February 18, 2020 • Vol. 7., No. 25
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Winchester, Virginia suing Big Pharma for $67 million
February 14, 2020 - The defendants are some of the wealthiest corporations in America. They include Walmart, pharmacy giants like CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens, pharmaceutical distributors like the McKesson Corp, and healthcare insurers like Cardinal Health and United Health Group. @WinchesterStar
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Vending Machine in Canada Is Dispensing Dilaudid
February 10, 2020 - It’s is best known in popular culture as the drug most prized by pharmacy robbers in the 1989 Gus Van Sant film, Drugstore Cowboy. Fester visits it to pick up his medication four times a day. “It’s eliminated a huge chunk of my depression and my anxiety, and it’s given me a reason to continue on each and every day...@Vice
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Nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions in Los Angeles will be dismissed February 13, 2020 - The cases include 62,000 felony convictions for cases — including those for marijuana sales and cultivation — dating back to 1961, and about 4,000 misdemeanor possession cases, District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s office said. @CNN
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Better Than Suboxone? WATCH
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Clinic uses device to take away addiction withdrawal symptoms WATCH - February 13, 2020 - It works by sending electrical impulses into the body through wires connected behind the patient’s ear ... it instantaneously takes away opiate withdrawal symptoms, a massive hurdle in people’s journey through recovery. . @KFVS12
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Leigh Steinberg’s comeback continues with Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl MVP
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Potential Gene Therapy Could Combat Cocaine Addiction
February 15, 2020 - What if cocaine could be made less euphoric so that a single-use by a recovering addict doesn’t result in a full-blown relapse? Scientists at the Mayo Clinic recently published progress toward making this idea a reality… @Inverse
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Savannah doctor sentenced to 20 years in federal prison
Feb. 14, 2020 - Investigators say over 51-thousand pharmacy fills were attributed to Bynes during a three-year period in Georgia alone, totaling in excess of 4.6 million doses of pills, opioid patches and other controlled substances. @WSAV
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How Juul gets kids addicted to vaping: it’s even worse than you think - Feb. 14, 2020 - Massachusetts is suing the e-cigarette company for its predatory ads to children. Hopefully other states will follow suit. Juul purchased ads on websites to help middle and high school students with their homework. “You’re doing your math homework and up pops an ad for Juul,”...@TheGuardian
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Q&A with Barbara Nicholson Brown - February 12, 2020 -She is the publisher of Together AZ newspaper in Scottsdale AZ. Together AZ is a valuable source of information online and in print ... The mission is to help as many people as possible recover from substance abuse addiction and other behavioral health issues. She is 29 years clean and sober. @AREB
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The Story The Pharmacist Can’t Tell - Feb. 16, 2020 - It’s easy to see, from the opening of the new four-part Netflix show The Pharmacist, why its directors took one meeting with Dan Schneider and decided to make a true-crime series about him. He’s the stuff documentary dreams are made of. @TheAtlantic
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Boys, 12 being treated for online porn addiction February 16, 2020 - Clinical director of the Therapy Institute in Dublin Richard Hogan warned of the fallout for the screen generation including; gaming addiction; online porn addiction; perfectionism; bullying @IrishMirror
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‘Nobody talks about it because everyone is on it’: Adderall presents esports with an enigma Feb. 13, 2020 - Typically I would be exhausted and lose motivation after only a couple hours,” Murphy said. “With Adderall, I am able to play better than I ever have for up to 12 hours.” Pro gamer who spoke with The Washington Post, said Adderall has been an open secret in the esports community for years. @WashingtonPost
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Alcohol deaths in women on the rise LISTEN February 15, 2020 - A recent study shows that deaths associated with alcohol use among women rose 85%. Why are more women drinking? Lydia Burr, the Director of Clinical Services at Hazelden Betty Ford explains the reasons. @WCORadio
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We need to rethink “tough love” as a response to addiction
FEBRUARY 2, 2020 - It was 2001, and the go-to strategy promoted in rehabs and recovery communities for the loved ones of those in the throes of addiction was still tough love. One drug counselor told my mom that tough love was the only way to save my life. Friends cut me out of their lives. And I get it. It feels like boundary-setting. But tough love doesn’t work. @Salon
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Addiction Memoirs are a Genre in Recovery Feb. 13, 2020 - Is it any wonder that the addiction memoir (made modish in the 1940s and 1950s by Charles Jackson’s thinly veiled roman ร clef, “The Lost Weekend,” and “Junky,” by William S. Burroughs; revived in the 1990s and 2000s with “Permanent Midnight,” by Jerry Stahl...@NYTimes
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Man credits selling bouquets on Chicago streets for his recovery :‘Selling flowers helped me survive’ - FEB. 14, 2020 - After spending nearly 20 years living on the streets of Chicago, drowning in alcohol and begging for money, Rodolfo Flores found the strength to change his life in 2009 after severe alcohol poisoning and liver failure landed him in the hospital.
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Fruits of their labor: Restaurant celebrates love and recovery WATCH - February 14, 2020 - It is an addiction recovery program, so many of the employees have gone through drug court or even prison and have now have been given a second chance. It’s like really tackling that issue, but in this creative way, it’s training, but it’s also employment, so we know that that employment piece actually stabilizes individuals that are pursuing that recovery effort... @WOAY
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Coronation Street actor helps addicts in Brighton
Jan 31, 2020 - Emily Walker spoke to a former alcoholic Coronation Street star and his wife as well as the people they are helping to turn their lives around and to get ahead. Kevin Kennedy - who played Curly Watts in the popular ITV soap, and his wife Clare started their recovery project Kennedy St 2014 after their own battles with addiction. @TheArgus
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Meth use at an all-time high, but resources to fight it aren’t
February 15, 2020 - Not every road in life is straight and narrow, and Ryan Jensen’s 11 tattoos are a constant reminder of the journey he’s taken from being a meth user to sobriety. @AmesTribune
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As the child of an alcoholic the trauma stays with you for years
Feb. 15, 2020 - As my parents marriage began to fall apart, my dad went from being a daily, functioning drinker to a daily, non functioning alcoholic practically overnight. I remember the change so vividly. When I was 13, I noticed he never seemed to be sober... @Metro
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Sackler Scions Sell NY Mansion & Flee to Switzerland in the Midst of More Opioid Deaths
F - February 10, 2020 - When your billionaire family gets besieged with lawsuits and public outcry blaming it for a public health crisis, there’s really only one thing to do: sell your mansion and escape to the chicest ski resort town in Europe. @GuestofaGuest
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NBA has obstacles to hurdle with mental health awareness
February 15, 2020 - Stigmas surrounding mental health in general, and the athletes in particular, remain. Mental wellness is part of a continuum: some people are managing problems themselves, some need help, and some others are struggling to manage it. @LATimes
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Sharing the Good News WATCH
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Courtney Love celebrates 18 months of sobriety PLEASE WATCH - February 2020 - During her acceptance speech at the 2020 NME Awards, Courtney Love revealed that she was 18 months sober to the day. The ceremony in London saw Love receive the ‘Icon Award’, naming her as “one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years.” @HappyMag
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Noah Centineo opens up about his sobriety Feb. 12, 2020 - “Everything. There wasn’t really much I wouldn’t do. I never, ever injected anything, which is good. I smoked a lot of things. I was really upset, man. It was a really dark time in my life,” as he was still dealing with his parents’ divorce @AVClub
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Amanda Bynes’s Sobriety Timeline - February 16, 2020 - After several altercations, Bynes went to rehab and was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. No doubt she has been through the wringer and back. Having grown up in the spotlight from “All That” and “The Amanda Bynes Show”, and subject to scrutiny in her career and personal life. @TheBlast
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Cody Simpson credits Miley Cyrus and sobriety for inspiring new musicFebruary 15, 2020 - “Now, I’m more interested in immersion and feeling good, sharp, open and clear. I found that being sober helps with that a lot,” he explained. “I can’t say I’m going to do (sobriety) forever or even for the next year. It’s just that right now it’s what feels good.”@MusicNews
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Courtney Friel’s Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News - Feb. 2020 - “Love Courtney’s voice—she’s fun, funny, frank and candid! No doubt Tonight at 10 will help many people struggling with addiction.”-Ben Stein, editorial columnist at The Wall Street Journal, host of Win Ben Stein’s Money. @Amazon
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Dueling Lawsuits Between Malibu Rehab Centers
February 12, 2020 - The centers’ brash founders—Passages’ Pax Prentiss and Cliffside’s Richard Taite—are fixtures of the celebrity gossip circuit; both leveraged their personal addiction struggles into profitable recovery empires. @LAMag
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