July 13, 2021 | Vol. 8 | No. 47 | Since 2013 |
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How David Crosby helped Drew Barrymore with sobriety July 7, 2021 - In an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, David Crosby spoke of the situation ... “She was in a facility that was run by a friend of ours, and they said, ‘Oh, shit, her insurance is going to run out, we’re going to have to kick her out, and she’s not ready, she needs a safe place to go and it can’t be with her parents.’ Crosby continued: “And she came stayed with us for a while. more@ToneDeaf |
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Methamphetamine in rivers can turn trout into addicts... July 6, 2021 - The physiological effects of prescribed drugs on freshwater species have been documented by dozens of studies, but less attention has been paid to the influence of illicit drugs on the behavior of aquatic animals. more@UPI |
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How Should We Do Drugs Now? July 9, 2021 - While we can now begin to glimpse an end to the drug war, it is much harder to envision what the drug peace will look like. How will we fold these powerful substances into our society and our lives so as to minimize their risks and use them most constructively? more@NYTimes |
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Driven by Drug Policy July 8, 2021 - Every single drug policy reform that has ever been enacted can validly be criticized for not going far enough. Marijuana legalization ignores other drugs. Proliferating harm reduction resources doesn’t remedy structural inequalities. Decriminalization models fail to fix the supply. The list goes on. more@FilterMag |
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Royce Da 5’9 recently reflected on his past struggles with alcoholism - July 3, 2021 - Royce eventually quit alcohol and drug use in 2012 to focus on his life as a husband and father. He says his longtime collaborator, Eminem, played a pivotal role in supporting his recovery. “I like to call it a spiritual awakening. I just woke up one day and there [it] was … I felt like I was just up." more@HotNewHipHop |
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Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter, ‘If I wasn’t sober, I wouldn’t be here’ July 9, 2021 - Lynn told People magazine she was previously enticed by alcohol, pills, cocaine and heroin. Today, she is celebrating eight full years of sobriety from her various addictions. more@FoxNews |
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Drug, alcohol, jail deaths puts spotlight on fallout from ‘war on drugs’ WATCH July 4, 2021 - Substance abuse is classified as a mental illness, by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a federal agency, but has long been treated as a criminal offense by the justice system, rather than a public health issue... more@ABCNews |
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Woman’s book on addiction brings hope from pain July 6, 2021 - After Greene’s son passed away, she found a letter he had left her that stated that if he were to die from addiction, not to grieve for him, but to use it to help others. After giving herself some time to heal, she started the non-profit “Messengers Supporting Recovery” to bring drug awareness to the area. more@BradfordEra |
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Addicted to Twitter July 7, 2017 - I’m almost 60, I’ve seen people—some of them good friends—taken down by all kinds of things. Alcohol and drugs, mostly. A few years ago, I lost someone to heroin ... But in all these years—almost 60! —I haven’t had trouble with any of those things. Until now. You know what finally took me down? F#*king Twitter. more@TheAtlantic |
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Purdue Settlement Will Unlock Sackler ‘Secrets’ July 8, 2021 - “While I know this resolution won't bring back loved ones or undo the evil of what the Sacklers did, forcing them to turn over their secrets by providing all the documents, forcing them to repay billions, forcing them out of the opioid business, and shutting down Purdue will help stop this from ever happening again,”...@WBUR |
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How much should we value the past, present and future? July 9, 2021 - The duration of felt experience is between two and three seconds—about as long as it takes, the psychologist Marc Wittmann points out, for Paul McCartney to sing the words “Hey Jude.” Everything before belongs to memory; everything after is anticipation. more@NewYorker |
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Rebuilding Our Broken Mental Health System July 9, 2021 - The United States has the worst mental health infrastructure of any country in the developed world. 90% of psychiatric beds have been closed; the once-wonderful system of publicly funded community mental health centers has been gutted; crisis response teams are almost nonexistent… more@StatNews |
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Q&A with Outgoing CEO & President, Doug Tieman and Incoming CEO & President, Brad Sorte July 2021- Interviewer Oliver Picher sat down with the two of them to get their perspectives on the transition, what has been accomplished during Doug’s tenure as CEO, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for both Caron and the addiction treatment community in general. Here's their conversation: more@Caron |
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How Zoom Helped AA Members Stay Sober - July 1, 2021 - There are compelling reasons why some folks only want to attend Zoom meetings. Living in an extremely isolated or remote area. Seniors or disabled people with limited mobility. And Those newcomers who are curious & want to learn more about AA. OR: It’s too easy to turn off the camera on Zoom and not pay attention while sitting on your couch, he said. And to be lazy with an AA program is a death sentence for a real alcoholic. @CivilBeat |
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‘Pill Mill’ doctor pleads guilty, will forfeit 9 luxury cars and $400K cash - July 2, 2021 - Officials said he was a licensed medical doctor in Naples who prescribed oxycodone to patients with obvious signs of addiction and Adderall to people he never examined. The DEA started its investigation in 2019 after receiving a tip he was prescribing strong opioids to people who had no need for the medication. |
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Woman overcomes opioid addiction July 2, 2021 - Child Protective Services arrived on her doorstep the day after Christmas in 2018. Two months later, her then 9-year-old son Jordan was removed from her home after she failed numerous drug tests... more@WSET |
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CEO on overcoming addiction and building a multimillion-dollar dating app July 6, 2021 - McLeod was attending Harvard Business School. He had recently committed to stop drinking after struggling with addiction for years, and he was having difficulty moving on from his college girlfriend. While trying to stay sober and struggling with heartbreak, he decided to create a solution. @CNBC |
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Healing Begins Within the Family July 10, 2021 - Through real-life examples of loss, hope, and recovery, Addiction in the Family provides insight into what the loved one is battling and how their struggle impacts entire family units. Dr. Stanger delves into the dynamics and challenges of dealing with a partner, child, or other family member who is suffering from SUD. |
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What Can Surfing Tell Us About Addiction? July 7, 2021 - Ziolkowski has written a haunting and genuinely beautiful book about why human beings use drugs to hurt themselves and what might help them stop. “Surfing is a kind of parable of addiction,” he writes early on... more@NYTimes |
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How I Was Welcomed to Rehab JULY 6, 2021 - “Mom and Dad have as much to learn about recovery as you do. And fortunately for you and them, Hazelden does a terrific job of educating parents about enabling and tough love, everything they need to know to help you avoid old patterns when you’re back home in six months or—”... more@FilterMag |
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St. Francois Center closure could put patients at risk WATCH - July 9, 2021 - The clinic used a treatment method where clients would receive a dosage of methadone each day, which would stave off their cravings. It’s considered the most life-saving treatment. more@KMOV4 |
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Open your doors to alcoholics July 9, 2021 -” The main reason for this stubborn stagnancy is the reluctance of traditional AA meeting venues — churches, recreation centers, school buildings — to commit to what they see as “extra” people in newly reopened buildings. That’s reasonable, to a point...” Dale is a writer for Addiction/Recovery e-Bulletin. more@NYDailyNews |
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Patricia Heaton celebrates her sobriety July 11, 2021 - The former Everybody Loves Raymond star, 63, took to social media on Saturday to share that she’s celebrating three years of sobriety from alcohol. She recorded herself as she completed a 3.5 mile walk around a reservoir. more@Yahoo |
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Climate change causing mental health meltdowns July 11, 2021 - Keene’s life has been bookended by devastating wildfires in increasingly hot and dry California. As a baby she survived the 1980 Panorama Fire in San Bernardino. She's been through the latest extreme wildfires in Oakland...@ABCNews |
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Opioid addiction apps sharing sensitive data with third parties - July 7, 2021 - The report studied 10 opioid treatment apps available on Android: Bicycle Health, Boulder Care, Confidant Health. DynamiCare Health, Kaden Health, Loosid, Pear Reset-O, PursueCare, Sober Grid, and Workit Health. These apps have been installed at least 180,000 times, and received more than $300 million in funding from investment groups and the federal government. more@TechCrunch |
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Robert Downey Sr., Filmmaker and Provocateur, Is Dead at 85 - July 7, 2021 - “Putney Swope,” a 1969 comedy about a Black man who is accidentally elected chairman of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, was perhaps Mr. Downey’s best-known film. “To be as precise as is possible about such a movie,” Vincent Canby wrote in a rave review in The New York Times, “it is funny, sophomoric, brilliant, obscene, disjointed, marvelous, unintelligible and relevant.” more@NYTimes |
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