March 17, 2020 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

March 17, 2020 • Vol. 7, No. 29

Jodi Galloway Is a Champion of Addiction Prevention

IT TAKES COURAGE – May 9, 2022 - “She develops leadership skills that help young women find their voice and encourages them to make a difference in their communities and among their peer,” stated Busler. Ga... Read More...

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Mother and Daughter Share Their Journey Through an Eating Disorder

WALKING HAND IN HAND – May 14, 2022 - By this point — at the recommendation of her counsellor — she had given the voice a name and started to speak to it. She called the voice “the bitch.” saying it tried to co... Read More...

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Oregon Takes a Big Step Toward Decriminalizing All Drugs

49 States to Go – March 2, 2020 - If the bill passes and small-scale possession of all drugs is decriminalized, it would be a historic first for the nation. The legality of drugs would then resemble the situati... Read More...

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Mother sues hospital over drug test

False Positive – March 11, 2020 - It is the second such lawsuit filed against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center since 2014 and one ... Read More...

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Demanding Answers: Drug Treatment Facility Near School?

New York, New York – March 9, 2020 - Politicians promised the property would never be sold to a drug treatment facility. But months later, one Bronx resident learned, the deal was done anyway. On Monday, CBS2’s... Read More...

March 17 2020Rehab

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Drinking 14 alcoholic drinks per week associated with lower cognitive scores

And Higher DUI Scores – March 12, 2020 - This study analyzed 3021 participants aged 72 years and older, who were free of dementia. Each participant underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological battery of 10 tests, du... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionMarch 17 2020

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I’m a Marijuana Addict, and I’m Okay With It

Self Medicating Depression? – March 3, 2020 - In my younger days, I never imagined I’d ever touch the stuff, though I grew up with marijuana at home. My father has suffered all his life from demons he can’t se... Read More...

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Looks Like I Picked the Right Year to Stop Drinking

So Is Every Year – March 13, 2020 - Despite the headline on this piece (a reference to the meme from the 1980 disaster-comedy ... Read More...

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Magnetic Stimulation Is Helping Treat Addiction

Edward Sharpe? – March 12, 2020 - “We’ll ask them how much do you crave heroin right now? They’ll give us a score on a 0-100 scale.” James Mahoney, PhD, a neuropsychologist at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institu... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab

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Founder of ‘CLEAN Cause’ wants to help others recover from addiction

Drinks for all my friends... – March 10, 2020 - “We give where you swig,” he described. “That idea is very simple. You drink clean in northern California, the funds go back based on the volume generated in sal... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab

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What is Alcoholics Anonymous and what do they do?

They Change Lives. – March 13, 2020 - The 12 steps have been adapted by other support groups, such as Gamblers Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous to help people recover from various addictions, and the term “12... Read More...

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Osher Günsberg says he wouldn’t be around today if he hadn’t gotten sober

Back from the Edge – March 14, 2020 - Ten years ago, I took this photo. It was the first day I woke up and said “That’s it. I can never drink like that again” and meant it,’ Osher explained. I’d been trying to ... Read More...

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Faces of Addiction: God delivered man from drugs, alcohol and suicide

Grace – March 14, 2020 - He cried, “God, why won’t you let me die?” God whispered back, “Because you haven’t done what I sent you there to do yet.” Slack was among several recovering addicts to speak during a F... Read More...

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Andrew Gillum, Who Ran for Florida Governor, Is Entering Rehab

I would too if someone OD'd in my hotel room – March 15, 2020 - Mr. Gillum apologized to his family, friends “and the people of Florida who have supported me and put their faith in me over the years.” I also know... Read More...

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‘Lost in Ghost Town’ – Drug Memoir with a Redemptive Finish

MEDIA: Book Feature – MARCH 11, 2020 - The timeline bounces back and forth between his childhood, starting at age seven, to his adult life in Venice, California. Growing up, he writes, his father was gone a lot... Read More...

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Protect your mental health during corona times

What Me Worry? – March 12, 2020 - We might not notice it during the first few days, but slowly our sleep patterns change, our eating habits shift, and we start experiencing negative thoughts and cynicism a little m... Read More...

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Curiosity Is A Superpower: Use It To Combat Addiction

At Your Attention – March 11, 2020 - No matter your addiction, Brewer doesn’t want you to quit cold turkey. Rather, he wants you to go about your regular routine, just be completely conscious whi... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab

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Keepin’ It Friel with ‘American Fix’ author Ryan Hampton

Lois Lane & Clark Kent? – Mar. 11, 2020 - Ryan Hampton is an author and activist. He is the author of the book American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis-and How to End It. Ryan opens up about h... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab

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‘A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic’

MEDIA: Film Review – March 12, 2020 - We first meet our heroine, Saki Tadokoro, as a young girl running down a steep river bank to greet her soused father (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) who is partying with his baseball... Read More...

Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMarch 17 2020

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A doctor’s radical treatment for pregnant addicts? Get them clean

And Love Them – FEB. 26, 2020 - Towers didn’t need a drug test to confirm Lenderman, 14 weeks pregnant, was in the throes of opioid addiction, and this morning still showed the effects of having used the drug t... Read More...

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The Buddhist Approach to Addiction Treatment

One Minute at a Time – March 13, 2020 - When one has negative feelings and experiences, their natural instinct is to escape the situation with an addiction. Mindfulness teaches us how to interrupt ourselves an... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020Rehab

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David Arquette on Wrestling, Addiction, and Losing Luke Perry

It’s Complicated – March 13, 2020 - You mention Luke Perry, who died a few months after that match. How did that loss impact yo... Read More...

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The mental health cost of containing the Coronavirus outbreak

Stay Connected – March 13, 2020 - “I do think it’s important to just normalize people’s experience of what’s happening,” said Lewis.... Read More...

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12-step programs more effective at maintaining sobriety

Promises Not Promotion – MARCH 11, 2020 - In fact, the evidence suggests that 42 percent of all study participants engaged in AA remained completely abstinent one year after starting treatment, compared to 35 ... Read More...

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How many body-brokering cases have been prosecuted under new law?

Zero, nada, zilch, none, nil, gornish – March 12, 2020 - “There is no excuse for their failure to prosecute these cases, particularly when we desperately need an all-hands-on-deck approach to this crisis.” Si... Read More...

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Not Even 9/11 Could Shut Down AA Meetings. Coronavirus is Different.

Sobriety comes first, no matter what – Mar. 13, 2020 - The woman said she would still have phone call check-ins and small pot-luck gatherings with her fellow group members if face-to-face meetings ended, but that it ... Read More...

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Quote of the Week

“There is a realm where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.” —Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel ... Read More...

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Alcoholics Anonymous vs. Other Approaches: The Evidence Is Now In

It Works If You Work It – March 11, 2020 - One study found that compared with Alcoholics Anonymous participants, those who received cognitive behavioral treatments had about twice as many outpatient visits — as... Read More...

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