March 26, 2019 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

March 26, 2019 • Vol. 6, No. 36

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Harvard say soda and sports drinks increase risk of dying

Are You Drinking Death Every Day? – MAR. 18 2019 - Drinking soda, sports drinks and other sugary beverages increases the risk of dying from heart disease and some types of cancers, according to new research. Harvard res... Read More...

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Landmark ruling for parity coverage of mental health and addiction treatment

Progress! – MARCH 18, 2019 - The ruling came in the case of Wit v. United Behavioral Health (UBH). A federal court in Northern California found that UBH, which manages behavioral health services for UnitedHealthcare and... Read More...

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There’s nothing cute about Crack Pie

Tastes Good, in Bad Taste – MARCH 19, 2019 - Milk Bar debuted in 2008, a spinoff of David Chang’s Momofuku restaurants. If it seemed funny a decade ago to name a dessert after an addictive drug, the joke was one of priv... Read More...

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Health chief backs needle exchanges in anti-HIV strategy

The Message Matters – March 19, 2019 - “Syringe services programs aren’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when you think about a Republican Health secretary, but we’re in a battle between sickness and heal... Read More...

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Guggenheim Museum “Does Not Plan to Accept Any Gifts” from the Sackler Family

No Drug Money for Art – March 22, 2019 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York confirmed that it “does not plan to accept any gifts” from the Sackler family, the controversial owners of Purdue Pharma. The family ... Read More...

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Executive Corner with Sabrina Acatrinei

Stick with the Winners! – Sabrina Acatrinei has 13 years experience in case management and medical insurance. She holds a Bachelors degree in Social Work and CADC-I. Sabrina’s background includes work with the autistic ... Read More...

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Tate Galleries Will Refuse Sackler Money Because of Opioid Links

Even the English Reject Drug Money – March 21, 2019 - “The Sackler family has given generously to Tate in the past, as they have to a large number of U.K. arts institutions,” a Tate statement said. “We do not intend to... Read More...

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Dax Shepard’s Sobriety Is Everything to Kristen Bell

Love AA Style – March 23, 2019 - Every year on Shepard’s sober birthday, Bell “spoils the hell out of me,” says the comedian, 44, “The nicest presents she’s gotten me are always on my sober birthday.” Last fall, Bell ... Read More...

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Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless

Ignorance Is Bliss – March 11, 2019 - The diseases have flared as the nation’s homeless population has grown in the past two years: About 553,000 people were homeless at the end of 2018 ... People living on the streets ... Read More...

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Organic Food, Sustainable Fashion And Cocaine

Why Are The Woke Doing So Much Coke? – March 23, 2019 - Many may feel like a big cooked breakfast or a dessert after dinner ‘doesn’t count’ on the weekends, and that we deserve a treat after working hard all week. Some ... Read More...

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Fentanyl deaths skyrocketed more than 1,000% over six years in the US

Here’s Who It’s Killing – March 21, 2019 - Researchers also found that while whites had the highest overall rates of fentanyl fatalities, death rates among blacks and Hispanics were growing faster. Between 2011 and 2016... Read More...

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Addiction: The New Retirement Threat

Taking ‘bout My Generation – March 22, 2019 - It’s been a tortuous journey. At one point, the 55-year-old drove to five treatment centers in New Jersey to find one that would take her insurance—or at least take her tee... Read More...

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PGA Tour suspends Garrigus after positive pot test

Weed Sends Golfer into the Rough – Mar, 22, 2019 - The tour announced Friday that Garrigus, whose only PGA Tour victory was at Disney at the end of the 2010 season, has been suspended for three months under the conduct ... Read More...

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Health Experts Push To Decriminalize Addiction Treatment Drug

INSANITY – MAR. 22, 2019 - It’s been six years since Scott Pavek stopped using opioids. But he wanted out of his addiction long before he was able to get clean. “I just wanted … some relief from the cycle of using opio... Read More...

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Compassion Not Contempt: Interview with Maia Szalavitz

LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS! – Mar. 18, 2019 - The number one cause of addiction stigma is the fact that drugs are criminalized. Criminalization is a huge problem. We don’t lock people up with diabetes when they eat a donut, or ... Read More...

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Scientists Have Cured Alcoholic Rats by Shooting Lasers at Their Brains

Too Bad for Rat Taverns – March 22, 2019 - “What is so exciting about these findings is that we were able to control the motivation to drink alcohol in severely dependent individuals with the flip of a switch,” said Scr... Read More...

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Overdose Death Doctor Loses Latest Appeal

Make Him the Prison Proctologist – Mar. 20, 2019 - Hsiu-Ying “Lisa’’ Tseng was convicted in October 2015 of three counts of second-degree murder stemming from the deaths of Vu Nguyen, 28, of Lake Forest; Steven Ogle, 24... Read More...

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TEN DRUGS: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW – March 22, 2019 - as Thomas Hager, a historian of medicine and science, explains in his absorbing new book, “Ten Drugs,” it also describes America’s first, forgotten opioid epidemic a century ago. ... Read More...

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Trigger Warnings May Not Do Much

Don’t Look Now – March 22, 2019 - “Although people were distressed by the negative materials we showed them, they were no more or less distressed if they’d seen a trigger warning first...Psychologists working with traum... Read More...

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Former DEA official now working for OxyContin maker

Double Agent – March 20, 2019 - Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, is one of the opioid companies being sued by more than 1,600 cities and counties for “grossly” misrepresenting “the risks of l... Read More...

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Elton John Biopic Expected to Get R-Rating for Sex, Drug Scenes

Move Over Bohemian Rhapsody – March 22, 2019 - Rocketman, Paramount’s Elton John musical, is expected to be rated R and will include an intimate love scene between Taron Egerton, who plays the English singer, and Richar... Read More...

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War on Opioid Abuse Is Striking the Wrong Target

War = Murder – March 21, 2019 - Patients in pain have become collateral damage in the war on opioids. That’s the message of a letter from more than 300 medical professionals, including three former White House drug czar... Read More...

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Drug Companies Are Making the Opioid Crisis Worse

Risky Business – March 14, 2019 - Marketing to physicians is only one of the strategies employed by opioid manufacturers. Between 2012 and 2017, five opioid manufacturers gave nearly US$9 million to 14 patient advocacy ... Read More...

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Wendy Williams’ Husband Speaks Out About Her Sobriety: ‘It’s a Family Process’

House is Not a Home – March 22, 2019 - After Williams, 54, revealed on-air Tuesday that she’s been living in a sober house as a result of her past addiction to cocaine, Kevin Hunter told Entertainment Tonight that his ... Read More...

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Drug rehab made millions off patients’ relapses, PA. attorney general charges

An Industry With No Defense – March 25, 2019 - The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office charged Jason Gerner, the cofounder of Liberation Way, with fraud, conspiracy and related offenses. Other high-level executives,... Read More...

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Wendy Williams’ Heroic Televised Disclosure

Rigorous Honesty – March 19, 2019 - Williams said the only other people who knew that she was staying at a sober house were her husband and son. “This is my autobiographical story,” Williams said on camera to her studio... Read More...

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