March 19, 2024 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

March 19, 2024 • Vol. 11, No. 31

Doctor Issues Health Warning: Don’t Binge On Cheap Easter Chocolate

FUNNY BUNNY – March 14, 2024 - When it comes to youngsters, studies reveal that 43 per cent of children will eat their first egg before Easter Sunday, with almost a fifth (19 per cent) admitting they will most... Read More...

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Biden Moves to Relax Federal Weed Restrictions

TIME HAS COME TODAY – March 7, 2024 - President Joe Biden reiterated that nobody should go to prison for cannabis use, and touted his administration’s moves to evaluate whether federal marijuana restrictions s... Read More...

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Decriminalizing Drugs Could Help More People Seek Treatment

VIDEO – IT’S THE ONLY SOLUTION – March 11, 2024 - “If you reduce stigma and fear of criminalization, people are more likely to be vulnerable and honest about the struggles they have,” Schaffner said. “When they’re ... Read More...

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Survivors Share What Gives Them Hope

VIDEO – IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS – March 10, 2024 - Stephen Dees understands the power of hope, something he found through his faith. “Today, I’m a minister, I’m an ordained minister, I have a beautiful ca... Read More...

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Drew Carey Opens Up About Massive Weight Loss

THE WEIGHT IS RIGHT...NOW – March 8, 2024 - Carey, 65, revealed in a recent interview with PEOPLE that it was a wake-up call from his doctor that prompted him to start taking his health more seriously, after he was t... Read More...

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Three Months After Leaving Patton State Mental Hospital She Was Dead

AUDIO – SCANDAL or FATE? – March 13, 2024 - The department agreed to pay the Amity Foundation roughly $121 million over five years to oversee and review reentry homes in Los Angeles County, Taxpayers paid about $5,... Read More...

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How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the “Pill Mill Killer”

A MURDERER IN OUR MIDST – March 2024 - This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist’s years-long investigation into his father’s old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who onc... Read More...

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What Is RECOVERY CAPITAL?

IT’S EVERYTHING – March 11, 2024 - Recovery capital is comprised of social, physical, cultural and human forms of capital. It consists of, but is not limited to, personal and social characteristics, networks, ... Read More...

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“Pretty Wrecked”: A Memoir about Addiction, Recovery and Triumph

TEMPLE GRADUATE TELLS ALL – March 11, 2024 - Before publishing her memoir, Tracy Viola gave an advanced manuscript to six of her friends. She printed and bound the copies at Staples and saw “Pretty Wrecked: Confessio... Read More...

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Walking Can Cut Disease and Death

WALK ON THE MILD SIDE do do do – March 6, 2024 - For people with low and high amounts of sedentary time, getting any number of steps higher than 2,200 per day was linked with lower odds of developing car... Read More...

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Life Without TikTok

INDIA BLOCKS TikTok – March 15, 2024 - What happened when the world’s most populous nation turned off TikTok. In June 2020, after a violent clash on the India-China border that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, ... Read More...

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What I Have Learned Through Childhood Trauma

THIS TOO SHALL PASS – March 2024 - I will never say that my trauma in childhood was a positive thing. In an ideal world there would be no such thing. However, for many of us it is a fact of life. Most of us have had ... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionMar 19 2024Mental HealthTrauma

Daughter Says State Should be Accountable for Father’s Death

VIDEO – REHABS OR GOLD RUSH – March 13, 2024 - I’m an only child, he only had me and I only had him,” Carletta Leslie said. Carletta’s father, Carson, died back in September 2022 after he went missing from Flagsta... Read More...

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How Water in a Can Became a Billion-Dollar Business

THIRSTY ... FOR CASH – March 16, 2024 - In other words, the branding is one of the main selling points. The name “Liquid Death” refers to the idea of “murdering your thirst,” as well as “death to plastic,” acc... Read More...

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“The Good Boss” Helps People Break Cycle of Homelessness and Addiction

VIDEO – THE GOOD NEWS BOSS – March 8, 2024 - Victor Oliveira will be the first to tell you that, 12 years ago, he couldn’t have imagined what he would be doing now. In 2012, he was released from a Massachusetts sta... Read More...

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“It is okay to be different” Says City Council member Alice Woods

VIDEO – EXPERIENCE COUNTS – March 8, 2024 - Staunton High School gave Alice Woods the platform to speak about her personal experiences with drug addiction and recovery. Though the stories were dark, Woods and staff... Read More...

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VAN MORRISON – Summertime in England, Moondance Concert

VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – Aug. 26, 2018 - Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison Concert and the great band: Summertime in England, Moondance, Help Me, It’s All in the Game/Make It Real One More Time, Common One, Did Ye G... Read More...

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Daily Cannabis Users 25% More Apt to Heart Attack

WEEKLY OK? – March 11, 2024 - Given that their findings link cannabis usage to cardiovascular disease, however, the researchers suggested that doctors screen patients for cannabis use and advise them to not smoke it,... Read More...

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RuPaul’s Sobriety Helps Him Stay Grounded

AND RELEVANT – March 9, 2024 - The Emmy-winning host and executive producer of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and author of a new memoir, ‘The House of Hidden Meanings,’ says, “the truth was always there, no matter how ... Read More...

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Drunk Woman Mocks Airport Cop’s ‘mediocre $60k Salary’ & Penis Size

VIDEO – PAINFUL – March 16, 2024 - A drunken airline passenger who was barred from a flight for abusing staff mocked the penis size and salaries of cops and screamed as she was hauled away - then peed herself on the ... Read More...

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The Profound Impact of Alcohol & Drugs on Your Brain

WHAT DAMAGE? – March 10, 2024 - Each of your brain cells has your genetic code stored in long strands of DNA. For all that DNA to fit into a cell, it needs to be packed tightly. This is achieved by winding the DNA ar... Read More...

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L.A.’s First Alcohol-Free Cocktail Lounge Serves Sobriety

IN STYLE! – March 8, 2024 - The bar’s lush interior details are exquisitely rendered and yet the old bones remain, a tribute to the women behind Stay: Summer Phoenix and Stacey Mann, two single moms. Among the bar me... Read More...

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With 7 Short Words at the Oscars – Robert Downey Jr. Just Taught a Brilliant Lesson in Success

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES – March 14, 2024 - “I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy, in that order.” As they say, comedy is simply tragedy plus time. And I want to focus on this line, ... Read More...

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Walk-in Suboxone, Sublocade, and Vivitrol Treatment Clinic Opens

VIDEO – STEP RIGHT UP – March 11, 2024 - “People are dying,” said Dr. Elena Yanchar, chief of psychiatry at The Centers. “People are dying at numbers they shouldn’t be. People are suffering, and we have treatment.” D... Read More...

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Dean McDermott Reveals He Became a Drug Counselor after Getting Sober

VIDEO – A STAR KEEPS SHINING – March 13, 2024 - McDermott, 57, explains that he “went into treatment and put life back together,” adding he owes his life and newfound way of living to Harmony Place Treatment Center ... Read More...

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THE WAR ON RECOVERY

HOW NUTS IS THIS? – March 5, 2024 - A yearlong investigation by STAT shows that virtually every sector of American society is obstructing the use of medications that could prevent tens of thousands of deaths ea... Read More...

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Kentucky Considers Psychedelics to Treat Opioid Addiction

MY OLD KENTUCKY OM – March 13, 2024 - Kentucky’s new attorney general, Russell Coleman, has urged a commission tasked with fighting drug abuse to “step back” from a proposal to invest in a psychedelic drug as ... Read More...

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Gangsters, Money & Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market

GREED and VICIOUSNESS – March 14, 2024 - It seemed an unlikely spot for a showdown between Chinese gangsters: a marijuana farm on the prairie in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. On a Sunday evening in late Novembe... Read More...

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Microplastics Found Clogging Human Arteries

LIKE OUR RIVERS AND STREAMS? – March 9, 2024 - ”It’s extraordinary,” cardiologist Eric Topol, “I’m a cardiologist for three decades plus and I never envisioned we’d have microplastic in our arteries and its pr... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediainterventionlife expectancyMar 19 2024Trauma

Quote of the Week – Anne Lamott

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.” – Anne Lamott ... Read More...

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