January 26, 2021 • Vol. 8., No. 23 |
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"I Have Been Anorexia’s Prey" January 20, 2021 - I’ve been recovering from an eating disorder for over five years. The illness has robbed me of joy. I have internalized so deeply that my value lies in my proximity to thinness that my self-worth has become directly proportional to how little I can consume on any given day. more@TheGuardian |
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Internet Sports Betting Legalization Causes Addiction Worries - Jan. 20, 2120 - “We’ve learned, the more gambling venues, the more problem gamblers,” Burke says. “My concern is that we’re going to, maybe, double the size of problem gamblers here in Michigan,” Mooney adds. The state will be putting money into treatment for people who develop gambling problems. more@WILX |
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How Bad is Quarantine for my Body? January 22, 2021 - While you may have lingering concerns that whatever hell you hath wrought on your body is irredeemable, doctors largely agree that it’s completely possible to “bounce back,” As humans, we are all very resilient,”... more@Vice |
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Q&A with Recovery Advocate and Basketball Legend Chris Herren January 20, 2021 - An extraordinary basketball player, Chris Herren was a celebrated star in his native Fall River, MA before graduating high school. He went on to play at Boston College and Fresno State, two seasons in the NBA – including one with his hometown team, the Boston Celtics – and seven seasons overseas before losing it all to the disease of addiction. @eBulletin |
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699 People Died in SF in 2020: 235 From COVID-19 Jan. 15, 2021 - “The one golden rule of overuse prevention is to try to not use alone, and the shelter-in-place order said to keep yourself safe, you need to isolate,” she said. “That’s just the opposite. People at high risk went into isolation and that heightened the risk. more@SFGate |
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The Sackler Family and Mine Jan. 19, 2021 - They raged at Nan Goldin, the photographer who spearheaded a movement to hold arts organizations accountable for taking Sackler money. (Goldin is in recovery from addiction to OxyContin.) ... My daughter went with me when I was covering a “die-in” that Goldin and her group, Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (pain), staged at the Guggenheim Museum. It was a Die-In. more@NewYorker |
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‘Words Can’t Describe How Much I’ll Miss You’ Jan. 20, 2021 - Lily Brant paid tribute to Harry Brant after his death Sunday. “My amazing big brother and my best friend, words cannot describe how much I will miss you.” “Thank you for always making me smile. You taught me how to have empathy… you showed me what it feels like to be understood and cared about.” more@USMagazine |
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Using Analytics to Attack Addiction Jan. 19, 2021 - The renowned Minnesota based Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has taken that approach in treating its patients, but recently its leaders realized they had not applied that same thinking to the hundreds of thousands of patient records... @Twin-Cities |
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Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford on Showtime Jan. 21, 2021 - Mrs. Ford was the first lady from 1974 to 1977 while her husband Gerald Ford was president, and her most famous legacy is speaking candidly about substance abuse — later founding the famous Betty Ford Center— and raising awareness to various social causes such as breast cancer, abortion rights and equal pay. @NYPost |
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Two-Drug Combo May Help Fight Meth Addiction Jan. 20, 2120- Volkow said the “synergistic” power of the new combination therapy is good news, amounting to the largest effect seen from a large, randomized clinical trial in the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder. more@WebMD |
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How Stuart Watson Became A Sober ‘Man Listening’ To Women LISTEN - Jan. 19, 2021 - It also took a recovery from alcoholism, finding his birth family, coming to terms with abandonment and a slow-dawning realization that sometimes the story isn’t about him. The Peabody Award-winning former investigative journalist chronicles it all in his new memoir... more@WBUR |
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Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction - Jan. 19, 2021 - That street was “rancid” with the “stench of beer and urine.” Its rhythms were nightly brawls. In “CHILDHOOD,” Ditlevsen takes the reader on a tour, and points out the spots where women and girls were murdered. more@NYTimes |
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April, 2020 - We follow Holden Caulfield on a distinctly New York odyssey that seems especially wistful in the spring of 2020—from a Midtown ice-skating rink to a “jam-packed” nightclub in Greenwich Village to “mobbed and messy” Broadway, as he comments on the “jerks, “phonies” and “knockouts” he encounters... @WSJ |
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‘Help Dad’ Campaign Comes Under Fire For ‘Mocking Alcoholism’ WATCH Jan. 20, 2021 - Thousands vowed to boycott the brand after it sold a £150 million stake to notorious Trump supporter and Amazon destroyer Blackstone. However, as we vehemently argued back in September, it is a necessary step towards a more plant-based future. But has Oatly gone too far with this new ad campaign?@VeganFoodAndLiving |
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A Retired DEA Agent’s Plea: Time to Reschedule Marijuana - Dec. 2020 - “I spent my professional life on the front lines of America’s drug wars and rose to become one of the most prominent special agents of the federal DEA ... It is time to reschedule marijuana from its status as the most dangerous kind of drug to one of a valuable medicine.” more@TheHill |
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Ugly Side Effects of Eating Potato Chips Jan. 19, 2021 - Thanks to a myriad of studies and research, scientists have found seven incredibly detrimental side effects of eating a lot of potato chips regularlymore@EatThis |
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Zooming Through Recovery Jan. 15, 2021 - Shifting to a digital meeting platform creates unique challenges and opportunities for those who are managing their sobriety ... In this regard, group meetings such as Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous fit the limitations of a Zoom or Google Hangouts meeting much better than other types of meetings or gatherings.@WRCBTV |
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Kate Moss From Coke Scandal to Sobriety Jan. 16, 2021 - Kate Moss’ ability to down endless flutes of champagne once saw her nicknamed ‘The Tank’. But today the fresh-faced model is the epitome of healthy living, three years sober and a lover of yoga - even if she does indulge in the occasional cigarette. Instead of wild nights out she is focused on a new goal - guiding daughter Lila Grace’s fledgling career... more@Mirror |
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Hip-hop Drug Use Explained Jan. 21, 2021 - “It used to be about alcohol and weed; now it’s popping pills and lean.” The late Mac Miller once headlined at the Observatory North Park in 2016. In 2018, the “One Last Thing” rapper reportedly accidentally overdosed on “fentanyl, ethanol, and cocaine” and “died of mixed drug toxicity,”... more@SanDiegoReader |
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Fentanyl Is in Everything Jan. 21, 2120 - Fentanyl is also being pressed into pills that resemble prescription opioids or benzodiazepines,” health officials said. “While fentanyl has been in Philadelphia’s heroin supply for several years, its presence in non-opioid drugs and counterfeit pills is especially concerning.. @NBCPhilly |
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Family’s Struggle With Mental Illness Comes to an End WATCH - January 21, 2020 - John Spoerl came so close to dying over the last few decades that his family stopped counting: suicide attempts, crack cocaine abuse, exposure. He never minced words about what it was like to live with severe mental illness. “It’s a living hell,” he said in an interview in 2011. more@JSOnline |
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Mobile Clinic Helps Vegas Homeless Combat Addiction January 23, 2021 - The program - a van modified into a compact clinic —promotes itself as “accepting, nonjudgmental and supportive, valuing differences and uniqueness.” Geographically and metaphorically, it aims to meet people where they’re at. @LasVegasSun |
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Chrissy Teigen describes sobriety as ‘a different world for me’ WATCH - Jan. 22, 2021 - Chrissy Teigen is sharing an update on her sobriety journey. The model, mom, cookbook author and wife of John Legend said abstaining from alcohol is changing her life. more@GMA |
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Could Psilocybin End Our Addiction Crisis? Jan. 22, 2021 - Two doses of psilocybin over a period of eight weeks significantly reduced alcohol use and cravings for alcoholics. That’s according to early results of a New York University ... Dr. O’Donnell said some participants during the medication phase were able to address their addiction head on, which brought about profound understanding and healing... more@Benzinga |
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Lost Touch: How a Year Without Hugs Affects You Jan. 25, 2021 - The need for touch exists below the horizon of consciousness. Before birth, when the amniotic fluid in the womb swirls around us and the foetal nervous system can distinguish our own body from our mother’s, our entire concept of self is rooted in touch. ... “Little can be done without touch.” more@TheGuardian |
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‘Addiction and Recovery’ Series Challenges Stigma Jan. 24, 2120 - The “Addiction and Recovery” event is organized by Casey King, a professor of physics and natural sciences at HGTC and fellow person in recovery, with the free-of-charge series spans 4 consecutive Thursday nights... more@PostAndCourier |
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Bill, Lois and Bernie Thank you to our winner, Dean H. who receives a $100.00 Global-Sober book for best caption. Contest ended Sunday at 6pm PT. Book courtesy of the Addiction Recovery eBulletin and Global-Sober-Series.com @eBulletin |
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