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With More Opioid Use, People Are More Likely To Get Caught Up In The Justice System
You think? –
July 6, 2018 - People addicted to prescription opioids or heroin are far more likely to have run-ins with the law than those who don’t use opioids, according to a new study published Friday in JAMA Network ... Read More...
Three things revealed by Tennessee’s lawsuit against Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma
Men at Work –
July 6, 2018 - A lawsuit filed on behalf of Tennessee taxpayers against Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma in May reveals company records that lay bare how a giant of Big Pharma intentionally fueled the opioid ... Read More...
New York law mandates mental health education: Elementary thru High School
Never Too Early to Learn –
July 7, 2018 - A new state law is taking effect in New York state that will require schools to teach mental health to students in elementary, middle and high school. The measure was passed and... Read More...
Now that pot is legal, California needs more drug treatment for youths – by Timmen Cermak
Weeding Out the Addicts –
July 9, 2018 - For decades, young people in California have had almost unlimited access to marijuana but virtually no access to affordable drug treatment. When voters legalized recreational pot... Read More...
Cop indicted after he allegedly lured people with drugs, sent them to his rehab
Is it a Rehab or Cop Scandal? –
July 3, 2018 - McWain, 31, of Woodstown, was charged last November with official misconduct, tampering with evidence and computer crime, after a six-month probe turned up evidence of alle... Read More...
Stunning turnaround by formerly addicted mom whose baby was adopted by policeman
Recovery is Possible! –
July 6, 2018 - The words that saved Crystal Champ’s life were delivered like a spear into the heart. She had just arrived at a drug treatment facility in Central Florida in December, and a therap... Read More...
Who Is Dr. Kevin Blankenship? ‘Recovery Boys’ And Jacob’s Ladder Strive to Humanize the Struggles of Addiction
Are We Not Men? –
July 6, 2018 - There are a ton of negative stereotypes and stigmas attached to opioid addiction, but Netflix’s new documentary Recovery Boys brings a humanizing perspective to the nationwide epidemic. ... Read More...
Luann de Lesseps Celebrates 6 Months of Sobriety With First Husband, Kids: ‘Counting My Blessings
Who’s Is She Again? –
July 2, 2018 - A milestone worth commemorating! Luann de Lesseps looked happy and healthy while celebrating six months of sobriety alongside her ex-husband Count Alexandre de Lesseps and their chil... Read More...
Sex addiction has been classified as a mental illness for the first time with ‘treatment on the NHS’
England Swings Like An Addict Do –
July 6, 2018 - Sex addiction is a mental illness, the World Health Organisation says in a landmark move that could mean the 2 to 4 per cent of the UK population suffering from it getti... Read More...
Three pain clinic staffers admitted a pill scheme. Head Dr. beats 9 out of 10 charges.
Jury Pampering –
July 2, 2018 - Oakland Park doctor Andres Mencia, accused of prescribing 1,200 opioid doses a day while running a pill mill, beat nine of 10 drugs and fraud charges in federal court on Friday. But Menci... Read More...
Overdose Fears Weaken Stigma Of Step-Down Drugs In Addiction Treatment
Drugs Saves/Takes Lives –
July 3, 2018 - Even asking how best to wean drug abusers off opioids can raise hackles. Addiction specialists have straddled a philosophical divide over the use of pharmaceuticals in the proces... Read More...
Opioid Maker Trained Staff Using ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Techniques About ‘Aggressive,’ ‘Deceptive’ Salesmen
ABC: Always Be Conniving –
July 6, 2018 - A lawsuit unsealed this week alleged that OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma used “unprecedented marketing” to push opioids to prescribing doctors and created a “deceptive narrative... Read More...
Lawsuit claims HOPE clinics are responsible for overdose, addiction
From Those You Trust –
July 7, 2018 - A Kanawha County lawsuit is alleging HOPE Clinic, four medical professionals and two pharmacies are responsible for one man’s addiction and overdose death. The case, filed June 29 b... Read More...
Sperm Drop ‘could make humans extinct’ but not if men eat more nuts
Handmaids Tale Coming True? –
July 4, 2018 - Men who ate about two handfuls of mixed almonds, hazelnuts and walnuts daily for 14 weeks improved their sperm count and had more viable “swimmers”, scientists found. The stu... Read More...
Director Gus Van Sant continues his longtime exploration of addiction and recovery with ‘Don’t Worry’
The Master is Back –
July 6, 2018 - A Gus Van Sant film has moments of strange wonder when those at the fringes — pill-poppers, boozers, gay hustlers and a genius janitor — find communion amid the souls of troubled othe... Read More...
