Q&A with writer and podcaster, Laura Robbins Stick with the Winners! – July 14 - Laura Robbins has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee, and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 21 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Cliff Brodsky: The Man Who Knew Too Much And Too Little Jailhouse Rock – July 21, 2020 – By John Lavitt When Cliff Brodsky, a successful music producer and songwriter, first met now-imprisoned rehab mogul Christopher Bathum at a 12-Step meeting in 2011, he did not real... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 21 2020RecoveryRehab
“Lockdown Has Been the Hardest Period of My Sober Journey” Zoom Gloom – July 16, 2020 - With Alcoholics Anonymous moving online, gyms closing and support networks being socially distanced, sobriety during lockdown has been harder than normal for many. As we emerge from... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCoronavirusJuly 21 2020Recovery
Psychiatric nurse pens book on surviving homelessness and drug abuse WATCH – Park Bench to Park Avenue – July 15, 2020 - Brown shares his raw journey out of homelessness in a book titled “From Park Bench to Park Avenue.” The park bench refers to the many years of homelessness. T... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJuly 21 2020RecoveryRehab
Telemedicine is a magnet for fraud and data theft Just Be Careful – JULY 13, 2020 - “Most telehealth practitioners do not receive formal information security and privacy training,” said Leming Zhou, a professor of health informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusJuly 21 2020RecoveryRehab
She Ate and Ate, and Never Felt Satisfied EMPTY: A Memoir by Susan Burton – June 23, 2020 - “In many ways,” she writes, “my adolescence was typical. Prototypical, even. I was an awkward middle-schooler who transformed herself with the help of Seventeen magaz... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating Disorderfood addictionJuly 21 2020Recovery
Pink Opens Up About Marriage Counseling WATCH – Talking with, not at... – June 22, 2020 - “Without Vanessa translating for me for the last 18 years, I mean, we would not be together,” the “What About Us” singer revealed. “We just wouldn’t because we are... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
I quit boozing when I was too drunk to hold my baby as hubby hosed vomit off me Sober showers from now on... – July 9, 2020 - She wrote on her blog, DrunkMummySoberMummy: “As I closed the curtains, a sudden flashback leapt at me from my blackout, an image of stumbling around in the bathroom with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
Chabad Intown Offers Hope and Recovery And blintzes too... – July 8, 2020 - Currently, meetings, classes, and events take place through the Zoom video conferencing app. With support from the Clinton Foundation, Schusterman, along with other rabbis and int... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020nonprofit organizationRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Recovery Centers of America Appoints Two Leaders as New CEOS GROWTH IS WHAT COUNTS – July 7, 2020 - Michael Ogden has over 30 years of experience in the treatment of patients suffering from substance use disorder (“SUD”) including many leadership roles at behavioral health and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
$3.5 Million for Addiction Services at Adventist Loma Linda University MAT? – July 6, 2020 - SAC Health System operates the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) clinic with the onsite Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), which offers individual and group-based substance use counseling ser... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020Recovery
Bad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext talks about sobriety in ‘Sober’ WATCH – Say it with Song – July 10, 2020 - The song ‘Sober’ is the bands second single released off the album N.A.T.I.O.N. Vext talks about how he hopes this single inspires others struggling with sobriety to reac... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
American Rehab Chapter Three: A Venomous Snake LISTEN – Great podcast – July 11, 2020 - From the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, this is Reveal. I’m Al Letson. This is chapter three of American Rehab: A Venomous Snake. Last time, we started telling yo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
‘Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo’ WATCH – Machete – July 11, 2020 - Many of the stories he shares in the documentary are compelling. Back in the day, when he was just a boy, his two role models in his life were John Wayne and his uncle Gilbert. The f... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Rufus Wainwright is sober, battle-hardened & wrestling with demons Halleluiah! (Live at Fillmore) – July 8, 2020 - Wainwright’s Irish nanny wasn’t paying attention when he suddenly went underwater — “and was presumably saved by Betty Buckley,” he said, laughing. “Which is the sto... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
Gov. Cuomo cuts aid for recovery services “treatment programs are reeling with the news” – July 11, 2020 - Treatment providers say they were given no notice, and no explanation, for the surprising size of the cut or its timing by the administration of Gov. A... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRehab
B.C. invests $16 million in recovery beds Canada Cares! – July 10, 2020 - “The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the existing challenges and risks for those living with mental health and substance use problems,” sayss Jonny Morris, CEO Canadian Mental Health ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Center on Addiction Changes Name to… A rose by any other name... – July 10, 2020 - “Partnership to End Addiction is a name that reflects both the legacy of our combined organization, as well as our dedication to partnering with experts, advocates and ot... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Elon Musk’s ‘Terrifying’ MINI Brain Chip Cures Addiction? It’s all in your head – July 11, 2020 - Mental disorders are diseases that are still incurable by medicine intake. There are therapies, but patients have no exact cure to heal from the brain disorder fully. Brain com... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Mental HealthRecovery
RuPaul bonds with TV contestant over sobriety: ‘I wouldn’t be here today’ Harvey Milk would be proud! – July 11, 2020 - “I broke up with my fiancé of 12 years and also made a conscious decision to stop using drugs and drinking. That has been very impactful for me as a human being and as a ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyCompassionJuly 14 2020RecoveryRecovery Advocate
Demi Lovato Saved Herself Doing It Her Way – July 7, 2020 - Now, Lovato’s project is Lovato. She is painting Hawaiian eucalyptus trees and Black Lives Matter-inspired portraits of George Floyd — “I’m kind of embarrassed about how that turned ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyJuly 14 2020Recovery
Heroin addict reaches out to News 4 for help WATCH – Reality – July 10, 2020 - When Trouble Shooter, April Molina met Gina and Miguel, they were both jobless and homeless and the only glimmer of hope was that News 4 connected them with SACADA. Gina recalls b... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionJuly 14 2020Recovery
Coronavirus disrupts Addiction treatment Never Stop Quitting! – JULY 6, 2020 - Shared spaces, double-occupancy bedrooms and group therapy are common in rehabs. People struggling with addiction are generally younger than nursing home residents, but both popu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Recovery
Free Film Screening Saturday Night at the Movies July 11, 2020 at 9:00pm. Screening the film, The First Day: A Focus on the Beginning. Presented on In The Rooms by REEL Recovery Film Festival July 8, 2020 –The Virtual REEL ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 7 2020RecoveryREEL Recovery Film Festival
How Attorneys Can Help As Addiction Cases Rise Post-Pandemic by Sue Bright When will it end? – June 28, 2020 - In establishing a solid defense for legal cases, take time to discuss the client’s history with drugs and alcohol. Attorneys can play an important role in ensuring their clients be... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020Recovery
‘It was a perfect storm how I got sober’: Student battles through addiction to graduate WATCH – Miracles Do Happen! – July 1, 2020 - Morrison started out at Lane Community College writing for the student-run newspaper, The Torch. Two years later, he transferred to the U of O and quickly got involved ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 7 2020Recovery
Art exhibit removes the stigma of addiction WATCH – Celebration time is now – July 2, 2020 - This is a disease condition. This isn’t just a series of bad moral decisions and that’s what they come into the treatment center with. We’re trying to disjoint that id... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020Recovery
Involuntary treatment for the addicted is unconstitutional? Coercion or Compassion? – July 1, 2020 - On Wednesday morning, Cameron and local leaders and advocates gathered in overwhelming support of Casey’s Law, asserting its 16-year impact on people with substance use disord... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020RecoveryRehab
How To Achieve Emotional Sobriety Balancing Act As If – June 30, 2020 - The next step is recovery is emotional sobriety, or learning to deal with the uncomfortable feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that the addictive behaviors attempted to cover up o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCompassionJuly 7 2020Recovery
North America to Hold the Lion’s Share in Addiction Treatment Market, 2020 to 2025 America’$ Rehab Dream – July 3, 2020 - Recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic have led to increased drug addiction relapses. Hence, companies in the addiction treatment market are capitalizing on the demand for... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 7 2020RecoveryRehab