May 25, 2021 | Vol. 8 | No. 40 | Since 2013 |
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U.S. Needs an ‘Operation Warp Speed’ for Opioid Epidemic WATCH May 14, 2021 - “Overdoses, which were already increasing hugely over the last few years, increased even more for the corona pandemic,” Dr. Alex Kral, an infectious disease epidemiologist, tells KPIX. Elizabeth Cook reports. more@CBSSanFrancisco |
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Let’s Redefine Mental Health As Brain Health May 23, 2021 - I hate the terms “mental illness” and “psychiatric disorders.” These labels make us envision people as mad, deranged, disturbed, unbalanced, unhinged, or unstable—even though these adjectives apply to an extremely small percentage of people. more@MindBodyGreen |
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May 17, 2021 - “I understand it, addiction. And I’m not judgmental about it, you know? Because I’ve walked that path for so many years, and it’s very cunning and you will absolutely live in denial. People can’t see it.” “There’s Halston going to Studio 54 every night doing coke and his business is in trouble and yet he still goes on.” @ETCanada |
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May 20, 2021 - By his mid-20s, Brandon Turner had slipped into a downward spiral and spent time in both prison and jail. “I was just hanging around the wrong people and getting into the wrong things,” Turner said. “I wasn’t sticking to my passion that gave me so much. The change for me came when I was able to make the decision to put my ego aside and ask for help.” more@SpectrumNews |
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‘I used to bring only tears to my family, now today, I bring smiles’ - May 21, 2021 - “This could be my last chance to get sober, to live a happy and joyous life.” Those are the desperate words of a woman battling alcohol addiction for years who could not free herself from its grip. She didn’t know how to live without alcohol. It was used as a coping mechanism to suppress underlying trauma.@DerryNow |
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How Are You, Really? May 17, 2021 - Emotions are brain messengers, and studies show that regularly labeling your emotions and creating a “feeling vocabulary” is good for your health.@NYTimes |
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Photographs depict the stark reality of addiction in US May 21, 2021 - Fearless and prolific conflict photographer James Nachtwey has been at the frontline of battles all over the world. On this occasion, he travelled with visual journalist and editor Paul Moakley throughout the states of New Hampshire, Ohio, Boston, and San Francisco to send these dispatches from the war on drugs. more@DAZED |
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Healthcare worker embraces sobriety after spending $212 a week on booze during lockdown May 22, 2021- The mental health support worker was drinking three bottles of wine a day, she would wake up vomiting bile and ashamed for abusing her husband during her nightly binge. From the outside, Nikki Rushin’s life looked perfect – but behind closed doors, her secret addiction to booze was killing her. more@Mirror |
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What pushed Ryan Leaf into painkiller addiction? May 18, 2021 - It was the harsh reception at a boxing fight he received that started it all, the former quarterback said. In 2004 — three years after his NFL career ended — Leaf was at a star-studded boxing bout in Las Vegas when “they announced Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Charles Barkley, Dr. Dre. more@NYPost |
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‘Queen of Meth’: sister of actor Tom Arnold, Lori Arnold tells all in documentary May 10, 2021 - The story of her journey from dealer to addict to redemption is being told through a three-part docuseries, “The Queen of Meth,” on Discovery +. Ms. Arnold, who did two stints in federal prison has been involved for years in efforts to bring her story to film. more@TheHawkEye |
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Psychedelics Are Coming and Psychiatry May Never Be the Same - May 9, 2021 - Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences. more@NYTimes |
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Lamar Odom on His Sobriety 5 Years After Near-Fatal Overdose - May 17, 2021 - The 41-year-old author shared that he has remained sober with the help of the drug ketamine, which, for the past two years, has been administered to the star in small doses under supervision in sessions. more@Yahoo |
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Substance abuse recovery services see uptick in demand WATCH - May 17, 2021 - This year, there have been 160 suspected overdose deaths in Knox County, Tenn. with 15 reported in May alone. A peak in suspected overdose deaths came in December with 44 deaths, with more people needing help due to the pandemic. But getting help still doesn’t look the same. more@WBIR |
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Why Is Mental Illness “Abnormal” If It’s So Common? May 17, 2021 - “When we’re talking about what is ‘normal,’ this is a lifetime perspective. It’s saying that the average life has at least one period of diagnosable mental illness in it.” From that perspective, mental illness is a very normal experience.@PsychologyToday |
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The pandemic brought addiction recovery online, what’s next? - May 19, 2021 - one AA group put a list of birthdays — with only first names and dates — on its online monthly newsletter. Search engines to put two and two together and linked some people to their membership. And many members will simply prefer being in-person... more@Politico |
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Can We Make Opioids Less Addictive? WATCH May 16, 2021 - In 1803, a German chemist named Friedrich Sertürner discovered a chemical in that milky fluid that was a lot more powerful than opium. He called it morpheme, which we now call morphine. He found that it was a lot more powerful than opium so he reasoned that you would need less of it to get the same pain relief. And that would mean less risk for addiction. more@SciTechDaily |
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Plugging deadly holes in California’s treatment system May 16, 2021 - How did Tyler get the money to buy the drugs that killed him? A “friend” brokered him to a program in Laguna Hills that accepted Tyler’s insurance — and received $2,000 for his troubles, Shamash said. Being a “friend,” he split the money with Tyler. more@OCRegister |
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Overwork Kills Over 745,000 People A Year May 17, 2021 - People working 55 or more hours each week face an estimated 35% higher risk of stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, compared to people following the accepted standard of working 35 to 40 hours in a week...” @NPR |
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Veteran cop charged with cooking meth in basement May 17, 2021 - Officer Christopher Walls’ double life was discovered after fellow cops were called to his home on West End Avenue for a domestic disturbance. Prosecutors said the home contained chemicals that are highly explosive, so Hazmat teams were called in. A child was living in the household... more@PIX11 |
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LA County expands Naloxone distribution among homeless - May 18, 2021 - “Harm-reduction services are employed to keep patients safe until they are ready to seek treatment — services such as dispensing naloxone, an opioid antidote that prevents death from overdose, or providing clean syringes, to prevent HIV and hepatitis C.” more@DailyNews |
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CONVERSATION ABOUT NCADD May 19, 2021 - “NCADD has been around since 1949. Marty Mann, one of the first women to achieve sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous, organized the National Committee for Education on Alcoholism in 1944, which later became the National Council on Alcoholism and then the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence... |
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Dustin Rhodes Celebrates 13 Years of Sobriety May 19, 2021 - “Very proud of me today!! Today marks my 13th anniversary for being clean and sober from drugs and alcohol. Absolutely living my best life now!” |
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On Parole Means Staying Clean and Sober May 14, 2021- “Because I’m a parole officer, let’s face it, an individual might not want to tell me everything, like the possibility of a relapse,” Mr. Bielskie said. “But having a recovery specialist and a social worker broadened the scope of what we could offer. |
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Netflix documentary brings renewed focus to addiction problem - May 21, 2021 - The four-episode docu-series, which tells the story of a small-town Louisiana pharmacist who sets out to discover who was responsible after his son is killed during a drug deal gone bad. more@TheGardnerNews |
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Mother finds addiction support on Nextdoor WATCH May 21, 2021 - Robin McClure is a recovering drug addict who has been clean for the past eight months. Her neighbors — and those who keep up on Nextdoor — all know it, too. “I never imagined getting the feedback I have,” McClure said. more@WTHR |
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WAITING FOR THE MAN - BOWIE and REED LIVE! WATCH |
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Virtually Sober: When AA Went Away by Chris Dale Nicholas had been virtually sober once before … well, virtually anyway. Unfortunately neither the liquor store nor the whiskey nor the inevitable DTs were avatars. They were real, and so was his alcoholism. more@AddictionRecoveryeBulletin |
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