WEEKEND | Apr. 9-12, 2021 | Vol. 8 | No. 33 | Since 2013 |
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ADDICTION TREATMENT: DISASTER LOOMING March 24, 2021 - by Michael Prichard M.S., LAADC, ICAADC and Pete Nielsen, President and Chief Executive Officer for the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP) A warning for us all! @CounselorMagazine |
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Overdose DEATHS Spiked To 88,000 During Covid-19 April 1, 2021 - "We lost 88,000 people in the 12-month period ending in August 2020." ... "Illicitly manufactured fentanyl and synthetic opioids are the primary drivers of this increase." more@NPR |
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Safer injection facilities are a much-needed weapon in the opioid epidemic April 3, 2021 - Treating people for opioid use disorder with buprenorphine (suboxone), methadone, or natrexone works. Aside from curbing the use of illicit opioid use, these medications provide a level of stability to people’s lives... more@NevadaIndependent |
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'The Crime of the Century' Examines Deadly Opioid Crisis WATCH PREVIEW April 7, 2021 - The Crime of the Century takes a broad look at the various facets that fueled the epidemic, from the PR campaigns that claimed opioids like OxyContin were safe, to the sales reps who encouraged doctors to prescribe millions...@Rollingstone |
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Man accused of ‘body brokering’; kickbacks from sober living homes in Orange County March 30, 2021 - Court filings identify the treatment businesses Moore is accused of dealing with Huntington Beach-based Healing Path Detox & Healing Path Recovery, and Laguna Hills-based Stone Ridge Recovery & Landmark Recovery. more@OCRegister |
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‘Jackass’ team ‘tortured’ me with 90-day rehab stint’ says: Bam Margera WATCH TMZ April 2, 2021 - The former MTV personality — who has battled alcohol and drug issues for more than a decade — went on to list 18 different pills, including Adderall, that he was prescribed during his stay. “I went there thinking I was going to do 30 days, but they insisted that I do 90 days,” said Margera, more@PageSix |
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Margo Price: ‘My Mind Is Clear and My Heart Is Full’ April 2, 2021 - “I knew my drinking was fueling my depression,” wrote the singer-songwriter, who had her last alcoholic drink on Jan. 8. The longer you live, the more time you have to sit with death,” Price wrote. more@People |
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Margaret Cho on sobriety, solitude and Stop Asian Hate April 2, 2021 - “My sense of humour probably saved me from dying,” she says. Humour and laughter is the intake of breath, which is the preservation of the body for the next moment … at your darkest moments; it’s actually the thing that shines the brightest.” |
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Ernest Hemingway: How Mental Illness Plagued the Writer and His Family April 1, 2021 - Hemingway faced a lifelong battle against depression, alcoholism and mental health issues, all of which contributed to his death by suicide on July 2, 1961. But it wasn’t just Hemingway who suffered, as several generations of his family confronted similar issues, in what one of his granddaughters called the “Hemingway curse.” |
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Alcohol really does go straight to the head! March 27, 2021 - Thought, speech and movements slow up as different parts of the brain cannot coordinate. It’s why we slur our words, fail to pick up on social signals, can’t make decisions and become clumsy. more@StudyFinds |
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I’m a mom who drank daily during COVID-19 WATCH April 2, 2021 - ‘It’s not the kids and it’s not the work. It’s that everything is going on at the same time.’ You didn’t have, ‘It’s the end of the day.’ [Instead], you had everything coinciding.”... now many, particularly mothers, say they’re reevaluating their relationship with alcohol in hopes to put an end to a hazardous health trend. more@ABCNews |
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Drug treatment should be incentivized, NOT forced LISTEN – MARCH 31, 2021 - “Because we are in the middle of a harrowing overdose crisis. We are in the middle of a racial reckoning, a conversation and a movement around changing policing in this country. And we know all those things are influenced by our choices around drugs,” Kassandra Frederique, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance said. more@MyNorthwest |
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Drug use among seniors a hidden epidemic March 31, 2021 - The pattern of drug use among older people varies: there are “maintainers”, who have unchanged drug use patterns over the course of their lives and somehow live with it; “survivors”, who have long term “problem” use of drugs; and “eactors”, who take up or increase drug use later in life. more@Post |
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Teens more likely than adults to develop addiction faster April 1, 2021 - “We know that young people are more vulnerable to developing substance use disorders,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, NIDA director and lead author of the study analysis. “Though not everybody who uses a drug will develop addiction, adolescents may develop addiction faster than adults.” more@USAToday |
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New Mexico Legalizes Recreational Marijuana April 1, 2021 - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that workers, entrepreneurs and the government would benefit from the new industry. “And those who have been harmed by this country’s failed war on drugs, disproportionately communities of color, will benefit from our state’s smart, fair and equitable new approach... more@NYTimes |
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New York State of Mind...Altering Substances March 31, 2021 - Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in New York. This is a historic day in New York — one that rights the wrongs of the past by putting an end to harsh prison sentences, embraces an industry that will grow the Empire State’s economy... more@NYPost |
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STICK WITH THE WINNERS! Q&A with Best-Selling Author Amy Dresner |
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Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying March 30, 2021 - Cyberbullying can take on many forms, including personal attacks, harassment or discriminatory behavior, spreading defamatory information, misrepresenting oneself online, spreading private information, social exclusion and cyberstalking. more@ScienceDaily |
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Celebrity groomer helps people battling addiction WATCH March 24, 2021 - Jason Schneidman, who was once “brought to his knees” by a crack cocaine addiction, and Blake Levy have been helping countless men and women who were stuck on the street due to drugs and alcohol get back on their feet — one haircut at a time. more@FoxNews |
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Hunter Biden Says Family Never Gave Up On Him LISTEN April 5, 2021 - At its heart, Hunter Biden's new memoir, Beautiful Things, is a story of addiction. The 51-year-old son of the president, writes that he first bought crack cocaine at age 18. He first fell in love with alcohol in high school and started drinking heavily after work in his 20s. more@NPR |
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You got sober? Good for you, but we can’t date March 27, 2021 - For years I was involved with an addict. I went on the journey several times (“slipping up is part of recovery”), attended Al-Anon meetings, worked the steps myself and went to therapy, all to support my partner through his rehab stints@LATimes |
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Marti Pellow: ‘Every day I punch addiction in the face! WATCH - March 29, 2021 - ‘I could never understand why people go into a bar and play Space Invaders. If you go into a bar, you’re in there to drink.’ Pellow went on to become the frontman of Wet Wet Wet, the blue-eyed soul band whose version of Love Is All Around, as featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral. more@TheGuardian |
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‘I’m more worried about my mental health than getting COVID-19’ - April 1, 2021 - Mental health has been a topic of campus conversation for months, as the challenges of COVID-19 and remote learning affect students. “Learning how to transition to online school has been a huge challenge,” said Zibell. “I feel like because we’re all online it’s really hard for me to have the motivation to go and get the help I need.” more@DailyCardinal |
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“Another Round”—A Nuanced Picture of Our Relationships With Alcohol April 1, 2021 - Another Round is a surprisingly tactful and often funny portrayal of alcohol and human beings’ relationship to it. I cannot think of anything else I’ve seen that so carefully explores the subject’s contours. It is a film... more@FilterMag |
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This Is Your Brain on Junk Food March 25, 2021 - Heinz bought Weight Watchers in 1978 for $72 million. Unilever, which sells Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, paid $2.3 billion for SlimFast in 2000. Nestle purchased Jenny Craig in 2006 for $600 million. more@NYTimes |
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George Floyd Could Change How We Talk About Drug Abuse and Black Americans WATCH April 3, 2021 – As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States, Floyd, the father of two young daughters, started using again: he lost his job as a nightclub security guard because of quarantine shutdowns, he was hospitalized for several days after an overdose, he found out he had the coronavirus. more@USAToday |
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RHONY’s Leah McSweeney Celebrates 1 Year of Sobriety March 30, 2021 - The Real Housewives of New York City star posted on her Instagram in honor of the day, sharing a screenshot from a Twelve Steps program page showing that she’s been sober for a full year. more@People |
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Paige talks about her sobriety April 1, 2021 - “I’ve been drug free for 3 years and I have not been drinking for over two, which is really cool. Also, I completely cut all meat & dairy out. more@WrestlingNews |
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Stimulus money fueling addictions? WATCH April 1, 2021 - “They’ve received $1,400 and now they can go buy their drug of choice,” said Alex Fernandez, director of addiction services. Drug treatment agencies across the country have seen stimulus money funding dangerous addictions. more@KOLD |
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The Guest House: Ocala's best kept secret April Issue, 2021 - "Not everybody in Ocala knows about us," said Judy Crane, the Guest House co-founder and CEO. "We have people fly in from all over the world. We want people right here in Ocala to know we're here for them if they need us."@OCALA MAG |
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“Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness’ MEDIA April 2, 2021 - …a true story, laced with wicked humor and much pathos, of Mary Goggin’s rish Catholic upbringing, drug addiction and prostitution, and the multitude of characters she encountered along the way to ultimately finding joy. @DansPapers |
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Film about addiction made by people in recovery April 2, 2021 - Three Bull-mastiffs in a Corner Kitchen was shot over four days during the pandemic on location. Due to be released in July/August, Batley has one principal hope for it: “That someone may identify with what is being depicted, that addiction and mental health and the chaos that comes with that can be changed. more@Independent |
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Minnesota band “Communist Daughter” embrace new Alaska home WATCH & LISTEN April 2, 2021 - The married musicians didn’t foresee how isolated they’d be when, in 2019, they started looking for a high-need area where Johnny could work helping fellow addicts and alcoholics clean up. In 2010, Solomon had checked himself into the Hazelden/Betty Ford facility and eventually became an addictions counselor. more@StarTribune |
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