Feb. 16, 2021 | Vol. 8 | No. 26 |
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Inside Billie Piper’s Mind Feb. 4, 2021 - It was 2000 when I passed out in a Covent Garden club – ‘foaming at the mouth’, apparently, but I have no reason to believe that. ... So unwell, it would transpire, that four years later, I found myself in that hospital room. All that pressure had twisted and grinded and burnt away within me so that I was in pain daily... more@ELLE |
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This Message Will Self-Destruct: Snapchat and the Tragic Death of 16-year-old Samuel Chapman Feb. 16, 2021 - “I thought the worst thing that can happen on Snapchat were nude pictures, or saying something inappropriate or something like that,” Dr. Berman said during an interview with Chicago’s WGN Morning News. “I had no idea there were drug dealers on there.” more@eBulletin |
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Legalizing All Drugs Is Just the Beginning Feb. 13, 2021- It should be noted that legalizing drugs equitably would need to come with reparations for communities impacted by the drug war and significant opportunities for people who currently sell illicit drugs. Carl Hart focuses on how legalization could substantively improve people’s lives by reducing the risk of overdose. more@TruthOut |
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Breaking the “Body Brokers”: California Non-Profit That Stood Up to Patient Kickback Business Feb. 12, 2021 - In the summer of 2015, Pete Nielsen, the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) President and CEO, sat at his austere desk fielding calls about a new phenomenon hitting the industry: the selling of addiction patients for cash. more@CounselorMagazine |
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Is Social Media Bad for Sobriety? Feb. 10, 2021 - If the idea of seeing people on your feed socializing or celebrating with alcohol bothers you, you probably should cut back or be careful in how much social media you consume... more@NextAvenue |
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Teen’s Deadly Overdose Prompts Warning About Snapchat’s Role in Selling Drugs WATCH Feb. 11, 2021 - “He was also a football player and had been stuck inside in front of the computer screen for a year because of COVID. So when these social media platforms do the wrong thing, the COVID-19 pandemic puts a multiplier on it... more@Fox4KC |
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Who’s Taking Care of Mental Health Professionals? February 11, 2021 - “This has without a doubt been the toughest year of my life, let alone my career,” said Michael Mandel, professional counselor... When the world shut down, mental health professionals did not. They kept working, counseling patients on how to survive something they’d never seen before and feared themselves. @USAToday |
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Day Trading Can Be Addictive by Daniel Goodman February 13, 2021 - I am a professional day trader, so I am not going to tell you that day trading is gambling, because it’s not! However, if you don’t treat it like a job, and don’t take it seriously, then yes, you are gambling.The rush of making $5,000 in a matter of a minute, can be extremely addicting! @eBulletin |
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Sia’s Awful Movie Portrays Drug Addiction and Abuse With Colorful Musical Numbers WATCH Feb. 10, 2021 - The worst moment in the jaw-dropping train wreck that is “Music” is the pink-coated fantasy musical number that plays like Cirque du Soleil doing a commercial for Pepto-Bismol. Wait, the worst moment in “Music” is when Kate Hudson wants to dump her half-sister Music at a mental health facility...@ChicagoSunTimes |
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12 Recovery Memoirs by Black Authors You Need to Read Feb. 9, 2021 - I love a good memoir. I have devoured countless memoirs about a variety of topics from sex work to being a Warhol factory girl to depression. I particularly love recovery memoirs as I find the content to be relatable and it gives me hope in my own sober journey. more@TheTemper |
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Q&A with Actor/Comedian, Stevie Mack February 12, 2021 - Stevie Mack’s acting and comedic talent keeps him sought after for movie, TV and commercial roles. He began his acting career when he was 10 years old, as an extra in the movie, “Uptown Saturday Night”.@eBulletin |
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A ‘Family’ of Artists on the Downtown Eastside February 9, 2021 - James Hardy, also known as Smokey Devil, is a prolific street artist who has documented the drug poisoning crisis in art and text in the alleys of the Downtown Eastside. Larissa Healey, also known as Gurl23, has worked in an array of mediums, from graffiti art to indoor murals and paintings on canvas. more@TheTyee |
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Rob Lowe Gets Candid About His 30-Years Of Sobriety Feb. 9, 2021 - “This is what longevity, experience and recovery give you,” the former drug abuser tells the outlet. “There are no accidents ... In the interview, Lowe also got candid about his 30 year battle with sobriety, revealing cocaine was everywhere in Hollywood when he became a badly-behaved Brat Pack star. more@AceShowBiz |
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Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America 2020 - Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to corruption and reckless profiteering—with deadly consequences. more@Amazon |
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Drug Companies Seek Billion-Dollar Tax Deductions From Opioid Settlement Feb. 12, 2021 - In one example, Dublin, Ohio-based drug distributor Cardinal Health said earlier this month it planned to collect a $974 million cash refund because it claimed its opioid-related legal costs as a “net operating loss carryback” — a tax provision Congress included in last year’s coronavirus bailout package ...@WashingtonPost |
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Woman Recovering From Opioid Addiction Sues to Get Methadone - Feb. 12, 2021 - She had stumbled after a decade of recovery from a Vicodin addiction, drinking and resuming her opioid use. Depressed and scarcely able to function, she lost her job and had to turn over guardianship of her granddaughter. |
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The Pandemic is Causing a ‘Tsunami’ of Eating Disorders February 12, 2021 - “We know that eating disorders have a strong link to trauma,” Claire Mysko, CEO of NEDA (The National Eating Disorders Association), told NPR. “Many people with eating disorders have past experiences with trauma, and this [pandemic era] is a collective trauma.” more@TheHill |
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What Happens When You Mix Antidepressants with Recreational Drugs? Feb. 9, 2021 - But even though there are strong links between drug use, dependence and depression, there is little information out there about what happens to your body when you mix these drugs. So we spoke to some experts to gain a better understanding. @Vice |
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Digital Rehab is Helping Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis WATCH - Feb. 8, 2021 - In 2014, before the opioid epidemic was labelled as such, Robin McIntosh and Lisa McLaughlin, Workit Health’s co-founders, who met at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Oakland, quit their jobs to find a way to “leverage technology to make recovery easier and cheaper”. more@WeForum |
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Alcohol Abuse Rises During Pandemic, Hospitals See Wave of Deadly Liver Disease Feb. 8, 2021 - Across these institutions, the age of patients hospitalized for alcoholic liver disease has dropped. A trend toward increased disease in people younger than 40 “has been alarming for years,”... more@LATimes |
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Denver Successfully Used Mental Health Pros, NOT Police - Feb. 6, 2021 - Over the first six months of the pilot, Denver received more than 2,500 emergency calls that fell into the STAR program’s purview, and the STAR team was able to respond to 748 calls. No calls required the assistance of police, and no one was arrested. more@USAToday |
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Former Boxer Discusses 10 Years Sober on TV Series Feb. 9, 2021 - Olympic silver medallist and local politician Kenneth Egan’s battle with alcoholism will be explored as part of TG4’s Finné series of documentaries next week. The Clondalkin boxer famously won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, but his struggle with alcoholism worsened after his win. more@Echo |
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Why Addiction Isn’t a Disease August 20, 2015 - Neuroscientist Marc Lewis’ book cracks open a debate on why there is no consensus on what addiction is or how it should be treated. His book, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, cements his image as a rock star of neuroscience by loudly challenging the status quo. more@TheAge |
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Aggies for Recovery Sheds Light on Substance Abuse Feb. 10, 2021 - Five years ago, Aggies for Recovery was founded at UC Davis as a way to support students who struggle with addiction. During a typical school year, members of the organization would meet weekly to check in and discuss their recovery progress utilizing methods such as harm reduction and the 12 step program. more@TheAggie |
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He Agreed to Rehab Just Days Before His Death WATCH Feb. 8, 2021 - Witnesses claimed Juice swallowed multiple Percocet pills, which contain oxycodone, in an effort to conceal them from authorities. Police and federal agents were called to the airport after being tipped off to a private jet carrying large amounts of narcotics. “We already had him signed up for rehab,” Bibby said. more@HipHopDX |
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Woman’s Drug Recovery Tweet Goes Viral Feb. 29, 2021 - A Camp Fire Survivor went viral on Twitter after tweeting about making the Dean’s list at Chico State. Action News Now spoke to the recovering addict about how she’s stayed sober during a hard five years. “I Tweet occasionally and I usually get one response so that was overwhelming and I mean wonderful... more@ActionNewsNow |
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Huge Colorado Trafficking Bust Feb. 12, 2021 - “This is a challenge that we take very seriously; how do we dismantle the whole network?” Weiser said. “Too often, we might just address a lower-level distributor. And way too often, it’s the users themselves who are ending up in jail or prison.” |
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Is There a Difference Between Sex Addiction and Porn Addiction? Feb. 2021 - The answer to that question is a somewhat complicated “yes, but no.” Or maybe the real answer is “no, but yes.”The pattern of failure to control intense sexual impulses or urges and resulting repetitive sexual behavior is manifested over an extended period of time (e.g., 6 months or more) more@InTheRooms |
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Attorney General Stops Deceptive Marketing By Treatment Center - Feb.12, 2021 - The company misled Pennsylvanians to pick their treatment centers “all for the company’s monetary benefit.” It also mentions that Freedom Healthcare’s website misrepresented to the consumer that it was an impartial third-party resource. They placed their phone numbers near the other providers’ information without adequate branding... more@wearevcentralpa |
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Carl Hart: PhD, Parent, Author, Speaker, Columbia Professor and Heroin User Feb. 6, 2021 - Heroin is by popular consensus the worst of drugs, the one that leaves users hopelessly strung-out and slavishly addicted. How can you be a regular user and hold down a prestigious Ivy League professorship? And why would you admit to it? |
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As Overdose Deaths Surge, Rehab Industry Faces 'Severe Ethical Crisis' LISTEN Feb. 15, 2021 -"It's a very hard system to navigate," said Ryan Hampton, who spent years trying to get help for his addiction to prescription opioids and heroin. His family "was preyed upon by unscrupulous treatment centers." They borrowed money and maxed out credit cards to pay his rehab bills. Hampton has been in recovery for six years...@NPR |
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