February 8, 2022 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

February 8, 2022 • Vol. 9, No. 26

Men with Sex Addiction Have Higher Levels of Oxytocin

HE JUST DID IT – Feb. 2, 2022 - Scientists say their discovery could lead to the development of a drug that blocks oxytocin for those with hypersexual disorder. Lead author Dr Andreas Chatzittofis, of the U... Read More...

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Macklemore Becomes Creative Director Of CLEAN Cause Beverage Brand

DRINK UP – Jan. 25, 2022 - “I chose to align with and endorse a brand that is at the forefront of creating awareness for addiction and actively supporting the recovery community,” Macklemore said in a press re... Read More...

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How We View The Future May Hold Key To Recovery

HORIZON OR CLIFT? – Jan. 29, 2022 - Virginia Tech scientists examined alcohol use disorder recovery in 110 adults who had met criteria for alcohol abuse and dependence in the International Quit and Recovery Reg... Read More...

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From Darkness to Light: Recovering from Addiction

OPEN TO MIRACLES – Jan. 29, 2022 - Ish Shuey is a certified recovery mentor with Transformations Wellness Center, a nonprofit substance use disorder treatment center in Klamath Falls. Her job is to provide per... Read More...

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Doctor, 83, Accused Of Running $17-Million Opioid Pill Mill

HE WON’T BE IN JAIL FOR LONG – Jan. 28, 2022 - Under the scheme, he only accepted cash at his clinic where he prescribed oxycodone and oxymorphone, two of the most addictive opioids with high street value, the... Read More...

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What Makes People More Likely to Overdose on Opioids

FATE? DESTINY? LUCK? – Jan. 28, 2022 - Health care providers can help reduce risk by taking certain precautions, Weiner says. One is to prescribe non-opioid medications whenever possible (or tell patients to us... Read More...

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Phil Collins Alcoholism and Near-Fatal Head Injury

PRAYERS FOR PHIL – Jan. 30, 2022 - Phil, who is father to Emily in Paris star Lily Collins, announced that he was going on tour with his fellow Genesis bandmates last year but many fans are concerned about the... Read More...

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The Zen of Therapy

BOOK REVIEW – Jan. 11, 2022 - Attempts to bridge the two philosophies are liable to devolve into mere intellectual exercises, or else to peter out in the banal advice that therapy sessions ought to begin with a... Read More...

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New Treatment for Alcoholism in Monkeys

JUST IN TIME – Feb. 1, 2022 - The FGF21 analogue tested by Flippo and his team was originally developed by Pfizer as a long-lasting version of the original hormone, with the goal of treating diabetes and obesi... Read More...

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Sleepwalking Into Addiction

AWAKE AND SING – Jan. 30, 2022 - In Greater Manchester, some felt their final hopes of eventually getting their treatment evaporate at the start of this month. Health leaders announced that most surgeries w... Read More...

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Wes Joyce Will Step Into the Ring as He Battles Alcoholism Outside the Ring

MARRIAGE VOWS – Feb. 2, 2022 - Mr Joyce, from Warndon, said: “Last week I admitted to myself that I am an alcoholic and it is about time I do something about it before it’s too late. “I now go to an AA meet... Read More...

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Mothers Protest SF Safe Injection Site

IT’S COMPLICATED – Feb. 4, 2022 - Mothers Against Drug Deaths will protest outside the center at 8 a.m. Saturday to demand that city officials shut down an area of the center where supervised drug use is taking... Read More...

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The Only Thing by Francis Dunnery

MUSICAL INTERLUDE – Francis Dunnery is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner. Dunnery was the lead singer and guitarist for British prog-pop band, It Bites. He has pursu... Read More...

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British Columbia Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin

CANADA NOT DRY – Jan. 26, 2022 - At this moment, the province is sitting on a regulated supply of smokable diacetylmorphine—pharmaceutical heroin, commonly known as DAM—from a source that could fill prescriptio... Read More...

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Native American Tribes Tentative $590 Mil. Opioids Settlement with J&J

NEW TRAIL OF TEARS – Feb, 1, 2022 - Together with a deal struck last fall between the distributors and the Cherokee Nation for $75 million, the tribes will be paid a total of $665 million. Purdue Pharma has alr... Read More...

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Can AA Evolve to Include Its Most Marginalized Members?

AUDIO – COLOR BLIND? – Jan. 29, 2022 - Jonathan Bastian talks with Martin about her thoughts and experiences with sobriety and recovery. Martin says that within AA, strict rules prevent a full discussion of “o... Read More...

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Sacklers Cough Up $4 Billion More To Settle

CHUMP CHANGE – Jan. 31, 2022 - The judge found the reorganization plan improperly shielded Sackler family members, who had not filed for Chapter 11 themselves, from opioid litigation. The mediator, former U.S.... Read More...

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Opioid Overdose Deaths to ‘grow exponentially’

HOW MANY MORE PLOTS? – 2/2/2022 - As long as the status quo stands, “We will continue to have these kinds of addiction outbreaks in our healthcare system,” said Keith Humphreys, chair of the commission and a pr... Read More...

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They Made the Most of the Opioid Crisis

BOOK REVIEW – Jan. 19, 2022 - (The book is based in part on a 2018 article Hughes wrote for The New York Times Magazine.) Its sole branded product was Subsys, a fentanyl-based liquid that patients sprayed under... Read More...

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“I’m greedy”: Ex-sober Home Operator Remorseless

AND HE’S A CRIMINAL – Jan. 28, 2022 - The $31.3 million operation he ran out of a rundown condominium complex in West Palm Beach and the lab he established to process urine tests from those who lived there was ... Read More...

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Maine Might Legalize ‘magic mushroom’ to Treat Depression

AUDIO – AND THEY TASTE GOOD TOO – Jan. 30, 2022 - In 2015, he took the leap. Because psilocybin is an illegal drug, he had to be discreet. He secured the psychedelic fungus from black market sources, then ... Read More...

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Drug Dealers Using Social Media, Emojis to Advertise, Sell Counterfeit Pills

VIDEO – CAPITALISM REIGNS SUPREME – Jan. 26, 2022 - Certainly, people have their ways of getting their drug fixes or what people think they’re getting. The DEA said that in some cases, it’s literally as easy as... Read More...

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Why the Disease of Alcoholism is Spiritual Bankruptcy

QUESTIONS – Feb. 2, 2022 - My daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia just a couple of years ago. I remember vividly sitting in the hospital room as the doctor came in, sat us down, and begin talking through the d... Read More...

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Braunwyn Windham-Burke Marks 2 Years of Sobriety

VIDEO – CELEBRITY? SOBRIETY – Jan. 30, 2022 - “My first year of sobriety was about not drinking — it was about taking it one day at a time, finding my people, and settling in,” she says. “It was learning how t... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Colin Kaepernick

“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.” —Colin Kaepernick ... Read More...

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