March 15, 2022 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

March 15, 2022 • Vol. 9, No. 31

What Amy Winehouse Taught Us About Denial and Alcoholism

REST IN PEACE – March 8, 2022 - Denial was dangerous for Winehouse because it interfered with her ability to accept the help she needed to meet a challenge she could not overcome on her own. Pride certainly got... Read More...

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Lil Bo Weep Has Passed Away

VIDEO – TOO F*#KING TRAGIC – March 7, 2022 - This weekend we lost the fight for my daughter’s life against depression , trauma , PTSD and drug addiction that we have been fighting since we got her back from Am... Read More...

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Euphoria star Says Working in Porn Led to an Eating Disorder

SKIN AND BONERS – Mar. 9, 2022 - With the help of mental health professionals, Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry has recovered from an eating disorder, but it’s something she’s not sure she would have developed if it wa... Read More...

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ACLU Sues Over Sobriety Program

BEING DRUNK AIN’T A CRIME – March 8, 2022 - The twice-daily breath tests are administered by Teton County Sheriff’s Department deputies between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. each morning and from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly.... Read More...

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New Yorkers With Marijuana Convictions Will Get First Retail Licenses

SEINFELD’S PARALLEL UNIVERSE – March 9, 2022 - The policy, to be announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday, is part of a concerted push to assure that early business owners in the state’s projected billion-do... Read More...

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Will There Ever Be a ‘Cure’ for Addiction?

IN OUR DREAMS? – March 7, 2022 - Drug addiction involves changes in the brain, and those changes are in brain circuits that we use for everyday life—for seeking food and shelter, procreating our species, avoidi... Read More...

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Sabrina Burkholder’s Incredible Transformation

RETURN TO AMISH STAR – March 9, 2022 - “I remember feeling very weird and that was my last thought. Half an hour later I woke up surrounded by paramedics … I was suddenly hit with memories of what happened wh... Read More...

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Josh Peck Opens Up About His Past Drug and Alcohol Addiction

NOT REGRET THE PAST NOR WITH TO SHUT THE DOOR ON IT – Mar. 9, 2022 - Born and raised in New York City, Peck began performing stand-up comedy as an adolescent before a breakout role on Nickelodeon’s The Amanda ... Read More...

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Woman Chose Sobriety For a Better Life

AUDIO – WOMAN ON THE BEAM – March 9, 2022 - Millions of Americans have a drinking problem. According to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health nearly 15 million Americans, ages 12 and older, had an alc... Read More...

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Women’s History Month: Authors Share Stories of Overcoming Drug Addiction

VIDEO – THAT’S RIGHT, THE WOMEN ARE SMARTER – March 10, 2022 - NBC 5’s Christian Farr talked to two Chicago area authors who are sharing their inspirational stories through their new books detailing their figh... Read More...

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It’s So Hard To Find Mental Health Counseling Now

AUDIO – LOST AT HOME – March 6, 2022 - In most cases, their waiting lists were closed as well, even though Gullett was willing to pay hundreds of dollars in cash for each session. She spent February’s Super Bo... Read More...

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The Anatomy of Understanding Anxiety

BOOK REVIEW – March, 2022 - As some of the millions of people on psychiatric medication inevitably decide to discontinue their meds for one reason or another, what I’m witnessing is that there are legions of pe... Read More...

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6.6 Million Opioid Doses and $250 Million In False Billings

IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING MONEY – March 10, 2022 - Authorities described the clinics as “pill mills” and said they were frequented by people suffering from addictions and drug dealers seeking high-dosage prescripti... Read More...

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Sobriety and Financial Security: Raiders’ Maxx Crosby Is Doubly Thankful After Signing $53 Million Guaranteed

AUDIO – MAKING THE MOST OUT OF SOBRIETY – March 11, 2022 - “It’s a blessing,” Crosby said via a Zoom call with reporters. “You can’t make it up. A lot of people have been asking like, ‘Did you plan to do that? ... Read More...

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Dr. Peter Hayden, Recognized Pioneer of Black Sobriety

SOBER BROTHERHOOD – Mar. 10, 2022 - “What I had to do then is buy into the system. So all my friends were White because I wanted to stay sober. For those seven years, I did whatever it took, aside break the law... Read More...

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Alex Cameron Confronts Addiction

TOO MANY NOTES – March 10, 2022 - Through all of these stories, Cameron is able to stray away from being preachy or judgemental the way he always has: through humor. He’s not just a great writer, but an incred... Read More...

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‘You Murdered My Daughter’: Relatives of OxyContin Victims Confront the Sacklers

THEY KILLED THOUSANDS – March 10, 2022 - “This is a day like no other in the history of American jurisprudence,” Anne Andrews, a lawyer on a committee for 70,000 relatives and those in recovery, said just befo... Read More...

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TikTok Leaves Teens Thinking They Have Mental Illness

CRAZY – Dec. 26, 2021 - “We have to convince these kids to release their self-diagnoses but when they leave us they go right back into that TikTok community which reinforces their beliefs,” said Don Grant, exec... Read More...

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TikTokers are Redefining What It Means to Get Sober

SOBER IN SECONDS – Mar. 7, 2022 - I love the phrase “sober curious,” because it centers curiosity — something that feels more organic and accessible than hard-and-fast rules that sobriety has historically been... Read More...

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Even One Drink a Day Can Be BAD for the Brain

EVEN A SMALL ONE? – March 4, 2022 - The research, which was published today in the journal Nature Communications, analyzed data from 36,678 adults across the U.K.; it’s important to note that the partipants wer... Read More...

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Is Atlanta Ready for a Zero-Proof Cocktail Bar?

MOCKTAILS? OR MOCKTALES? – March 8, 2022 - “Back then, the majority of places would have a token lemonade with fresh herbs or something with ginger beer, drinks that were very one dimensional,” he explains. “J... Read More...

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Jane Goodall and Margaret Atwood Still Have Hope for the Planet

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES – March 1, 2022 - In 1960, at age 26, Goodall relocated from the U.K. to what is now Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park to live with and study the Kasakela chimpanzee community. Th... Read More...

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Six West Point Cadets Overdose On Spring Break

VIDEO – THE REAL BATTLE – March 11, 2022 - “The U.S. Military Academy is aware of the situation involving West Point cadets, which occurred Thursday night in Wilton Manors, FL,” an academy spokesperson said in ... Read More...

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Watching War Unfold on Social Media Affects Mental Health

THANK YOU CAPT. OBVIOUS – Mar. 8, 2022 - It’s a lot to process. “I definitely don’t think that anybody should ever be used to seeing things like this,” Lubkova says. “But that’s kind of what it came down to. If... Read More...

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Artist Predicted Social Media Addiction 50 Years Ago

NOW HE TELLS US! – Mar. 8, 2022 - Audiences are consumers & subjects of mass media As an internationally taught artist, Paik spent a considerable amount of time in various countries, observing t... Read More...

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Confessions of a Grunge God

AUDIO – SO MANY LOSSES – March 7, 2022 - Lanegan, who died Feb. 22 at the age of 57, talks about losing Kurt Cobain, Anthony Bourdain, and other close friends, and shares heartbreaking details from his struggle... Read More...

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Valerie Bertinelli on Doing Cocaine in the Van Halen Days

I’LL TAKE THE 80’S FOR 200, ALEX – Mar. 10, 2022 - He reflected on how it was a different time back then. “It was before the bill had become due and we just didn’t know. Not only that ... people were saying... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Emily Dickinson

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” —Emily Dickinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGVFTsyqxc ... Read More...

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