Books, Memoirs, Films, and Media

Books, Memoirs, Films, and Media

DRUG USE FOR GROWN-UPS: Chasing Liberty in Land of Fear

Dr. Feelgood – Jan. 12, 2021 - Hart knows this. He knows about the discomfort his readers might feel when they encounter his full-throated endorsement of opiates for recreational use. He offers the information ... Read More...

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New Law Requires Faster Treatment for Addiction

WATCH – Not fast enough – Jan. 1, 2021 - “You’re talking about really sick people with a chronic progressive life-threatening brain disease who are presenting for care, they’re going to be admitted into care. And th... Read More...

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Prozac Withdrawal, Side Effects, Addiction and Treatment

Read the fine print – Jan. 2, 2021 - Alternative to Meds Center been tackling antidepressant withdrawal for over 15 years. We have published evidence regarding our success. Our staff, including licensed profes... Read More...

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2,000 Arizonans Overdosed on Fentanyl in 2020

WATCH – OD Ideation? – Jan. 1, 2021 - That’s the grim, unfortunate reality of the drug, that Roy and Wendy Plunk know all too well. “I mean, I’m never going to be the same, you know? Part of my heart is gone... Read More...

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Doctor’s Secret Pill Ring Leaves His Patients Dead

Prisoner of greed – Jan. 2, 2021 - Li would later become known as a notoriously reckless supplier of lethal drugs — the first doctor in New York state to be convicted of killing his patients with pills. For ... Read More...

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How President Biden Can Save Lives By Slowing America’s Overdose Crisis

OPINION by Ryan Hampton – Dec. 31, 2020 - Recovery works — I’m living proof — but it requires community-based, long-term support. Connections, whether with friends and family, support groups or other types of ... Read More...

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‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ 75 Years Old

BOOK: Approved literature – Jan. 5, 2021 - Paramahansa Yogananda made an indelible impression on the spiritual landscape of the United States. Arriving in America in 1920 from his native India, he established ... Read More...

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9 Creative Ways To Socialize Safely

LISTEN – Staying sane and sober – Jan. 1, 2021 - When Vladimir Celestin and his extended family realized they couldn’t get together on Christmas, they got creative. “My cousins on my father and my mother’s s... Read More...

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Étienne Boulay Celebrates 4 Years

Safe in the end zone – Jan. 7, 2021 - Étienne Boulay revealed this Wednesday on social networks that he has been sober for 4 years now. 4 years ago to the day, I escaped it for the thousandth time. I had tried ... Read More...

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Report Calls for More Access to Take-Home Meds for Opioid Addictions

Pandemic relief – Jan. 5, 2021 - “To get methadone, you have to show up in person every day and have people watch you take the medications,” Burke said. “Imagine if you had diabetes and you had to show up to g... Read More...

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County Offering Treatment to Inmates Dealing with Addiction

WATCH – What a good idea – Jan. 6, 2021 - Cumberland County Jail has now hired Medication Assisted Treatment Re-Entry Coordinator Jessica Verdajo, who will work to add more accessibility to medical treatment fo... Read More...

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Addiction Risk Rises For Female Employees

But not wages – Jan. 7, 2021 - The findings “reinforce the complex and bidirectional relationship between physical and mental health,” says Total Brain CEO Louis Gagnon. “Poor physical health can increase the ... Read More...

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Alcohol Monitoring Devices Work

Careful with your mouthwash – Dec. 2020 - The OMNI Institute served as the research partner and provided support with data collection, analysis, and reporting. OMNI is a non-profit research and evaluation consu... Read More...

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The Road to This Wedding Was Paved With Theft, Lies, Tears

Sobriety sometimes leads to marriage – Jan. 8, 2021 - The lessons from the love story of Irene Sibaja and Hal Karp are many, but here are some of the more obvious: The old dating adage “right person, wrong tim... Read More...

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Q&A with Jeannie Rabb-Marshall, publisher of Keys to Recovery

Stick with the Winners! – January 5, 2021 - Many of you will remember Jeannie from the Steps for Recovery newspaper, where she worked until 2008 with business partner and good friend Jason Levin, who passed awa... Read More...

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James Argent Celebrates a Year After Overdosing

Happy to be alive – Jan. 2, 2021 - The 33-year-old sought help and weeks before Christmas 2020 he told his followers on Instagram that he was nearing the milestone of a year of sobriety. “A year ago today on... Read More...

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Serious Side Effects of Smoking Pot Every Day

Gray matter matters – Jan. 2, 2021 - “Make no mistake about it, smoking marijuana daily carries with it very real potential for addiction. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that between 9% and 30%... Read More...

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Guy Eats a Ton of Poppy Seed Bagels and Takes Various Drug Tests to See if He Tests Positive for Opiates

WATCH – Jews at risk of false imprisonment – Jan. 5, 2021 - I was a little kid watching that episode, it was a Sit-Com, it never crossed my adolescent mind that failing drug tests from eating bagels was a real ... Read More...

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Eminem re-learned to rap after near-fatal overdose

Thank God he did – Jan. 5, 2021 - “Like the rhyme schemes didn’t even sound like familiar to me,” Eminem said. “So I was caught off-guard too. I was like, ‘What the fuck, I said that?’ I said it and I was wron... Read More...

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Biggest Danger Sign You’re Drinking Too Much

You’re reading this article – Jan. 9, 2021 - “If your pattern of drinking results in repeated significant distress and problems functioning in your daily life, you likely have alcohol use disorder,” their heal... Read More...

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Men Find Community, Self-worth at Recovery Farm

Planting Esteem Seeds – Jan. 9, 2021 - He lost his job and, over the summer, his ex-fiancé beat him up, putting him in the hospital with a broken arm, a fractured foot and a gash across the bridge of his nose.&... Read More...

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Pharmacists Say Walmart Ignored Opioid Sales Red Flags

Death for sale on aisle 5 – Jan. 3, 2021- When Ashwani Sheoran showed up for early morning shifts at pharmacies in rural Michigan wearing his white Walmart smock, he often found customers waiting, desperate fo... Read More...

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What Everyone Got Wrong About the Opioid Epidemic

WATCH – Disease model flawed – Jan. 4, 2021 - The original formulation of OxyContin didn’t create the opioid crisis, argues psychiatrist Sally Satel, and removing it from the market didn’t make the problem go ... Read More...

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Entrepreneur Helping Gamblers Beat Their Addiction

No more suicides, please – Jan. 7 , 2021 - Having tried everything, from parental controls software to gambling-blocking software to curb his activity, he came up with his own solution Gamban. Launched... Read More...

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Mum Shares 10-Step Guide to Sobriety

No boozeyness anymore – Jan. 5, 2021 - Justine quit alcohol when she was 40 years old after she spent most of her thirties ‘medicated from alcohol 24/7’. ‘The single turning point was my nine-year-old daught... Read More...

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Juggling My Children, Their Alcoholic Sitter and My Own Sobriety

All in a days daze – Jan. 8, 2021 - But the struggle doesn’t end with the physical. It’s mental. The misery of protracted withdrawal — dysphoria, depression, irritability — can drag on for weeks. Twelve-step p... Read More...

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Quote of the Week – Stacey Abrams

“We must cease being participants in our own oppression.” —Stacey Abrams ... Read More...

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Memoir Reflects on Prison, Addiction

LISTEN – Yourself, destiny, fate, dreams, public defender – Jan. 4, 2021 - In describing his memoir, “The Five People You’ll Meet in Prison,” author Brandon Stickney offers a hard look at New York’s prison system a... Read More...

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‘Mr. Sobriety’: Robert Cote remembered

We can, he did – Dec. 27, 2020 - He also created the Addiction Counselor Education Program at Westfield State University (then Westfield State College) and served as the director for 25 years (an extension of t... Read More...

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Only Rehab in New South Wales Helping Mothers

LISTEN – Listening to loss – Dec. 28, 2020 - For many mothers, the arrival of a newborn comes with more than enough challenges. Imagine not only trying to take care of a baby, but also trying to withdraw from drugs... Read More...

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