December 3, 2019 • Vol. 7., No. 14
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Is that a percodan on your breath? WATCH
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Researchers Develop Breathalyzer That Can Detect Opioids WATCH
November 26, 2019 - This device could help save lives from opioid abuse and other drugs, using a single breath. “You could potentially monitor for all kinds of drugs that people take for regular prescriptions,”...@CBSLocal
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Drinking-related liver disease and deaths on the rise in U.S.
November 29, 2019 - “We think that increasing alcohol use is likely playing a role and then possibly in combination with an increase in other underlying liver diseases, putting people at increased risk for alcohol-related liver disease,”... @Yahoo
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Young people ‘panicky’ when denied cell phones
November 29, 2019 - Almost a quarter of young people are so dependent on their smartphones that it becomes like an addiction, suggests research by psychiatrists. More@BBC
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‘I was homeless and a drug addict, but now I’m London’s happiest bus driver’
November 23, 2019 - Patrick Lawson, 51, on how he turned his life around after prison and addiction. I grew up without access to any kind of financial intelligence and I think that’s why many of the terrible things I’ve done in life were for money. More@TheGuardian
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Americans are dying young at alarming rates
November 26, 2019 - Despite spending more on health care than any other country, the United States has seen increasing mortality and falling life expectancy for people ages 25 to 64, who should be in the prime of their lives.
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What a Difference a Year Makes
Nov. 29, 2019 - Former addicts have been sharing images of before and after pictures online to celebrate their own transformations and encourage others to lead healthier lives. “It’s the hardest thing I have been through in my life but it’s also the most rewarding.” More@TheSun
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Men who regularly smoke cannabis have increased risk of developing testicular cancer
December 1, 2019 - Research by a team of US-based scientists linked long-term use of the drug with higher rates of the disease - which is diagnosed in 2,400 in the UK each year. More@Yahoo
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Opioid Overdose Risk is High After Medication Treatment Ends - December 2, 2019 - Among people who were treated with buprenorphine continuously for 6 to 18 months, about 5% needed medical treatment for an opioid overdose in the 6 months after ending buprenorphine treatment... More@Columbia
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China Cracks Down on Fentanyl
Dec. 1, 2019 - XINGTAI, China — An online pharmacy advertising itself as a seller of “high purity, real pure” fentanyl still responds right away to potential customers. Which products do you want to buy,” a salesperson replied within a minute to an inquiry in English...
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The Class of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything’
December 2, 2019 - Purdue Pharma introduced its opioid painkiller, OxyContin, in 1996, when the Minford High School Class of 2000 entered high school. By the time the group entered its final year, its members said, painkillers were nearly ubiquitous, found in classrooms, school bathrooms and at weekend parties. More@NYTimes
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Drugs Used to Replace Opioids Linked With Increase in Suicide Attempts - Dec. 2, 2019 - Gabapentin is an anti-epileptic drug which is also used to treat nerve pain, as well as migraines, mental illness, and fibromyalgia. Between 2012 and 2016, prescriptions for the drug in the U.S. rose by 64 percent, to 64 million. Baclofen... More@Newsweek
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Artist's Corner - Issa Ibrahim
Issa finds meaning and purpose as an artist, musician, writer, filmmaker, activist, 25-year artist-in-residence at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center’s Living Museum, and now as a member of Fountain House Gallery. Author of the memoir The Hospital Always Wins, Issa has been featured on Public Television, in an HBO documentary, and an Edward R. Murrow and Third Coast award winning NPR audio story. @AREB
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All women including Moms are binge drinking more
Nov. 26, 2019 - From 2006 to 2018, the rate of binge drinking in women with children rose at about the same pace as women without children... More@NBCNews
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Medical Students Say Their Opioid Experiences Will Shape How They Prescribe LISTEN
November 26, 2019 - When Matthew Braun gets out of medical school, he’ll be able to prescribe opioids. A decade ago, he was addicted to them... More@NPR
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Teens living with parents who smoke pot more likely to use themselves - Nov. 29, 2019 - “Once you set the platform for exploring substances, you create a mindset that is willing to delve into the others as well as the primary one or the one you initiated,” Madras said.
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Where the Nurse Prescribes Heroin - Nov. 27, 2019 - A new program in Glasgow will give drug users pharmaceutical-grade heroin twice daily in a bid to reduce drug-related deaths.
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Addiction takes up residence on Sesame Street
November 29, 2019 - Jerry Moe, National director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Children’s Program helped the TV show’s creators reach out to kids who suffer because of their parents’ disease. @SGVTribune
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Can ketamine curb harmful drinking? - NOVEMBER 26, 2019 - Scientists are trying to curb harmful drinking by dredging up memories and rewriting them — with the help of a dose of ketamine, “We know these cues cause relapse. Could you disrupt the memory associated between the cues and the [alcohol], and stop the relapse?” More@StatNews
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5 youths in treatment program rushed to hospital with OD signs
Nov. 26, 2019 - The caller told dispatchers the youths had taken the prescription drug Xanax ... “The incident that occurred last night at the Granite Pathways Youth Treatment Center is under review,” @UnionLeader
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Why doctors know almost nothing about the health effects of marijuana
NOV. 25, 2019 - The list of unanswered questions about marijuana is long — and disturbing. How does it interact with opioids or other drugs? Which conditions might it alleviate, and which of the hundreds of varietals might work best for which conditions? @AAMC
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UNPAID AD - First Pennsylvania Medication-Assisted-Treatment Facility - Nov. 26, 2019 - Recovery Centers of America, an addiction healthcare network based in King of Prussia, PA, is committed to offering OUD patients Medication-Assisted-Treatment at accessible stand-alone MAT facilities across the country. @DailyAmerican
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She was spending $1,000 a day on crack and heroin. Then she cried out to God. WATCH
Nov. 26, 2019 - Sobbing in the shower of a Chicago hotel, Brandi Moran begged for her life. HELP ME. A years-long addiction to crack cocaine, meth and heroin was wringing the life out of her... More@IndyStar
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Some of us actually need painkillers - November 28, 2019 - ...can you ease up on prohibiting medications that help patients in pain to relax a bit? They’re not terrible drugs. They’re terrible drugs in the wrong hands. More@WashingtonPost
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Sculpture of AA founder Bill Wilson’s Face unveiled
NOV. 29, 2019 - Sculptor Steve Shaheen tells the Rutland Herald he and his collaborators chose to combine a portrait of Bill Wilson in the front with an open hand in the back so that the piece was both functional and something the public could understand.
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Heartburn drugs put millions at risk of acute stomach virus
November 28, 2019 - People who took acid-relieving medications, such as Nexium, were 80 percent more likely to get acute gastroenteritis. @NYPost
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Sexism Can Affect Your Mental Health - November 30, 2019 - Young women who experience sexism are five times more likely to suffer from clinical depression, a new study has found. “Sexism sits in the core of you and if you try and ignore it and don’t address it, it rots away and the problems permeate to other areas of your life.” More@Refinery29
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Hellfighters Help Homeless
November 30, 2019 - The Hellfighters Ministry Soul Snatchers Unit spends every Saturday night cruising the streets of Albuquerque looking for stomachs to fill and hands to warm. “The vans are packed with blankets, sweaters, beanies...@ABQJournal
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“The remedy is in our hearts and equally, in the heart of the animals, we call the Universe.” —Nikola Tesla
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How to recover from Thanksgiving WATCH
November 30, 2019 - You managed to get through Thanksgiving. Now you fear the next phase of food fests — Below are some do’s and don’ts designed to help you get through the holidays with your sanity and your waistline intact. @KRON4
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NY officials OK clean needle exchange for addicts
November 29, 2019 - “Secondary Syringe Exchange” program — which strives to curb the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and other blood-borne illnesses — allows new satellite needle exchange centers to pop up in hard-to-reach and rural parts of the state... @NYPost
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Skid Row Project Highlights Toilets as Harm Reduction and a Human Right Nov. 25, 2019 - In June 2017, Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles (HHCLA), a nonprofit community organization, found that only nine public toilets were available for over 1,700 people who were living homeless in the Skid Row...@FilterMag
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‘It saved my life’: Small business owner reflects on 6 years of sobriety WATCH
Nov. 30, 2019 - Chris Marshall said. “I am celebrating six years of continued sobriety. So this opportunity to kind of see what I’m capable of to be rewarded in so many ways when I see people wear my art and it really motivates me to keep going.” Behind each of her handmade pieces of art, a message is carried. @WISTV
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Joan Marie Mathews-Larson, founder of recovery center, dies at 90 - NOVEMBER 30, 2019 - After her teenage son died of suicide, Joan Marie Mathews-Larson spent much of her life helping others battle addiction. She wrote two books on the subject and ran a Minneapolis recovery center for more than 40 years. More@StarTribune
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Film Review: Doctor Sleep
NOVEMBER 30, 2019 - Thirty-nine years after Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) was nearly murdered by his father in a malevolent haunted hotel, after a lifetime of struggling with trauma and alcoholism, he is now put in the position of protecting a psychic child much like he once was. @Impact
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Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld Opens Up About ‘Get Back Up’ Documentary
11/30/2019 - The film delves into the singer’s struggle with mental illness and drugs and its impact on his band and loved ones... More@Billboard
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'A Better Life Recovery' appoints famed advocates Tim Ryan and Jennifer Gimenez aka "Timifer"
DECEMBER 02, 2019 - “I couldn’t be more thrilled to join the team at A Better Life Recovery. It feels great to have a strong community of treatment professionals to lean on in this fight ... About a year ago, Gimenez and Ryan teamed up, and now travel the country sharing their stories and advocating for addiction recovery. More@PRWeb
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Former escort Samantha X opens up about her journey to sobriety - Dec. 1, 2019 - Taking the advice, she promptly joined her local Alcoholics Anonymous program and made a promise to herself to stick at it. Since then, she’s turned to God. More@NXHerald
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Benefits of a Gratitude Journal
November 27, 2019 - Gratitude is an emotion that expresses appreciation and thankfulness. Keeping a gratitude journal can be good for your health physically and mentally. Journaling can also help your healing process or aid your journey in recovery... @LVR
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