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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

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...

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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

Toxicology experts say they don’t believe deputy suffered fentanyl overdose

WATCH – FENTANYL MADNESS – August 9, 2021 - Gore said he, not a doctor, concluded that Deputy David Faiive suffered an overdose from incidental contact with fentanyl in the July 3 incident featured in the video. It... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAugust 17 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseRecoveryTrauma

Homeless man stuck in loop of fractured system

SHAMEFUL CYCLE OF DESPAIR – August 7, 2021 - “The public just doesn’t know. They’re mad about all the encampments and people on the streets because they don’t understand what it takes to deal with this other t... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAugust 17 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Survivors allege teen hate rehab program refused to report rapes

SICK SOULS SELLING SICKNESS – July 21, 2021 - While Insight executive director Clint Stonebraker did not respond to the allegations of racism and homophobia previously reported by YES! Weekly, he did to ... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAugust 10 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma

Mental Health Teams Get Better Outcomes Than Police

NURSES NOT NIGHT STICKS – July 27, 2021 - New York’s program is modeled after a successful, decades-old program in Eugene, Ore., known as Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets, or CAHOOTS. Other similar ... Read More...

August 10 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Psychology Director gives mental health warning signs for kids

WATCH – WATCH FOR KIDS AT PLAY – August 4, 2021 - “We’ve seen an increase still in ingestion of drugs, and a significant amount, some suicide and some not. And then others increase in eating disorders. S... Read More...

August 10 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusinterventionMental HealthRecoveryteenagersTrauma

Richard Sackler’s Full Video Testimony

WATCH – YOU CAN TELL HE’S LYING BECAUSE HIS LIPS ARE MOVING – August 4, 2021 - OxyContin, members of the family successfully avoided most attempts to force them to answer questions about their stewardshi... Read More...

August 17 2021Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma

Fish becoming addicted to methamphetamine

SNORTING IT 24/7 – August 6, 2021 - To reach these conclusions, the team led by Horký, in coordination with colleagues from the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, designed an experiment that measu... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAugust 10 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmethRecoveryTrauma

Male Survivors Of Abuse Struggle To Find Treatment

LISTEN – KEEP LOOKING – July 26, 2021 - ROCK: He knew he needed help, but there were few therapists specializing in this kind of trauma in Boston. Holland shoved his pain back down. It took another fi... Read More...

August 3 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMental HealthTrauma

For Philadelphians in recovery there are ‘worse things in life than being isolated’

HUNGER AND A COLD DEATH – July 28, 2021 - “During the pandemic, they wouldn’t let us leave the house, you couldn’t go see your family — you couldn’t do anything, really,” he said. “I’m on methadone, and they to... Read More...

August 3 2021CompassionCoronavirushomelessinterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Simone Biles’s Big Olympic Move: Embracing Vulnerability

A PARALLEL UNIVERSE? – July 28, 2021 - Ten years ago, or even five, an athlete of Simone Biles’s stature might have been reluctant to say that she struggled with pressure, much less to have withdrawn in the mid... Read More...

August 3 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryteenagersTrauma

Mena Suvari Reveals Sexual Abuse and Drug Addiction

WRITTEN WITH STRENGTH – July 21, 2021 - As Suvari tells PEOPLE, that was also an act — an effort to hide the truth about the trauma she’d been living through. In her new memoir The Great Peace: A Memoir,... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 27 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabTrauma

Former Baltimore Raven running back Lorenzo Taliaferro dead at 28

TOO SOON, TOO YOUNG, TOO SAD – July 20, 2021 - Taliaferro, 28, died in December of what was described as a heart attack. A spokesperson with the York County Sheriff’s Office said Taliaferro was transport... Read More...

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How the Sacklers Got Away With Murder?

MILLIONAIRE KILLERS GO FREE – July 14, 2021 - Though they are widely reviled for profiting from a public health crisis that has resulted in the death of half a million Americans, they have used their money and ... Read More...

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Comedian Fuquan Johnson And Two Others Die From Drug Overdose, Model, Comedian Kate Quigley

Veterans with PTSD Can Benefit From Equine Assisted Therapy

Kids Allowed 5 Mental Health Days From School

Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Deals Death on Long Island

DOPESICK Trailer

Murderers Lose Appeals of Opioid Convictions

Why Hospitals and Insurers Don’t Want You to See These Prices?

Luring Its Youth Into Tight Grip Of Addiction

Drug Addiction Took My Congregant’s Life

Pandemic Changes Young People’s Relationship to Substances

Why We Missed Hugs

The Hidden Pandemic: Addiction

Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Claims 6 Lives in 8 Days

Breathing Machine Recall Over Cancer Risk

She Died of Opiate Use and Her Parents Open a Recovery Center

What’s Blocking Women From Success & Happiness?

Toxicology experts say they don’t believe deputy suffered fentanyl overdose

Homeless man stuck in loop of fractured system

Survivors allege teen hate rehab program refused to report rapes

Mental Health Teams Get Better Outcomes Than Police

Psychology Director gives mental health warning signs for kids

Richard Sackler’s Full Video Testimony

Fish becoming addicted to methamphetamine

Male Survivors Of Abuse Struggle To Find Treatment

For Philadelphians in recovery there are ‘worse things in life than being isolated’

Simone Biles’s Big Olympic Move: Embracing Vulnerability

Mena Suvari Reveals Sexual Abuse and Drug Addiction

Former Baltimore Raven running back Lorenzo Taliaferro dead at 28

How the Sacklers Got Away With Murder?

How Business Can End the Addiction Epidemic by Leslie Glass