September 29, 2021 Issue - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

September 28, 2021 • Vol. 9, No. 7

A Helping Hand

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN – 2021 - In a soaring chapel space, a men’s choir sings two resounding songs to the beat of a band. It’s a diverse group—old, young, African American, white, some looking dapper in... Read More...

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Temple Drug Rehab Centre Accused of Torture

WATCH – NOT ALL THAI REHABS ARE CREATED EQUAL – Sept. 22, 2021 - Media reported the addicts were there both voluntarily and as a condition of their release by police. All had to pay 12,000 baht each once they ... Read More...

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Cheryl Burke Says Sharing Sobriety With Fans Has Been ‘Scary’

WATCH – ALL THE RIGHT STEPS – Sept. 20, 2021 - In the video Burke posted Monday morning, Burke drove while she spoke to the camera about how doing the show sober was “scary for her,” and that while she c... Read More...

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Hang On Tight for the Good Times ‘Cause the Future Holds Surprises That You Have No Clue About

WATCH – PUNK LIVES – Sept. 20, 2021 - “ My aunt jumped off Niagra Falls and died when she was in her twenties. She was such a badass hippie activist: she told me no matter if it takes a couple hours, days, mon... Read More...

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Researchers Create Living Bioengineered Nerve Circuit to Tackle Opioid Crisis

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO... – Sept. 21, 2021 - The study is his first paper under the HEAL Initiative, or Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, a $945 million, multi-university funding endeavor... Read More...

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Bargain Fentanyl In Heroin, Oxy, Other Drugs

HOW LITTLE IS A LIFE WORTH? – Sept 24, 2021 - I had a long conversation with one of his patients, Zachary, 31, who asked to be identified only by his first name, to protect his career. Zachary’s addic... Read More...

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Why The Myers-Briggs Test Is Bullshit

NOW YOU TELL US – Sept. 24, 2021 - This all sounds good. A simple classification system for understanding people’s personality ought to be a great tool for people to understand themselves and for manager... Read More...

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Gambling Addiction Leads to Risk of Suicide

WATCH – IT’S HARD TO CONTROL YOUR BRAIN – SEPT. 23, 2021 - She’s a widow, who’s recently retired, and said the lack of things to do, led her to visiting the casinos. Eventually, it turned into an addi... Read More...

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Officer Refused Sobriety Test After Crash Killed Fellow Officer

NO ONE IS IMMUNE – Sept. 24, 2021 - A witness who called in the crash to authorities said the passengers in the car, who all suffered minor injuries, performed chest compressions on Castellano, according to th... Read More...

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Alcohol Kills More Americans Than Drug Overdoses

LEGALIZE IT! OH, IT IS – Sept. 24, 2021 - As we observe National Recovery Month throughout September, it’s important to recognize the scope of America’s alcohol dependence and help those with alcohol use disor... Read More...

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District Court Judge: Addiction is a Disease

BUT IT’S STILL A CRIME? – Sept. 23, 2021 - She admitted that while serving as prosecutor, then as a judge, she believed that in sentencing people with a substance use addiction (SUD) to jail, she was doi... Read More...

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Heartache of Addiction Leads to Lifetime of Activism

PRISON IS NOT THE ANSWER – Sept. 24, 2021 - If you have been reading The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a while, this story may sound familiar. Boccia wrote an editorial about the crisis of heroin addiction ... Read More...

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Skate Straight for Those Battling Addiction

WATCH – BALANCE AND GRACE – Sept. 23, 2021 - At first, he didn’t think anyone would show up, but before long people came from everywhere. A chapter of Skate Straight recently opened in England and he hopes to ... Read More...

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“We Shouldn’t Jail Shoplifters – Victims Should Pay for Thieves’ Rehab Costs” Police Chief

GOTTA LOVE THIS WOMAN – Sept. 24, 2021 - Miss Jones, who at 27 was the youngest ever magistrate in England and Wales, said: ‘I think that we need a review of the way that sentencing in this country is done... ‘... Read More...

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Why I Stayed in a Damaging Relationship With an Alcoholic

YOU’RE IN IRELAND? – Sept. 25, 2021 - When he finally fell right off the wagon and descended into an alcoholic vortex of total life-obliteration, lasting nearly a year, I found myself in a situation for which ... Read More...

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‘The Flight Attendant’

NOT HARD NEWS! REAL FUN FICTION ON TV – Sept. 24, 2021 - In Season 2, Cassie is sent on an overnight assignment where she inadvertently witnesses a murder, entangling her in another case filled with inte... Read More...

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Patricia Heaton Shares What Led Her to Sobriety

ON A PINK CLOUD (SORT OF) – Sept. 23, 2021 - And I was so humiliated in front of my sons, and their friends,” she continued. “And God knows that that’s all it takes for me — for that kind of sense of the... Read More...

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Our Medicine Supply Is Sick

AND BUSINESS HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER – Sept. 18, 2021 - Drug production moved to Asia for the same reasons that other American manufacturing did: labor was cheap, environmental regulations were weak and the cont... Read More...

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Why Can’t You Just Be Normal? by Reef Karim

BETTER SORRY THAN SAFE – Sept. 22, 2021 - I couldn’t stand it anymore. I felt like I was living someone else’s life. It was a life filled with people pleasing, playing it safe. And it felt like I lost me... Read More...

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Using Yoga to Help with Addiction Recovery

WATCH – STRETCHING MIND AND BODY – Sept. 22, 2021 - With little left to give, Daffner channeled his hopelessness into a willingness to try just about anything, and that’s when he discovered the Scottsdale Reco... Read More...

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Jeremy Plummer Returns Home to “Smash the Stigma” of Addiction

RECOVERY HAS MUSCLES AND FLEXIBILITY – Sept. 21, 2021- His story: 10 years ago, Plummer attended his first CrossFit class. It was something he and his sister – a nurse Morning Chalk Up met in 2020 when she was... Read More...

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Meth Overdose Deaths Tripled in Recent Years

DYING TO GET HIGH – Sept. 23, 2021 - Deaths from methamphetamine overdoses in the United States nearly tripled between 2015 and 2019, health officials report in a new study. From that time period, the in... Read More...

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An Insider from the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Speaks Out

“ZERO F*#CKS GIVEN” – Sept. 20, 2021 - In a previous life, Hampton worked as a campaign staffer for Bill Clinton. After a hiking injury, in 2003, he was prescribed opioids and fell into an addiction, in which ... Read More...

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8 Arrested in Fraternity Pledge’s Alcohol-Poisoning Death

MURDER WEAPON! JACK DANIEL’S WHISKEY – Sept. 25, 2021 - Mr. Oakes, 19, was found dead the next morning by Richmond police officers, the authorities said. Courtney White, Mr. Oakes’s cousin, said on Saturday that... Read More...

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How to Spot a Love Addict

ROSES AND RED FLAGS – Sept. 23, 2021 - “Nobody gets out of love alive,” said Dr. Fisher. “People live for love, pine for love, kill for love and they’ll die for a loved one. It’s one of the most powerful brain sys... Read More...

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Neuroengineering is Helping People Fight Addiction

WATCH – MIND MATTERS – Sept. 2`, 2021 - “Even just having a conversation with you, looking you in the eyes, is something that I never would have been able to do six years ago,” said Julia Soloman. Looking a... Read More...

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Native Americans Face Deadly Drug Crisis

WATCH – HEALING FROM THE TRIBE – Sept. 23, 2021 - “Many native families are suffering from generational abuse, eroding traditional values and destabilizing families” across the country, according to the ... Read More...

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The Importance of Relationships in Addiction Recovery

WATCH – IT’S AN INSIDE JOB – Sept. 23, 2021 - “What my program is really trying to do is deliver some of those same interventions but in a self-help format, so that the loved ones don’t have to participa... Read More...

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An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz

NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER IS FOR NON-ALCOHOLICS – Sept. 20, 2021 - It felt good to be conducting an interview in a bar again. As a reporter, I had relied on interviews over drinks as a way of loosening a subject’s to... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Philip Glass

“I am never happier than when I don't know what I'm doing. Still I have moments of panic.” —Philip Glass ... Read More...

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