June 7, 2022 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

June 7, 2022 • Vol. 9, No. 43

How a 1960 Traffic Stop Transformed Attitudes on Drug Addiction

HISTORY LESSON – June 3, 2022 - Sure enough, once the officers found a fresh needle mark on Banks’s arm, they promptly arrested him. Robinson and the others were ordered out of the car and up against a nearby b... Read More...

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A Tale of Two Tragedies

NO ONE WINS – June 3, 2022 - “Kelly was a beautiful, beautiful girl,” her father, William Beitz, said in an interview. “There wasn’t a day that went by that I wasn’t terrified about something happening to her.... Read More...

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The Sober Curious Movement

CONSCIOUS CURIOUS – May 31, 2022 - Researchers from La Trobe University’s Centre for Alcohol Policy Research in Australia also shared their findings in a study about alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 lock... Read More...

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Tennessee Opens Up Access to Narcan, FINALLY

OH GEE, THANKS A LOT – May 28, 2022 - The law goes into effect July 1, and cities, counties, recovery organizations, hospitals, schools, homeless service providers, jails, shelters, community groups and many ot... Read More...

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Teen Wolf Actor Colton Haynes Writes About Addiction and Sexual Abuse In New Memoir

IT AIN’T BEEN EASY – May 28, 2022 - Colton Haynes’ most raw role to date is that of author. The actor, whose blue eyes and sharp jawline you might know from series “Teen Wolf” and “Arrow,” bares his soul in “M... Read More...

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Deaf and Homeless Father Gains Sobriety and Restores Family

HE SEES WHAT COUNTS – May 31, 2022 - Porter-Henderson’s parents divorced when she was young, and her mom moved with her and her little sister from Chicago to Mississippi. But she was always a daddy’s girl, and... Read More...

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How to Achieve Long-Term Recovery

DESIRE AND DILIGENCE – May 31, 2022 - When dealing with any sort of mental health issue or neurodivergent diagnosis, developing a set of coping mechanisms and skills to deal with the negative side of these attr... Read More...

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What Is Alcoholic Neuropathy?

IMPORTANT INFORMATION – May 31, 2022 - Alcoholic Neuropathy Diagnosis Since symptoms of alcoholic neuropathy can vary greatly, diagnosis may take time. It usually involves a combination of th... Read More...

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Drug Treatment Disaster Looming by Michael Prichard and Pete Nielsen LAADC, CADC II

NEVER HOPELESS – March 24, 2022 - The argument against SUD licensure has been, “Why should SUD licensure be granted to individuals who did not obtain a master’s degree specific to addiction or at least in a re... Read More...

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Your Eating Disorder Is Not Your Fault

IT’S PHYSICAL – June 2, 2022 - Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder are life-threatening psychiatric disorders that are generally difficult ... Read More...

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Oregon’s Botched Treatment Plan

FOLLOW THE MONEY – June 2, 2022 - Oregonians passed Ballot Measure 110 in 2020 decriminalizing possession of personal amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs — the first in the nation to do... Read More...

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Drug Injection Sites’ Bill Advances in CA

SAVE A LIFE! – June 2, 2022 - “We know that we are experiencing a crisis of overdose deaths, and these are preventable,” said Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener. “This is one way to help keep people safe and to actua... Read More...

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Positive Results for Addiction Relapse Prevention

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO – June 2, 2022 - Gene Analysis was performed by the Clariom S Assay tool. This machine serves as a next generation transcriptome-wide gene-level expression profiling tool, which allow... Read More...

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Freedom After Alcoholism Bondage, The Story of Kevin Kamere

VIDEO – NOT JUST IN USA – June 4, 2022 - Kevin Kamere, a resident of Jawatho village in Nakuru, did not know that bondage, not freedom, awaited him. Then 19-year-old university student, little did he know the ... Read More...

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How Beauty Became Our Damaging Obsession

IT’S IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER – June 2, 2022 - “We have an epidemic of body image anxiety,” Professor Widdows says. “We have to move away from that.” “We need to start taking it seriously.” Josep... Read More...

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Waterloo Road Star Opens Up On Secret 20-Year Heroin Addiction

TALK IS NOT CHEAP – May 15, 2022 - Mylan continued: “My personal relationships suffered, my work relationships suffered and it robbed me of my inner ambition. “I managed to work, I managed around relat... Read More...

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Is Your Pursuit of Wealth Unhealthy?

MONEY MONEY MONEY – May 31, 2022 - Psychologists often classify the preoccupation with wealth as a “process addiction,” a category that also includes a fixation on gambling, sex, or even exercise (though the ps... Read More...

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Neuroscientist Seeks Origins of Alcoholism at Molecular Level

SCIENCE IS REAL – June 1, 2022 - “We’re trying to provide a better understanding of the neurotransmission side of the compulsions that define addiction, to understand which neurons are relevant on the network ... Read More...

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New York Senate Approves Bill to Mandate Health Insurance Cover Cannabis

VIDEO – BUT HOW MUCH IS THE DEDUCTIBLE? – June 3, 2022 - “For thousands of patients, medical marijuana is a safer and more effective medication than other drugs, especially opioids,” a justification memo attach... Read More...

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Florida Attorney General Accuses NYC Health Dept. of Homicide

LIFE AND LESS DEATH – June 4, 2022 - Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody tweeted a copy of one of the woke NYC subway ads — which also says druggies should feel “empowered” when they use potentially lethal fe... Read More...

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Our Drug Rehab Investigation Led to 96 Convictions

DOCTOR KNOWS – June 1, 2022 - He was a key figure in a cesspool of fraud uncovered by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN in an investigation that documented rampant cheating and a glaring lack of st... Read More...

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Drinking Coffee Could Lower Risk of Death

VIDEO – IS STARBUCKS A HEALTH RETREAT? – May 31, 2022 - Contrary to popular myth, forgoing coffee isn’t likely to improve your health. The opposite might be true: Years of research suggests that drinking coffe... Read More...

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Company Recalls Millions of Medicines & Dirty Medical Products

JUST LIKE BABY FORMULA – June 3, 2022 - Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation CEO and owner Lou Kennedy said in a statement that the company is “cooperating” with the FDA on the recalled products. “While ther... Read More...

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Normalizing Drug Addiction Leads to More Overdoses?

HARM REDUCTION WORKS – June 3, 2022 - Whether it’s the safe-injection sites in Harlem and Brooklyn or the decriminalization of cocaine and opioid possession in British Columbia (announced this week), advocates ... Read More...

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Did the Pandemic Cause Mental Illness in Kids or Just Make it Worse?

VIDEO – THE OTHER PANDEMIC WITHIN A PANDEMIC – June 3, 2022 - There is probably a small group of kids who get long Covid where you might say that there is some direct impact of the Covid virus on the brain, but... Read More...

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Why the Opiate Crisis Will Never End

GREEDY MONSTERS – May 20, 2022 - And as you know, another agency with alleged ties to Big Pharma, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was also found to be responsible for participa... Read More...

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Hope Solo, US Women’s Soccer Legend Will Start Treatment For Her Alcoholism

SHE HAS A NEW GOAL – May 1, 2022 - Through a statement published on social networks, the American explained: “I will voluntarily enter a program as an alcohol treatment patient to address my alcohol problems” a... Read More...

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Mindfully Made, Alcohol-Free, Mocktail Bar & Cafe Opens

NATURAL SOLUTION – June 3, 2022 - Cowley mixed the drink using Ritual Tequila Alternative — a zero-proof substitute that’s part of a new genre of alcohol-free “liquors.” The brand also makes zero-proof gin, ru... Read More...

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Is Addiction a Disease?

NOT IF YOU QUIT – June 5, 2022 - I have been, for many years and mostly from an academic point of view, fascinated by addiction. Perhaps my fascination was sharpened also by a subconscious worry that a genetic... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Henry Miller

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.” – Henry Miller (Happy Birthday Henry! Dec. 26, 1891–June 7, 1980) ... Read More...

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