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Two-Drug Combo May Help Fight Meth Addiction

LET’S PRAY IT DOES – Jan. 20, 2120 - Standard behavioral treatment for meth addiction typically involves highly structured group therapy, Volkow explained. Another option is a rewards-based motivational therapy... Read More...

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How Stuart Watson Became A Sober ‘Man Listening’ To Women

LISTEN – HUH? – Jan. 19, 2021 - What does it take to get a man to listen — really listen — to women? Well, in Stuart Watson’s case, it took being slapped, fired and flat out told by his own wife that he wasn’t ... Read More...

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Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction

READ THEM AND WEEP – Jan. 19, 2021 - This was the place where it happened, and the person on whom everything hinged was her mother — beautiful, capricious, cruel. Ditlevsen was a bright girl and a good student... Read More...

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‘Help Dad’ campaign comes under fire for ‘mocking alcoholism’

WATCH – SATIRE OR BAD TASTE? – Jan. 20, 2021 - Oatly’s new ‘Help Dad’ campaign and website are designed to help young persuade their parents to give up dairy and switch to oat milk and is filled with recipes, t... Read More...

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Zooming Through Recovery

PASS THE ELECTRONS – Jan. 15, 2021 - Group therapy helps build up the strength necessary for recovery through the essential process of validation. Coping with addiction is unbelievably challenging — doing so wi... Read More...

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Kate Moss From Coke Scandal and Sobriety

A ROLLING STONE... – Jan. 16, 2021 - The model mum called herself “so emotional” when the teen made her catwalk debut for Miu Miu back in October, days after she turned 18. And throughout lockdown Kate has bee... Read More...

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Mobile Clinic Helps Las Vegas Homeless Combat Addiction

A SAFE BET – January 23, 2021 - Services include: clean needle exchange, wound care, substance abuse rehabilitation, and doses of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses. Linkage to Action will also provide ... Read More...

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‘Addiction and Recovery’ Series Challenges Stigma

TUNE IN AND TURN IT UP – Jan. 24, 2120 - The overweight kid from the suburbs of Philadelphia — who had an identity crisis in second grade where he asked his African-American father and Italian-East Indian moth... Read More...

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How ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Can Help You Cope

WINTER READING TO KEEP YOU WARM – April, 2020 - Holden’s taste in food is pure postwar American. Bacon, eggs, hamburgers and steak all feature in the book. Mainly, however, this 16-year-old survives on cigaret... Read More...

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Using Analytics to Attack Addiction

NUMBERS CAN’T LIE – Jan. 19, 2021 - The students designed an approach grounded in finding “unobvious and of interest” information. First, they determined what defined a “typical” patient at Hazelden Betty Ford—... Read More...

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Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford on Showtime

THE FIRST LADY OF REHABS – Jan. 21, 2021 - Set in the White House, the political drama is a look at America through the eyes of various first ladies. Season 1 will focus on Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama... Read More...

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How Bad IS Quarantine for my Body?

TRY BENDING OVER – January 22, 2021 - ...Leah Whigman, associate professor at UTHealth School of Public Health in El Paso, told VICE. “Is there any value in saying, I screwed up big time, I’m going to die earlier n... Read More...

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‘Sound of Metal’ explores a musician’s journey into deafness—and himself

Great new movie on Amazon Prime – Jan. 9, 2021 - She calls Hector, Ruben’s sobriety mentor, who gives Lou directions to a deaf community for recovering drug addicts. The community is run by Joe (Paul Raci), an ... Read More...

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Experts Say Why Pandemic is Causing More Relapse and Overdose

WATCH – Despair and Addiction – Jan. 8, 2021 - “She was staying with a mutual friend.” It’s still very fresh in Danielle Owen’s mind as she recounts a tragic story of personal loss. Owen says her friend’s husb... Read More...

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Alcoholics Anonymous Co-founder Had Mayo Roots

She was like nun other – Jan. 9, 2021 - That patient would be the first of millions to participate in the 20-step programme of recovery, the beginning of Alcoholic Anonymous (AA), which she founded with Dr. Bob... Read More...

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Porn Addiction Coach Reveals the Problem Has ‘nothing to do with sex’

Or Does It? – Jan. 10, 2020 - Trying to prevent that is Porn Addiction Coach Tim Reigle, and his summation of the condition is surprising. “Porn addiction has nothing to do with sex, it’s to do with how we cope with... Read More...

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Florida High School Principal Fired for Going to Rehab

UNFAIR – Jan. 12, 2021 - The psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Jones, reportedly said she was unable to determine whether Williams was fit for duty, according to the document. School officials determined that William... Read More...

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Goats, Soaps and Candles Help Pay Bills and Build Skills

It takes all kinds – Jan. 10, 2021 - Stopped at the gate by Zuzana Poláčková, one of the staff at Hope Farm, Ainsley bleated her disapproval then trotted by the chickens in their coop across the field from two ... Read More...

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Rescued By Kindness, Now She Shares Hope in Philly

What goes around... – Jan. 10, 2021 - For years, Cohen lived in a perpetual state of hunger, trauma and pain. Eventually, she landed on the streets of Kensington, the largest open-air drug market on the East C... Read More...

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N.Y. Drug Reform Activist Anthony Papa Gets Pardon

Barbaric prison system victim – Jan. 9, 2021 - “He is a living example of the inequities in the system that existed due to the Rockefeller-era drug laws and has spent more than a decade working in the pursuit ... Read More...

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Overdose Concerns Following Latest Round of Stimulus Checks

WATCH – What we worry – Jan. 13, 2021 - “When you give them $600 they’re going to really take it to the limit and that really will raise your chances of losing your life,” said Thomas Gooch, the Prevention Dire... Read More...

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Study Finds One Small Drink Daily Raises Risk of Atrial Fibrillation

Is it worth it? – Jan. 13, 2021 - “Many people have palpitations and dizziness, but one of the bad things about atrial fibrillation is that it’s asymptomatic and can lead to other problems such as stroke. In m... Read More...

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Parents Organizing to Save Kids From Drug Addiction Dangers

WATCH – Teach Your Children Well – Jan. 12, 2021 - Taylor’s family said this summer two former classmates overdosed together. Her father, Todd Grzybinski, says he can list at least a dozen kids within the last six m... Read More...

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Demi Lovato Addresses 2018 Overdose in New Docu-series

The healing has begun – Jan. 13, 2021 - “For the first time, you’ll be able to see my chronicle of struggle and ongoing healing from my point of view. I’m grateful that I was able to take this journey to face ... Read More...

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“Free Yourself From Yourself” Book Offers Strategic Approach to Addiction Recovery

Good book – Jan. 13, 2021 - Stewart is no outsider when it comes to addiction and recovery. At the age of forty, he found himself homeless and hopeless. With only a few possessions and dollars to his name, addi... Read More...

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Author Shares Stories of Addiction in New Book

No one is too small to grow – Jan. 13, 2021 - So, do the same for a human being,” she said. In December, Kőrösi self-published “Our Society: Addiction and More Uncovered.” The book culminates months o... Read More...

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I Thought of Relapsing When Rioters Stormed The Capitol. Then an Amazing Thing Happened.

A New Dawn Coming – Jan. 13, 2021 - Feeling means knowing deep down that these were the heinous acts of truly free people ― people who operated without fear of consequence. And feeling meant acknowledging that I, an... Read More...

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Therapist Puts New Face on Alcoholism

Not Without Blemishes – Jan. 13, 2021 - “Since the onset of COVID, alcohol use skyrocketed as a coping mechanism. Everyone’s looking for relief. People drink for relaxation, to calm nerves, to sleep, as a ritual, t... Read More...

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Q&A with Dr. Allen Berger

Stick with the Winners! - January 15, 2021 - Dr. Allen Berger’s professional career spans over 49 years, since 1971. After returning from a combat tour of duty in Vietnam in 1971, USMC Corporal Berger became a counse... Read More...

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Drug Rehab For Women – What You Should Know

WATCH – The Steps Are the Same – Jan. 11, 2021 - Keep in mind that addiction does not discriminate among gender. However, women face different physiological and psychological challenges when opting to get back to n... Read More...

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