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FDA Rejects Ecstasy Drug as Treatment for PTSD

BUMMER – June 7, 2024 - The decision reportedly came as a “shock” to observers, as psychedelics advocacy groups have gained widespread traction by steadily engaging in a decades-long effort to push the suppose... Read More...

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He Came for Treatment. His Body Was Found In a Lake. WHAT WENT WRONG?

TRAGIC – June 8, 2024 - Kyle Sherwood flew to Los Angeles in early May for an intensive drug treatment program, his family hopeful that this one might stick. The facility, Dream Center, had come highly recomme... Read More...

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CVS Made Drugs Recalled after Horrifying Truths That Their Meds Manufactured in India Are Unsafe

THEY DON’T CARE – June 12, 2024 - FDA data shows America’s largest pharmacy chain recalled 133 over-the-counter medicines over the last decade, or about one a month. The reasons for the CVS recalls included... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 18 2024Trauma

The Rage, Secrecy and Pain of a Family Torn Apart by Addiction

FAMILIES MATTER – June 12, 2024 - Kim Jones has been sober for a dozen years. “In recovery we talk about needing to forgive yourself and being able to move on,” she said. “I’m not sure there’s really suc... Read More...

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Meth Addicted Fish, Caffeinated Minnows: Animals Changed by Human Drugs

TOXIC PEOPLE – June 6, 2024 - Addiction, anxiety and sex reversal have been reported in species by researchers as a range of substances contaminates ecosystems. From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamph... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 11 2024Trauma

Energy Drinks Linked to Sudden Cardiac Arrest

VIDEO – WHO CAN YOU TRUST? – June 6, 2024 - For the study, the team examined 144 sudden cardiac arrest survivors. Seven patients within this group had consumed one or more energy drinks near to the time that the ca... Read More...

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Sheriff: Florida Police Officer Gave Teens Drugs & Alcohol – Filmed Them Nude

ONE ROTTEN APPLE? – May 29, 2024 - Markanthony Fernandez, 24, a Bartow Police Department officer, was arrested Tuesday after an investigation began on May 8. The incident happened on the weekend of Feb. ... Read More...

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Owners of Kentucky Rehab Facing Child Porn Charges

CAUGHT RED HANDED – May 23, 2024 - According to Kentucky State Police, The owners of Edgewater Recovery, John and Myra Elam, both face charges related to child pornography. 43-year-old John Elam is charged ... Read More...

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PTSD Doubled in 5 Years Among College Students

FRIGHTENING – May 31, 2024 - Researchers found that 7.5 percent of students said they had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in 2022, the latest year available. Most of the surge was recorded during the Cov... Read More...

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Gangs’ Greed Causing ‘mass overdoses’

AUDIO – PROFIT MOTIVE – May 29, 2024 - Public health officials say Mexican cartels and drug gangs inside the U.S. are mixing a dangerous chemical sedative called medetomidine into fentanyl and other drugs sold on t... Read More...

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UnitedHealth Demands Algorithm Denying Patients Care Was Legal

HEARTLESS PLAN – May 22, 2024 - Investigations found those payment denials were based on an algorithm’s predictions, unbeknownst to patients, and UnitedHealth’s employees were advised not to stray from those c... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMay 28 2024Trauma

Sober Homes Owner to Pay $3.8 Million for Sexually Exploiting Tenants

MORE WAS REVEALED – May 21, 2024 - Peter McCarthy, 51, was found to have violated the Fair Housing Act after a five-day federal trial in Boston, said Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy. Seven of his ... Read More...

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Patient Dies At Boca Circle Rehab – Facility Get Sued

JUST TOO SAD – May 23, 2024 - The Boca Raton rehab center known as “Boca Circle Rehabilitation” is facing a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County. The just-filed lawsuit allege... Read More...

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Patient Broker Goes To Prison For Preying On NJ Drug Addicts

FROM BROKER TO BROKEN – May 17, 2024 - The confessed schemers enlisted “recruiters” to pay users addicted to heroin and other drugs with “robust” private health insurance several thousand dollars to enter spec... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 21 2024Trauma

Dozen of Teens Sexually Abused at ‘Sinister’ Detention Center

AUDIO – WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? – May 15, 2024 - “Among the allegations were multiple episodes of improperly restraining, punching, choking, physically abusing juvenile residents, handcuffing a minor resident to th... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMay 21 2024Trauma

Boy Woke Up with Rabid Bat Attached to His Neck

VIDEO – GOOD MORNING - NOT – May 2, 2024 - A Kentucky boy woke up with a rabid bat attached to his neck. The boy’s family — who lives in Midway — took him to the emergency room for treatment. Public health offic... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMay 7 2024Trauma

50 Drug Overdoses in One Day In Austin, Texas

AND 4 DEAD – April 30, 2024 - Christa Steadman, ATCEMS public information officer, said officials suspect the “outbreak” is due to “a new batch in town” likely from the same source or same couple of sources du... Read More...

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Out of the Darkness

MIRACLES HAPPEN – May 3, 2024 - Ravaged by addiction and at rock bottom, mother of two credits long night of prayer in abandoned shack for leading to her recovery. It was a desperate plea crying out from a dar... Read More...

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Women Reporting ‘Ozempic Breasts’

CH-CH-CHANGES – May 1, 2024 - Ozempic has already been linked to a host of bizarre bodily changes — including sagging skin and sunken-in cheeks. But now women are reporting a side effect dubbed ‘Ozempic bre... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMay 7 2024Trauma

“Vampire Facials” Infected Three People with HIV

BEAUTY AND BEASTLY – April 26, 2024 - A cosmetic process known as a “vampire facial” is considered to be a more affordable and less invasive option than getting a facelift, but the process can be a serious hea... Read More...

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1400 Clinicians on What’s Driving Youth Mental Health Crisis

iPHONES OR TIKTOK – April 10, 2024 - Many clinicians who work with young patients with mental health issues agree they lack enough resources to treat kids and that patients are worse off now than before the pa... Read More...

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Art Exhibit Remembers Those Lost to Addiction

VIDEO – SOUL ALCHEMY: GRIEF INTO ART – April 11, 2024 - When Theresa Clower lost her son, Devin, she turned to an old hobby she hadn’t picked up in nearly five decades. With a degree in fine arts, she pick... Read More...

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Cure for Addiction and Traumatic Brain Injury

IT COULD WORK – April 9, 2024 - New treatments for addiction are urgently needed. 107,941 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, an age-adjusted rate of 32.6 deaths per 100,000 people. The rate has nearly qu... Read More...

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Residents Concerned Over 5G Towers

VIDEO – DANGER IN THE AIR – April 10, 2024 - She quickly learned that the concrete slab was a 5G tower. It has a health warning that reads it “can cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm.”“I’m ... Read More...

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

CVS - RITE AID - DUANE READE - TARGET – April 16, 2024 - Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. It is therefore strange that we have allowed this long-lasting drug pandem... Read More...

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Time to Fight Digital Addiction in Kids

OR IS IT TOO LATE? – March 30, 2024 - American kids are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis that is driven, in large part, by how much of their day is spent online. The numbers are horrifying: r... Read More...

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How “Toddler Milk” Is Marketed to Parents

SELL SELL SELL LIE – April 2, 2024 - The U.S. government has repeatedly fought against advertising restrictions on these products around the globe. These drinks, targeted to young kids, may promise un... Read More...

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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

WHY BOTHER? – Feb. 27, 2024 - Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy, an astute and impassioned analysis of the mental-health crisis now afflicting adolescents, may cause a similar emotional meltdown in some corners of Americ... Read More...

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Kids Sniffing This Pantry Staple to Get High

IT’S NOT GLUE – March 19, 2024 - The woman, who goes by the name Lakeview Living on TikTok, ignited the controversy after speaking with a teacher who related the issues that schools in their area are experienc... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 26 2024teenagersTrauma

‘Locks for Addiction’ Founder Heartbroken After Vandalism

VIDEO – ONE FROM THE HEART – March 19, 2024 - For years now, a Lexington mother has tried to bring hope to those working towards sobriety. But she came across a disheartening scene this weekend. Pam Stamper sta... Read More...

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