February 9, 2021 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

February 9, 2021 • Vol. 8, No. 25

Can We Control the Voice in Our Head?

TALKING HEADS – February 5, 2021 - to the car (“You know your dad hates you”) and then to work, where the dope, wearing a pin-striped olive jacket and gold chain, keeps the bit going through lunchtime. (“Eat no... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 9 2021Mental Health

Is Chocolate Addictive?

WHO CARES? – Feb. 4, 2021 - Can you be addicted to chocolate? Though this is still a controversial topic, a growing amount of research supports treating food addictions like other types of substance addictions.... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating DisorderFeb 9 2021food addictionintervention

News Anchor’s 20-year Addiction and Journey to Sobriety

WATCH – REGULAR DUDE LOVES SOBRIETY – Feb. 4, 2021 - Addiction runs in his family, he said, he said before he knew it, he was following in the footsteps of those he’d watch struggle with their own addictions. ... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyFeb 9 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Wendy Williams Revisits Cocaine Use and Sober Living in New Biopic

WATCH – TOO MUCH EVERYTHING – Jan. 30, 2021 - Among the many romantic relationships featured in the film was one with a man who Williams said “ruined” her credit by renting cars on her credit cards without tell... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Oregon Addicts Get Rehab Instead of Prison

FINALLY! – Feb. 1, 2021 - For Janie Gullickson, rock bottom came both slowly and all at once. A long time drug and alcohol addict, Gullickson pushes back on the idea that one terrible day on the street leads to... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

‘Insane’ success of goat Zooms nets £50k

ARE THE HORSES ON STRIKE? – Feb. 1, 2021 - She said they mostly appeared briefly, but one family books one of her other goats, Margaret, every Saturday morning for a longer catch-up. “They call her Mar... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeb 9 2021internet

Uber Acquires Alcohol Delivery Startup For $1.1 billion

BOOZE APP, WHAT COULD GO WRONG? – Feb. 2, 2021 - Drizly will eventually integrate with the company’s Uber Eats app, but it will also maintain its own Drizly app, per the release. Drizly has been called the “Ube... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneFeb 9 2021internet

Jamie Lee Curtis Marks 22 Years Sober

SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT – Feb. 4, 2021 - “A LONG time ago … In a galaxy far, far away … I was a young STAR at WAR with herself,” she began. “I didn’t know it then. I chased everything. I kept it hidden. I ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Oregon Treats Addiction as a Mental Health Issue

LISTEN – FORTY-NINE MORE STATES NEEDED – Feb. 5, 2021 - And on February 1, the new law, called the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, went into effect. To help break down this act, Portland Monthly spoke wit... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRehab

‘My Stealing Addiction Gives Me The Illusion Of Control’

DESIGNER BAG...LADY – Feb. 4, 2021 - As an attractive, Caucasian, middle-class woman, I’m hardly the archetypical shoplifter. To my knowledge, I’ve never been suspected, which I’m certain is down to how I look,... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryFeb 9 2021interventionMental HealthRecovery

Experimental vaccine blunts the deadliest of synthetic opioids

AN INJECTION OF OPTIMISM or SAY WHAT? – February 4, 2021 - “We’ve shown it is possible to prevent these unnecessary deaths by eliciting antibodies that stop the drug from reaching the brain.” The Scripps Resea... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 9 2021fentanylinterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinRecovery

Megadeath’s David Ellefson, “The Beauty of Sobriety is That You Get to Have a Second Life in One Lifetime.”

WATCH – REBORN LIKE THE MASTER – Feb. 6, 2021 - Since I wasn’t getting drunk passing out on airplanes I had plenty of free time to read. That’s what actually started it. That’s the beauty of sobriety; you get t... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Cameron Douglas Writes Book About His Famous Family and Overcoming Addiction

ROMANCING THE STONED – Feb. 6, 2021 - The experience was tough on his relationship with his father, but these days they are doing great, and Cameron even joined his father for an interview with Good Morning Ame... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Hazelden Betty Ford Expands Addiction Services in Montana

COWBOY UP – Feb. 5, 2021 - Other RecoveryGo™ resources and services now available in Montana and nationwide include a free one-day virtual Family Program, available in English and Spanish; a virtual Chil... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionMental Healthnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Jack Osbourne & Dad Ozzy Osbourne On Getting Sober in the Spotlight

THE SHOT GLASS DOESN’T FALL FAR FROM THE TUMBLE – Feb. 5, 2021 - Addiction experts often say that the disease runs in the families who struggle with substance abuse, and Jack and Ozzy Osbourne are sharing their... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

How Variety’s Marc Malkin Owned His Sobriety

ONCE A MENSCH, ALWAYS A MENSCH – Feb. 4, 2021 - And then we walked two blocks up Eighth Avenue. We made a right on 24th Street and headed east. I went to my first 12-step meeting at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis’... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Biden Quietly Announces Harm Reduction Among His Drug Priorities

TOO QUIETLY! – Feb. 4, 2021 - The White House seems to have done little to alert media to the changes. Drug Policy Alliance* Director of Media Relations Matt Sutton told Filter that National Public Radio (NPR) ... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021harm reductioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate

Abraham Twerski, Who Merged 12 Steps and the Torah, Dies at 90

SEEING THE LIGHT ... IN PEANUTS – Feb. 6, 2021 - Andrew Heinz wrote in a 1999 profile of Rabbi Twerski for Judaism, the quarterly magazine of the American Jewish Congress. “He was moved by the example of men an... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionFeb 9 2021interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Work Addiction Can be Harmful to Mental Health

TOO MUCH IS TOO MUCH Feb. 8, 2021 - Work addiction is a clinical condition characterised by an obsessive and compulsive interest in work. People usually work more than they’re required to... characteristics include b... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 9 2021internetinterventionMental HealthRecovery

Alcohol deaths hit record high during Covid pandemic

EMPTY BOTTLES, FULL COFFINS – February 2, 2021 - Between January and September, 5,460 deaths were registered with this cause - up 16% on the same months in 2019. It is the biggest toll recorded since reco... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeb 9 2021interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRehabrelapse

Has Society Turned Its Back on Mothers?

IT’S OK, WE’VE GOT EYES IN THE BACK OF OUR HEADS – February 4, 2021 - And yet, the more I hear my patients use the term “burnout,” the more I think it doesn’t capture the depth of despair they describe. T... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassiondepressionFeb 9 2021interventionMental Health

Journaling to the Rescue in 2021!

SPECIALIZE IN YOUR OWN LIFE – Dec. 30, 2021 - Journaling as inspiration for change could help you consider a new way of doing and thinking about things. Perhaps it will show you what the pandemic has taught you... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusFeb 9 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery Advocate

McKinsey Fined $600 Million For “turbocharging” Opioid Deaths

BOTTOM LINES KILL PEOPLE – Feb. 3, 2021 - McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on selling lucrative high-dose pills, the records show, even after the drugmaker pleaded guilty in 2007 t... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021life expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma

6 Reasons AA Zoom Rooms Are Inferior to In-person Meetings by Christopher Dale

IS ZOOM AA INFERIOR TO REAL AA MEETINGS? – Feb. 8, 2021 - In-person meetings also allow small acts of kindness – those mini-miracles that exemplify its members’ commitment to helping others – that don’t carry o... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021internetinterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Is Social Media Addiction a Myth?

TWEET THIS – February 6, 2021 - “Addicts” who changed their lives through digital detox confess that social media was killing them. Imagine that you’re a typical middle school student having dinner with your family.... Read More...

Addiction Recoverycell phoneFeb 9 2021internetinterventionMental HealthRecoverySmartphone Addiction

‘Bachelorette’ Star Zac Clark Helping Millions Through Sobriety & Recovery

LOVE AND SOBRIETY – February 5, 2021 - When he tried to cash the check, the bank teller knew something was wrong. But instead of calling the police, she called Clark’s father, who rushed to the bank befor... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Hunter Biden Recounts Addiction and Sobriety in Memoir

RECOVERY ROAD – February 4, 2021 - (The book’s title comes from a phrase Beau and Hunter would say to each other after Beau was diagnosed.) Hunter Biden is publishing a memoir about his struggles with addiction... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Sobriety Surprises: Stars Who Revealed They Got Sober

CELEBRITIES, THEY’RE JUST LIKE US. – February 4, 2021 - From time to time, however, a celebrity will surprise the world and suddenly announce that they got sober. Us rounded up the public revelat... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 9 2021interventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab

Quote of the Week – Rachel Maddow

“Work is the force that gives life meaning” —Rachel Maddow ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 9 2021quote of the week

Additional Articles