June 22, 2021 | Vol. 8 | No. 44 | Since 2013 |
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The D-Word by Christopher Dale June 20, 2021 - June 21, 2021 - Let’s discuss why “disease” is one word that should be abandoned from addiction terminology. [C]onsider that nearly everyone in society knows someone who has contracted a disease of misfortune: brain cancer, cystic fibrosis... How can the addict community expect tolerance and acceptance while steadfastly insisting our predicament equals those of their loved ones? @AddictionRecoveryeBulletin |
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Sex, Drugs and Cryptocurrency June 17, 2021 - “I can pinpoint the moment it became a problem,” Mike said. “I had been eroding the sum I put aside, but I entered a trade, and I was willing to risk it all. I ended up making back pretty much everything I lost in a single trade. The feeling was one of absolute euphoria.” more@HighviewHerald |
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The Bridge Sober Home Let Client Use Drugs, Die June 16, 2021 - The personal representative of a woman found dead at “The Bridge,” a sober living home in Boca Raton, is suing the facility and its management. The claim: despite marketing a “supporting sober living environment” that includes sobriety and drug tests, a client wasn’t tested for days. more@BocaNewsNow |
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June 17, 2021 - Aaron Hinton walked through the housing project in Brownsville, he voiced love and pride for this tight-knit, but troubled working-class neighborhood in New York City where he grew up. But he also expressed deep rage and sorrow over the scars left by the nation’s 50 year-long War on Drugs. “What good is it doing for us?” @NPR |
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Today host Craig Melvin opens up about his alcoholic father WATCH - June 15, 2021 - Mr. Melvin has opened up about his once fraught relationship with his absentee father, who struggled with alcoholism until he got sober in his late 60s, saying they are now closer than ever... more@DailyMail |
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How to live to be 100 June 17, 2021- From the low-protein diet, to the importance of community and connection, the sharing of knowledge is meant to help others live longer lives, too. A few of these habits can be practiced in the morning, as soon as we wake up, to kickstart your day. |
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‘RHOBH’ Bravely Discusses Past Struggle With Bulimia June 17, 2021 - Crystal Kung Minkoff, the first Asian-American to enter the Real Housewives franchise, revealed in a confessional on the Wednesday, June 16, episode that her longtime battle with bulimia began after a video she was shown about eating disorders while in school; she recalled picking “up tools from it.” more@OKMagazine |
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Oregon’s Decriminalization Efforts Face The Hard Test LISTEN - June 18, 2021 - Oregonians overwhelmingly passed Measure 110 that makes possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, LSD and methamphetamine, among other drugs, punishable by a civil citation — akin to a parking ticket — and a $100 fine. That fee can get waived if you get a health screening from a recovery hotline.@NPR |
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Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk for opioid addiction - June 13, 2021 - One study cited in Fisher’s work found patients with modestly low vitamin D levels were 50% more likely than others with normal levels to use opioids, while patients who had severe vitamin D deficiency were 90% more likely. |
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Addiction treatment failed! Can brain surgery save him? June 18, 2021- He could go on the same way and die young in someone’s home or a parking lot, another casualty in a drug epidemic that has claimed nearly 850,000 people like him. Or he could let a surgeon cut two nickel-size holes in his skull and plunge metal-tipped electrodes into his brain. more@WashingtonPost |
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Is the drug detox facility actually a ‘nursing or convalescent home’ per city code? LISTEN June 17, 2021 - On Monday, the city of Camas was served with a Land Use Petition Act complaint notifying it that a group of citizens were suing the city over the approval of a 15-bed drug detox facility to be sited next to the Dorothy Fox Elementary School. The Dorothy Fox Safety Alliance (DFSA) hired a process server to personally serve Mayor Pro Tem Ellen Burton Monday at Camas City Hall. more@ClarkCountyToday |
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Why honeybees may be key to understanding alcohol addiction WATCH - June 15, 2021 - Worker honeybees that were fed alcohol-spiked food, a sucrose solution with about 1% ethanol added, for a long period of time experienced withdrawal symptoms when cut off from the solution... more@ABCNews |
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16 Tips For Cutting Down your Drinking June 18, 2021 - How much is too much? “If people think they need to cut back, then they probably do,” says Fulton T. Crews, Ph.D., director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. To determine whether you need to slow down, consider this - Have you had times when you ended up drinking more or longer than you intended? more@Forbes |
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Opioids rip through U.S. workforce, deaths at record High June 18, 2021 - Businesses here have grappled with the opioid epidemic for years and the issue is once again rearing its head. At some white-collar companies, only four out of 10 applicants can pass a drug test, with many showing recent opioid use. Other firms have eliminated the tests altogether to get people in the door... more@PressHerald |
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“Love Without Martinis” review by Michaela Baxter June 18, 2021 - The author writes, “Stories are a powerful medium for self-understanding. They help us find ourselves or remember who we are.” Jauvin and her husband struggled in their marriage largely due to her husband’s alcoholism. Jauvin sought a solution and developed a framework for counseling and repairing couples in recovery called the ASCENT Approach. @AddictionRecoveryeBulletin |
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Jim Wahlberg opens up on his opioid crisis WATCH JUNE 12, 2021 - It’s a famous last name. You’ve probably heard of the Wahlbergs. Jim Wahlberg is one of the older brothers of Mark and Donnie Wahlberg. He’s been featured on their show “Wahlburgers.” Jim battled addiction starting when he was just a kid.@KSN |
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How Practicing Mindfulness Can Strengthen Recovery June 7, 2021 - Oftentimes the root of the addiction is mental, and if those issues aren’t addressed, it will be very difficult for someone to recover. Conversely, if they can achieve a healthy mental & emotional state, it will be much easier for them to confront the physical pain and discomfort involved in successfully fighting addiction. more@PlatteValley |
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Illicit drug sales moved online during lockdowns June 9, 2021 - The 2021 European Drug Report says criminal groups also adapted to travel restrictions and border closures by relying less on human couriers and turning instead to shipping containers and commercial supply chains to smuggle illicit substances. |
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Governor donates salary to addiction treatment centers June 16, 2021 - Gov. Greg Gianforte donated his first quarter salary . He made the $18,732 donation during a tour of One Health Bighorn, a health center offering substance abuse disorder treatment. more@Helenair |
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El Paso physician indicted for 5 overdose deaths June 16, 2021 - The Texas Medical Board temporarily suspended, without notice, the Texas medical license of Brian James August, M.D. (Lic. No. H9762) on Wednesday, after determining his continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to the public welfare. more@KFox14 |
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Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Spiked More than 200% During Pandemic WATCH - June 16, 2021 - Fentanyl is now killing hundreds of San Diegans a year. It was a problem before, but during the pandemic, it’s ballooned, and federal agents say it’s only getting worse. Last year’s increased isolation conflated an already alarming problem – a prevalence of a very lucrative and very dangerous drug: Fentanyl. “It’s just a high, high possibility of overdose with this particular substance,” said DEA Special Agent Michael Wasser. more@NBCSanDiego |
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Gus Glasser’s Strength in Daily Sobriety Battle June 18, 2021 - A 22-year-old Gus Glasser shares how he’s building a life of purpose and growth away from substance abuse. Once a music major, music was his reason to stop “using.” more@AtlantaJewishTimes |
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Hazelden/Betty Ford Graduate School Announces Scholarship - June 18, 2021 - The United States is in the midst of the most challenging addiction and mental health crisis in generations—greatly exacerbated by COVID-19 and related economic hardships. As more Americans struggle with depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma, grief and coping in general, the need for safe, quality behavioral healthcare and support resources is greater than ever, and growing. |
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They met in AA - Videographer proposes at Louisville movie theater WATCH June 19, 2021 - Like the best tales, this story of love & life was filled with twists and turns. At first, Shircliffe was against dating Foree in 2019 when they met in recovery. “I said, ‘you’re too fresh, you have to have more sobriety under your belt,’” Shircliffe said. “’You need to work the program and focus on you before you can date me.’” more@WDRB |
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Overdose Deaths Skyrocket During The War On Drugs June 19, 2021 - Every time Shani Damron, 34, buys methamphetamines or heroin on the streets of Huntington, W.Va., she knows the risk is extreme ... Louise Vincent runs a program in Greensboro, N.C., where people can get clean needles and test street drugs for contamination. These services help keep people safer, she said, but they’re banned in much of the country. more@NPR |
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He Almost Lost Everything. Then An Arrest Changed His Life LISTEN - June 19, 2021 - Heroin started rewiring and taking control of Will’s brain in the early 2000s, as he turned 40. “Back then, if you used drugs people didn’t want anything to do with you,” Will recalls. “People gave up on me. Will lost almost everything: jobs, his driver’s license, his car, his marriage and his home. more@DelawarePublic |
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How TV Shaped Perceptions Of The War On Drugs LISTEN - June 18, 2021 - “Entertainment is probably much more effective in terms of changing people’s values and attitudes and beliefs and behavior, even than news programming,” says Johanna Blakley, managing director of The Norman Lear Center – a public policy center focused on the study of entertainment media & society. more@NPR |
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Ketamine Might Help Alcohol Addiction by Rewiring the Brain June 20, 2021 - It may help change drinking habits by promoting neuroplasticity. But questions linger over the treatment’s ethics and safety. It’s traditionally used to induce and maintain surgical anaesthesia, but can legally be used off-label —sometimes in conjunction with psychotherapy — in the hope of sustaining abstinence for longer. more@DiscoverMagazine |
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June 16, 2021 - June 17, 2021 - Law enforcement was given an unprecedented level of authority with measures like mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants, recently reevaluated after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in a botched drug raid.“The drug war is a failed policy and the things that they said would happen — people would stop using drugs, communities would get back together, we’d be safe, they’d get drugs off the street — those things didn’t happen,” more@CNBC |
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John Stamos “Could Have Never Been a Father” Before Getting Sober WATCH June 16, 2021 - John also credited his sobriety for making him the father he is today. “I know who I am certainly by 57 now,” he added. “It’s been close to six years in June that I sobered up. I never could have been a father during some of the more—some of it was really fun and some of it got to be very unhealthy.” Regardless, it’s clear that being a dad is John’s favorite role to date as he gushed, “Being a parent is about sacrifice. You don’t get rewarded for it. You don’t get a trophy or a ring, but what you do get is, you get a child who is more loving, more kind and a smarter version of you, and I think that’s really special.” more@EOnline |
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