July 18, 2023 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

July 18, 2023 • Vol. 10, No. 49

What Holds Us Back From Breaking Chains of Addiction?

BAD HABITS – July 9, 2023 - What holds us back from recovery? Externals or things outside ourselves — such as being in a certain place — can slow recovery. Our own internal thoughts and addiction desires ca... Read More...

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The Psychological Benefits of Photography

EUPHORIC MEMORY FILE CABINET – July 12, 2023 - The world is fast-paced and extremely geared towards telling us how to live, think, act, and what to value. Photography allows us to be totally free. We can share our vi... Read More...

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I Drank So Much at Work I Had Blackouts

VIDEO – CHANGE CAN HAPPEN – July 10, 2023 - What I’ve learned now is that drinking problems are on a spectrum. Drinking was causing a lot of problems in my life. It was causing financial stress, relationship str... Read More...

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Tom Holland: “Why am I so enslaved by this drink?”

VIDEO – THAT IS THE QUESTION – July 11, 2023 - Tom Holland reevaluated his relationship with alcohol after he was struggling to abstain from drinking for a month. “I was definitely addicted to alcohol, not shyin... Read More...

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Antidepressants, Antipsychotics & Benzos All Increase Suicide Attempts

SAD BUT TRUE – July 10, 2023 - The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder is a contested construct that many researchers and clinicians believe should be eliminated from the DSM and ICD. The vast majority of pe... Read More...

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ER Visits for Teen Girls Booming

NOT AN EASY TIME – July 12, 2023 - A second study in JAMA Network Open also showed that mental health visits to EDs across the United States decreased less than non-mental health visits during the pandemic, showing m... Read More...

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Substance Abuse Is Climbing Among Seniors

BOOMERS STILL BONGING? – July 9, 2023 - Until a few years ago, even as the opioid epidemic raged, health providers and researchers paid limited attention to drug use by older adults; concerns focused on ... Read More...

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Soccer Star Reveals Rehab Stay Due To Childhood Sexual Abuse

HEALTHY COPING IS THE GOAL – July 13, 2023 - Alli returned to Everton this summer after spending last season on loan at Turkish side Besiktas, where he made 15 appearances in all competitions. However, w... Read More...

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‘One Direction’ Member Liam Payne Talks Sobriety

ONE DIRECTION AT A TIME – July 11, 2023 - Payne, 29, said he has “more of a grip on life” now that he’s taken time for himself after becoming “somebody who I didn’t really recognize anymore.” MORE: Liam Payne says... Read More...

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Controversy Involving Sober Living House

AUDIO – SYSTEM FAILURE? – July 13, 2023 - Reporter Craig Monger on “News & Views” with Joey Clark as they discuss the attempt by sober living residents to lure young girls into their facility, and their apparen... Read More...

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Club House Looking For New Home

VIDEO – FELLOWSHIP NEEDS TO CONTINUE – July 12, 2023 - “A little over four years ago, I hit rock bottom in my life on pretty much every level you can imagine and realized I needed help,” she said. A meeting held... Read More...

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How Alcohol-Free Drinks Help My Sobriety

AUDIO – .05% – July 15, 2024 - Ian has a long history of working in the restaurant industry of 15 years, where drinking is socially acceptable. From studying wine and spirits Ian found a job where he could tas... Read More...

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Movie ‘Surviving the Hill’ features Battle With Addiction

MOVIES MATTER – July 13, 2023 - The movie will premier Saturday at 6 p.m. at The Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown. It will later be offered on streaming services. Residents in recovery and those who... Read More...

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Khalil Rafati’s Journey from Homeless Heroin Addict to Millionaire

HE DID IT GOD’S WAY – July 13, 2023 - For his purpose in life, he chose to inspire others, and it’s like he says, “Most of my followers are not drug addicts. They’re just people who want a better life.” His re... Read More...

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Diet Coke Really Causes Cancer?

THANK YOU DONALD RUMSFELD – July 13, 2023 - The International Agency for Research on Cancer, or I.A.R.C., said it based its conclusion that aspartame was a possible carcinogen on limited evidence from three observati... Read More...

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Milan Kundera, Renowned, Reclusive Writer and Dissident, Dies in Paris at 94

READ BOOKS – July 12, 2023 - “I dream of a world where writers are obliged by law to keep their identity secret and use pseudonyms,” he wrote in the 1986 essay, “The Art of the Novel.” Kundera used the sentence to re... Read More...

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We Didn’t Start the Fire

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – July 2, 2023 - Fall Out Boy // With Lyrics WATCH@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkKnC0Vd4Q ... Read More...

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Matt Hardy On His Brother’s Struggle with Sobriety and Recovery

TOUCHING – July 7, 2023 - However, being in wrestling for over 20 years means there are bound to be ups and downs in their career. Matt Hardy has faced some adversity of his own throughout his career, but Jeff has a... Read More...

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Nam Taehyun Confesses To Checking Into Rehab

STARDOM’S LIGHT – July 13, 2023 - Nam Taehyun confesses to his drug addiction past, his current debt, and his check-in to rehabilitation in an in-depth interview with KBS. KBS held an interview with Nam Tae... Read More...

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White House Lays Out Effort Against Xylazine

NOT Leprosy – July 11, 2023 - WASHINGTON -- Federal officials on Tuesday called for more testing and research on xylazine, the powerful animal sedative that’s spreading through the nation’s illicit drug supply... Read More...

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Alcohol Consumption Surged During Covid — and Deaths Followed

ALCOHOL IS A DRUG – July 13, 2023 - Mississippi saw a 159 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths, the nation’s biggest leap, along with a 10 percent rise in apparent consumption. In Delaware, consumption increase... Read More...

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Philadelphia’s New Public Restrooms Include Narcan

VIDEO – WHERE PISSING CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE – July 11, 2023 - Public restrooms are important for all members of the community and help make public spaces accessible to all. Like many U.S. cities, Philadelphia doesn’t ... Read More...

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San Francisco’s Open-Air Drug Mart

THE CITY BUY THE BINDLE – July 10, 2023 - Dervin Amado Arteaga Ervir, a 15-year-old boy from the Honduran village of El Escano de Tepale, had just parted ways with his father when he joined other young Honduran migra... Read More...

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Injection Sites Would Save Lives

NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT – July 9, 2023 - But addiction is not governed by commonsense, reason or logic. It is a compulsive, self-destructive disease. Addicts who can’t use in a safe environment will play Russian roul... Read More...

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Actress Was Fired Over ‘Drug Problem’

VIDEO – ADDERALL OR NOTHING – July 6, 2023 - “I got basically let go from Pretty Little Liars Season 5 because of the weight that I had lost,” Shaw said on the podcast, “and it was really an embarrassing thing. I d... Read More...

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Honolulu 1st Major U.S. City to Require Naloxone in Bars

A SHOT OF WHAT? – July 12, 2023 - “The passage of Bill 28 by the Honolulu City Council today represents a collective commitment to saving lives and providing immediate assistance to those in the grips of addiction. N... Read More...

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US vs. China Over Influx of Fentanyl

MADE IN CHINA – July 12, 2023 - After Blinken left Beijing, the US justice department filed criminal charges against Chen and Wang, along with six other Chinese nationals and four Chinese chemical manufacturin... Read More...

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Three Patients Die Within a Week at Rehab

WHAT A SAD WAY TO GO – July 12, 2023 - All three of these cases are suspected of involving some type of drug overdose; however, aspects of the incidents are suspicious, and no conclusions or determinations hav... Read More...

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For 150 Years We’ve Sought a Cure For Addiction

AND STILL DO – July 11, 2023 - The key, it seems, may be the new diabetes drug, Ozempic. While doctors and pharmaceutical companies hail it as a powerful new weight loss drug, early reports also suggest that GLP-1 an... Read More...

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3 Ways to Relieve Pain Without Opioids

HANDS ON THERAPY – July 12, 2023 - What else works? There are alternatives to opioid for pain management, and Dr. Karam uses a conservative approach. “We will basically exhaust everything before progre... Read More...

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