Matthew Perry ‘Could’ve Been Saved’ From L.A. Home Hot Tub Drowning THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD... – Nov. 9, 2023 - His day was spent like many others lately. Matthew had developed “a healthy addiction” to pickleball, says his coach, Matt Manasse, adding that the actor hit ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyNov 14 2023Trauma
Some Children So Addicted They Have to Sleep With Vapes Under Pillow ADDICTIVE ANY WAY YOU TAKE IT – Nov. 1, 2023 - In September, VicHealth and Quit released research revealing e-cigarette retailers are advertising vaping products on social media specifically designed for teenagers to... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionjuulNicorettenicotineNov 7 2023smokingteenagersTraumaVaping
L.A. Model Nichole Coats’ Cause of Death: “cocaine and ethanol toxicity” INSANELY SAD – Oct. 24, 2023 - The drug-related death of a Los Angeles model has been ruled accidental after her body was found inside her luxury apartment last month. Nichole Coats, 32, died on Sept. 10 as a resu... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 31 2023OverdoseTrauma
Opioid Crisis Is Worse Despite Congress’ $20 Billion Effort To Stop It DO THEY EVEN CARE? – Oct. 22, 2023 - When that option ended on Sept. 30, the two states which used it — South Dakota and Tennessee — steered their Medicaid recipients with substance use disorder toward treatment faci... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 31 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Rite Aid, CVS & Walgreens To Close More Than 1,500 Stores Due to Crime. Whose Crimes? WHO’S CRIME? – Oct. 23, 2023 - The nation’s largest drugstore chains, Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens, will shutter more than 1,500 stores, leaving millions of Americans without access to healthcare in ‘pharmacy d... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 31 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
The True Story and Criminal Case Behind ‘Pain Hustlers’ THAT’S A TRUE STORY – Oct. 27, 2023 - The article detailed the various techniques that the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics used to push its highly addictive fentanyl-based painkiller Subsys into the ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOct 31 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Differential Diagnosis! What is It and Why is It Important? GOOD TO KNOW – Oct.9, 2023 - You may not have all the necessary information about your loved one’s situation, which can make accessing the proper treatment tricky. For example, you may be concerned about mood swin... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthOct 17 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Portland ME Needs to Admit It Has an Addiction Crisis AUDIO – DENIAL KILLS TOO – Oct. 10, 2023 - Long before many Portlanders used the terms “encampment” or “substance use disorder,” I was a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center and treated many IV drug users who l... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 17 2023OverdoseTrauma
Smoking, Not Injecting, Linked to 2/3rds of BC Overdose Deaths WTF!!! – Oct. 2, 2023 - Safe inhalation spaces are integrated into New York City’s two authorized SCS, as will be the case with the state-authorized SCS set to open in Rhode Island in early 2024. But those ser... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 10 2023OverdosesmokingTrauma
Company Knew All About Dangerous Breathing Machines They Sold PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE – Sept. 27, 2023 - “Black shavings in the chamber,” said one 2011 report that was kept from the government. “Contaminated with unknown sticky substance,” noted another three years later. ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionOct 10 2023Trauma
Family of Shooting Victim Believes Addiction Played a Factor in His Death VIDEO – DRUGS KILL IN MANY WAYS – Sept. 4, 2023 - According to authorities, just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Spokane Police Department (SPD) officers responded to reports of a shooting in the area. There, they foun... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 26 2023Trauma
El Chapo’s Wife Released from SoCal Halfway House VIDEO – EARLY RELEASE – Sept. 13, 2023 - The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from federal custody on Wednesday after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionSept 26 2023Trauma
Lawmakers Searching for Answers. Why is Fentanyl Killing Kids? LOOK WITHIN SOCIETY – Aug. 30, 2023 - Mississippi enacted a bill in March mandating a media campaign aimed at youth. California lawmakers are also considering requiring the state health department to make an o... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 26 2023teenagersTrauma
Woman Says Star Exposed Himself Then Laughed About it on the Radio NOT FUNNY – Sept. 10, 2023 - The woman says it happened in 2008 when she was working in the same building as the BBC in Los Angeles. The encounter left her stunned, she says. Minutes later, he was recorded laugh... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyinterventionSept 26 2023Sexual AddictionTrauma
TikTokers Filming ‘Zombieland’ Videos of Drug Addicts on Skid Row Sparks Social Media Craze AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL – Sept. 10, 2023 - Are the videos, seen by millions of TikTok and YouTube users, a horrifying form of exploitation and voyeurism? Or are they the cutting edge of a new form of citizen jour... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOverdoseSept 19 2023Trauma
12 Overdoses in 24 Hours in Harrisburg VIDEO – THE DIRTIEST DOZEN – Sept 9, 2023 - Potential signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose include: Loss of consciousness. Markedly constricted or pinpoint pupils. Breathing difficulties (slowed, labored... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 19 2023Trauma
British Media Report Rape and Emotional Abuse Allegations Against Russell Brand DID HE? – Sept. 16, 2023 - Brand issued a video statement on Friday denying the allegations. “Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely re... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 19 2023Sexual AddictionTrauma
She’s the Woman on the Line AUDIBLE LIFE PRESERVER – Sept. 10, 2023 - The hotline serves people who worry using alone makes them vulnerable to dying by overdose. And there is reason for concern. Total overdose deaths have climbed to nearly 110,... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 19 2023suicideTrauma
I Loved My Alcoholic Dad – But He Died Alone ESSAY – Sept. 3, 2023 - She had to be strong and resolute, meaning she was often unable to talk about her feelings and mine. I can see the generational effect of addiction on us all. I became aware that my dad had... Read More...Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressioninterventionSept 12 2023suicideTrauma
Dumping Dirty Syringes and Bodily Fluids into Dumpsters Costs Kaiser Permanente $49 Million BRAIN SALAD SURGERY? – Sept. 8, 2023 - “Nurses, physicians and patients could inadvertently touch blood or bodily fluids containing dangerous pathogens. Custodians and sanitation workers could be stuck by a us... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionSept 12 2023Trauma
City Official Resigns After Creating ‘Doom Loom Walking Tour’ of San Francisco VIDEO – SATIRE OR SALACIOUS? – Aug. 28, 2023 - The sold out weekend tour was canceled and on Monday Ludlum resigned, saying it was all satire and, “the causes of the conditions we witness daily are not individual a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionMental HealthOverdoseSept 5 2023Trauma
The Pope Says: ‘We Cannot Be Indifferent’ to People Caught in Drug Addiction WWJD? – Aug. 27, 2023 - Francis underlined in his message that it is often teens and young adults who fall into addiction, especially in a society in which they are “deprived of points of reference” during a delicate... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 5 2023Trauma
Docs Struggling as Flesh-Rotting ‘Zombie Drug’ Grips NY VIDEO – MODERN LEPROSY? – Aug. 28, 2023 - “There was a change in his behavior when he started using xylazine — he started going cuckoo,” his heartbroken mother, Merri Eddy, recently told The Post. “I didn’t know what... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 5 2023Trauma
Ecuador is Hooked on Dangerous Drugs BORDERLINE – Aug. 24, 2023 - Teenage drug users play games and sports to improve social and behavioural skills. The Puyo centre has 42 beds with separate wings to treat boys and men. Some of the teenagers, many from ... Read More...Aug 29 2023Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionmarijuanaopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinsmokingteenagersTrauma
Drugs in America: Prohibition to 21st-Century Binging BOOK REVIEW – Aug. 23, 2023 - Quick Fixes is organized into brief essays, each nominally about a specific drug—alcohol, cocaine, meth—and its social significance. Fong dwells little on the pharmacological effects of ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 29 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinpotRecoveryRehabsmokingTrauma
Entire Neighborhood Sets up Booby Traps to Protect Themselves from Drug Addicts VIDEO – HORRIFYING – Aug. 16, 2023 - Kensington has gained international attention for its excessive public drug use and has become a focal point for high crime and poverty in the City of Brotherly Love. The neighb... Read More...Aug 22 2023Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOverdoseTrauma
Horrifying Amount of Americans Won’t Make it to Old Age VERY SAD STORY – July 31, 2023 - On a white board at the end of the room, across from the sofas, the names of former clients who have died of overdoses in the past few years are listed. Though the town has a populati... Read More...Aug 8 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictionlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseTrauma
Flesh-Rotting Tranq Infects Cocaine Supply VIDEO – SCARY TIMES – July 31, 2023 - “We’ve seen an increase in street-level distribution of cocaine-xylazine mixture,” Frank Tarentino, the special agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s... Read More...Aug 8 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictioninterventionOverdoseTrauma
He Shouldn’t Have Died In Jail NEW JERSEY TRAGEDY – July 27, 2023 - Somewhere along the line at Boston College, Odom’s not sure exactly when, her son started to spiral, first with signs of mental illness — schizoaffective disorder, she says... Read More...Aug 1 2023Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMental HealthTrauma
Wealthy Sackler Family Avoids Civil Lawsuits Over Opioid Deaths THE 3 FACES OF EVIL – July 25, 2023 - Under a deal reached last year with thousands of state and local government entities, the company is to become a new entity, with its profits being used to fight the opioid epide... Read More...Aug 1 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma