June 2, 2020 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

June 2, 2020 • Vol. 7, No. 40

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Addiction recovery podcast launches

Listen Up! – May 26, 2020 - EDGE: Let’s talk about the new podcast series you’re about to launch in conjunction with WSCA. It deals with addiction and recovery, which, on the surface sums it up well enough, but let’s... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 2 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate

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‘I sold my Club World Cup medal to buy cocaine … I used it in two days’

Use your head! – May 24, 2020 - Every day I went out I would say, “today I can drink as late as I want because when I use cocaine the effect wears off. Let’s go find some”. ‘I was never at home, it was just partie... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020

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4 of the Best Revelations From My Sober Life

Just like the Agreements – May 20, 2020 - I began to wonder what the hell I was doing with my life. And sure, the human experience was depressing as hell: we were all going to die, the earth and sun included, b... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJune 2 2020Recovery

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Vaping Creates A “Slime-Cloak” In The Mouth

So Smoke Alone – May 27, 2020 - These slime-cloaks illicit a “huge response from the immune system,” she explains, which could lead to long-term consequences, though the findings are so new that those consequen... Read More...

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Even with 26 years of sobriety, the loss of AA meetings is a worry

The Medium is the Message – May 28, 2020 - Those attacks, in turn, have caused meetings to require still more passwords and a host deciding who to let join. That, in turn, means newcomers and people without the secre... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJune 2 2020Recovery

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Health Advocates Expect Surging Demand For Addiction Services

Real Live Counselors Are Heroes – MAY 26, 2020 - Some people did relapse because they lacked the skills to cope with the unprecedented stressors they we’re facing, he said. While some vital addiction service... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020RecoveryRehab

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Alcoholism: Why this doctor says telemedicine is key right now

No parking fees – May 26, 2020 - “Now, more and more people are opting for either home care or telemedicine where they’re not going to be exposed to other people, and they’re able to get care on their schedule in a w... Read More...

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James ‘Arg’ Argent: Cocaine addiction was triggered by eating disorder

Worth the weight... – May 26, 2020 - James ‘Arg’ Argent has said his drug addiction was a symptom of an eating order after years battling with his weight. The former The Only Way Is Essex star - who recently open... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJune 2 2020Recovery

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Elton John hosts ‘Rocketman’ watch party

Crocodile Rock – May 26, 2020 - “Now, more and more people are opting for either home care or telemedicine where they’re not going to be exposed to other people, and they’re able to get care on their schedule in a wa... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCoronavirusJune 2 2020

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Operation Nets 50 Tonnes of Cocaine in 45 Days

One is too many, and a ton is never enough – May 29, 2020 - “During the development of this phase, when we see that the confiscated tonnes (of cocaine) continues growing and are above the dozens, it allows us to reaf... Read More...

Drug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020

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AMA video update: Experts discuss pandemic’s impact on the opioid epidemic

Doctors Being Doctors – May 29, 2020 - And I will end by asking anyone, if they need more information specifically about the AMA’s opioid work, and I’m going to read it because I want to make sure that eve... Read More...

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The online success of 12-step recovery programs

What would Bill and Bob say? – May 31, 2020 - “Right before everything got shut down, I was at this meeting I go to every week and there was a guy with about two or three months of sobriety. He was doing his 90 in 90... Read More...

12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJune 2 2020RecoveryRehab

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Q&A with Dr. Louise Stanger

Stick with the Winners! – May 26, 2020 - She is the author of two books, Falling Up: A Memoir of Renewal and The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions: A Collective Strategy and was named by London’... Read More...

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I lost my son to overdose: What you should know

Good Mourning America – May 27, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of Americans into isolation, as doctors continue to look for a cure. It’s unclear if there’s a nationwide trend of drug overdoses ha... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020Overdose

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Officials see ‘alarming’ rise in overdose deaths

How much worse can it get? – May 30, 2020 - Harris said CPD has seen an increase “in fentanyl and substances that are even stronger than heroin” this year, with some cases of drug users expecting to receive her... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionJune 2 2020Overdose

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Seven mistakes that destroy your child’s mental strength

Only Seven? – May 25 2020 - Tracy Hutchinson, PhD, LMHC, is a therapist with over 18 years of clinical experience. She is a regular columnist for Psychology Today, and her research on positive psychology, mental heal... Read More...

CompassiondepressionJune 2 2020lonelinessMental Health

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Maintaining Emotional Sobriety During Covid-19: Transforming Trauma into Post Traumatic Growth

Tian Dayton PhD does it again! – June 2020 - The idea here is to head trouble off at the pass, to give ourselves the space (and frankly relief) to heal as we go. It’s just so much easier than letting it all pile up ... Read More...

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FDA finds high levels of carcinogen in diabetes drug metformin

Be Careful What You Wish For – May 27, 2020 - The U.S Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it had found high levels of a possible cancer-causing impurity in some versions of the popular diabetes drug ... Read More...

Drug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020

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Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

Silence = Death – May 27, 2020- Larry Kramer, the noted writer whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Wednes... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 2 2020

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Zachary Quinto Has an Attitude of Gratitude

Cuarto for Quinto – May 27, 2020 - “The most glaring component that was missing from my life was gratitude ... and I had so much for which to be grateful,” explained Quinto. I didn’t lose everything, I didn’t r... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJune 2 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate

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More people are taking drugs for anxiety and insomnia

More anxiety and insomnia in USA – May 25, 2020 - Health problems, social isolation and the stress of job loss weigh on people’s well-being. More than a third of Americans say the pandemic is having a “serious ... Read More...

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Big Pharmacy Chains Also Fed Off the Opioid Epidemic

Stockholders ADDICTED to Profits – May 27, 2020 - • CVS worked with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, to offer promotional seminars on pain management to its pharmacists so they could reassure patients ... Read More...

Big PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020opioid crisisopioids

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Glen Campbell’s Widow Recounts His Battle with Alcoholism – and Night He Pointed Pistol at Her

Rhinestoned Cowboy – May 27, 2020 - In the memoir, Kim, 61, details one particularly scary occasion which occurred after the birth of their first son, Cal, in 1983. Though Glen had agreed at the time to abide b... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJune 2 2020

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Drug rehab clinic is accused of firing nursing staff during pandemic

Bottom Line – May 29, 2020 - While nurses around the world are being praised as heroes on the frontlines, healthcare workers at an Atlanta drug rehabilitation clinic allege management fired the entire nursing s... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020Rehab

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Ancient credo inspired Nick Saban and helped Ryan Shazier heal

The Serenity Prayer in Action – May 21, 2020 - His reading tells him: He has a choice to make. He can be the man he is or, as Aurelius writes, the man he should be. He quits his job. He writes a self-immolating memoi... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 2 2020Mental Health

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Christo, Fearless Maker of Massive Public Artworks, Dead at 84

It’s a Wrap! – May 31, 2020 - The news comes as Christo was in the midst of one of his most ambitious projects to date, a project involving plans to wrap Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in 269,097 square feet of fabri... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 2 2020

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Quote of the Week – Kahlil Gibran

"Let there be space in your togetherness" —Kahlil Gibran ... Read More...

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‘We Loved Each Other’: Dr. Fauci Recalls Larry Kramer, Friend and Nemesis

Trailblazing Activist Dies at 84 – May 27, 2020 - Mr. Kramer’s name-calling wasn’t personal, Dr. Fauci explained. “I was the face of the federal government. I was the one out there trying to warn the public,... Read More...

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