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Breaking The Cycle Of Addiction

FEELS SO GOOD – Dec. 18, 2024 - Participants go through five phases of what is a nearly year-long program. Attendance at multiple treatment or recovery meetings each week is mandated by a plan determined to be approp... Read More...

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Hilary Phelps’ Sobriety Journey

AUDIO – DIFFERENT STROKES – Dec. 18, 2024 - Once the nation’s fastest swimmer in her age group, Hilary Phelps’ life took an unex... Read More...

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Heartbreaking Words That Saved First Lady and Addict – Betty Ford

YOU CAN DANCE BETTER SOBER – Dec. 21, 2024 - ‘Now Betty was shaking, as if being shaken awake from those lost conversations with her daughter.’‘Mom, when I was little, and even as I grew up, I always admired you for ... Read More...

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Trinity Rodman Says ‘Alcoholic’ Dennis Is ‘Not a Dad’ to Her

WHERE’S PAPA? – Dec. 18, 10144 - Trinity Rodman spoke candidly about the current status of her relationship with her father, Dennis Rodman, in a new interview with Alex Cooper. In the hour-long Call Her Daddy conv... Read More...

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Lily Allen Shares the Moment She Hit ‘Rock Bottom’

AND STOPPED DIGGING – Dec. 4, 2024 - In a new interview with The Times, published over the weekend, the singer recalled that her drinking caused a turbulent moment following her divorce from her first husband, Sam Co... Read More...

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Top 10 Things Families Can Do to Avoid Common Rehab Pitfalls

ALANON Plus – Dec. 7, 2024 - A high percentage of treatment failures occur due to “user error.” In other words, the treatment team delivers the message, but the client—and often the family—doesn’t fully understand or... Read More...

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Weight-Loss Drugs Saved Me From Alcoholism

DOUBLE WINNER – Dec. 8, 2024 - Standing 5′8″ and weighing in at 330 pounds, Breen had always been a big guy. He was also a regular drinker, though it had never been a “problem,” per se. That changed when the pandem... Read More...

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Nonprofit Uses Physical Activities to Help Those Struggling With Addiction

VIDEO – ACTIVE RECOVERY – Dec. 9, 2024 - Getting outdoors, hiking, climbing and even gardening has been helping those with a substance use disorder stay away from drugs and alcohol. The Phoenix, a nonprofit, promotes... Read More...

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The Power of Love in Alcohol Recovery

FAMILY MATTERS – Dec. 13, 2024 - Intervention is as much for the one suffering as it is for the family who also suffers. We need to hate the disease and love the person. No one wants to live consumed by a substance.”... Read More...

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Margaret Cho On Her Sober Journey

EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES – Dec. 14, 2024 - At the event, the 56-year-old star, who was an honouree, spoke to People magazine, saying, “I’m eight and a half years sober. ... It feels like another life. So I feel li... Read More...

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The Nicolas Cage Oscar-winning Movie: “No studio would touch it”

VIDEO – LET IT RIDE – Dec. 8, 2024 - When first-time movie producer Stuart Regan found a novel entitled Leaving Las Vegas in a secondhand bookshop, he was stunned by its unflinching depiction of alcoholism. In ... Read More...

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Tips to Stay Sober During This Jolly Holiday Season

HELPFUL – Dec. 13, 2024 - Last year, when Lauren Haydel began her first sober holiday season, she wondered how difficult it would be to avoid alcohol at family parties and celebrations with friends. She owns a boutiq... Read More...

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Origami Sake Launches ZERO: The Nation’s First Non-Alcoholic Sake

KANPAI – Dec. 11, 2024 - As the beverage alcohol industry evolves, non-alcoholic beverages have emerged as its fastest-growing category, alongside increased consumer interest in sake, the third fastest-growing catego... Read More...

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Alcohol Deaths Doubled Since 1999

VIDEO – LIVER DIE – Dec. 2, 2024 - The main causes of alcohol-related death were cardiovascular disease — primarily due to heart attacks and strokes — as well as certain “common and serious cancers” as well as cirrho... Read More...

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A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

READING MATTERS – St. Martin’s Press - Challenging both the idea of the addict’s “broken brain” and the notion of a simple “addictive personality,” The New York Times Bestseller, Unbroken Brain, offers a radical and ... Read More...

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Jersey Shore’s Mike Sorrentino: ‘9 years clean and sober’

VIDEO – THE PROMISES COMING TRUE – Dec. 3, 2024 - He celebrated the major moment on social media with people applauding him for being clean for nine years. It’s hard to forget the emotional episode from Jersey Shore:... Read More...

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Staying Sober This Holiday Season

AUDIO – SHARING THE GOOD NEWS – Dec. 4, 2024 - Former ‘Bachelorette’ contestant Zac Clark shares his path to sobriety and how it... Read More...

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Two Flight Attendants Pulled Off the Job After Failing Sobriety Test

GET YOUR OWN DRINK – Dec. 3, 2024 - Two Delta flight attendants were kicked off their route after failing a breathalyzer test and being deemed too drunk to fly. The first blew 0.024, just over the legal limit of 0.00... Read More...

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Holidays Bring Challenges for People Battling Addiction

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Lily Allen never ‘had sex’ with anyone ‘not drunk’…

THEM OR HER? – Nov. 30, 2024 - The “Smile” singer confessed she’s never “had sex” with a partner “not drunk” until she married her current husband, “Stranger Things” star David Harbour. “We don’t really talk... Read More...

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Breaking Down Stigmas Around Addiction

TO EACH HIS OWN – Dec. 4, 2024 - Stigmas can result in poor mental health, physical harm, lack of understanding and fewer opportunities. I saw this firsthand with my brother and the stigmas that were put onto h... Read More...

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Native Youth Connect To Break Cycles of Addiction

FOLLOW YOUR ROOTS – Nov. 30, 2024 - The boys, who range in age from 12 to 17, are part of a 90-day youth residential treatment program, a Portland-based nonprofit founded in 1970 to provide culturally competent addic... Read More...

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‘A Want in Her’ Review: A Daughter’s Shattering Testament to Her Mother’s Alcoholism

MUST SEE – Nov. 21, 2023 - In her extraordinary debut feature, Irish artist and filmmaker Myrid Carten fixes her camera, when possible, on her erratic, alcoholic mother Nuala —On a busy Belfast shopping street, in br... Read More...

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Seeking Sobriety This Holiday Season?

ADVICE FROM AOL – Nov. 23, 2024 - When you think of holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, what comes to mind? Gathering around a table set with food and wine, sitting on the couch watching football with a beer in... Read More...

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Popular Musician Shares Sobriety Struggle

EVERYTHING’S DIFFERENT – Nov. 26, 2024 - It’s been four years and five months since Sam Tutanuak of Rankin Inlet had a drink of alcohol or a puff of marijuana. Tutanuak, 57, who now resides in Iqaluit, said believ... Read More...

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Suits’ Patrick J. Adams Sober After “Drinking Too Much”

AND TOO OFTEN – Nov. 26, 2024 - “I was still trying to live my life as a 25-year-old and doing my patterns of like how I would numb myself, take care of myself and deal with my insecurity and my fears,” he explained.... Read More...

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Americans Don’t Know Alcohol’s Links to Cancer

HOW TO DIE? – Nov. 29, 2024 - Despite public health warnings about the links between drinking and cancer risk, this widespread lack of awareness is the key takeaway from a new nationwide survey. “Public health messag... Read More...

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Why Aren’t More People Talking About America’s Alcoholism?

AUDIO – DENIAL? – Nov. 29, 2024 - I come from a family of alcoholics. Sarah, my first cousin, was the most recent to die of complications from alcoholism, at age 41. Before her, seven people in our extended family, i... Read More...

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Reverend Richard Coles ‘Destroyed’ by Husband’s Fatal Alcoholism at 43

SADNESS ALL AROUND – Nov. 20, 2024 - Richard tragically lost his husband, fellow priest David, 43, to alcoholism in December 2019 - nine years after they married - and said part of him had been destroyed by the... Read More...

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Long Ring Fingers Can Point To a Love For Alcohol

BIG THUMB FOR TRAVELERS? – Nov. 26, 2024 - Your hands may hold the key to why you enjoy a drink so much. Researchers found relationships between high alcohol consumption and long 4th digits relative to 2nd digits. Th... Read More...

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