July 7, 2020 • Vol. 7., No. 45 |
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‘Real-life Frankensteins’ $52M scheme involving sober living patients undergoing surgery for cash & prizes - July 3, 2020 - Dr. Randy Rosen also allegedly required the patients to undergo unnecessary drug tests and sent them to Lotus Laboratories, owned by his girlfriend, Liza Vismanos, to get tested, officials said. The laboratory then fraudulently billed at least 22 different insurance providers more than $3 million... more@KTLA |
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Free Treatment Instead? WATCH |
End the War on DRUG Addicts by JOHN STOSSEL WATCH - July 1, 2020 - Our government has spent trillions of dollars trying to stop drug use. It hasn’t worked. More people use drugs than before the “war” began. What drug prohibition did do is exactly what alcohol prohibition did a hundred years ago: increase conflict between police and citizens. more@Reason |
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Western addicts head to Thailand to detox July 1, 2020 - The Cabin was one of the first private rehab centers to open in Chiang Mai. “When we started 10 years ago, we only had eight beds,” recalls Peter Maplethorpe, one of the four founding partners. Today, The Cabin is licensed and can host 120 patients. more@CNN |
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Novartis pays $678 million to settle kickbacks to doctors - JULY 1, 2020 - The company ran so-called speaker programs that were actually blatant marketing tools, rather than educational sessions for doctors. And as a result of the bribes, the drug maker caused federal health care programs to overpay for medicines. more@StatNews |
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Hispanic community, racial disparities in healthcare add to the burden July 1, 2020 - It’s discouraging to have to say, ‘Oh, we have no places right now. Maybe in a few days.’ We’re dealing with a crisis, and a crisis can’t wait until next week.” more@Inquirer |
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Beverly Hills Doctor Pleads Not Guilty In Alleged Fraud Scheme July 3, 2020 - A Beverly Hills surgeon and his girlfriend have pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing nearly $52 million in an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that involved hiring body brokers to pay patients at Southern California sober living homes to undergo medically unnecessary surgeries... more@Patch |
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Charlie Sheen on Quitting Smoking: “Trust Me the Sooner the Better” July 4, 2020 - Sheen previously celebrated one year of sobriety in 2018. “So, THIS happened yesterday! a fabulous moment, in my renewed journey,” he wrote on Twitter at the time, alongside a photo of his Alcoholics Anonymous medallion. more@People |
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Q&A with Ken Pomerance, co-founder, In The Rooms July 2, 2020 - Kenny has over 37 years of long-term recovery. He co-founded InTheRooms.com to give recovering addicts a place to meet and socialize when they’re not in face-to-face meetings. This basic concept has grown into a global online community with over 650,000 members. Ken is an avid Nature photographer who loves to spend time among the abundant wildlife in the Florida Everglades. more@AREB |
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The Opioid Crisis and America’s Addiction to Prohibition - June 29, 2020 - Law enforcement’s recent push for punishment might succeed in limiting opioid prescriptions but only at the cost of driving drug‐dependent individuals into more dangerous criminal markets and toward adulterated street heroin and fentanyl. more@CATO |
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‘I’m a f**king grandma!’ Sia is sober and a GRANDMOTHER at the age of just 44 July 1, 2020 - The musician, whose real name is Sia Kate Isobelle Furler, said her adopted children now call her ‘Nana’ Sia discussed the adoption process in detail during the interview, explaining how she is now ‘jaded’ with the ‘completely corrupt’ foster system. more@DailyMail |
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The Seattle journalist talks addiction and sobriety in memoir - July 1, 2020 - In her debut book, Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery (out July 7), Barnett tells her story in all its messiness. “I was drinking on buses and in alleys, puking on the ground,” Barnett recalls, now sober since 2015. more@Crosscut |
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Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx celebrates 19 years sober July 3, 2020 - “19 years of gratitude one day at a time,” the Mötley Crüe bassist detailed. “It is the road worth traveling if you are struggling.”: “Old timers are here to guide us but new comers to sobriety are the greatest gift to this simple program.”@ToneDeaf |
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Robbie Williams has strange new “addiction” July 2, 2020 - The ‘Let Me Entertain You’ hitmaker – who had previously battled with alcohol and drug dependencies – has admitted he has an addicting character and his brand-new preferred” habit” is playing online video games of golf every night. |
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MEDIA: Recovery Memoir WATCH |
A Memoir of a Canadian Rock Star WATCH June 30, 2020 - Great Big Sea founding member Séan McCann and his wife Andrea Aragon discuss their book, “One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love,” and how their shared love of music brought them together, and ultimately helped heal their relationship. more@TVO |
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Woman’s suspected overdose spotlights hidden deaths of the COVID-19 pandemic June 28, 2020 - Sara Wittner had seemingly gotten her life back under control. After a December relapse in her battle with drug addiction, the 32-year-old completed a 30-day detox program and started taking a monthly injection to block her cravings for opioids. She was engaged to be married... more@DenverPost |
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FDA again declines to approve non-opioid painkiller JUNE 29, 2020 - The drug developer said the agency did not identify any clinical or efficacy issue with the drug, but pointed out four non-clinical issues, including those relating to some additional ingredients of the treatment ... Heron’s treatment is a combination of the local anesthetic bupivacaine and a low dose of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory... more@Reuters |
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How Attorneys Can Help As Addiction Cases Rise Post-Pandemic by Sue Bright - June 28, 2020 - Experts predict an influx of legal cases related to the increase in alcohol and drug consumption in our country. Accessible addiction treatment is more critical than ever, and the legal system can serve as a helpful space for intervention. more@Law360 |
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‘It was a perfect storm how I got sober’: Student battles through addiction to graduate WATCH July 1, 2020 - “It seems very surreal, like I can’t even imagine it was me,” Donny Morrison says. “I’m a casualty of the opiate epidemic because, at the time I was entering high school, pills were everywhere.” more@CBS13 |
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Providing Vapes to Incarcerated People JUNE 30, 2020 - How much good can vaping do in a carceral setting? Smoking rates in prisons and jails across the United States and the world are extremely high, yet the question gets little attention. more@FilterMag |
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Celebration time is now WATCH |
Art exhibit removes the stigma of addiction WATCH July 2, 2020 - “Facing Addiction” aims to show people that you cannot tell what someone is going through just by looking at their face. The exhibit is portraits of 20 different people lined up on the wall. They are all drawn in a different color. Artist Paul Smith is a recovering addict himself. more@NBC15 |
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Involuntary treatment for the addicted is unconstitutional? July 1, 2020 - The constitutionality of a Kentucky law that allows families and friends of people with addiction to ask a court to order their loved one into involuntary treatment is being challenged. more@Cincinnati |
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How To Achieve Emotional Sobriety June 30, 2020 - Many people in recovery from alcohol or drug abuse, compulsive overeating, gambling, or other addictive behaviors eventually realize that while quitting the behavior is crucial, it’s not sufficient to live a happy, serene, healthy, and useful life. |
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North America to Hold the Lion’s Share in Addiction Treatment Market, 2020 to 2025 July 3, 2020 - Apart from innovations in drugs, healthcare companies investing in building rehabilitation clinics to deploy counseling and drug addiction treatments will stoke market growth - Smoking cessation guidelines by health institutes in order to increase availability of pharmacotherapies is a key factor fueling market growth - Increase production capabilities in FDA-approved medications such as nicotine replacement therapies... more@CloudTribune |
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Movies are Miraculous WATCH |
Top Movies About Addiction Recovery WATCH July 1, 2020 - Drink and Drugs are Hard Demons to Beat. But Movies can help as a crucial first step... more@MovieViral |
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Internet addiction causing emotional issues in teenagers - July 2, 2020 - Published in June, is the first long-term study looking at the connection between teen internet addiction and emotion regulation difficulties. More than 2,800 young people at 17 Australian high schools took part in the research from grades eight through to 11... more@7News |
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‘Left with nothing’: Funding shortfall cancels opioid response grants JULY 4, 2020 — The Chanhassen mom, who founded a nonprofit called Change the Outcome, spent three days and $2,500 to complete a 36-page proposal by the late May deadline. But shortly after submitting the request for $120,000, she got a response that gutted her: The round of grant-making was canceled because of “insufficient funds.” more@StarTribune |
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Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 LISTEN June 27, 2020 - Died: July 3, 1971, Paris, France Buried: July 7, 1971, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France ‘Hello, I Love You’ more so than any other Doors song puts Jim Morrison front and centre, welcoming the continuous spotlight. Nowhere is this better seen than with Jim’s isolated vocals, take a listen for yourself. @FarOutMagazine |
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