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‘Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story’

A LEGEND IN OUR MIDST – April 13, 2021 - When Oleg passed, he left me his autobiography to complete. As I interviewed top Soviet actors and directors, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Walter Hill, Roger Donaldson, as well ... Read More...

April 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionREEL Recovery Film FestivalTrauma

How DMX Found God

MAY HIS MEMORY BE A BLESSING – April 13, 2021 - so he found himself “possessed by the darker side,” bound to a cycle of drug dependence and insufficient rehab. Fame changed his life, but not in many of the ways... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryApril 20 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthOverdoserapRecoveryTrauma

‘I’m more worried about my mental health than getting COVID-19’

SICK OF SCHOOL – April 1, 2021 - Campbell Stowell, another first-year student, reiterated these worries. “My depression and anxiety are at their peak,” said Stowell, describing how the simplest of tasks such as... Read More...

April 6 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressioninterventionlonelinessMental HealthteenagersTrauma

Ernest Hemingway: How Mental Illness Plagued Writer & Family

A FAREWELL TO SANITY – April 1, 2021 - He also had a fraught relationship with his mother, who dressed Hemingway as a girl when he was a child. Hemingway’s third wife, journalist Martha Gellhorn, would later at... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionApril 6 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthsuicideTrauma

ADDICTION TREATMENT: DISASTER LOOMING

SYSTEMATIC BREAKDOWN – March 24, 2021 - In a spectacular display of stigma related to the disease of addiction and its treatment, there has not been a rush to expand capacity, address decades of old workforce s... Read More...

April 6 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseTrauma

Veteran Surprised With New Car For Graduating Program

HAPPY TEARJERKER – March 23, 2021 - Thomas was convicted of crimes that led to probation. He said he served in the Navy for seven years and had PTSD and anxiety. He said at one point he tried to kill himself by... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMar 30 2021Mental HealthTrauma

Once We Were Slaves … 12 Steps to Freedom by Hannah Prager

FREEDOM FROM THE BONDAGE OF SELF – March 27, 2021 - Most any recovering addict will confirm that when in active addiction you are a slave to your substance of choice, whether that’s alcohol, pornography,... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 30 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma

B.C. records deadliest February ever for overdose deaths

CAN ANYTHING BE DONE? – Mach 24, 2021 - The latest overdose statistics sparked debate in the legislature, with the Opposition Liberals demanding the government take vigorous action in next month’s budget to add... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 30 2021OverdoseTrauma

Demi Does California Sober for Brunch. Rosé or Riesling?

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE? – March 22, 2021 - Lovato has endured two highly publicized relapses and suffered “three strokes and a heart attack” during that time — details of which will be shared in her forthcoming YouT... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 30 2021Mental HealthOverdoseRecoveryRehabTrauma

Red Oak Recovery Completes Sixth Year Dual Diagnosis Research Study

MORE THAN JUST THE 12 STEPS – MAR. 16, 2021 - Red Oak Recovery® and The Willows at Red Oak Recovery® have completed their sixth year of partnership with the Center for Research, Assessment, and Treatment Effica... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Atlanta shooting suspect was a patient at evangelical treatment center

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD? – March 19, 2021 - Most evangelical churches, including Southern Baptist churches, teach that sex is permitted only within heterosexual marriages, similar teaching to the Catholic Church an... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainternetinterventionMar 23 2021Mental HealthSexual AddictionTrauma

Meghan Markle’s mental health struggles echo Princess Diana’s experience

A “ROYAL” FAMILY MATTER – March 11, 2021 - Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey first aired on CBS on Sunday, and one area in particular that seems to have resonated is Markle’... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressioninterventionInterviewlonelinessMar 16 2021Mental HealthsuicideTrauma

Family turns tragic loss into ‘Lissy’s Legacy of Love

WATCH – NEW LIFE OF GIVING – March 5, 2021 - “I would appear in court and beg the judge to please don’t let her leave the courtroom because there were days that I felt like if she did that, I wouldn’t see her a... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental HealthOverdoseTrauma

Long Island doctor charged with murder in 5 opioid deaths

DR. DEATH – March 4, 2021 - Blatti pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Nassau County Court and was ordered jailed pending a March 30 court appearance. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma

Underlying Twists & Turns of Addiction: Mental Illness or Mental Diversity?

by Julie Lyons, LICSW PUTTING OURSELVES BACK TOGETHER – March 12, 2021 - Coming out about addiction to the public, friends and loved ones these days may not have the shame that it did in the past; it may eve... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 16 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma

Black Space aims to destigmatize mental illness in the Black community

WATCH – SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER – Feb. 25, 2021 - TODAY’s Carson Daly interviews Darius Smith, co-founder of Black Space, for his ongoing mental health series, “Mind Matters.” They discuss the 2020 social and r... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassioninterventionMarch 2 2021Mental HealthTrauma

‘Cherry’: Film Review

NOT ON TOP – Feb. 25, 2021 - The muscular camerawork of Newton Thomas Sigel, with its swooping drone shots and virtuoso tracking sequences, is impressive on a craft level, especially if you’ve ever felt the nee... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionMarch 2 2021Mental HealthTrauma

18 Films That Explore Mental Illness

REEL RECOVERY MOVIES FOR ALL – Feb. 25, 2021 - And while mental illness still holds far too significant of a stigma in modern society, that stigma is decreasing; mainstream depiction in films seen and loved by ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionlonelinessMarch 2 2021Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma

‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’

STRANGE FRUIT – Feb. 25, 2021 - To millions in America and around the world, Billie Holiday – or Lady Day, as she was known – was merely a musical legend, a woman as effortlessly graceful as she was inspiration... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictiongrammy winnerinterventionMarch 2 2021Mental HealthTrauma

Sunny’s ‘Deployed and Destroyed’ Tells a Difficult Story of Friendship

LISTEN – LOVE AND PAIN – Feb. 2021 - Zach — and the complicated relationship War has with him — is the inspiration behind “Deployed and Destroyed,” the newest release from the singer’s upcoming album, Simple Sy... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 2 2021Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Kids’ Mental health is pediatricians’ greatest concern

HEALING EMOTIONAL BOO BOOS – Feb. 27, 2021 - Pediatricians and adolescent health experts have cautioned for months that the uncertainty and anxiety spurred by the pandemic, coupled with the lack of social conta... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusdepressioninterventionlonelinessMarch 2 2021Mental HealthteenagersTrauma

Settlement Reached in Suit Accusing James Franco of Sexual Misconduct

ARS GRATIA ARTIS – Feb. 21, 2021 - Mr. Franco’s production company, Rabbit Bandini, and his partners, who include Vince Jolivette and Jay Davis, are also named as defendants. The two parties had been discussing... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 23 2021Mental HealthTrauma

Kim Novak: ‘I inherited mental illness from my father, but the rape must have added to it’

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF STARDOM – Feb. 18,2021 - In the early 2000s, Novak was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Since then, she has spent time trying to normalise it, telling people it is just another illnes... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionFeb 23 2021InterviewMental HealthTrauma

This Message Will Self-Destruct: Snapchat & the Tragic Death of a 16-year-old

by Christopher Dale WHAT A PRICE TO PAY – Feb. 16, 2021 - On Sunday, February 7, 16-year-old Samuel Chapman asked his father for a cheeseburger, then went to his room to play video games. An hour later his m... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanylinternetinterventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseteenagersTrauma

Inside Billie Piper’s Mind

A COMPLICATED PLACE – Feb. 4, 2021 - I’m 34 but this feeling isn’t unfamiliar; this spiralling soothed by the strange comfort of a sterile white room. I felt the same thing when I was just 17, enduring another ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionFeb 16 2021interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryTrauma

Who’s Taking Care of Mental Health Professionals?

DOCTOR (CAN’T) HEAL THYSELF – February 11, 2021 - USA TODAY spoke with half a dozen mental health workers who told us the pandemic has been the most challenging year of their professional lives. Every one of th... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusFeb 16 2021interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocatesuicideTrauma

Sia’s Awful Movie Portrays Drug Addiction and Abuse With Colorful Musical Numbers

WATCH – CRAPUE du SOLEIL? – Feb. 10, 2021 - Hold on. The worst moment in “Music” is the quick-cut, frenetic, orange-tinted fantasy musical number when the title character flails about making exaggerated facial and b... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021Mental HealthOverdoseRecoveryTrauma

TV Host Dr. Laura Berman’s 16-year-old Son Dies from Overdose from Drug Dealer on Snapchat

WATCH – DEAR GOD, MAKE IT STOP – Feb. 8, 2021 - Berman first shared the news of her son’s death on Instagram Sunday, writing that her son got “the drugs delivered to the house” in an “experimentation gone bad.” “... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanyllife expectancyMental HealthOverdoseteenagersTrauma

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‘Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story’

How DMX Found God

‘I’m more worried about my mental health than getting COVID-19’

Ernest Hemingway: How Mental Illness Plagued Writer & Family

ADDICTION TREATMENT: DISASTER LOOMING

Margaret Cho on sobriety, solitude and Stop Asian Hate

Veteran Surprised With New Car For Graduating Program

Once We Were Slaves … 12 Steps to Freedom by Hannah Prager

B.C. records deadliest February ever for overdose deaths

Demi Does California Sober for Brunch. Rosé or Riesling?

Red Oak Recovery Completes Sixth Year Dual Diagnosis Research Study

Atlanta shooting suspect was a patient at evangelical treatment center

Meghan Markle’s mental health struggles echo Princess Diana’s experience

Family turns tragic loss into ‘Lissy’s Legacy of Love

Long Island doctor charged with murder in 5 opioid deaths

Underlying Twists & Turns of Addiction: Mental Illness or Mental Diversity?

Black Space aims to destigmatize mental illness in the Black community

‘Cherry’: Film Review

18 Films That Explore Mental Illness

‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’

Sunny’s ‘Deployed and Destroyed’ Tells a Difficult Story of Friendship

Kids’ Mental health is pediatricians’ greatest concern

Settlement Reached in Suit Accusing James Franco of Sexual Misconduct

Kim Novak: ‘I inherited mental illness from my father, but the rape must have added to it’

This Message Will Self-Destruct: Snapchat & the Tragic Death of a 16-year-old

Inside Billie Piper’s Mind

Who’s Taking Care of Mental Health Professionals?

Sia’s Awful Movie Portrays Drug Addiction and Abuse With Colorful Musical Numbers

TV Host Dr. Laura Berman’s 16-year-old Son Dies from Overdose from Drug Dealer on Snapchat

‘It’s a Pandemic Within a Pandemic’