October 1, 2019 • Vol. 7., No. 5
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Metallica’s James Hetfield Relapses and Enters Rehab
September 27, 2019 - Metallic shared that “James has been struggling with addiction on and off for many years.” ... “He has now, unfortunately, had to re-enter a treatment program to work on his recover again,” the band continued.More@Yahoo
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Linking Air Pollution & Mental Health Disorders in Children
September 26, 2019 - ... air pollution isn’t just compromising our children’s physical health, but their mental health as well ... short-term exposure to high ambient air pollution is responsible for increased mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. More@ScaryMommy
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Opioids. What Opioids? AUDIO
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Where The Opioid Problem Is Upside Down AUDIO
September 27, 2019 - As pharmaceutical companies are being sued in the U.S. for flooding the market with opioids, doctors in West Africa say they can’t even get hold of those painkillers. More@NPR
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Top Ten Health Conditions Affecting Millennials
September 28, 2019 - Major depression, substance abuse disorder, and alcohol use disorder were the top three conditions for millennials. “While the top 10 conditions affecting millennials are not surprising, what is shocking is the prevalence rates in millennials ...
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“science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside” -– Ursula K. Le Guin
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Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Lyricist, Dead at 78
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 - Considered one of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists, Hunter was the literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation. His lyrics from early Dead classics like “Dark Star” and “China Cat Sunflower” and proceeding through “Uncle John’s Band,” “Box of Rain,” “Scarlet Begonias,” and “Touch of Gray... ReadMore@RollingStone.com
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NYC’s Billionaires’ Row is the Planned Site for a ‘5-Star’ Rehab
September 24, 2019 - The Sackato Society is proposing ... ... a for-profit center would treat clients ages 13 to 26 ... The ... site of the rehab center is across the street from One57, a skyscraper where a penthouse was purchased for $100.5 million. More@Bloomberg
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Kevin Kennedy fights addiction
Sept. 25, 2019 - The actor, who now lives in Portslade, and his wife Clare founded Kennedy St and Co to help build the “resilience, wellbeing and employability skills” of people in recovery. ReadMore@TheArgus.co.uk
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Exec. Corner - Allison Harden
Allison Harden has been involved in many strength-based pathways throughout her recovery journey, along with the 12-step program of recovery. She has learned how to build a supportive community, find peace, and to be of service to those on a recovery journey. In 2019, Allison used her lived experience and recovery coach training and received the National Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist Credential (NCPRSS). ReadMore@AREB
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Where It's Needed Most AUDIO
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Schools Help Children of Addiction Cope AUDIO
September 27, 2019 - Schools in rural southern Ohio have started a program for children...suffering emotional, behavioral and physical consequences of being raised by someone suffering from addiction, says Marin Applegate, the district’s school psychologist.
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How can technology improve treatment options?
Sept. 26, 2019 - As it battles to keep up with the concerning trend of new addiction cases, the rehabilitation and treatment industry has turned its attention to the technology that eases the growing burden. More@Information-Age
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Rachel Bloom Won an Emmy—For a Song Destigmatizing Anti-Depressants VIDEO
September 26, 2019 - With her diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and her struggle for self-acceptance, Rebecca Bunch became one of TV’s most endearing yet realistic characters with a known psychological disorder. More@Forbes
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Ewan McGregor’s daughter Clara opens up about mental health and drug addiction to ‘help others feel less alone’
Sept. 29, 2019 - the 23-year-old model laid it all out to her 40,000 Instagram followers. ‘I want to take this time to talk about mental health,’ she wrote in a screenshot of text. ... ‘I’ve suffered from crippling anxiety since I was 4 years and gone to therapy since I was a kid....
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Shopping addiction is a real disorder and ‘should not be trivialized’ AUDIO
Sept. 26, 2019 - Most addictions have physical symptoms related to them, but shopping addictions may not. Your symptoms are much more likely to be emotional. they areas follows: More@Metro
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Tougher rules for sober homes, treatment centers coming to OC
September 24, 2019 - As it stands, group homes with more than six residents, including sober living homes, will have to get a permit. They will have to be at least 650 feet apart to limit concentration. Permits won’t be granted to owners or managers with less than one year of sobriety.
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Amanda Bynes In Sober Living Facility After Rehab
September 26, 2019 - Bynes — who’s long suffered with substance abuse and alcoholism — relapsed this January and entered rehab in Los Angeles. While she was, at the time, trying to make her way back to Hollywood, it all ended up being “too much, too soon.”
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Heartbreaking reason this mum is dressed as her son
Sept. 26, 2019 - A mum has dressed up as her drug-addicted son as part of an assignment meant to show her “worst nightmare.” As part of a class assignment, Christy Cooper was asked to dress as her “worst nightmare” the next day and chose a heartbreaking costume; her son’s clothes. More@Hone.au
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Mark Kendall Talks Sobriety, Music, and 9 Ball
Sept. 26, 2019 - “I stopped drinking November 1, 2008. I stopped because I had a hard time controlling my drinking ... Today I’m doing well and I help alcoholic/addicts on a daily basis. I will have 11 years of continuous sobriety 11/1/2019.”
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Five local medical professionals ensnared in $800M opioid crackdown Sept. 26, 2019 - The takedown includes new charges against 48 defendants for their roles in submitting over $160 million in fraudulent claims. Of those 48 defendants, 15 are doctors or medical professionals... More@BizJournals
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Surgeon General Readies Screening for Child Trauma
September 19, 2019 - Pediatrician and best-selling author Nadine Burke Harris, left, was named California’s first-ever surgeon general in January. Now she is helping implement an ambitious trauma-screening effort across the state...More@ChronicleofSocialChange
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Gov. Cuomo! What his attack on vaping and his stalling on Safe Injection Sites really means
SEPT. 26, 2019 - ...continuing his drug war hysteria and declaring an emergency action to ban flavored vapes, despite research showing that vaping doubles the success rate for quitting cigarettes when compared to FDA-approved nicotine replacement therapy...
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Only If They've Done the Steps? AUDIO
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New York to offer tax credit for employers that hire people in addiction recovery AUDIO
Sept. 27, 2019 - Starting next year, employers in New York that hire people recovering from drug or alcohol addiction will be eligible for a state tax credit. The $2000 credit covers both full and part time workers ...
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Smoking ban at drug rehab fuels black market for cigarettes
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 - Brad Wienczkowski didn’t want to leave treatment. He had just finished detox, and he still felt sick from withdrawal symptoms. He didn’t feel ready to be on his own after seven years of injecting heroin.
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Hydrogen cyanide found in THC vaping cartridges
September 27, 2019 - No heavy metals, pesticides or solvents such as vitamin E were found in the legal products. But all 10 of the black market cartridges tested positive for pesticides and myclobutanil, a fungicide that can transform into hydrogen cyanide when burned...
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Tower of Sour Liquid Candy Urine Samples VIDEO
Retail: Not for the squeamish, but perfect for those who enjoy tormenting the squeamish, these realistic-looking urine containers are actually full of delicious sour liquid candy! More@CandyWarehouse
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California officials tell everyone to stop vaping right now!
SEP. 25, 2019 - “We are seeing something that we have not seen before,” said Dr. Charity Dean, California’s acting public health officer, in a statement. “There are numerous unknown factors at this time, and due to the uncertainty of the exact cause, it is our recommendation...More@LATimes
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Protesters denounce police sweep that rounded up addicts
September 28, 2019 - ...the Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians and the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band carried signs that read, “Humans aren’t trash,” “#CleanSweep is dirt,” and “Drug user rights are human rights.” More@BostonGlobe
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5 dead from tainted cocaine overdoses VIDEO
September 24, 2019 - Five people in the New York City area are dead after overdosing on what is believed to be tainted cocaine. Two men in Yonkers died over the weekend from apparent overdoses...
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