Bill calls for mandatory jail or rehab for drug offenders January 4, 2018 - A new House bill would require mandatory jail time or rehabilitation for drug users who violate their probation. Local representative Niraj Antani introduced the bill. He said it’s all about saving liv... Read More...Jan 2 2018
City of Addict Entrepreneurs Cashoholics Anonymous — Dec. 27, 2017 - The vans, she learned after tailing one, were ferrying addicts all over town to what amounted to halfway houses for those in recovery: sober living homes. “I fol... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Darryl Strawberry: Sex addiction drove him to dalliances during games No One Told Him to Slide — Dec. 24, 2017 - “It was a pretty crazy lifestyle, you know,” Strawberry said in the interview that runs on Thursday’s show. “All addictions have to do with behavior.” … S... Read More...Jan 2 2018
U.K. Woman Tried to Bring Painkillers Into Egypt. She Was Sentenced to 3 Years 0 Tolerance – Dec. 26, 2017 - Laura Plummer, 33, was arrested after authorities found her bringing 300 tablets of Tramadol, a powerful class C painkiller, into Egypt, the BBC reports. Trama... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Father Shares Emotional Post About Daughter’s Heroin Overdose The Family Afterwards — December 28, 2017 - An Ohio father made a Facebook post about losing his daughter to a heroin overdose, opening people’s eyes up to the harsh reality of opioid addiction. Ti... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Judge finds McKees Rocks rehab operator is a danger; keeps him locked up Double Agent — Dec. 27, 2017 - Prosecutors say accused heroin dealer David Francis delivered drugs to overdose victims, vouched for his alleged New York suppliers in order to get them released from... Read More...Jan 2 2018
2 Addiction Recovery Centers Under Investigation in Oklahoma Slave Labor is Back — Dec. 28, 2017 - A sign marks the entrance to the Faith Based Therapeutic Community Corporation recovery program in Fort Gibson. The program is under investigation for alleged fo... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Massachusetts prosecutors to throw out 8,000 convictions in second drug lab scandal Evil Woman — Dec. 28, 2017 - “Foster and Kaczmarek piled misrepresentation upon misrepresentation,” Superior Court Judge Richard J. Carey wrote last June, “to shield the mental health work sheets fro... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Kickstarter’s Yancey Strickler Announces Support For Five NonProfits Help for the Addiction Services — Dec. 28, 2017 - On Thursday, Kickstarter Co-Founder and current CEO, Yancey Strickler, took to Twitter to announce his support for five nonprofits after reading pred... Read More...Jan 2 2018
5 Ways to Get Sober in the New Year Many Paths, One Destination — Dec. 31, 2017 - New Year’s resolutions come and go, but a resolve to get sober is accessible and sustainable throughout the year. Experts working in addiction treatment ... Read More...Dec 25 2018Jan 2 2018
A Doctor with a Phone and a Mission Call Centers Connect – Dec. 27, 2017 - More than 200,000 people seek addiction treatment on the phone or online every month. Few of them realize that their pleas for help are a valuable commodity —... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Philadelphia’s Overdose Epidemic Philly Photo Essay – Dec. 28, 2017 - Seth Ditizio, an investigator for nine years in the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office and before that a veteran of the Army infantry in Iraq, knows death.... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Do You Have Video “Gaming Disorder,” A Newly Recognized Mental Health Condition? Wasted Minds – DEC. 24, 2017 - Amazon listed as one of the most common items purchased along with the video game Call of Duty 4? A brand of adult diapers. Yes, apparently some video gamers are we... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Governor Launches Campaign to Warn New Yorkers About Fraudulent Addiction Treatment Referral Services GREAT IDEA – Dec. 27, 2017 - “Vulnerable New Yorkers struggling with addiction are being targeted and falsely promised life-saving treatment services and then are given inadequate and ineffective t... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Rehab Riviera: Are drugs for drug addicts a solution or a crutch? Anything Goes — Dec. 28, 2017 - “There are people in the 12-step community who tell their own, ‘You have a sponsor, don’t listen to your doctor. Don’t take that medication. Don’t take anything,’ ” sa... Read More...Jan 2 2018
How one woman became a local hero of the opioid Doing a Life Saving Deed — Dec. 29, 20167 - As the opioid crisis worsens, Lori Erion is finding success fighting it just outside Dayton, Ohio. Her organization “Families of Addicts” focuses on cele... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Staring Down Addiction and Fending Off Harmful Voices AA Not the Only Way... — DEC. 28, 2017 - “I went to war with addiction,” Mr. Wilson said. There, he encountered a woman who told him about an Alcoholics Anonymous program held in the basement of a ... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Drug and alcohol treatment facility proposed at Aspen Institute site in Maryland The Right Side of History — Dec. 30, 2017 - Recovery Centers of America is in negotiations with the Aspen Institute to purchase the River House and a portion of the Houghton House parcel … The conf... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Dr. Phil’s Show Denies Claims That Guests Were Encouraged to Use Drugs and Alcohol All for Higher Ratings? – Dec. 29, 2017 - STAT and The Boston Globe published an exposé on Thursday, which includes accounts from multiple guests who say their substance addictions were enabled by me... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Industry struggling to get clean Most Rehabs Practice Best Practices — Dec. 29, 2017 - California’s notoriously hands-off approach to regulating the industry — still predominantly non-medical even as other states push hard for a mor... Read More...Jan 2 2018
How Proust Can Change Your Life Recommended Book for the Year – Dec. 2017 - This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 19... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Opioid Policy Becomes Personal After Husband’s Death Death Doesn't Take a Holiday — Dec. 29, 2017 - Joe Thompson’s struggle with opioids started in 2004. After he was in a serious car accident, Thompson says her husband was likely overprescribed medication... Read More...Jan 2 2018
Gabor Has Answers ARTIST'S CORNER – Gabor Maté – Q. If you are in recovery, what was your Drug of Choice and when did you discontinue its use? A. I have never had a substance addiction, but have engaged in behaviors tha... Read More...Jan 2 2018