Meth Addict Declares SF Needs to Ban Torch Lighters AND GLASS PIPES – Aug. 19, 2025 - In the heart of our vibrant city, a subtle yet destructive force is fueling the drug epidemic so evident on San Francisco’s streets: the widespread availability of disposable torch l... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionmeth
Vape Store Tosses All 7-OH Products Following Statewide Ban VIDEO – KRATOM BE GONE – Aug. 13, 2025 - According to Dr. Dawn Sollee, a toxicologist with the Florida Poison Control Center, 7-OH has opioid-like effects, which can make it seem attractive to those seeking pain reli... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionVaping
Americans Get 55% of Their Calories from Non-foods WATCH YOUR WEENY – August 7, 2025 - Americans on average get more than half of their calories from ultra-processed foods. Young people, aged 1 to 18 consumed even higher amounts at 61.9%, compared to adults aged 19 a... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addiction
Incline Walking vs. Running: Which Is Better for Burning Fat? STEP SCIENCE – August 13, 2025 - The viral 12-3-30 workout trend on TikTok has the promise of an easier way to burn fat—in this case, by walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes at three miles per hour and a 12 percent ... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancy
Scott Cochran Was Snorting 50 Fentanyl Pills a Day STILL HAS A NOSE? – Aug. 10, 2025 - “I was the worst of the worst addicts,” Cochran said. Doctors first prescribed him blood thinners before moving him up to Vicodin after they proved ineffective. But after the Vicod... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyl
New Blood Pressure Guidelines Recommends Treatment and Skipping Alcohol DOES BEER COUNT? – Aug. 14, 2025 - Nearly half of all adults in the US have higher than normal blood pressure. The goal numbers for adults haven’t changed, according to the guidelines: Normal blood pressure is less t... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Media
Walker Hayes Was Ready to ‘Drink Again’ After Daughter’s Funeral PAUSE - HIT RESET – Aug. 9, 2025 - He was two-and-a-half years sober at the time, but then “I drove to a bar called 55 South, and I looked through the window and there were three guys at the bar,” he continued, “And ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
Lumberjack amputates ears and penis during psychotic episode linked to cannabis and kratom use NO JOKE – Aug. 14, 2025 - The patient was a physically healthy lumberjack, admitted to the hospital after injuring himself in freezing temperatures. He had amputated his ears and penis, had deep cuts on his arm... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionmarijuanaTrauma
Eminem Got Sober 17 Years Ago After Realizing ‘I’m Going to Die’ RELAPSE REDEMPTION – August 11, 2025 - After Eminem experienced a near-fatal overdose in 2007, he realized he needed to change. The “Without Me” rapper, who’s been sober for over 17 years, reflects on the life-changi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
Happy Birthday to My Sobriety SELF WORTH! – Aug 13, 2025 - This time last year, I got sober. I wasn’t a daily drinker, but when I went out, I went hard in the paint—Jameson by the bottle, cheap beer in between. I’d pick booze money over dinner wh... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediasobriety
Pete Davidson On Addiction Affecting His Mental Health COMIC CONFESSION – August 14, 2025 - Pete Davidson has recently explained how drug addiction affected his mental health. The Saturday Night Live alum reflected on his past drug addiction on 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast C... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobriety
Empowering Families: The Key to Transforming Addiction Recovery MOVIE TIME EDITORIAL – Aug. 2025 - Editorial - We are also celebrating the release of the documentary Together: Family Recovery, which poignantly follows three families as they navigate their loved ones’ addiction. T... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Illinois Bans “AI Therapy” GET A THERAPIST! – Aug. 15, 2025 - The law prohibits any person or company from using AI to deliver psychotherapy services, diagnostics, treatment plans, crisis intervention, or therapeutic follow-up, as well as from... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionMental Health
Van Morrison – Caledonia Soul Music – 17:15 minutes VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 3,441,157 views since Oct 9, 2018 - I’m sober 3 years and Van the Man helped me get through the darkest times in my lifeI just read everyone’s comments dating back 10 months. So lovely. We... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winner
Van Morrison – Summertime in England – Moon Dance LIVE VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – Eternity - 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 Get He... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediagrammy winner
Nasal Spray Shows Rapid Antidepressant Effects THE NOSE KNOWS – Aug. 16, 2025 - Roughly one in three individuals with major depressive disorder does not respond adequately to at least two oral antidepressants, placing them in the category of having treatment-resi... Read More...Articles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadepression
Gen Z & Millennials are Driving Great American Drinking Decline AUDIO – THIS IS MASSIVE – Aug. 13, 2025 - As concerns about health impacts rise, fewer Americans are reporting that they drink. The survey finds that 54% of U.S. adults say they drink alcoholic beverages such as liqu... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaSlidersobriety
Corruption, Profiteering and Dismal Rates of Recovery In America’s Drug Treatment System BAD NEWS – Aug. 11, 2025 - Nearly eight years ago, journalist Shoshana Walter followed a lead on a drug and alcohol rehab program that put patients to work at a chicken plant. What she found was one of many programs ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionRecoveryRehabSlider
Charlie Sheen Is Sober and ‘Winning’ in New Documentary DOCUMENTARIES MATTER – August 13, 2025 - Nothing is off limits for Charlie Sheen as the Two and a Half Men star dishes on his sordid past in the new documentary, aka Charlie Sheen. “How do I present this with any cla... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietySlider
Morgan Baine – beloved Nashville substance abuse treatment executive dies at 32: ‘She spoke truth with compassion’ HEART BREAKING! – Aug. 15, 2025 - Morgan Baine with her son, James, and her fiance, Logan Terry, at a Nashville Predators game in 2024. Hundreds in Nashville’s substance abuse recovery community are grieving the sudd... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSlider
Quote of the Week – RUMI “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” – RUMI, b. Sept. 1207 – d. Dec. 1273 ... Read More...Articles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediaquote of the week
Beyond Belief Sobriety w/Author of HIGH! – Confessions of a Cannabis Addict VIDEO – IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD(S) – June 2022 - Things could have played out very differently for Leonard Lee Buschel. A powerful combo of early-childhood trauma, temperament, a “professional” opportuni... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninternetinterventionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Book Excerpt: HIGH Confessions of a Cannabis Addict by Leonard Lee Buschel HIGH-lights – Jan. 30, 2022 - Once I was back home, selling the hash was no problem, until I was dealing my last quarter ounce to some guys in a friend’s basement in the Kensington and Allegheny neighborhood of Phil... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Publisher Turns 27* and is subject of a piece in Shout Out LA A PUFF PIECE ON AN EX-POTHEAD – August 2, 2021 - Occasionally the gang and I would wait at the news stand for the ‘bulldog’ edition, dropped off at 11pm. An early edition of the morning Inky, nickname for the Phila... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionInterviewLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Robert Downey Sr., Filmmaker and Provocateur, Is Dead at 85 A MAN OF HIS TIME, A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME, A MAN FOR ALL TIME – July 7, 2021 - The film, though probably a financial success by Mr. Downey’s standards, made only about $2.7 million. (By comparison, “Butch Cass... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionLeonard Buschelnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalRehabWriters In Treatment
Writers In Treatment: Melding Recovery, the Arts, and Information The accident that led to a Film Festival November 12, 2020 - For the past twelve years, Leonard Buschel has been an instrumental force in adding flavor and culture to the recovery community by filling ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyExperience Strength and HopeExperience Strength and Hope AwardsLeonard Buschelnonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateREEL Recovery Film FestivalWriters In Treatment
Leslie Jordan Fan Mail “Who knew when Leonard started his recovery bulletin years ago, how pertinent and necessary it would become in the days of hunkering down from the Covid 19 virus. When one has exhausted all the available online... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyLeonard BuschelRecoveryRecovery Advocate