Who is better suited to fight addiction crisis? Fetterman or Oz? DUH? – Oct. 21, 2022 - Oct. 21, 2022 - Oz hasn't put forth a program and has clearly stated that he is against expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that has paid for and/or subsidized 35 million pe... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 25 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Is ‘rainbow fentanyl’ a threat to kids this Halloween? Experts say No ALWAYS BEWARE – Oct. 11, 2022 - “I don’t see any evidence that the DEA has produced that supports that conjecture,” said Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher studying illegal drugs at the University of North Carolina... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOct 18 2022teenagersTrauma
We Can’t Buy into Hollywood’s Glamorization of Drug Abuse SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE – October 13, 2022 - With the high expectations of the major film studios and long work hours that required high amounts of energy, doctors started prescribing drugs and de... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOct 18 2022RecoveryTrauma
Watch Richard Pryor Open Up About His Sobriety VIDEO – A LITTLE TOO LATE – Oct. 11, 2022 - In an interview with Johnny Carson, Pryor spoke about his sobriety. He said: “I haven’t had drugs in a long time now. And it’s the first time that I’m really trying t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOct 18 2022RecoveryRehabTrauma
Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Addiction, and Illness Under Capitalism VIDEO – SOCIETY’S CHILD – Oct. 14, 2022 - This is helpful. I’ve never made the connection between societal (in US, etc) expectations related to individualism and the how they facility capitalism and vice versa.... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthOct 18 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Commentary: Harm Reduction and the Proletariat STOP THE MADNESS – Oct. 13, 2022 - Now opium derivatives, like heroin, are once again the actual opium of the people. People use heroin and fentanyl analogues to escape oppression temporarily. Black Pant... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionOct 18 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Why Are Kids So Sad? FASCISM? – Oct. 11, 2022 - But the technology thesis hasn’t performed well under critical examination, as the Times package notes. What possible reason could there be for American young people to be particularl... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadepressionlife expectancyMental HealthOct 18 2022suicideteenagersTrauma
Encampments & Halfway House Bulldozed, Displacing 100s WHERE ARE WE TO, WHERE ARE WE EVER TO GO – Oct. 6, 2022 - Minneapolis, MN – On Oct. 6, 2022, the City of Minneapolis evicted three encampments of unhoused people, leaving over 100 people displaced withou... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessOct 18 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’: Towering Film About the War Against the Sackler Family VIDEO – AMERICAN ROYALTY ABOVE THE LAW – Oct. 7, 2022 - Worse, the Sacklers are billionaires whose name adorns dozens of international art museums, including some that feature Goldin’s own work—a fact that moti... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
London Museum Drops Ties with Murderous Sackler Family BLOOD MONEY REJECTED – Oct. 1, 2022 - The Victoria and Albert Museum has bowed to growing pressure to rename key areas of its Kensington site, the Observer has learned, as it drops controversial ties with the S... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Dr. Explains what happens when a person uses cocaine or heroin for the first time THEY GAMBLE BIG – Oct. 9, 2022 - Around 100 million people consume illicit drugs such as cocaine or heroin in India – this revelation was made by the Narcotics Control Bureau DDG (Operations) Sanja... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionMental HealthOct 11 2022RecoveryTrauma
High School Ball Player Dies After Suspected Fentanyl Overdose VIDEO – WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN – Oct. 7, 2022 - “It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of our 17-year-old students passed away last night,” David Hussey, the school’s executive director, said i... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinteenagersTrauma
Was Jeffrey Dahmer an Alcoholic? RED OR WHITE? – Oct. 7, 2022 - Jeffrey was not only an alcoholic, but he was a lifelong alcoholic — he had reportedly started drinking quite heavily during his early teenage years itself as a way to cope... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental HealthOct 11 2022Trauma
How Ugly Will Life in the Metaverse Become? HUMANITY’S SWAN SONG? – Oct. 7, 2022 - I choose a world with a four-story comedy club under a starry sky. When I enter, a man in a gray hoodie comes up to me. “Hello,” I say. He stares at me in reply, so... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetlife expectancyMental HealthOct 11 2022Smartphone AddictionTraumavideo games
6 Drugs That Are A Challenge To Overcome NOT TO MENTION DENIAL – Oct. 2022 - Prescription drugs can be very challenging to overcome. This is because they are legal and easy to obtain. They are also socially acceptable. This can make it difficult for p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Family, Friends Advocate to End Drug-Induced Homicides VIDEO – MORE WILL BE REVEALED – Oct. 6, 2022 - Rumley was a recovering drug addict who went to treatment three times and didn’t have any luck. He went to Rosecrance for his fourth treatment and finally complete... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Alcoholic Elisha Hart who stepped in front of train runs out of chances ON THE WRONG TRACK – Sept. 27, 2022 - Prosecuting the case, Sam Castlehouse described how on March 3 police were called following reports of Hart attending Camborne Wetherspoon in breach of her criminal ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaOct 4 2022Trauma
Police Warn Fentanyl Disguised as Candy at Halloween VIDEO – REALLY SCARY – Sept. 27, 2022 - Fentanyl is still flooding the streets of Kentucky. The deadly drug is now taking on new forms to appeal to young people. The latest trend has parents worried and l... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOct 4 2022teenagersTrauma
Las Vegas Police See 6 Deadly Overdoses in 1-1/2 Days VIDEO – LEAVING LAS VEGAS ... FOREVER – Sept 26, 2022 - Police said the people unknowingly took fentanyl. The department previously told FOX5 they are seeing many cases like that. “The party drugs, or Xanax ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOct 4 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Experts Say It’s Nonsense When DEA says “rainbow” fentanyl pills are being marketed to children WHICH IS IT? – Sept. 6, 2022 - Dasgupta says the DEA’s framing “was so divorced from any reality of what drug markets are actually like, it was almost laughable that our country’s top drug enforcement folks are... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOct 4 2022OverdoseRecoveryTrauma
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: ‘Out of Control’ BE SAFE, NOT SYPHILITIC – Sept. 20, 2022 - Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. are at a crisis point. On Monday, prominent public health experts and government officials raised an alarm over the ongoing a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusinterventionMental HealthSept 27 2022Sexual AddictionTrauma
Doctors Want Warning Labels On Alcoholic Drinks re: Cancer Risks LONG TERM RESULTS – Sept. 19, 2022 - Now, researchers say they don’t adequately advertise alcohol consumption’s biggest potential health consequence: cancer, including breast cancer. In a perspective article... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerinterventionlife expectancyRecoveryRehabSept 27 2022Trauma
Country Singer Luke Bell Dies from Fentanyl Intoxication TOO MUCH DEATH – Sept. 20, 2022 - According to Saving Country Music, Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and his “mental state took a turn for the worse” over recent months. “Luke fought this as h... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyllife expectancyMental HealthOverdoseSept 27 2022Trauma
Poor Patients Entitled to Free Care Forced to Cough Up Cash Anyway CORPORATE CRIME IN AMERICA – Sept. 24, 2022 - More than half the nation’s roughly 5,000 hospitals are nonprofitslike Providence. They enjoy lucrative tax exemptions; Providence avoids more than $1 billion a yea... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionRecoverySept 27 2022Trauma
Revelatory Account of Mental Illness IS EVERYBODY CRAZY? – Sept. 23, 2022 - It’s a startling passage in the prologue of “Strangers to Ourselves,” but like so many of the stories in this intimate and revelatory book, the truth of it is real but inc... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabSept 27 2022Trauma
“The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture THE DRAMA KING – Sept. 16, 2022 - “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call d... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadepressioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehabSept 27 2022Trauma
BAYER: Global Drug Manufacturer’s History, Bad Drugs & Lawsuits SALESMEN WERE JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS – Sept. 14, 2022 - Bayer is the maker of Aspirin. The popular pain reliever is one of the company’s oldest and most iconic products. MiraLAX, Claritin, Alka-Seltzer... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOverdoseRecoverySept 27 2022Trauma
LA schools to Provide Narcan After 7th Student Overdoses VIDEO – WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? – Sept. 23, 2022 - Officials are sounding the alarm after at least seven students have overdosed according to police. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer reports on how the Los Ange... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseRecoverySept 27 2022teenagersTrauma
Life-size Lanterns Raise Awareness of Suicide and Mental Injury ART CAN HEAL TOO! – Sept. 23, 2022 - “Too often, we see people suffering in silence,” said Emily Norton Ashinhurst, executive director of the Irish Diaspora Center, which organized the one-night display. But... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 27 2022suicideTrauma
Battling Opioid Addiction Through Medicine and Faith VIDEO – YOU CAN’T FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT OF A PLASTIC BAGGIE – Sept. 19, 2022 - “It was all I cared about. All. Nothing else mattered, I worked in order to get drug money,” said Ashton Hunt explained. She... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRehabSept 27 2022Trauma