‘Instagram for Kids’ Will Make Kids Suicidal DOES CAPITALISM CARE? – Sept. 15, 2021 - The demand comes as top lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee announced plans to investigate the company with the help of a “Facebook whistleblower.” “Chi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phonedepressioninternetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 21 2021Smartphone AddictionsuicideteenagersTrauma
How the ‘Pleasure Molecule’ Will Reshape Treatment 4 Psychiatric Diseases and Addiction IT’S DOPE – Sept. 16, 2021 - Calipari emphasizes that “these data rewrite facts about dopamine, including what it encodes within the brain and how it drives behavior.” This is incredibly important as dop... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 21 2021Trauma
Jaw-Dropping Moments in WSJ’s Bombshell Facebook Probe WATCH – GIRLS DON’T NEED FILLERS OR FILTERS – Sept. 16, 2021 - There’s a lot to unpack from the Journal’s investigation. But one thing that stands out is just how blatantly Facebook’s problems are docume... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phonedepressioninternetMental HealthSept 21 2021suicideteenagersTrauma
Facebook Knew Instagram is TOXIC/DEADLY for Teenagers WATCH – INSTADEPRESSED - THE YOUTH OF TOMORROW – Sept. 15, 2021 - Leaked documents from Facebook have revealed how the company’s picture sharing platform Instagram is pushing teenagers towards anxiety an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phonedepressioninternetinterventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoverySept 21 2021Smartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
Is Body Dissatisfaction A Global Crisis? WATCH – MEDIA TV: MIRROR, MIRROR – Sept. 8, 2021 - Early in the first episode, Sampson points to the crucial role the advertising industry has played in determing what is beautiful. The viewer is privy to a ph... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthSept 14 2021Trauma
Kate Quigley’s Statement After Surviving Suspected Drug Overdose That Killed 3 NOTHING’S FUNNY ANYMORE – Sept. 12, 2021 - Quigley, 39, shared the statement on her Twitter and Instagram, along with a note that read, “Hi guys. Upon being released from the hospital, I’ve finally had the time &a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 14 2021Trauma
Addiction Specialists ‘Massive Conflict of Interest’ for Ties to Drug-Testing Industry ONLY IN CANADA (haha) – Sept. 12, 2021 - “Most of us have to pay crazy amounts of money to use the companies owned by the same group of doctors who dictate our return-to-work requirements,” said Victoria nurse... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOverdoseRecoverySept 14 2021Trauma
Pill Mill-ions: America’s Lucrative, Criminally Resilient Quasi-Legal Drug Dealing Enterprise by Christopher Dale GIVE THEM A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE – Sept. 11, 2021 - Nurse, we need a prescription pad and a lawyer, STAT. Oh, and refer the patient to the county morgue. According to medical professionals direc... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 14 2021Trauma
Black Deaths Are Increasing Faster Than Whites ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER – Sept. 10, 2021 - Addiction specialist Edwin Chapman has made it his life’s work to fight the drug epidemic in the Black community. He says that drug addiction in these communities has alway... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabSept 14 2021Trauma
The Cost of Putting Yourself Second WE’RE NUMBER 2! – Sept. 9, 2021 - In Australia, one in six women will suffer from depression in their lifetime. Add that to one in three women who will suffer from anxiety, and per ABS data, more than one in 1... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionMental HealthSept 14 2021Trauma
How Ex-sales Exec Found a Second Career in Hypnotherapy WATCH – START COUNTING BACKWARDS – June 23, 2021 - “I realized that the industry is changing and so was I,” Ludovici, 51, recounted. “It just seemed like everything around me was crumbling and my frustration was gr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 14 2021Trauma
Keith McCants, ex-NFL Player Struggled Who with Addiction Dead at 53 TOO DAMN SAD – Sept. 2, 2021 -“Before was over with, I was consuming over 183 pills a week, not knowing the effects it had on my liver or my kidneys,” McCants said in a 2015 Vice Sports interview. He was neve... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 7 2021Super BowlTrauma
The Well-Blown Mind MEDIA: TWO BOOKS ON DRUGS – Sept. 23, 2021 - The doublethink created by this language exasperates Carl Hart, a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University. “In recent years, psychedelic drugs have b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 7 2021Trauma
Canada’s Drug Policy — Not Drugs — Is Killing People OH CANADA, OH NO – August 31, 2021 - It’s mind-boggling communities across Canada must still organize for an annual awareness day to draw public and policymakers’ attention to poisoned street drugs ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 7 2021Trauma
Comedian Fuquan Johnson And Two Others Die From Drug Overdose, Model, Comedian Kate Quigley WATCH – REGULATE IT! IT'S NOT COCAINE ANYMORE Sept. 6, 2010 - Laurie Perez reports from Hollywood where the comedy community is struggling with the loss of well-known comic Fuquan "Fu" Johnson who, along with two oth... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseRecoverySept 7 2021Trauma
Veterans with PTSD Can Benefit From Equine Assisted Therapy FOR CLINICIANS ONLY – August 31, 2021 - The study found that manualized EAT-PTSD shows promise as a potential new intervention for veterans with PTSD. It appears safe, feasible, and clinically viable. These pr... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 7 2021Trauma
Kids Allowed 5 Mental Health Days From School HAPPY DAY – Sept. 2, 2021 - Under a bill signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last month, students who decide to take a mental health day will not be required to provide their school with a doctor’s note and will ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 7 2021teenagersTrauma
Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Deals Death on Long Island NO COMING BACK – August 31, 2021 - On the North Fork, the dead were not hardened addicts but mostly recreational users, police said, seeking a fleeting high. Behind the brief descriptions in the police reports... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 7 2021Trauma
DOPESICK Trailer WATCH – THE TRUTH CAN SET YOU FREE - BUT NOT IF YOU’RE DEAD – August 6, 2021- Hulu’s newest limited series Dopesick, starring Golden Globe-winner Michael Keaton, is a compelling look at the epicenter of ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Murderers Lose Appeals of Opioid Convictions MONEY TALKS EVERYONE WALKS – August 25, 2021 - He remains the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive convicted for helping fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic. His co-defendants Michael Gurry, Sunrise Lee... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Why Hospitals and Insurers Don’t Want You to See These Prices? MO MONEY MO MONEY MO MONEY AND SCREW YOU – August 22, 2021 - “We do not post standard cash rates, which typically will not reflect the price of care for uninsured patients.” Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angele... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 31 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Luring Its Youth Into Tight Grip Of Addiction KASHMIR BLUES – August 18, 2021 - That first encounter with charas happened on a day Murad would never forget, and not because of his introduction to charas. It was the day he’d won a local football comp... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancymarijuanaopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoverysmokingteenagersTrauma
Drug Addiction Took My Congregant’s Life A RABBI MOURNS – August 17, 2021 - Although our community had grown close to him, I had no idea that Jeff struggled with addiction until it took his life. Who knows what opportunities may have been open ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthOverdoseTrauma
Pandemic Changes Young People’s Relationship to Substances CLOSER? – August 18, 2021 - By the end of 2020, Tan said she was finishing multiple bottles in one night—until one particularly jarring experience forced her to reflect on her habit. “I remember there was a sn... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
Why We Missed Hugs WARMTH AND AFFECTION – August 16, 2021 - Similar to regular hunger, touch hunger serves as an alert that something important is missing – in this case, the sense of security, intimacy, and care that come... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
The Hidden Pandemic: Addiction NO VACCINE ‘CEPT GOD – August 20, 2021 - Because many who are already addicts are having to self-isolate or remain at home during a lockdown, there is also great risk of overdose. Emergency services are ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionlonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma
Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Claims 6 Lives in 8 Days FATAL LINE – August 17, 2021 - “We collectively urge that anyone who has purchased cocaine, or other narcotics, recently on the North Fork or Shelter Island, or know of a family member or friend that has purchased,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Breathing Machine Recall Over Cancer Risk SHALLOW BREATH AND GRAVE – August 17, 2021 - The agency said the possible risks of particulate and chemical exposure from the recalled devices included asthma, skin and respiratory-tract irritation and “toxic and c... Read More...August 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerinterventionTrauma
She Died of Opiate Use and Her Parents Open a Recovery Center THE FAMILY AFTERWARDS – August 10, 2021 - The parents of a Vermont woman who died from an opioid overdose in 2019 are holding an open house this weekend at a recovery center created in her memory. Gre... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 17 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
What’s Blocking Women From Success & Happiness? THE TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY – August 9, 2021 - “When I say ‘patriarchy,’ I’m not referring to individual men,” says Rein. “I mean a system of inequality and oppression where the power, economic, politica... Read More...August 17 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMental HealthRecoveryTrauma