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Overdoses Leading Cause of Pregnancy Deaths

WHAT WORLD ARE WE IN? – April 30, 2022 - When one Baton Rouge woman’s daughter became pregnant while addicted to opioids, she did everything she could to get her daughter the right resources. Unable to locate a... Read More...

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Ex-Derby-Winning Jockey Reveals Suicidal Struggle With Alcoholism

NEW DOCUMENTARY – May 1, 2020 - “When I think back to that night , I wonder how could I have been thinking like that? Imagine all I would have missed,” he says. “My thinking was completely gone by then. So whet... Read More...

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Beloved Police Officer, Football Star Dead From Fentanyl

WHY? HOW? WHY? – April 30, 2022 - “This behavior is not something we condone, and we will continue to assist Milpitas PD with their investigation,” Mata said. “We need to be mindful of the fact that we are ... Read More...

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Fake Adderall Kills Two On Campus

REAL DEATH – May 6, 2022 - Ohio State University officials sounded the alarm Thursday over the circulation of “fake Adderall” pills laced with fentanyl following the death of a student and the hospitalization o... Read More...

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Terry Crews on Abusive Upbringing In His New Memoir

VIDEO – BEAT THEM TO THE PUNCH – April 29, 2022 - Entertainer Terry Crews joins Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager to discuss his new memoir, “Tough: My Journey to True Power,” which takes readers behind the curtai... Read More...

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Walgreens Accused Of Fueling Opioid Addiction To Get More Customers

MONEY MONEY MONEY – April 25, 2022 - The companies have denied the allegations, saying that they sold opioid medications that were prescribed by doctors. The defendants will make their opening statements in th... Read More...

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Fighting the Stigma of Addiction

VIDEO ONLY – SMASH STIGMA, SAVE LIVES – April 27, 2022 - Dr. Omar Abubaker shares the story of his son’s losing battle with heroin addiction. Dr. Abubaker believes that his son, Adam’s addiction beg... Read More...

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Woman With Global Fashion Success: There Is ‘Life After Addiction’

VIDEO – A BETTER LIFE TOO – April 27, 2022 - She later moved to London, as she needed medical treatment following an accident after she overdosed. “I’d caused myself a severe head injury through an overdose ... Read More...

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Runner Raises Money After Son’s Dad Dies From Drugs

VIDEO – DOING HER BEST – April 28, 2022 - “I saw it as an opportunity to combine two things that I am really passionate about which is running and advocating for people with substance use disorders and their fa... Read More...

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How to Talk to Kids about Drugs

VIDEO – EARLY AND OFTEN – April 28, 2022 - “You have to have a very direct conversation,” she said. “You have to say, ‘I’m not saying you’re going to do it, but in the event you’re around people and doing it, I... Read More...

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Addiction Recovery High School MIGHT Open

VIDEO – WHAT GOOD? – April 26, 2022 - “This school keeps those students separate from the general education students, so they can work on their recovery and continue in their recovery and not be subject to thos... Read More...

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Ireland Baldwin Recalls Being “Tortured” by Eating Disorders

VIDEO – WHEN SNACK FOODS KILL – April 26, 2022 - “I just hit a total breaking point,” she told the talk show’s co-host Willow Smith. “I was self-medicating with Xanax and I was drinking. And I have a lot of al... Read More...

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U.S. Army Sued Over Discharging Soldiers with Drug Addiction

AUDIO – GET LOST ADDICTS – April 28, 2022 - Army veteran Mark Stevenson, with help from students at Yale Law School, is suing Army Secretary Christine Wormuth in federal court in Connecticut, seeking to force ... Read More...

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Did Doctors Kill His Son? Now Dad is Fighting Back

VIDEO – ADDICTING YOUTH FOR PROFIT and LOSS – April 27, 2022 - “I promised for the rest of my life, I would change the killer of addiction, everywhere I can and anyway I can,” the professor of oral and maxillo... Read More...

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Family Suing Social Media over Son’s Suicide

VIDEO ONLY – EVIL ON THE SMALL SCREEN – April 27, 2022 - “When we found him, his phone was still on-still in his hand”, explained CJ Dawleys’ mother. She continued, “He was so addicted to his phone... Read More...

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A Deep Dive into the History of Mental Illness

BOOK REVIEW: IN SEARCH OF MADNESS – April 17, 2022 - A word of caution for those approaching Professor Brendan Kelly’s latest book, In Search of Madness. If your self-esteem has recently taken a pummelling, do ... Read More...

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Is the Opioid Crisis Masking Real Rates of Suicides?

WHO CAN TELL? – April 21, 2022 – Suicides and drug overdoses can happen in clusters when people become desensitized to death, says Connery, who’s also the clinical director of McLean Hospital’s Division of Alc... Read More...

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Kicked Out of Christian Program Because of Her Sexual Orientation

VIDEO – WWJD – April 19, 2022 - “The state successfully argued that early termination could not be considered until resolving the alleged probation violation. Judge Souto then heard testimony from multiple witn... Read More...

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Multiple Middle School Students Possibly Overdose

MIDNIGHT IN AMERICA? – April 22, 2022 - A source told Mid-Hudson News that the students were reported to be suffering from a reaction to a drug that they had ingested. Poughkeepsie City School District Super... Read More...

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San Francisco Gets $10 million opioid Settlement

NO ONE GOES TO PRISON – April 20, 2022 - San Francisco sued Endo, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Allergan Plc, drug distributor Anda Inc, pharmacy Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc in 2018. The companies cr... Read More...

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Battle To Keep People Alive as Fentanyl Ravages SF’s Tenderloin

STOPS YOUR HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO – April 23, 2022 - This neighborhood and the adjoining South of Market (SoMa) district have become ground zero in an opioid overdose crisis that is killing thousands of Califor... Read More...

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He Went To a Recovery House and Was Murdered

VIDEO – WHAT HORRORS – April 19. 2022 - The suspect? The house manager, Kevin Rice, who police said killed Pulling and tried to steal his bank card. “I don’t think he belonged here, I really don’t,” Chelchas... Read More...

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Pandemic Stress & Loneliness Making Addiction More Common

HOW DO WE COPE? – April 18, 2022 - Eliana Leve, director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s New York services, agreed: “Addictive behaviors are often linked to emotional and social deficits. The isolation... Read More...

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Nonprofit Tackles Stigma Around Substance Use

AUDIO – SOBERING CONVERSATION – April 20, 2022 - “I didn’t want not one more family member to be in the dark and living with the terror that they would lose their family member,” Porter said. Be Part of the ... Read More...

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Drug Kingpin Johnson & Johnson Pays $99 Million For Over-Marketing Highly Addictive Drugs

IS EL CHAPO A STOCKHOLDER? – April 8, 2022 - West Virginia previously reached a $26 million settlement with Endo International Plc, which had also been a defendant in the ongoing trial. The Mountain s... Read More...

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Three Virginians Fighting Addiction Their Own Way

VIDEO – PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH – April 14, 2022 - Virginia has been plagued by addiction since the late 1990s when Purdue Pharma introduced Oxycontin. Since then, the regulations surrounding the accessibility of... Read More...

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: New Help for Mental Disorders?

ECT LITE? – April 13, 2022 - With nearly 8% of American adults (nearly 20 million people) living with depression, data suggests that medication and talk therapy are only effective in treating around two-thirds... Read More...

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Indian Tribes Launch Tool For Addiction Treatment / Education

LEARNING MATTERS – April 14, 2022 - Dr. Tina Woods leads the Council’s Community and Behavioral Health Services team. She says the goal is to remove barriers for people seeking information or care. “Half the... Read More...

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What Happens When You Lose Both Parents To Addiction

PAIN & GRIEF – April 16, 2022 - Her dad’s addiction “spiraled” after her mom’s death. She lived with her dad and grandmother until she was five years old, and then her dad moved to Arizona; she continued to... Read More...

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FDA Regulators Worked for the Sackler Family

IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB – April 13, 2022 - Dr. Smith, who this year was promoted to senior partner, did not respond to phone calls or emails seeking comment. One former McKinsey consultant familiar with his work s... Read More...

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