February 4, 2020 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

February 4, 2020 • Vol. 7, No. 23

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‘Dark’ Pee-wee Herman Reboot Where He’s an Alcoholic

Childhood will never be the same again – Jan. 31, 2020 - While Judd Apatow and Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos have both turned the project down, the Safdies might offer Reubens a little hope. That s... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionFeb 4 2020netflix

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Book on human trafficking helps woman confront her own addiction

Reach one, teach one – Jan 31, 2020 - For more than two decades Nancy Yarbrough Banks has helped free women from the bonds of sex trafficking and addiction. Now, her book, “The Exodus, Where New Beginnings Happen.” i... Read More...

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Women of ‘Guest House’: Featured in New Documentary

Film Premiere – Jan. 27, 2020 - Many of the women at Guest House have struggled with addiction. But despite the daunting statistics around opioid addiction and the likelihood of previous offenders ending ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020Guest HouseRecoveryRehab

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Anger in America – new remedy emerges: Compassion

Angels in America – Jan. 30, 2020 - The focus on compassion comes more than a decade after the explosion in the U.S. of “mindfulness” — practices focused on attention, awareness and breathing. Health experts sa... Read More...

CompassionFeb 4 2020

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Man lights joint in court while facing marijuana charge

The High Court? – January 29, 2020 - The courtroom erupted into laughter at Spencer’s action, disrupting the normal daily activity in the court. Spencer was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduc... Read More...

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Addiction psychiatrist accused of using cocaine, marijuana with patient

Who’s The Crazy One? – Jan. 28, 2020 - Officials say the video footage also showed Billing smoking what appeared to be marijuana from a glass bong, as well as white residue on a mirror next to a rolled-up bill.... Read More...

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Lungs ‘magically’ heal damage from smoking

It’s NEVER Too Late – Jan. 29, 2020 - The overwhelming majority of cells taken from a smoker’s airways had been mutated by tobacco, with cells containing up to 10,000 genetic alterations. “These can be thoug... Read More...

CancerFeb 4 2020Nicorettesmoking

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First time in 4 years, US life expectancy rises — a little

Good News – Jan 29, 2020 - Suicides continued to increase in 2018, as did deaths from... Read More...

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Yale doctors take on opioid addiction

There’s a Pill for Everything – Jan. 30, 2020 - In 2008, when D’Onofrio and Yale collaborator David Fiellin, M.D., director of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, received a grant from the National Institut... Read More...

Drug Abuse and AddictionFeb 4 2020opioids

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Keyshia Cole Shares Video, Reveals Mom Checked Herself into Treatment Facility

It’s A Family Affair – January 29, 2020 - Cole grew up with a strained relationship with her mother who was forced to give her up for adoption due to her addiction. Through the years, they had their ups a... Read More...

Alcoholics AnonymousFeb 4 2020OverdoseRehab

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Artie Lange announces 1-year sobriety

Bravo! Keep Coming Back – Jan. 31, 2020 - That brush with the law followed a January 2019 arrest in which the comedian was taken into custody for possession of a controlled substanceAt the time, a post on his T... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 4 2020

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You Remember Jessica Simpson, Right? Wrong

New York Times Loves Recovery – Jan. 29, 2020 - When Jessica Simpson walks into a room you’re surprised by three things. The first, and they warn you about this — they say all celebrities are, but trust me, you... Read More...

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Exhibition for Stacie after recovery from alcoholism reignites love of art

Sobriety Ink – Jan. 30, 2020 - The 35-year-old, who recently moved from Wolverhampton to Ramsgate, said: “I have always been an artist and at 16 I started working in a tattoo parlour as an apprentice. Two years... Read More...

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Why My Friend Silvio Horta’s Life and Death Matter

Till Meth Do Us Part – JANUARY 28 2020 - I learned that meth is certainly not a drug just for people in trailer parks. It is incredibly prevalent in all parts of society, and particularly in gay culture. Statis... Read More...

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Demi Lovato delivers all-time great version of national anthem

Back from the dead – Feb. 3, 2020 - And she’d excel in both of those incredibly high-pressure, high-profile challenges. At the Grammys, Lovato was so emotional that it took her two tries to get through the intensely ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020OverdoseRehabSuper Bowl

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He Avenged His Son’s Murder—And Exposed the Opioid Crisis in America

On Netflix - True Story! – Feb. 03, 2020 - As The Pharmacist explicates via familiar non-fiction elements—elevated by both Schneider’s recordings and his alternately ... Read More...

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Q&A with Tim Ryan

Stick with the Winners! – February 2, 2020 - Despite a successful business career as a high-tech recruiter, Tim Ryan found himself in the grips of heroin use and ultimately was sentenced to prison for drug-related co... Read More...

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Andrew Zimmern – 28 years sober

Cooking Up A Better Life – Jan. 29, 2020 - ...he also used the opportunity to encourage others currently going through a similar struggle. About three years after first opening up about his past struggles, Z... Read More...

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District Attorney will no longer prosecute people for possession of buprenorphine

Life Saving – January 29, 2020 - “Instead of expanding access to treatment and saving lives, government inaction has led to the creation of active street markets for these medications in Philadelphia and elsewhere,”... Read More...

Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineFeb 4 2020Heroin AddictionPhiladelphia

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My family was ripped apart by addiction and mental illness

So Sad – January 27, 2020 - Kevin Keast was a supportive husband, an amazing father and a compassionate social worker. He also struggled with mental illness and heroin addiction. That addiction ultimately kille... Read More...

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Investors Taking Wait-and-See Approach to Addiction Treatment Sector

Have I got a rehab for you... – January 31, 2020 - “We’re still getting a lot of calls from people who are struggling for one reason or another. It seems to be people who have a lot of beds in either detox or r... Read More...

Celebrity SobrietyFeb 4 2020Rehab

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American Addiction Centers borrows $10 million from lenders

Treatment Millions – Jan. 20, 2020 - That news came the same day AAC announced founder Michael Cartwright was stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by McWilliams, who at the time was the company’s chief financia... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020Rehab

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Anne Elizabeth Lapointe: Helping Others, a Passion and a Mission

Canada Dry – January 31, 2020 - Anne Elizabeth works at the house for nineteen years. She started as a worker with pathological gamblers. “I started at the bottom of the ladder, so to speak, and then we started... Read More...

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‘Joker’ Proves the Power of Empathy

It’s Complicated – Jan. 2020 - In fact, the film more greatly resembles what we see in America today, where some are thriving but the poor and middle class are being squeezed to the point of despair. While op-e... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 4 2020

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Software Co., Practice Fusion, pushed Opioids to doctors in Secret Deal with Drugmakers

Murdering For Money – January 29, 2020 - Its existence was revealed this week thanks to a government investigation. Practice Fusion agreed to pay $145 million to resolve civil and criminal cases, according to d... Read More...

Big PharmaFeb 4 2020Heroin AddictionopioidsOverdose

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Super agent Leigh Steinberg has made quite a comeback

9 years, 11 months sober... – Feb. 1, 2020 - As far as comeback stories go, there are few better than the one being authored by sports agent Leigh Steinberg. Steinberg also was promoting his blue-chip client cu... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCelebrity SobrietyFeb 4 2020Recovery

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The dangers of digital crack

Faux Childhoods? – January 29, 2020 - Never have we been more connected yet felt lonelier. While we realize that most of what we see on social media is staged, we are still compelled to make comparisons. It’s easy t... Read More...

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Food Addiction

Eat Your Heart Out – January 28, 2020 - We need food to survive, but certain foods -- especially those rich in sugar, fat and salt — can trigger chemicals in the brain that make us feel good, such as dopamine. ... Read More...

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Magazine editor Dan Peres on harrowing Vicodin addiction

There is a pill for everything – February 1, 2020 - Later that day, finally loaded on 15 Vicodins, Peres met boxing champ Mike Tyson to discuss an upcoming story. Sweat-soaked and “swaying back and forth,” Pere... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020Rehab

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Rapper Lexii Alijai, 21, died of accidental overdose

Way Too Young! – JAN. 28, 2020 - Music ran in her family, as her father Roger Troutman Jr. recorded with Capitol Records during the 1980s, and her grandfather, Roger Troutman, founded funk band Zapp. Less than ... Read More...

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