. The researchers point out, however, that there is less eviden... Read More...

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Early Start to Busy Thanksgiving Travel Season

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS – Nov. 14, 2022 - With 54.6 million people expected to travel over the holiday period -- a 1.5% increase from 2021, this Thanksgiving is expected to be the third busiest since AAA started tracki... Read More...

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A Day at The Wall by Brian Delate

WELCOME HOME – Nov. 11, 2022 - It’s a late sunny afternoon when my daughter Tirsa, now in sixth grade, arrives home from school. She runs in, drops her school backpack, and heads upstairs to my home offi... Read More...

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The Warning Signs of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse

IT’S GRADUAL AIN’T IT? – OCT. 28, 2022 - Addiction and the road to it is an individual one, says Deena Manion, a doctor of psychology, a licensed psychotherapist and chief clinical officer of Westwind Re... Read More...

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Bronx Had Third-Highest Overdose Rate

APOCALYPSE NOW? – Nov. 2, 2022 - When it comes to opioid outpatient treatment, the highest rate per 100,000 population is greatest in Manhattan and the Bronx, and there are estimated 30,000-plus methadon... Read More...

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Urgent Warning: ‘One Drink a Day Raises Risk of Sudden Silent Killer’

NOT A STROKE OF GENIUS – Nov. 2, 2022 - Writing in the American Academy of Neurology, doctors said the risk of stroke increased the more years people reported moderate or heavy drinking. As part of the s... Read More...

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Nick Carter says his ‘heart has been broken’ amid brother Aaron’s death

LIFE GOES ON, FOR EVERYONE – Nov. 6, 2022 - The Backstreet Boys singer wrote that he “always held onto hope, that (Aaron) would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he ... Read More...

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First Responders Need Help With Addiction Too

NO SHAME IN ASKING – Nov. 3, 2022 - As a Marine veteran and retired Manasquan police officer, I had to come to terms with my own struggles with substance use disorder more than six years ago. I know pers... Read More...

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Companies Culpable For $1.5 Trillion-a-Year Opioid Crisis to Pay $53 Billion Fine

GREEDY MONSTERS – Nov. 2, 2022 - A combination of the growing numbers of people buying illegal opioids, and the ubiquity of fentanyl have driven up overdose deaths in the US to unprecedented levels. In 2... Read More...

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Shampoo Recalled Due to Cancer Risk

BENZENE at CVS & WALGREENS EVERYWHERE – Nov. 1, 2022 - Benzene is a chemical that can cause cancer in humans. Long-term exposure to high levels of benzene can lead to cancers such as leukemia and cancer of ... Read More...

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Patients Died From COVID-19 Drug Treatment

WHEN THE CURE IS WORSE THAN THE ILLNESS – Oct. 23, 2022 - The lawsuits, filed last month in state court against Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center and Redlands Community Hospital and several of their ph... Read More...

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Becoming a Mom Helped Me Quit My Life Long Addiction to Heroin.

PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES – Oct. 25, 2022 - I came from an upper-middle-class family. I excelled in school as a popular, straight-A student. I was a cheerleader, an equestrian, and a volleyball player. To the... Read More...

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Murderous McKinsey & Co. Reaches Deal Over Opioids

THEY KILLED FOR MONEY – Oct. 27, 2022 - McKinsey previously agreed to pay more than $600 million to settle opioid claims brought by all U.S. states and territories, and had argued that those settlements ... Read More...

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Community Is Crucial to Overcoming the Overdose Crisis

THERE ARE ANSWERS! – Oct. 28, 2022 - While stigma often stands as a barrier to entry for people with SUD, Macy pointed out, its opposite—acts of compassion and kindness—serve as an entryway. “Change happens whe... Read More...

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Touching Fentanyl Will Not Cause You to Overdose

VIDEO – JUST DON’T LICK IT – Oct. 21, 2022 - Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. While pharmaceutical fentanyl is prescribed by doctor... Read More...

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The Drama of Jimi Hendrix’s Early Childhood: Cheating, Foster Care, and Alcoholism

VIDEO – ALANON THE WATCHTOWER – Oct. 22, 2022 - Philip Norman’s 2020 book Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix, detailed Hendrix’s life prior to fame as well as his career after his breakout... Read More...

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Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Every single family I know has been affected by the opioid crisis’

APPALACHIAN APOCALYPSE – Oct. 15, 2022 - Barbara Kingsolver speaks politely but is unmistakably angry. “We have a generation of kids growing up here without parents, because so many of my people are incarcerate... Read More...

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Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless

EXERCISE THIS! – Oct. 14, 2022 - The film repeatedly portrays Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as beset by “skyrocketing crime and violent attacks” and repeatedly characterizes the city’s homeless populatio... Read More...

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