Trauma

Addicted In Film, Book Excerpt

DRUGS ON FILM – Sept. 17, 2022 - Evil Incarnate: Purdue Pharma & Oxycontin Review of the Hulu Drama Series DopesickChapter Excerpted from the Upcoming BookADDICTED IN FILMMovies We Love About th... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 20 2022Trauma

Can Multiple Psychiatric Drugs Improve Minority Communities?

SO MANY MOUTHS TO DRUG – Sept. 14, 2022 - “It has been documented in adults that Black patients with mental illness are more likely to receive substance care and more likely to be diagnosed with psychoti... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 20 2022teenagersTrauma

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 accident caused by chloroethane, which is used to treat pain and that tragically lead to respirato... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionlife expectancySept 20 2022Trauma

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 calls reporting possible overdoses of two teens in the area of Lexington Park, a few blocks fr... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseSept 20 2022teenagersTrauma

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 calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centr... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthmethRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 20 2022Trauma

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 patients, some of whom had no medical need for them and were likely selling th... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRehabSept 20 2022Trauma

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 their report issued Sept. 16, Jessica Korona-Bailey and colleagues said that “four times as many nitazene-involved over... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 20 2022Trauma

‘Addiction Is a Medical Problem’: Nonjudgmental Treatment Is Good Medicine

VIDEO – COMPASSION IN ACTION – Sept 6, 2022 - Depman moved to Vermont in 2007, as addiction treatment was starting to evolve. Before the move, he had seen the beginning of such changes while working as an emerg... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 13 2022Trauma

LSD Therapy Induces Rapid, Lasting Reductions in Anxiety and Depression

BILL W. WAS A PIONEER – Sept. 8, 2022 - LSD-assisted therapy could provide benefits to patients struggling with anxiety disorders, according to new research published in Biological Psychiatry. The findin... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022Trauma

TIAN DAYTON’S NEW BOOK! SOCIOMETRICS

AUDIO – RELATIONAL REPAIR KIT – Sept. 9, 2022 - “I am very happy to let you know about my new book Sociometrics, which clearly outlines my experiential/embodied approach to healing cPTSD, through accessi... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 13 2022Trauma

Heroin Overdoses Down in D.C. The Sad Reason? Fentanyl.

THE CAPITAL OF DEATH – Sept. 8, 2022 - Now heroin, synonymous with illicit drug use in Mid-Atlantic cities since the 1960s, is close to vanishing from the streets of the nation’s capital. D.C.’s lates... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 13 2022Trauma

Facebook Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children’s Data

HOW LOW WILL THEY GO? – Sept. 5, 2022 - Policymakers are attempting to better safeguard children’s data generated on social media, online video games and other internet services. California lawmakers last week ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneinternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 13 2022Smartphone AddictionTrauma

Influencer ‘Cass and the City’ gets candid about importance of addiction awareness

VIDEO – TALKING IS DA SOLUTION – Sept. 8, 2022 - He says he knew something was wrong in high school when he would experience going through withdrawal, but he pushed through. After high school, he began using he... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022suicideTrauma

Did Michael Jackson’s Ex-Wife Debbie Rowe Confess Aiding In His Drug Addiction? Says, “In Some Way I Was Part Of It”

MEA CULPA? – Sept. 7, 2022 - As per the report in The International News, in the documentary, Debbie Rowe admitted that she had worked for the famous dermatologist Dr Arnold Klein, who gave Michael Jacks... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthOverdoseSept 13 2022Trauma

Film Review of Our American Family

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR – Aug. 28, 2022 - Their agony is by no means unique: it resonates with countless other “American” families beset with addiction, often multi-generational, in a child, spouse... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabSept 6 2022Trauma

Activist Talks About Loss and Fighting Big Pharma with ‘Dopesick’ author

MORE WORK TO BE DONE – Aug. 29, 2022 - Tim Nolan, a nurse practitioner who treats the forgotten and forsaken in rural North Carolina with medical supplies pulled from the back of his Prius. Rev. Michelle... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma

People Who Inject Drugs Can Develop Dangerous Heart Defects

NOT TO MENTION HEP C – Aug. 31, 2022 - Infections also may arise from other sources, such as poor dental hygiene, implanted medical devices, chronic skin disorders or burns. The new statement wa... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyRecoveryRehabSept 6 2022Trauma

Tyreek Lewis, 35, Died For Seeking Pain Relief — And Unknowingly Bought a Fentanyl Pill

THE INVISIBLE SNIPPER KILLS AGAIN – Sept. 3, 2022 - Desperate for relief, Lewis bought two. But the pills Lewis had purchased were illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. They had been pressed ... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyllife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 6 2022Trauma

Artists MUST Expose Corruption, Urges Opioid Crisis Film Director

CAN A FILM SAVE LIVES? – Sept, 3, 2022 - The maker of lauded films including Risk (about Wikileaks) and Citizenfour(about Edward Snowden) was premiering All the Beauty and the Bloodshed in competition at the Ve... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 6 2022Trauma

Drug Czar Says Stigma Among Doctors Culprit In Addiction Crisis

NOT AN ADDICT? – Sept. 2, 2022 - As the first doctor to hold the position, he says he will embrace new strategies, including harm reduction tactics, which aim to reduce drug users’ risk of overdose, death, and ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabSept 6 2022Trauma

Out-of-Pocket Cost of Naloxone Soars for Uninsured Individuals

PROFITS ON LIFE AND DEATH – Aug. 26. 2022 - While the cost of naloxone has declined for individuals with health insurance, the cost of the opioid overdose reversal medication has sharply risen for uninsured ind... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma

Traffickers Target Teens With ‘rainbow fentanyl’ Deaths

VIDEO – CHILDHOOD IS DANGEROUS – Aug. 31, 2022 - “The men and women of the DEA are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for t... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma

Fentanyl Deaths Leads Morgues to Run Out of Space

VIDEO – NO END IN SIGHT – Aug. 24, 2022 - Chicago-area resident Karen Zander lost her 22-year-old son John Allen to fentanyl poisoning. Zander said in 2016, Allen made the choice to snort cocaine that his best ... Read More...

Aug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma

Why Governor Newsom Must Pass SB999 by Joan Borsten

AND HOW YOU CAN HELP – Aug. 25, 2022 - Back in the day, when my husband Oleg Vidov and I owned Malibu Beach Recovery Center (“MBRC”)we, like others in the addiction community were “stalked” by Dr. Timothy J... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionRecoveryRehabTrauma

Teen Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone.

GENERATION OF GUINEA PIGS – Aug. 27, 2022 - A study published in 2020 in the journal Pediatrics found that 40.7 percent of people ages 2 to 24 who were prescribed a drug for attention deficit hyperactivity diso... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma

Forgiveness Is the Key to Healing from Body-Image Issues

IT’S THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM – Aug. 25, 2022 - “Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.” —Desmond Tutu Forgiveness can show ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Locking up People with Mental Illness Doesn’t Make Anyone Safer

MENTAL HEALTH CARE IS HEALTH CARE – Aug. 25, 2022 - “He had no support system,” Carter’s high school friend Ray Robinson told The City. “He just had to really rely on himself and those close to him.” This ki... Read More...

Aug 30 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Law Enforcement Officials Warn About Spread of “Rainbow Fentanyl”

THE COLOR OF MONEY – Aug. 22, 2022 - Experts have differing theories as to why illicit drug manufacturers are producing brightly colored fentanyl. Some officials, including Michael W. Humphries, area dir... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma

How to School Your Kids About Substance Abuse Prevention

WHEN TALK ISN’T ENOUGH - THERE’S ALWAYS REHAB – Aug 25, 2022 - As your children get older, you should talk to them about the risks of using substances, in a concerned manner rather than as a scare tactic. Howev... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabteenagersTrauma

Demi Talks ‘survivor’s guilt’ After 2018 Overdose

SHARING HEALS – Aug. 18, 2022 - Lovato, who recently added back the pronouns she/her, suffered an overdose in 2018. Following the near-fatal moment, the former Disney star woke up in an intensive care un... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAug 23 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewOverdoseRecoveryRehabTrauma

Additional Articles