December 11, 2018 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

December 11, 2018 • Vol. 6, No. 21

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CRITIC REVIEWS FOR BEN IS BACK

42 Reviews of “Ben Is Back” – NOW PLAYING - VIDEOS – Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges pour their hearts and souls into the unflinching and unforgettable addiction drama about a mother who can’t quite trust the son she lov... Read More...

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Older Americans Are Flocking to Medical Marijuana

The Rolling Stoned – Dec. 7, 2018 - “You might not like it,” Dr. David Casarett, chief of palliative care at Duke University Medical Center, tells fellow physicians. “You might not believe in it. But your patients are u... Read More...

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Three men charged for roles in overdose death at sober living facility

Sober Dying – December 3, 2018 - Officials charged Tyler Castro with principal to second-degree murder in the in the death of Dylan McClendon Friday, November 30. Two other men, Baylor Johnson and Lambert Louviere III,... Read More...

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Why would anyone cut heroin with fentanyl?

More Money – Dec. 4, 2018 - In fact, deaths from synthetic opioids now outpace deaths from heroin or other opioid drugs in the U.S., according to federal data. But why cut heroin with fentanyl in the first place? Resear... Read More...

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The Strongest Evidence Yet for a Highly Controversial Addiction Treatment

Can’t Hurt – Dec. 8, 2018 - Dan Ciccarone, who leads the Heroin In Transition research team at the University of California at San Francisco, argues that the U.S. at least needs to rapidly scale up the use of medication... Read More...

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New Memoir Details Author’s Near-Death Experiences, Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Use

MEDIA: Book Suggestion – DECEMBER 05, 2018 - Near-death experiences and unforeseen miracles brought author Herb Klingele to a new understanding and appreciation for life. Klingele’s debut memoir, “Soul Sanctuary: Notori... Read More...

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Viewpoint: The Slippery Slope of ED Buprenorphine

More Pills – Dec. 1, 2018 - Finances: Insurance companies created financial incentives in the 1980s and 1990s to abandon multidisciplinary treatment for chronic pain and rewarded medication-only care. Insurance companie... Read More...

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National Addiction Expert Warns There’s a Bigger Threat Looming Than Opioids

Tell It Like It Is – Dec. 03, 2018 - Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that overdose deaths have more than tripled for cocaine and quadrupled for meth since 2012. A UN report shows C... Read More...

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The incredibly unpopular idea that could stem opioid deaths

By Columnist Megan McArdle – Dec. 4, 2018 - If drugs were comic book villains, fentanyl would be the pitiless 20-story-tall super-robot towering over lesser henchmen such as heroin or oxycodone. Those older drugs are ul... Read More...

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The Overdose Crisis Is So Bad That Some Experts Want To Prescribe Heroin To Treat Addiction

NO MORE FENTANYL – December 6, 2018 - The report authors also talked to researchers and public health officials in countries that tried the practice, as well as officials, doctors, and sheriffs in Ohio and New Hampshire... Read More...

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Jersey Doctor Sentenced for Supplying Opioid Pills to Drug Ring

Morphine MORE FINE – Dec. 4, 2018 -Beecher, an ear, nose and throat specialist who had a practice in Warren, pleaded guilty on Sept. 19 to second-degree conspiracy and distribution of a controlled dangerous substance (o... Read More...

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Pennsylvania hands out anti-opioid-overdose drug across the state

State of Compassion – DECEMBER 6, 2018 - Pennsylvania is handing out anti-opioid-overdose medication across the state next week, including more than a dozen locations in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. KYW Ne... Read More...

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‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’- Song accused of being an “Ode to Roofies”

Going Too Far? – Dec. 7, 2018 - “Bill Cosby ruined it for everybody,” Susan Loesser, 74, told NBC News on Thursday. “Way before #MeToo, I would hear from time to time people call it a date rape song. I would get annoyed... Read More...

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Baby It’s Cold Outside VIDEO

Banned Song VIDEO – December 2018 – Full Video @ YouTube.com... Read More...

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AAC laying off 200, consolidating some properties

Treatment Industry – Dec. 7, 2018 - Word of the cuts comes a month after AAC Chairman and CEO Michael Cartwright and his team said their third-quarter results had badly missed the mark in part because a change this summ... Read More...

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‘It didn’t happen overnight’: How the U.S. opioid crisis got so bad

Race to the Morgue – December 9, 2018 - Drugs called “medicines” were used by the “kinds of people” that reformers liked — “white people of respectable means,” Herzberg explained. “Drugs that weren’t medicines were ones... Read More...

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Dennis Quaid reveals that he did 2 grams of cocaine every day before getting clean

Drinks Again – Dec. 3, 2018 - The star went on to discuss his highly-public love life. The star recently ended a 14-year relationship with Kimberly Buffington. Since then, he’s fallen in love with 32-year-old French-Can... Read More...

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For One Rural Community, Fighting Addiction Started With Recruiting The Right Doctor

Doing No Harm – December 9, 2018 - Lindsay Bunker woke up from a nightmare. The 32-year old lives with her 6-month old daughter on the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin. She’s struggled with a... Read More...

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Parents agonize: ‘Did our son really have to die?’

Investigation Underway – December 10, 2018 - Brandon Nelson arrived at Sovereign on Feb. 23 to forge a new path forward. Two weeks later, he was dead. The Nelsons were steered toward Sovereign Health, a behavioral and m... Read More...

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Sedative addiction and anxiety on the rise among children

Life in the fast lane – Dec. 7, 2018 - Xanax was the benzodiazepine which saw the biggest rise — its use among young people needing treatment rose almost seven-fold, from eight people to 53. Overall, two thirds of the y... Read More...

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Why is Pizza So Addictive?

It’s Cheesy... – December 16, 2018 - In a recent study, pizza was ranked as the food most associated with symptoms of addiction, according to the Yale Food Addiction Scale, a tool that assesses the diagnostic criteria f... Read More...

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You’re in Recovery. What Should You Eat?

You Are What You Ate – Dec. 3, 2018 - Whole foods that are rich in L-glutamine. L-glutamine is an amino acid that offers immune and antioxidant benefits, among others. L-glutamine can help reduce sugar cravings, which c... Read More...

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First person in UK to get cannabis prescription was previously given opiates 50 times stronger than heroin for chronic pain

Joint Relief – December 4th 2018 - Doctors prescribed the 32-year-old with morphine and fentanyl, an opiate 50 times more powerful than heroin. She described the experience as leaving her feeling like “a zombie” and ... Read More...

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Rehabs in Big Trouble

American Addiction Centers stock drops from $46.60 to $2.00 Closures, layoffs – plot thickens – December 6, 2018 - The Current has obtained an email addressed to all AAC staff, in which CEO Michael Cartwright notifie... Read More...

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The Opioid Epidemic’s First Corporate Casualty

Natural Born Killers – December 4, 2018 - It didn’t sell well, at least at first. That changed, federal prosecutors have alleged, when Kapoor and other executives essentially bribed doctors to prescribe it for everythin... Read More...

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Korn’s Brian Welch Survives Addiction in ‘Loud Krazy Love’ Trailer

When the Music Stops – DECEMBER 4, 2018 - A new trailer for Loud Krazy Love, an upcoming Showtime documentary about Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, documents the musician’s struggles with addiction and his turbulent... Read More...

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Today’s Drug Abusers Did Not Derive From Yesterday’s Patients

It’s Complicated – DECEMBER 4, 2018 - As a result, most of the focus has been on pressing health care practitioners to decrease their prescribing, imposing guidelines and ceilings on daily dosages that may be prescrib... Read More...

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‘Ben Is Back’: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction

Addiction Horror Film – Dec. 5, 2018 - The rest of “Ben Is Back,” written and directed by Peter Hedges (father of Lucas), sustains and intensifies that clammy, anxious feeling. The suspense is generated by a deceptively... Read More...

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