February 2, 2021 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

February 2, 2021 • Vol. 8, No. 24

AspenRidge Recovery’s Diversity Scholarship for Minorities Battling Addiction

DO THE RIGHT THING – Jan. 26, 2021 - “The value of it is about $33,000 and it’s really there to extend the invitation for anybody to get services who needs it,” Sandoval said. Within the past year, AspenRidg... Read More...

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Brothers Get Clean Through Nonprofit

WATCH – TREATMENT WORKS – Jan. 25, 2021 - “I wasn’t considering my brother, his well-being; ultimately I didn’t care about my brother,” Gabe said. It enabled their most destructive tendencies to surface. ... Read More...

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FDA Can Save Lives if it Wanted to By Targeting Tobacco Addiction

SMOKESCREEN – Jan. 25, 2021 - The Biden administration has a chance to embrace this agenda after Trump’s FDA abandoned it. Ending Covid-19 is their top priority, and rightfully so. But the new administration wi... Read More...

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Died From Overdose

WATCH – LARGER THAN LIFE – Jan. 25, 2021 - TMZ broke the story ... Balducci was found unresponsive in his bed back in July and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. When we spoke to his mom, she told us... Read More...

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Kehlani Shares Her “personal ex-smoker experience” After 3 Years of Weed Abstinence

STILL EXHALING – Jan. 25, 2021 - On Sunday, the R&B singer revealed she gave up the green and the alcohol, in response to a fan who created a Twitter thread of images that show Kehlani smoking. “Wow, It’... Read More...

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New Dean at Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies

GOT KNOWLEDGE? – Jan. 27, 2021 - Substance use disorder counseling is an increasingly specialized area of behavioral health, serving patients who have complex substance use and co-occurring mental health disord... Read More...

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Scott Silverman Addresses Addiction Through Conversation and Experience

OPEN MOUTHS, OPEN MINDS – Jan. 27, 2021 - “I have a perspective that I bring to the conversation that a traditional clinician may not,” he said. “And I also know that an hour a week may not be enough. My goal... Read More...

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With Administration Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – STORMY FEBRUARY – Jan. 29, 2021 - The new administration has also appointed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to head the Health and Human Services Department. Becerra, who hasn’t been conf... Read More...

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They Called for Help. They’d Always Regret It.

WHEN 911 IS THE LAST RESORT – Jan. 30, 2021 - The moment their family members called 911, both Carlos and Christian became unwitting players in a system that is massive, complicated, and, according to many expe... Read More...

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Good riddance to Dry January…

LISTEN – NO BOOZE IS GOOD BOOZE – Jan 30, 2021 - You don’t realize how many times an alcoholic is asked, “Why can’t you just have one glass and stop drinking?” I didn’t know. I wanted to answer that question so... Read More...

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I Want to Understand My Mom’s Mental Illness.

A FAMILY MATTER – Jan 29, 2021 - Some days her energy was endless. She’d go on massive shopping sprees. I pity the salespeople who encountered Ma’s wrath when her credit card was declined. My sister an... Read More...

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Son and His Girlfriend Face Charges in Mother’s OD Death

IT’S A DARK DEADLY DISEASE – Jan. 29, 2021 - Camden County deputies arrested a man and his girlfriend connected to his mother’s overdose death. Prosecutors charged Derick Beck, 24, of Camdenton and Morgan Wa... Read More...

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Q&A with Gretchen Burns Bergman, Founder of A New PATH

STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – January 28, 2020 - Gretchen Burns Bergman is Executive Director and Co-Founder of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing), a non-profit organization that works to re... Read More...

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Lily Allen Celebrates 18 Months of Sobriety

ONE YEAR AND A HALF AT A TIME – Jan. 27, 2021 - She “got clean” but six months later she fell off the wagon again and “lost everything.” “I lost my marriage. I lost my house I worked for 10 years to buy. My ... Read More...

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While US Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – WHEN WILL IT END? – Jan. 29, 2021 - “Our country is facing many simultaneous crises and President Biden understands that,” an administration official wrote in an email. “The President has laid out key ... Read More...

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Alcoholics’ Silent COVID Suffering: What’s a Recovering Addict to do in Isolation?

WHAT WOULD BILL AND BOB SAY? – Jan. 27, 2021 - Some of this is well-publicized. Unsurprisingly the anxiety, fear and isolation COVID-19 has caused lends itself to increased risks for alcoholism and substance a... Read More...

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Mum Uses Tik Tok to Spread Message of Self Love

WATCH – WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW – Jan. 29, 2021 - “You know what, I had one of those mamas, too, that used to tell me I was fat and ugly from the time I could remember,” Nichols admits in her own clip. “... Read More...

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5 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone With An Addiction

YOU HOLDING? – Jan. 28, 2021 - The most important thing you can do to help someone with a substance use disorder is to be there for them without judgment. “You want to be supportive of someone seeking... Read More...

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Macklemore passionately details his sobriety journey: Treatment ‘continues to save my life’

THE RECOVERY SHOW – Jan. 29,2021 - Though the Grammy Award-winner recalled years of shame, he reminded fans that there is always hope and self-growth in the road to recovery. “You work these 12 steps and you... Read More...

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‘Lockdown broke me: After 15 years of sobriety, I drank. Secretly, alone.’

KEEP COMING BACK – Jan. 25, 2021 - This January, I would have been 15 years sober. In 2006, after 24 years of drinking addictively, I crawled — metaphorically — into a meeting of recovering alcoholics, got wit... Read More...

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Thousands of Recovery Homes in PA. Operate Without State Oversight

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME – Jan. 25, 2021 - Department officials said earlier this month that they were completing an internal review of draft regulations and planned to send them to the Attorney General’s Office b... Read More...

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Drug Rehab Counselor Arrested for Stalking and Sexual Assault of Client

ONE ROTTEN APPLE? – Jan. 25, 2021 - According to the Boulder Police Department, detectives began investigating Yepes earlier this month after a female client reported he “repeatedly contacted her and initiated ... Read More...

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It’s Hard to Stay Sober in a Pandemic, Holly Wants to Help

SUGGESTIONS TO GO BUY – Jan. 27, 2021 - While there’s no one-size-fits-all treatment strategy to address problematic drinking, many people turn to 12-step programs for peer support—most notably, Alcoholics Ano... Read More...

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When I Was Labeled a ‘Troubled’ Teen, I Obliged

WHEN IS IT TOO TOUGH? – January 12, 2021 - The years leading up to my being taken and the eventual break out is now a blur of misanthropy. I was reckless, taking my mom’s car out for joy rides without permissio... Read More...

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The Pandemic’s Toll on Children’s Mental Health

SUFFER THE CHILDREN, AND TEENS, TOO – Jan 12, 2021 - KRISSY WILLIAMS, 15, had attempted suicide before, but never with pills.The teen was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 9. People with this chronic mental... Read More...

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How to Tell If You’re Addicted to Day Trading

YOU'RE CHECKING YOUR PHONE RIGHT NOW APRIL, 2020 - “He knew it the way an alcoholic just knows this will be his last drink of the night. So he went in with everything he had and then some (compliments of his&nbs... Read More...

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Gambling Addiction Experts Focusing on Robinhood App

BETTING REAL MONEY – Jan. 30, 2021 - But industry experts say Robinhood’s addictive elements have been such a well-known problem that rival startups, like Public and Titan, have been casting themselves as abbre... Read More...

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Opioid Deaths Occur Less Often in Areas with More Cannabis Storefronts

WAKE AND LIVE – Jan. 30, 2021 - “Our findings suggest that higher storefront cannabis dispensary counts are associated with reduced opioid-related mortality rates at the county level,” the authors write. “While... Read More...

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Nitrous Nation

USE ONLY FOR TOOTHACHES – Jan. 30, 2021 - There are “stories of pool parties, people filling inflatables in the pool with nitrous oxide, so you could be just floating on it and huffing on it,” said Mike Jay, th... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Vince Lombardi

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” –Vince Lombardi ... Read More...

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