March 19, 2019 • Vol. 6., No. 35
For Treatment Industry & Recovery Community
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Why haven’t major institutions cut ties with the Sackler family?
March 15, 2019 - through a string of recent journalistic exposés and court proceedings, the Sacklers have emerged as the embodiment of corporate avarice, relentlessly pursuing profit at the cost of human life.
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A look back at the Obama administration’s handling of the fentanyl epidemic
March 13, 2019 - In May 2016, a group of national health experts issued an urgent plea in a private letter to high-level officials in the Obama administration. Thousands of people were dying from overdoses of fentanyl — the deadliest drug to ever hit U.S. streets — and the administration needed to take immediate action. The epidemic had been escalating for three years.
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Joe Walsh, Ringo Starr and the Mission to Save 45 Million Addicted Americans
MARCH 16, 2019 - It was a foggy autumn night in New York’s Rainbow Room when Joe Walsh took center stage — no guitar in sight. So he addressed the elephant in the room: “I’m Joe, and I’m an alcoholic.”
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Trump Budget guts opiate office
March 13, 2019 - THE OPIOID CRISIS: Every year since taking office, President Trump has proposed gutting the office charged with coordinating the response to the nation’s opioid crisis. His 2020 budget is no different: it seeks to slash the Office of National Drug Control Policy by 95 percent — even as a record high of 70,000 people died from overdoses in 2017.
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Pain a Sensation or an Emotion?
March 16, 2019 - The ancient Greeks considered pain a passion-an emotion rather than a sensation like touch or smell. During the Dark Ages, pain was seen as a punishment for sins .... More@NYTimes.com
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"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware." - Albert Ellis
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American Addiction Centers reports problems getting clients in the door, takes out a loan...
March 13, 2019 - With $5.4 million left in the bank, the company took out a $30 million loan last week, at an interest rate of 11 percent, to keep operations running. More@Brentwoodhomepage.com
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‘Kensington Blues’: devastating portrait of addiction in Philly
March 16, 2019 - Jeffrey Stockbridge, a Philadelphia photographer and fine-art printer, has spent a decade in Kensington, documenting the lives of neighborhood residents with substance-use disorder. Photographs, recordings and videos from “Kensington Blues,” his award-winning project about Philadelphia’s opioid crisis...
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How Plunging into Sobriety Makes You a Better Person
March 15, 2019 - As an addict who’s chosen to get sober, you’re about to face many great changes in your life. Check out what you get to look forward to. When you’re in early addiction recovery you’ll find yourself struggling to imagine what life is going to be like without your addiction in it. Being newly sober is ...
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Singing a Sweet, Sweet Song VIDEO
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Macklemore is latest Seattle star honored for recovery work with MusiCares award VIDEO
March 13, 2019 - The hometown rap star will receive the Recording Academy’s MusiCares Stevie Ray Vaughan Award, just a year after Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready was honored. More@SeattleTimes.com
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Teens More Depressed Now Than in the Mid-2000s
March 14, 2019 - Teens and young adults are in the midst of a unique mental health crisis, suggests a new study out Thursday. It found that rates of depressive episodes and serious psychological distress have dramatically risen among these age groups in recent years, while hardly budging or even declining for older age groups.
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A new drug based on ketamine could help treat depression
Mar. 16, 2019 - It has been over 30 years since a genuinely new type of drug for treating depression, or indeed any psychiatric illness, has come to market. Most antidepressants to date have been based on the “monoamine hypothesis”, which holds that depression is...More@Economist.com
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Trump’s new FDA chief must wage fierce fight to stop the opioid epidemic. Gottlieb didn’t.
March 14, 2019 - “The FDA too often encourages the pharmaceutical industry to invest in more opioids. When many of those products come to be reviewed, the agency appears to believe there is no option other than to continue to flood the market.” More@USAToday.com
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Scammers preying on addicts trying to get clean VIDEO
March 7, 2019 - Drug treatment centers are warning about an alarming trend happening across the country called patient brokering. Patient brokering is when a shoddy treatment center pays someone to get a recovering drug addict into treatment. More@wsmv.com
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A real link between opioid use and people not working?
March 12, 2019 - The U.S. opioid crisis is hitting the country on many fronts, including the labor market, data reviewed by CNBC show. More@CNBC.com
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New recovery program shows users are more likely to stay sober if they help others VIDEO
March 3, 2019 - New research and a new treatment plan show that those recovering from substance abuse find meaning in life by helping others.
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Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery
February 27, 2019 - Having a family member with persistent opioid use may be a risk factor for young adults continuing prescriptions long after their own surgeries, a new Michigan Medicine study suggests.
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Local documentary on drug addiction helps others
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Bloomberg is giving Michigan $10M to fight opioid crisis
March 14, 2019 - The money will come from Bloomberg Philanthropies, which will partner with up to 10 states over the next three years and invest $50 million to support state programs to develop treatment and prevention programs.
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Julia Roberts on drug addiction in her new film VIDEO
March 14, 2019 - Hollywood actress Julia Roberts discusses her new film Ben Is Back and wants to remind audiences that addiction has a lot of layers and people can create change in legislation. More@BT.com
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Demi Lovato Speaks Out About Apparent Overdose for the First Time on What Would Have Been 7-Year Sobriety Anniversary
March 15, 2019 - She continued, “Grateful that AA/NA never shuts the door on you no matter how many times you have to start your time over. I didn’t lose 6 years; I’ll always have that experience but now I just get to add to that time with a new journey and time count.
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Addiction specialist urges Japan to treat over-gaming as a mental disorder
MAR. 14, 2019 - Online gaming addiction has become the fastest-growing form of addiction in the 21st century, and it’s the most vulnerable people — children — who mainly fall prey to its psychoactive effects, Higuchi says.
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Better Living Through Technology VIDEO
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These Tech Companies Aim to Cure Pain Without Pills VIDEO
March 16, 2019 - Sana Health founder and CEO Richard Hanbury makes a mask that users wear over their eyes for 15 minutes before bed, or in 15 minute intervals throughout the day as needed, to put them into a relaxed, lower-pain state. More@CNBC.com
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Legalizing Marijuana Unites 2020 Democrats
March 17, 2019 - For many Democrats, legalization has become a litmus test for candidates’ commitment to equal treatment for all races in policing and criminal justice as well as fighting economic inequality. “A Democrat-(ic candidate) who is not on board with legalization is going to have a tough time convincing any voter they’re serious about racial justice,”... More@NYTimes.com
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IRS Targets Drug Reformers
March 17, 2019 - ... the IRS will deny tax-exempt status to “an organization whose purpose is directed to the improvement of business conditions of one or more lines of business relating to an activity involving controlled substances... More@Reason.com
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