March 10, 2020 • Vol. 7., No. 28
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Science Suggests Loneliness Is Tied To Addiction LISTEN
MAR 5, 2020 - People in recovery do learn to enjoy things and regain social abilities that they may have lost during substance abuse — although this can take time, especially for cocaine users, whose brains may take many months to recover. @KCUR
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Mother with opioid addiction dies in police custody after officers ignore her calls for help
MAR 07, 2020 - A trove of evidence recently turned over following a public records request from the ACLU included Linsemeir’s medical reports from the prison and a pair surveillance videos, which show her repeated requests for help. @NYDailyNews
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Mika Brzezinski: This therapy is helping me triumph over my 20-year addiction to sleep medicine WATCH - March 5, 2020 - I’m not talking about Tylenol P.M., melatonin, or a glass of wine to take the edge off. I’m talking about prescription narcotics to help me get enough sleep every night... @NBCNews
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Woman's Empowerment WATCH
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Demi Lovato opens up about sobriety relapse in interview with Ellen WATCH
March 5, 2020 - Having been sober for six years before her relapse, Demi revealed that she didn’t get the help she needed at the time as she continued to battle with bulimia.
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Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Interview with Courtney Friel
As a news anchor and reporter on television, Courtney Friel currently works for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. She previously reported on entertainment news for the Fox News Channel. Sober for over a decade, Friel gives an uncensored look at her life of partying and eventual recovery in her new memoir, Tonight At 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News. @AREB
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Can You Drink Your Way Sober?
March 1, 2020 - “I went to my first meeting, cried all the way through it, then went out and proceeded to get massively wasted.” But Schick Shadel’s treatment involves some strategies experts consider fringe, even borderline unethical. The center administers high doses of alcohol combined with a nausea-inducing drug or mild electric shocks... @HuffPost
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San Francisco Resurrects Plan to Open Supervised Injection Sites WATCH
March 4, 2020 - The centers allow people to use their own drugs under the watch of staff trained to administer life-saving medication in the case of a potentially deadly overdose. The sites provide drug users with new syringes and a sterilized area to shoot up as well as access to rehabilitation services to overcome their addiction.
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” — Marie Curie
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‘Sobriety’s not boring’
March 2, 2020 - Is sobriety ready for a rebrand? Drinking was a band-aid for that anxiety. Since she stopped using alcohol, she’s learned -- with the help of a therapist -- to manage her feelings without it. “The best part of it, although it is hard sometimes, is just feeling every emotion, and having to cope with that,” Foos said. @ADN
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A Truly Radical Idea to Address Drug Addiction Takes Hold in Mia Donovan’s Gripping “Dope is Death” - March 6, 2020 - This remarkable tale of how the Black Panthers and Young Lords solved the drug crisis in their community will put you on pins and needles.
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Opioid Epidemic Might Be Much Worse Than We Thought
FEB. 27, 2020 - “you would think [coroners] would not be able to identify opioid involvement in a death as well as a medical doctor trained in it would.” That inference seems to be held up by data: The states that had a lot of unclassified drug-overdose deaths... @TheAtlantic
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Laura McKowen on Addiction, Recovery and We Are the Luckiest - MARCH 2, 2020 - There was a point, pretty early on, when I was laying with my daughter one night. She was asleep, and I had been crying. I felt a shift because as difficult as things were emotionally then, I was okay. I was safe. My daughter was safe. @WestWord
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Q&A with Elizabeth Narayan
March 8, 2020 - Elizabeth Narayan is an aspiring makeup artist and filmmaker. After producing her CSUN senior thesis, Courage, the Western neo-noir 15 minute short film was selected to screen at the REEL Recovery Film Festival and Symposium. @AREB
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Indiana County to Start Bringing Charges Against Residents Who Overdose
February 29, 2020 - This means that people who overdose in Hancock County will face charges of Possession of a Controlled Substance, which is a Level 6 Felony and could result in a jail sentence between six months and two-and-a-half years. Fox 59 News reports that, after the person is sent to the hospital to treat the overdose, “officers will fill out a form to determine if there is probable cause to file charges.” @CH27
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Opinion: Jailing individuals for drug addiction is immoral
March 3, 2020 - President Richard Nixon coined the phrase in 1971, which adjudicated drug abuse as “public enemy number one.” A 1973 executive order called the Controlled Substance Act created the Drug Enforcement Agency, which made wide-scale arrests for using and distributing narcotics. @DailyIowan
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‘Strung Out’ Tackles Pain, Stigma And Shame Of Drug Use
February 28, 2020 - Drug addiction continues to be wildly misunderstood and deeply stigmatized in the United States. We’ve witnessed this in its many and varied degrees. Take the headline of this recent New York Times profile... @NPR
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Heroin addict: ‘You either going to be high, or dead’ WATCH
February 29th 2020 - It’s easy for Lagenna to describe the feeling she gets after sticking a syringe full of potent drugs into her body. “It’s like a euphoric feeling. Like, you get a wave like a numbing feeling.” @ABC6
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Comedian uses humor to share captivating recovery
March 2, 2020 - His comedy show began with a few words from the Collegiate Recovery Community, a group of students who are either in recovery or are allies of substance use disorder and other mental health issues.
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Drinking Alcohol Weakens Bones of People Living With HIV - Mar. 2, 2020 - “We did not find an amount of alcohol consumption that appeared ‘safe’ for bone metabolism,” says study lead author Dr. Theresa W. Kim, an assistant professor at BUSM and a faculty member of the Clinical Addiction Research Education (CARE) program at Boston Medical Center. @SciTechDaily
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Why Addiction Treatment Isn’t “One Size Fits All”
Mar. 3, 2020 - For many individuals, successful recovery includes participation in a mutual support program such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). But for individuals that have not found success with 12-Step programs or are not willing to consider this as an option... @PsychologyToday
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Justin Bieber found documentary series ‘cathartic’
Mar. 4, 2020 - The 26-year-old singer opened up about his battle with drug addiction during his YouTube Originals series ‘Justin Bieber: Seasons’, where he also revealed he has been diagnosed with Lyme disease. And now, the documentary’s director Michael Ratner has said having an opportunity to speak about his health...
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The Way Back...Time Out says ** stars - April 24 2020 - But the movie misfires when it comes to pacing, revealing the source of Jack’s suffering too late, rushing through his awakening and squandering our goodwill in the process. Far from the formulaic slam dunk it could have been, ‘The Way Back’ never rebounds from its gradual emotional decline. @TimeOut
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Catskill doctor sentenced to 54 months in opioid-distribution case - Mar. 6, 2020 - Myra Mabry, an obstetrician-gynecologist, admitted that between 2015 and 2017, she wrote prescriptions for oxycodone, morphine and hydromorphone to third parties, for no legitimate medical purpose @HudsonValley360
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17% of addicts hooked on de-addiction drug
Mar. 8, 2020 - “The private centres have been recklessly dispensing the medicine even to patients addicted to alcohol and low potency opioids such as poppy husk. The high profit margins make it vulnerable to misuse.”
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