July 3, 2018 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

July 3, 2018 • Vol. 5, No. 49

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Review: For These ‘Recovery Boys,’ Sobriety Is a Steep Climb

Farms and Friends – June 29, 2018 - Opening a wider window into a world many of us know only from news reports and the long-running television series “Intervention,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “Recovery Boys” tracks fou... Read More...

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Kids’ exposure to addiction drug rose 215% in three years

Children Will Listen – June 25, 2018 - More than 11,200 calls concerning children’s exposure to buprenorphine, an opioid medication used to treat opioid use disorder, were made to US poison control centers from 2007 to ... Read More...

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Unbroken: Navigating the Madness of Family Dysfunction, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Heartache by Annie Highwater

MEDIA: Book Recommendation – July 2018 - I feel like I’m drowning! Does that describe you at times? Addiction, conflict, and dysfunction can destroy a family. But even in the depths of adversity and despair, there is h... Read More...

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3 Ways Exercise Combats Teenage Drug Abuse and Teen Depression

A Moving Target is Harder to Hit – July 2018 – We all know that exercise is good for you. But did you know that it can also help fight teenage drug abuse, addiction, and teen depression? Research shows that regular exer... Read More...

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USA border policy is a catalyst for drug addiction

High ACE from ICE – June 29, 2018 - With separation, children will experience tremendous surges in adrenaline from the terrifying events. Adrenalin is the neurotransmitter that contributes to creating a permanent memory... Read More...

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Zoe Ball Admits Two Years Of Sobriety Helped Her Through ‘Two Toughest Years Of My Life’

BRAVO! – June 27, 2018 - She wrote: “Special moment. 2 years no booze - through two of the toughest years of my life, I’m not sure I’d have survived intact had it had not been for my sobriety & #recovery ... Zoe Bal... Read More...

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Demi Lovato Opens Up About “Addiction Hell” In New Interview

She’s Baaaaack – And she’s been just as open about her most recent battle with the bottle. Demi’s new song, “Sober,” is a surprisingly confessional ballad detailing her lapse back into addiction. Sadly, Lovato’s relapse... Read More...

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Program uses dogs to help recovering addicts

Taking a 90 Day Bone? – June 29, 2018 - The class, which Kover calls “Moving Forward with Dogs 12 Steps at a Time,” is now up and running at The Mission’s new women and children’s center in downtown Bakersfield. The pro... Read More...

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Seventy years of Alcoholics Anonymous in New Zealand

Hold in NZ – June 26, 2018 - STARTS AT 8:45 minutes in. Alcoholics Anonymous has been helping alcoholics in NZ for 70 seventy years. Our special guest Paul talks about AA and his own recovery from alcoholism through the... Read More...

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Scandal over opiate deaths uncovered 16 years later

Doctor Charged with 650 Deaths – July 1, 2018 - Their fears were vindicated last month when an inquiry found Dr. Jane Barton responsible for the deaths of up to 650 people and a culture in which powerful opiates were ro... Read More...

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Bogus treatment centers prey on opioid addicts

Greedy Bastards – June 29, 2018 - The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation says beware of anything offered for free. That could be a sign of kickbacks. As well as this, be sure to visit the facility beforehand. “If there’s e... Read More...

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Woman tells cops the cocaine must have been in her purse when she bought it

As Good an Excuse as Any – June 29, 2018 - A Key Largo woman being booked into jail Thursday on a driving with a suspended license charge said the cocaine detention deputies found in her purse must have been in the bag ... Read More...

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Pain Killer Pill Makers Cut Back On Payments To Doctors

Smaller Yachts? – June 28, 2018 - Lawsuits and media reports have accused Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, of aggressively marketing the powerful narcotic even after it knew the drug was being misused. Prosecutors... Read More...

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A history of Diego Maradona’s epic use of cocaine and other drugs

Scoring a New Goal – June 27, 2018 - Maradona began taking cocaine in the mid-1980s, developing an addiction to both that and alcohol which would last until 2004. It was a problem for the Argentine at the peak of his ca... Read More...

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Former drug addict who spent ‘£1k a month on cocaine’ explains how she turned her life around

Walking the Walk – July 1, 2018 - SPLASHING my face, I glimpsed myself in the bathroom mirror and gasped. Why did I have a black eye? I knew I’d been up until the early hours at a booze- and drug-fuelled party, but I co... Read More...

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Grandparents raise kids after daughter’s opioids death

Lost Generation – June 30, 2018 - Mickey and Tina Baltz raise their two grandchildren after the loss of their daughter to opioids Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean, Nashville Tennessean. Full Video @ Tennessean.com... Read More...

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9 Signs You Have High Functioning Depression

Sadly Blending In – July 1, 2018 - Too often, depression sufferers are depicted as exclusively white, cis, straight women, while the disease itself is presented as an all-consuming, incapacitating misery that binds its ... Read More...

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Dr. Gabor Maté receives 2018 Order of Canada Appointment

The Man Who Fell to Earth – June 29, 2018 - Rideau Hall announced 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada on Friday, a list stocked with leaders in research, community activists, authors, politicians and athletes. N... Read More...

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California Lawmakers Want To Crack Down On Fraud At Rehab Centers. Will It Work?

WOW! Interview with Attorney Mick Meagher – June 25, 2018 - The centers often keep patients addicted so they can keep administering services, said Mick Meagher, an independent California attorney who specializes in cons... Read More...

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Recovery Boys: the documentary on what happens after opioid addiction

Renew Netflix Subscription – June 27, 2018 - ...Sitting on leather couches at a West Virginia farm, a father of two reckons with terrible news about his three-year-old daughter, who he just learned had been molested whi... Read More...

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UNITED NATIONS REPORT 2018: opioid crisis, prescription drug abuse expands; cocaine and opium hit record highs

Demand and Supply – June 26, 2018 - The non-medical use of prescription drugs is becoming a major threat to public health and law enforcement worldwide with opioids causing the most harm and accounting for 76 per cent o... Read More...

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Igniting The Heroin Epidemic

More Like a Nicholas Cage Film – 2018 - Purdue Pharma and El Chapo had provided kindling: The pharma company’s unprecedented marketing campaign for its blockbuster OxyContin painkiller did not stop with pill sales. Purd... Read More...

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…Marco Rubio, ignited America’s heroin crisis

Politics As Usual – June 28, 2018 - 1. Marco Rubio killed a critical prescription drug monitoring program over “politics.” Florida had the chance to implement a program that would track overprescribing by doctors – cons... Read More...

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Volunteers of America (with Lyrics) Jefferson Airplane

Happy Independence Day – Look what’s happening out in the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Hey I’m dancing down the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Ain’t it amazing all the people I meet Got a ... Read More...

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Husband ‘ordered hit on radio host wife’ after she ‘threatened to expose his illegal pill mill’

Till Death Do Us Part – June 24, 2018 - For five years, Kim Pack suspected her stepfather, Dr James Kauffman of killing her mother, a bubbly host of a popular local radio show. But it wasn’t until January of this year t... Read More...

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Two treatment center owners indicted after reaping $50 million

Bernie Madoff's newest roommates? – June 27, 2018 - Kenneth Bailynson, owner of the defunct Good Decisions Sober Living in West Palm Beach, and Eric Snyder, owner of Real Life Recovery and Halfway There, both face more ... Read More...

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Blaming AA for Opiate Deaths

It’s Hard to Abuse Abstinence – June 27, 2018 - David got up from his folding chair. Several people reached out to shake his hand or slap him on the back as he passed. Everyone in the room knew how tough it was to achie... Read More...

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