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Mother Arrested After Harrowing Tale of Opiate Exposure and Negligence FAMILY DISFUNCTION – Feb. 15, 2024 - In the quiet of an ordinary day, a distressing revelation unfolded as two young children were rushed to the hospital, their systems coursing with opiates. This grave discov... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 27 2024interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
How One Mom Overcame Opioids to Help Others VIDEO – FROM HELL TO HEALER – Dec. 20, 2024 - When meeting Jodi Borrelli, it’s hard to believe that several years ago, she was addicted to heroin, living on the streets and was wanted by the Sheriff’s Department. Her... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 27 2024opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRehab
Drug Deaths Have Devastating Impact on Loved Ones COUNTRY IN CONSTANT MOURNING – Feb. 21, 2024 - 125 million American adults know at least one person who died by overdose. For many, it was a devastating loss. 40% of Americans know someone who died of a ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 27 2024life expectancyMental HealthOverdoseTrauma
Bigger Scandal Than Thalidomide! BABIES DEFORMED AGAIN – Feb. 22, 2024 - Since the 1970s, it has been known that sodium valproate can harm babies in the womb. So why was it prescribed to pregnant women? “My kids are fabulous, but I’d known for years... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 27 2024interventionlife expectancyTrauma
Treatment For Teens Inacce$$ible As Opioid Deaths Rise VIDEO – WHY? – Feb. 9, 2023 - “People are desperate,” said Pattie Vargas, a California mother who took out a second mortgage to pay for a spot at a facility for her son Joel, who was addicted to meth as a teen and ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
Lots of Young People on Lots of Psychiatric Drugs THEY’RE CUSTOMERS FIRST AND FOREMOST – Feb. 16, 2024 - Growing numbers of children and adolescents are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs to take simultaneously. The phenomenon is increasing despite warnings... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryteenagersTrauma
Kids Overdose! Can Pediatricians Help? MALPRACTICE? – Feb. 17, 2024 - Pediatricians responded to the survey by saying they don’t have enough patients to justify learning about this type of care, or don’t think it’s a pediatrician’s job. “It’s seen ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024interventionOverdoseRecoveryteenagers
NJ Overdose Deaths Fell Sharply in 2023!!! GOOD NEWS – Feb. 15, 2024 - With the encouraging decline as a backdrop, Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday announced a $95 million plan over the next three years to increase services for addicts. The drop is a welcome reli... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024OverdoseRecoveryRehab
NY to Distribute $95M to Expand Safe-Syringe Sites LIKE SEAT BELTS FOR USERS – Feb. 15, 2024 - “While we are flattening the curve for some, we are not flattening the curve for all,” Baston said. “As we’ve seen the numbers drop off for white New Jerseyans, we’v... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024harm reductioninterventionRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Biden’s Drug Czar Shares Vision for Tackling Overdose Crisis BETTER START SOON! – Feb. 115, 2024 - Gupta: When we look at these types of epidemics across the country, where we find successful examples is where there’s a really good balance of both expanding treatment, a... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024harm reductioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
The Next Deadly Drug Here By Summer? VIDEO – AIN’T NO CURE FOR THE SUMMERTIME BLUES – Feb. 14, 2024 - “It scares us just as much as it scares you,” ASAC Giordano tells Channel 11 News. “Do not think that this can’t happen here because it’s already here.... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024
Toxic Pesticide Found in 4 out of 5 People OATMEAL, WHO KNEW? – Feb. 15, 2024 - “Chlormequat is primarily used on grain crops like oats, wheat and barley,” Alexis Temkin, a senior toxicologist at the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) and lead author... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024food addictioninterventionTrauma
More OD Deaths Linked to Smoking Drugs Than Injecting Them CONTRADICTORY? – Feb. 15, 2024 - While the number of adults who injected drugs increased during that period, the data now points to a high number of people who are smoking drugs. The latest research is the lar... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024fentanylOverdosesmoking
The Addiction Recovery Story We Never Hear NEW YORK TIMES ESSAY – Feb. 14, 2023 - Twenty women with felony records and a history of drug use are standing on the stage in a crowded auditorium in Tulsa, and the audience is rising in a standing ovation. T... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024interventionRecoveryRehab
S.F.’s Largest Treatment Provider Investigated After Overdose Deaths CORPORATE MISTAKES? – Feb. 9, 2024 - California officials are investigating the recent deaths of two men who fatally overdosed while seeking drug treatment at Walden House, a longtime San Francisco facility fo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024fentanylOverdoseRehabTrauma
Semaglutide (Ozempic) Shows Promise For Alcoholism HUMAN TRIALS SOON – Feb. 10, 2024 - “Parts of the brain that drive eating behaviors overlap extensively with the drive to use alcohol or other substances,” explained Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D., and Leandro Vendrusco... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 20 2024interventionRecovery
Kroger Sued for Unsafe Opioid Prescriptions ACCOMPLICES TO MURDER FOR MONEY – Feb. 13, 2024 - “For more than a decade, Kroger flooded Kentucky with an almost unthinkable number of opioid pills that to addiction, pain, and death,” said Coleman in a press releas... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Father of Pharmacist Who Died Calls CVS Memo ‘corporate garbage’ PUSHERS – Feb. 12, 2024 - Ashleigh Anderson, 41-year-old died after suffering a heart attack during her shift at CVS in 2021. Anderson was the only pharmacist on duty the day she collapsed. First respond... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 20 2024life expectancyTrauma
With New Methadone Rule, SAMHSA Isn’t Coming to Save Us IT’S COMPLICATED – Feb. 13, 2024 - For patients, it means the majority will continue to suffer under the clinics’ culture of cruelty. “The decision to provide take-home doses rests with the treating practition... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 20 2024interventionmethRecovery
Lawmakers Champion MDMA as a ‘game-changer’ in PTSD Treatment VIDEO – LET IT WORK IF IT WORKS – Feb. 15, 2024 - Advocates and lawmakers across the political spectrum are optimistic about its chances for approval and pushing for a speedy rollout of so-called “MDMA-assisted the... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 20 2024interventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Lack of Oversight In Treatment Industry Leads To Corruption HEALTH-CARE IS WEALTH-CARE – Feb. 7, 2024 - The report highlighted questionable practices at treatment facilities and sober living houses that the state has been investigating for years. They included allegations of ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 13 2024interventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
New Jersey Will Receive Nearly $9.5M from Opioid Settlement AIN’T ENOUGH – Feb. 2, 2024 - “When you visit a physician, you do not expect that the details of your most intimate and personal struggles with illness and pain will be converted into pharmaceutical product ma... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 13 2024opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Psychedelic Drugs Can Treat Addictions — Time We Got Over Moralistic Fears! AUDIO – THEIR NOT A SLIP? – Feb. 8, 2024 - In 1933, the founder of AA, Bill Wilson, achieved his abstinence as a result of a psychedelic experience, and when LSD was made available for research in the Fifties, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 13 2024PsychedelicsRecovery
Unraveling Mystery of Kansas City Chiefs Fans’ Frozen Fentanyl Deaths THE END – Feb. 3, 2024 - She walked upstairs, looked out the large back windows and saw a grisly tableau on the snow-covered patio. Mahoney first spotted the frozen body of one man, David Harrin... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 13 2024fentanyl
Phthalates aka “everywhere chemicals” Found in the Womb VIDEO – IS NO PLACE SAFE? – Feb. 7, 2024 - The US saw roughly 57,000 preterm births caused by phthalates in 2018. More than 8 million metric tons of phthalates and similar chemicals are consumed annually — ei... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCancerFeb 13 2024life expectancyTrauma
First of-its-kind Opioid Center Coming to Las Vegas Colorful VIDEO – IT TAKES A VEGAS – Jan. 29, 2024 - “It will have 240 beds and an intake for detox.” Unlike many facilities, this center has no time frame for how long a person can stay. “We want people to get healthy o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 6 2024opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
Kids Don’t Get Science-Backed Drug Prevention IS SCIENCE TOO WOKE? – Jan. 11, 2024 - As science teacher Zach Lazar looks out across his classroom at South Eugene High School, he sees more kids struggling than he did before the pandemic. In the past two ye... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 6 2024interventionteenagers
As Opioid Deaths Soar, Biden Fills Up The Methadone Pitchers RELIEF IS IN SIGHT – Feb. 2, 2024 - Now for the first time in more than 20 years, the Biden administration is publishing new federal rules for methadone treatment aimed at widening access for more patients. But patie... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 6 2024interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Tylenol PM and Advil PM and Benadryl Linked to Dementia? VIDEO – SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS – Feb. 2, 2024 - Dr. Charles Puza, a New York–based physician, has recently shocked over a million people on TikTok by revealing that the continual use of anticholinergic medicat... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 6 2024life expectancyMental Health