January 7, 2020 • Vol. 7., No. 19
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F.D.A. Failed to Ensure Safe Prescribing of Opioids
Dec. 30, 2019 - The lax oversight, they point out, occurred as the epidemic was growing and tens of thousands of people were dying from overdoses each year. @MSN
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Why Did the Pentagon Push the FDA to Approve a Powerful New Opioid 200 Times More Powerful Than Heroin?
Jan. 6, 2020 - The drug is supported by limited research, conducted by doctors with histories of taking exorbitant payments from drug companies, and it’s not yet clear whether it works any better than Tylenol. @Gizmodo
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Big Pharma raises prescription drug prices on New Year’s Day
January 1, 2020 - Drugmakers including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer and Biogen hiked US list prices on more than 50 drugs — including life-saving cancer and HIV meds — bringing the total number prescription medicines that will cost more this year to over 250... @NYPost
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A Cuban Describes Her Recovery from Alcoholism
December 30, 2019 - In Cuba, having an alcoholic in the family is quite common. Covering up the fact that a large percentage of young people drink alcohol as a pastime, just makes matters worse. @HavanaTimes
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In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings January 3, 2020 - In this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) locals like to say that “you can toss a rock and hit a musician.” But these strong cultural roots have been tested by the scourge of the opioid crisis. @NewYorkTimes
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The writer as glamorous drunk? That myth is long gone
December 30, 2019 - While listening to a podcast from “Selected Shorts,” the public radio program where actors read short fiction... I caught Leonard Nimoy reading Raymond Carver’s dazzling, heartbreaking story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” @Datebook
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The 7 Biggest Lessons from 7 Years of Sobriety December 30, 2019 - The road wasn’t all puppies and tacos but now I actually truly, deeply know myself for the first time ever. “It was 4am on November 21, 2012... @ThriveGlobal
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More U.S. Teens Are Overdosing on Valium, Xanax
Dec. 24, 2019 - The increase in benzodiazepine overdoses among kids on commonly prescribed anxiety medications such as Xanax, Valium or Ativan ...appears to reflect an increase in the number of prescriptions handed out for the drugs ...@HealthDay
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“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” —Rene Descartes
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Cannabis: Why don’t its illnesses and deaths command media headlines?
Jan. 3, 2020 - On Christmas Day, my son of 22 years put an electric cord around his neck and hung himself one day after his release from Yale Psychiatric Hospital ... I told my son you had written an article about his condition linking pot to psychosis. @USAToday
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A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019 - Poems By Reginald Dwayne Betts. “There is no name for this thing that you’ve become,” he writes: “Convict, prisoner, inmate, lifer, yardbird, all fail.” @NYTimes
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It's No Longer A Crime To Inhale WATCH
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Illinois becomes 11th state to legalize marijuana WATCH
Jan. 1, 2020 - The first day of legal sales follows Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) granting more than 11,000 pardons to people convicted of low-level marijuana convictions.
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Marketing Psychiatric Drugs to Jailers and Judges Dec. 31, 2019 - the relationship between drug companies and the criminal-justice system seems to have intensified: free samples to detention facilities; comped lunches where prison doctors learn about medications; and payments to physicians to tout certain medications at conferences for criminal-justice professionals... @TheAtlantic
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63% of Hawaii State Hospital Patients Have Used Meth
December 31, 2019 - More than six out of every 10 patients at Hawaii’s only forensic hospital have a history of methamphetamine use, new data from the state Department of Health reveals. The department’s figures quantify how much the drug has impacted the lives of Hawaii State Hospital patients... @CivilBeat
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Why We Need ReSOULutions, not Resolutions – Robyn Cruze
Dec. 30, 2019 - “When you do things for the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” - Rumi. Over the past few years, though, I have pledged to not make resolutions but instead to make ReSOULutions. Last year, my ReSOULution was to work on my anxiety...
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What Would Bill Do?
Dec 26, 2019 - That spiritual focus has been both a blessing to millions who have gotten sober and a barrier to millions of others who could not find a way through. @Medium
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Victoria’s Secret Models Got Much Thinner Over 23 Years
January 3, 2020 - “Overall, these models became slimmer and their dress size decreased,”yet the average American woman’s measurements grew — with the average woman now at least a size 16. @WBUR
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Officer at Oregon women’s prison accused of smuggling in heroin, meth for inmates Dec. 23, 2019 - Federal agents arrested Richard Steven Alberts II, 31, of Sherwood, on Monday morning. A co-defendant, Joseph Lucio Jimenez, 27, of Gresham, accused of supplying the drugs to Alberts, is in custody on unrelated charges... @OregonLive
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This is what happened when I stopped drinking for a month
Jan. 1, 2020 -“The big shift is that alcohol is moving from an addiction conversation to a wellness conversation,” says Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life, a book that delves into the neuroscience of drinking and provides a path for those who want to get it under control.
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Death don't have no mercy in this life WATCH
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In memoriam to those lost to drug addiction WATCH
December 31, 2019 - “He overdosed six times and on the seventh time, there was no one there to bring him back,” Burtis explains. “You know, he thought he knew what he was doing.” @WREX
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Recovering alcoholic launches resource for people trying to stay sober Jan. 1, 2020 - Lee-Anne Richardson has been sober for six years. Since she quit drinking, she’s found it difficult to find places to go and things to do that don’t involve alcohol. So she decided to build a new resource — Sober City Halifax... @CBC
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Addicts' Lives Matter WATCH
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“Eureka police officer saved my life,” says recovering addict WATCH - December 31, 2019 - Dave Silverbrand interviews Eureka man, Joseph Walker, who says he lived a life of drug addiction on the streets, until he was given another chance thanks to the relentless efforts of Eureka Police Officer, Ryan Swanson. @KRCRTV
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Restaurateur Steve Palmer shares struggle with sobriety in new memoir Dec. 31, 2019 - He’s the managing partner and founder of the Indigo Road Hospitality Group, which operates a dozen restaurant concepts in six cities, including Oak Steakhouse, O-Ku Sushi, Colletta, Donetto, Tiny Lou’s and Sukoshi in Atlanta. @AJC
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First FDA-Approved Miracle-Drug to Curb Meth Addiction
Dec. 31, 2019 - The death rate because of meth addiction is on the rise in the United States since 2012 and the amphetamine-related hospitalizations have been shockingly increased from 2008 to 2015... @SparkHealthMD
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Harm Reduction Approach Should Extend to Patient Smoking by John de Miranda
December 31, 2019 - The addiction treatment and recovery system in the US is massive. The industry comprises approximately 15,000 public and private service units with more than 1.3 million persons in care at any point in time.
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Dallas Stars’ Head Coach Jim Montgomery Checks into Rehab for Alcoholism JANUARY 3, 2020 - “Losing my job as head coach of the Dallas Stars last month was a wake-up call. It was also the appropriate call. I let the team’s front office, staff and players down. More importantly, I let my wife and my family down...” @BleacherReport
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Why Is America So Depressed? OPINION January 2, 2020 - Forty million adults now suffer from an anxiety disorder — nearly 20 percent of the adult population. This mental carnage is occurring at a time when decades of social and political division have set us against each other... @NYTimes
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The True Cause of the Opioid Epidemic - January 2, 2019 - In 2015, Jennifer Silva, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Bucknell University, began interviewing people in the coal region of northeastern Pennsylvania. She quickly noticed a startling trend alongside the growing unemployment: Her subjects and their families were struggling with opioid abuse. @TheAtlantic
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Brain Salad Surgery WATCH
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What drives video game addiction in teens WATCH
Jan. 2, 2020 - Ryan said there’s a difference between a teen’s interest in gaming and when their reliance on it becomes a behavioral pattern. “Depression and anxiety, and that will often times manifest in a way that their parents can notice.” @KGUN9
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Cameron Douglas ‘I felt something breaking inside of me’ WATCH Jan. 1, 2020 - As the son and grandson of actors Michael Douglas and Kirk Douglas, Cameron has said he felt pressure in trying to live up to his family’s legacy. For years, he struggled with addictions to cocaine and heroin.
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Mom Is ‘Free of the Emotional Addiction’ to Food After Losing 165 Lbs. WATCH
Jan. 3, 2020 - “I would sneak food when people weren’t around, going to 7-Eleven in the middle of the night for ice cream and burritos. I even shoplifted food,” Tindal, 39, tells PEOPLE for the Half Their Size issue. @People
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Prozac lowers sex drive
Jan. 5, 2020 - This whole situation is killing me. I feel sexless. I’m in a beautiful relationship with a wonderful man I love very much. He is very understanding and patient, but I fear that I will lose him over the lack of sex.
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Dr. Heather Ashton, 90, Helped People Quit Anxiety Drugs
Jan. 3, 2020 - “Patients themselves, and not the medical profession, were the first to realize that long-term use of benzodiazepines can cause problems,” wrote Dr. Heather Ashton, a British psychopharmacologist. @NYTimes
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Deal will let more companies make an overdose antidote spray - Jan. 3, 2020 - Under the agreement, Emergent BioSolutions will no longer enforce a contract that had allowed it to be the only company to develop a nasal spray version of the drug nalmefene for use as an antidote in a nasal spray. @6ABC
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The real villain of the opioid crisis is the healthcare industry
Jan. 5, 2020 - the healthcare industry is “so incredibly protected” by politicians that reform seems impossible Pharmaceutical companies introduced the product and set something in motion that was hard to stop. Doctors were too careless prescribing the drugs, and the Food and Drug Administration didn’t stop... @MarketWatch
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Jennifer Gimenez & Tim Ryan tie the knot on New Year’s Eve in Beverly Hills Ceremony
December 31, 2019 - ET has exclusively learned that Gimenez — best known for her roles in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and The Bold and The Beautiful — tied the knot with Ryan in Beverly Hills, California, on Tuesday. The newly married couple — who have forged careers as joint speakers on the subject of substance abuse and addiction recovery @ETOnline
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