A life in recovery: From selling crack to bottling vitaminsOvercoming The Odds – May 8, 2019 - Growing up, she swore she would never touch drugs. She hated what drugs had done to her family, to her mother, to “everything around me.” Yet, at 18 with her first child Jada just a f... Read More...May 14 2019
Common Reveals He’s Been In Therapy For ‘Love Addiction’Single and Ready to Mingle? – May 9, 2019 - Common cleared up any misconception and denied that he’s suffering from sex addiction, adding that he was addicted to the pursuit and beginning phases of a relationship.“I obv... Read More...May 14 2019
CBD: a marijuana miracle or just another health fad?Both? – May 5, 2019 - Aaron Horn first came across cannabidiol, or CBD, about three years ago in Glastonbury – the town, not the festival. “I found it at this amazing hemp shop, Hemp in Avalon,” recalls Horn, a musician... Read More...May 14 2019
Teens Need the Truth About DrugsBy David Sheff – March 7, 2019 - In high school in the 1970s, I was one of the millions of American teenagers subjected to lame antidrug campaigns. A police officer came to my school and lectured us about the evils of m... Read More...May 14 2019
Walgreens To Restrict Tobacco Sales To Those Under 21Even drug dealers have patience – April 23, 2019 - In the face of an “epidemic” rise in tobacco products use among middle and high school students, the U.S. health regulator has been introducing new policies to restrict... Read More...May 14 2019
Magic mushrooms decriminalizedHonors Tim Leary – May 9, 2019 - Police and prosecutors will treat possession of psilocybin as the lowest priority. “I think today’s outcome really demonstrates that the conversation is going to continue, and the world ... Read More...May 14 2019
Archaeologists find 1,000-year-old cocaine in ancient ‘ritual bindle’Original Coke – May 8, 2019 - The research team was hunting for ancient artifacts in Bolivia when they came upon a burial site with a number of items, including a bag made from three fox snouts, tablets for grinding pla... Read More...May 14 2019
How half a ton of cocaine transformed the life of an islandThe High Life – May 10, 2019 - He secured the contraband with fishing nets and chains, submerging it beneath the water with an anchor. As he set sail for the nearest harbor, , waves pounded the island’s rocky inlets a... Read More...May 14 2019
Child Discovers $40,000 Worth of Meth Inside Box of LegosInstructions Not Included – May 8, 2019 - the child discovered $40,000 worth of methamphetamine inside the gift. They didn’t discover the three pounds of the drug inside until the child opened the gift. “They took it an... Read More...May 14 2019
Stark Racial, Financial Divides Found in Opioid Addiction TreatmentAddiction Knows No Color, Treatment Does – May 8, 2019 - However, previous national research shows that opioid use disorder occurs at about the same rate in black and white populations. Even as the number of buprenorph... Read More...May 14 2019
Opinion: How Carl Jung inspired Alcoholics AnonymousAA’s Godfather – May 8, 2019 - Hazard had daily sessions with Jung in Zürich over several months, and stopped drinking. However, after an alcoholic relapse during a trip to Africa, Hazard was brought back to Jung as a ‘... Read More...May 14 2019
Louisiana tests unapproved anti-addiction implant on inmatesTuskegee 2.0? – May 6, 2019 - The device, which is surgically implanted in prisoners addicted to opioids, releases the well-known and widely used drug naltrexone. The drug is used to fight opioid and alcohol addictions ... Read More...May 14 2019
Model Shares Distressing VideoPanic Attack – May 10, 2019 - The travel blogger said she wanted to share it to show people the other side of her life, which isn’t documented on Instagram. “I’m posting this not for attention or sympathy, but because I... Read More...May 14 2019
Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate with the U.S. to Do the SameAnd Mexico Will Pay for It – May 9, 2019 - Ending prohibition is “the only real possibility” to address the problem. “This should be pursued in a negotiated manner, both in the bilateral relationship with the United Sta... Read More...May 14 2019
‘Halt and Catch Fire’ actress Lisa Sheridan’s cause of death was chronic alcoholismToo Young, Too Soon, Too Tragic – MAY 11, 2019 - We all loved Lisa very much and are devastated by the loss we all feel, Sheridan’s manger Mitch Clem told People days after her Feb. 25 death. He adamantly asserted she d... Read More...May 14 2019
Guns N’ Roses Bassist Duff McKagan Celebrates 25 Years of Sobriety!Guns n’ Smelling Like Roses – May 12, 2019 - In May of 1994 Duff McKagan had a close brush with death when his pancreas exploded. He could have nearly died, but lucky for him his time hadn’t come. This month Duff celebr... Read More...May 14 2019
Former Premier Parking CEO Buys Health Care Co.A New Integrated Lifestyle – Feb. 20, 2019 - Integrative Life Center co-founders Lee McCormick and Holly Cook will continue to own a portion of the company. Terms were not disclosed. Chapman is a Nashville business vete... Read More...May 14 2019
Depraved indifference to human sufferingMurderer or Monster? – May 7, 2019 - The latest version of the complaint ratchets up the already-intense pressure on Purdue and, particularly, Dr. Richard Sackler, who is accused of describing opioid abusers as “victimi... Read More...May 14 2019
‘No, I Want to Live’: How Lisa Smith Esq., Chose SobrietyLawyer Up – May 12, 2019 - Her work was outstanding. She excelled in law school and landed a coveted associate position at New York law firm Shearman & Sterling. Her addiction came as a series of compromises: “I’m n... Read More...May 14 2019
First Michael Cartwright-Coakley High School Scholarship recipients graduate from Middle Tennessee State UniversityMoney Well Spent! – May 13, 2019 - Businessman Michael Cartwright, left, chairman and co-founder of American Addiction Centers, joins Whitney Curtis, Emily Mckenzie and MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee in celebration of ... Read More...May 14 2019
Artist’s Corner with Chip WhiteStick with the Winners! – Co-Founder of Stack 3 Productions, Chip is originally from North Myrtle Beach, SC and is the younger brother of Wheel of Fortune’s famous letter turner, Vanna White. He has more than 30 years o... Read More...May 14 2019
Carol Colleran, who beat addiction and changed treatment industry, dies at 82Obituary: Rehab Queen – MAY 8, 2019 - Born in Estherville, Iowa, and raised in Bloomington, Colleran moved to small towns in Wisconsin — Centuria and Balsam Lake — to raise a family after she married Jim Colleran. In 19... Read More...May 14 2019
Patient prescribed 180 pain pills a month dies. Doctor arrestedThat’s Only 6 a Day – MAY 09, 2019 - According to the sheriff’s office offense report, deputies found a large number of prescription pills and pill bottles when they found Milazzo’s body inside her Bonefish Avenue home ... Read More...May 14 2019
Candidate touts $100 billion plan to fight addictionLip Service – May 5, 2019 - Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar discusses her personal connection to addiction and her new plan to combat it. VIDEO ONLY Full Story @ CNN.com... Read More...May 14 2019
Remembering the Children Trapped By Addiction by Tian DaytonTitans Gather at UK High Tea – May 13, 2019 - We learned about the excellent work that nacoa.UK is doing is both on the ground and in cyber space, is part of this reaching out effort to educate and advocate. “We’re so p... Read More...May 14 2019
Madonna is right about smartphones having disturbing, long-term effects on children’s brainsStrike a Tweet – May 7, 2019 - “I made a mistake when I gave my older children phones when they were 13,” Madonna, 60, told the fashion magazine. “It ended my relationship with them, really. Not completely, but it becam... Read More...May 14 2019
The Man with an $80 Billion Wall Street Weed PlanJust Another Commodity – March 7, 2019 - Call it getting rich while getting high. In an unexpected twist, acts and actions that in past years and places could have gotten you incarcerated — buying marijuana, smoking mar... Read More...May 14 2019
Philly district attorney ‘very close’ to ending criminalization of all drug possessionFree To Be High – May 9, 2019 - Rather than facing incarceration or accruing a criminal record for drug possession, Krasner’s office told Axios on HBO, the goal of a potential new policy — which his office said is not f... Read More...May 14 2019
Treating & Inflicting Sexual Assault, at the same Time?Needing Treatment for Treatment – May 9, 2019 - (Located in Lemont, Illinois, Timberline Knolls was purchased in 2012 for $90 million by Acadia Healthcare). The author of the article, David Jackson, described allegation... Read More...May 14 2019
Craig Ferguson on SobrietyIt Gets Better – May 7, 2019 - “You don’t have to wait for it to get worse.” Ferguson opens up about his long road to sobriety and ‘self-imposed’ superstitions in his book ‘Riding The Elephant’... Full Story @ Yahoo.... Read More...May 14 2019