April 7, 2020 • Vol. 7., No. 32
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Addiction Treatment Pivots for Coronavirus April 3, 2020 - Nationwide, addiction treatment clinics are expanding their hours, hiring more staff to take people’s temperatures, providing home delivery and curbside pickup for medication, and revamping procedures to limit human contact in what has been a high-touch health care service. @PEWTrusts
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The Reason You are Exhausted is ‘Moral Fatigue’
March 27, 2020 - A few short weeks ago most of us went about our days making a series of low-impact decisions. A bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich from the cart outside the office for breakfast? A road trip to see your grandma upstate? Without thinking twice... @RollingStone
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Duran Duran’s John Taylor Reveals Coronavirus Recovery
April 5, 2020 - “Perhaps I am a particularly robust 59 year old — I like to think I am — or was blessed with getting only a mild case of COVID-19, but after a week or so of what I would describe as a ‘Turbo-charged Flu’, I came out of it feeling okay,”... @Variety
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Potential of using psychedelic drugs in psychiatry
April 2, 2020 - Before they were banned about a half century ago, psychedelic drugs like LSD and psilocybin showed promise for treating conditions including alcoholism and some psychiatric disorders.
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"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather." —Pema Chodron
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Home is Where the Heartache is WATCH
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Global Lockdowns Resulting in ‘Horrifying Surge’ in Domestic Violence WATCH
April 6, 2020 - UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said “violence is not confined to the battlefield.” “For many women and girls, the threat looms largest where they should be safest — in their own homes,” @NPR
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Still Feeling No Pain WATCH
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While Corona Makes Headlines, Opioid Addiction Continues to Kill WATCH - April 2, 2020 - We are seeing COVID-19 sweep across our country, tearing apart families and ravaging communities. The opioid epidemic has been doing much the same. Much of the heartland of America has been destroyed by drugs, addiction, depression, and despair. ```@Newsweek
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Coronavirus is causing a rise in drug and alcohol relapses
March 30, 2020 - “Yes, we are already starting to see an increase in relapses,” Dayry Hulkow, M.S., a primary therapist told Fox News. She says the pandemic may result in an unintended rise in drug and alcohol relapses among those who are in recovery.@NYPost
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A.A. Saved My Life. Can It Work Online? - April 2, 2020 - “I have several hours clean,” the person said, grinning and lurching screen left. “I need help.” This was my first online experience of the fellowship that has been a cornerstone of my life...But internet A.A., at first glance, was uncanny. @NYTimes
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Sobriety a struggle in isolation for former boxer Mia St. John - April 2, 2020 - Mia St. John sighed as she described ... day of her relapse. The former boxer had driven from one Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to another, to find neither in session. Her next stop was a grocery store, where she purchased a bottle of wine. @LATimes
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Opioid Epidemic Hasn’t Gone Away With COVID-19. It’s Just Harder To Address
APRIL 2, 2020 - “We are going back to former participants and giving them calls — tried to check in with them, see where they’re at, if they have any new challenges or new leads,” Sullivan said. “But outreach does have to be limited.” @NEPR
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Neil Lasher, Music Publishing Exec & Intervention Specialist, Dies of Coronavirus at 73
April 5, 2020 - NEIL was a certified drug counselor at the CARON FOUNDATION and helped many in our industry ... Sober for a quarter-century at that point, and served as a consultant for MusiCares and its Safe Harbor Room program. @Variety
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Rehab's Mezuzah ceremony honors ‘track of Jewish recovery’ March 25, 2020 - The addition of the mezuzah might be one more thing that makes the facility unusual, but for some of its residents, Soberman’s already is a blessing. Mark Greenberg, a client currently in residence, was unequivocal when he said, “This place is going to save my life.” @JewishAZ
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Bay Area Getting Drunk as Hell During Shelter-in-Place
March 31, 2020 - Any cursory scrolling of social media you’ve done in the last two weeks — will show you that drinking alcohol has become a preferred pastime in the age of COVID-19. But while this is all fun and drinking games for many of us, Buzzfeed reports that the recovery community faces a huge challenge... @SFist
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Pray for the newcomers WATCH
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For Miami addicts, recovery is tough enough. Then came the virus WATCH
MARCH 29, 2020 - “I went like 2 1/2 weeks without a meeting and I was starting to get messed up in the head,” said Derrick, “The anxiety and fear was starting to get to me.” Like many recovering addicts ... Derrick has turned to meetings through teleconferencing services such as Zoom and In The Rooms, a free website that specializes in hosting recovery groups... @MiamiHerald
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DEA to review dozens of requests to grow marijuana for research - Mar. 30, 2020 - Federal rulemaking can take years because it involves soliciting and responding to public comments, not to mention potential litigation over the decision ... “DEA basically has … found a way to put this on the back burner a lot longer.” @ScienceMag
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Big Pharma is Big Obstacle to Coronavirus Treatment
April 2, 2020 - When it comes to the pharmaceutical companies, how should we judge their response? They, after all, hold the key to ending the pandemic. Yet in one vital respect their behaviour has more in common with the supermarket hoarders... @TheGuardian
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Cara Santana poses in nothing but a towel to mark 16 years of sobriety - April 3, 2020 - The beauty stripped off to a black lace bra and a thong as she struck the pose to know she ‘still had it’ after eating a large amount of frosting. She exhibited her ample cleavage and taut midriff in the underwear... @DailyMail
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Debbie Harry reveals her heroin addiction was a ‘drag’ as it took too much effort to track down
April 2, 2020 - The singer has always been open about her drug use, previously speaking about using heroin and detailing her past struggles in the peak of fame in her 2019 memoir Face It. @CelebrityNine
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NIDA Director outlines risks to people who smoke and do drugs during pandemic April 2, 2020 - Dr. Volkow discusses how the serious health risks of COVID-19 pose unique challenges to people who smoke or vape, are already struggling with substance use disorders, or are in recovery from addiction. @NIH
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Bill Withers was in his 30s with a job making toilets. Then a big hit changed his life.
April 4, 2020 - Withers, who died March 30 of heart complications, had a notably brief recording career for someone whose work has become so ingrained in the American songbook. He largely stopped recording in 1985. @WashingtonPost
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Americans are drinking a crazy amount of alcohol during coronavirus lockdown
March 31, 2020 - The world might be mad for margaritas, but a World Health Organization official wants people to put the brakes on the booze — calling it an “unhelpful coping strategy” @NYPost
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Ryan Leaf Celebrates 8 Years of Sobriety - April 3, 2020 - “8 years ago today I woke up on the floor of a prison cell … You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending!! @DailyCaller
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Tana Mongeau Opens Up About Recent Struggle with Xanax Addiction WATCH
April 1, 2020 - I crumbled to be real ... by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn’t even a person. I was at rock bottom. I wanted to die. I wanted to kill myself. @People
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DOJ unleashes $163 million to fight drug addiction
April 3, 2020 - The funding is available through the Office of Justice Programs, the federal government’s leading source of public safety funding and crime victim assistance in state, local and tribal jurisdictions. @TribToday
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Stop Trying to Be Productive
April 1, 2020 - As the coronavirus has brought life largely indoors, many people are feeling pressure to organize every room in their homes, become expert home chefs, write the next “King Lear”and get in shape. “It’s in blog posts, on social media ... ‘use this time productively!’ As if I usually don’t.” @NYTimes
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A Family’s Journey Helps Shift the Science of Mental Illness LISTEN - April 5, 2020 - They seemed like a model for baby-boomer America, 12 children with a military dad and a strict but religious mother growing up in Colorado in the 1960s. But over the years, six of the boys in the family were diagnosed with schizophrenia. @NPR
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Why Coronavirus is making people hoard illegal drugs?
April 5, 2020 - It’s not just toilet roll (paper) that people are panic buying. Some illegal drug users are reportedly stockpiling their substance of choice ... experts are concerned that people will adopt riskier habits, substitute unfamiliar drugs or enter withdrawal... @CitizenTV
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The Set Aside Prayer: Opening up to new possibilities.
No Better Time - The intention of the prayer is so simple and beautiful. It can be applied to any area of your life: wanting a new experience in relationship to yourself and others, a new experience of faith, any new experience of expanding your comfort zone into uncharted territory.
The Set Aside Prayer
God,
Please help me set aside
everything I think I know
about myself, my disease,
the 12 steps, and especially You;
So I may have an open mind
and a new experience
of all these things.
Please let me see the truth.
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Read the history of Betty Ford and the Betty Ford Center HERE
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