June 29, 2021 | Vol. 8 | No. 45 | Since 2013 |
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Years of Smoking Weed May Leave You Gasping...for Words - June 21, 2021 - Talk about a buzzkill. When researchers looked at the marijuana habits of a group of people ages 18 to 30, and then again 25 years later, one finding rose above the fog: For every five years of lighting up, your ability to recall common words slides. more@YahooNews |
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“Drag Race’s” Gigi Goode speaks OUT for Pride Month June 22, 2021 - "I am looking forward to sharing my story in the hopes that it helps others from suffering in silence. If my journey can have an impact on just one person that would bring me so much joy,” said Goode in a release. more@TheHill |
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Parents At Highest Risk For Using Drugs And Alcohol To Cope - June 24, 2021 - Close to one third of American respondents who use alcohol or other drugs reported an increase in use. Parents are more than twice as likely to report an increase in substance use when compared to non-parents. This can negatively affect home dynamics… more@BusinessWire |
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Hold the Tequila. The Sunrise Is All Some Travelers Need. June 24, 2021 - Sober travel, a subset of vacations once left to 12-steppers and recovering addicts, is going mainstream. In a June poll of 23,000 people, 29% of respondents said they planned to take an booze-free trip after the pandemic.@NYTimes |
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Cannabis Use May Be Linked with Suicidal Thoughts, Plans and Attempts in Young Adults June 24, 2021 - Among people who reported experiencing a major depressive episode in the past year, 35% who didn’t use cannabis experienced suicidal thoughts, compared to 44% of participants who didn’t use cannabis daily, 53% of people who used cannabis every day and 50% of participants who had cannabis use disorder. more@WAAYTV |
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Johnson & Johnson promises to end sale of opioids in $230 million settlement June 26, 2021 - The settlement follows years of lawsuits by states, cities and counties against major pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis, which has killed nearly 500,000 people in the U.S. since 1999.“The opioid epidemic has wreaked havoc on countless communities across New York state and the rest of the nation, leaving millions still addicted to dangerous and deadly opioids,” James said. more@CNBC |
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Book Review - Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts by Melanie Gibson June 22, 2021 - “You don’t hear a lot about women doing martial arts. What we hear about mental illness is not always an accurate portrayal. We see the extremes of people being hospitalized or attempting suicide, but not the stories of people who are suffering in silence. I wanted to tell that story.” more@FWTX |
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The Opioid Addiction Crisis and Racism: A Long, Troubled History June 23, 2021 - The phenomenon of widespread opioid addiction dates back to the 19th century when the Civil War sparked the United States’ first opiate addiction epidemic among ailing veterans. Nineteenth-century opiate addiction cases usually originated in doctors’ prescriptions... more@PsychiatricTimes |
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Kids In Mental Health Crisis Languish For Days In ERs June 23, 2021 -After attempting suicide earlier this year, Melinda, 13, remained 17 days in the local hospital’s ER while waiting for a space to open at a psychiatric treatment facility. At one point, Melinda, tried to escape, was restrained, injected with drugs to calm her, and moved to a small, windowless room. more@NPR |
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Lisa Kudrow felt like a ‘mountain of a woman’ while filming Friends June 24, 2021 - “I’m already bigger than Courteney (Cox) and Jennifer (Aniston),” This gradually led to her becoming very thin while on the show as she lost weight to fit in. Lisa revealed that no one seemed to notice the dangerous amount of weight she had lost, and instead, commented on how “good” she looked. more@Woman&Home |
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Mental health, Addiction & COVID-19 WATCH June 23, 2021 - “We can’t talk about suicide and addiction without talking about housing, healthcare, nutrition, and all the stressors & underlying factors that create this ripe, fertile ground for people to become susceptible”, observed Rep. Hayes. more@TheHill |
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Ryan O’Connell’s life improved 100% after one year sober June 24, 2021 - The 34-year-old actor and writer - who chronicled his experience as a gay man with cerebral palsy in the hit Netflix series Special - revealed in a candid post on Thursday that he’s stopped consuming alcohol. more@People |
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Walmart’s top executive to be deposed in Opioid scheme June 24, 2021 - Delaware Chancery Judge Travis Laster had said of a request for discovery, “I don’t think you can say with a straight face there isn’t any evidence of wrongdoing.” Polster agreed, indicating there was “enough evidence of lax oversight to raise questions about Walmart’s liability.” more@LegalReader |
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The War Within Drug Treatment June 23, 2021 - Today, in addition to the continued war on drugs as a vehicle to incarcerate non-white bodies, we have a war within drug treatment. Medical and treatment providers disagree about which treatments are most effective. more@MinnPost |
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Mom faces felony for filling prescription while pregnant June 21, 2021 - Most of the time when newborns test positive for drugs in Alabama, authorities prosecute mothers for chemical endangerment – a law that was written to protect children from exposure to fumes from home-based meth labs. more@ALNews |
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Contest to Find “5 New Practices to Prevent Substance Misuse” - June 21, 2021 - “We are searching for initiatives that account for COVID and its consequences…” Reported impacts of the pandemic include more deaths due to drug poisonings,1 more adults experiencing symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive order,2 more adults using substances,3 more prescriptions for anti-anxiety and insomnia medications... more@PsychiatryAdvisor |
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Changing How the Media Covers Mental Illness JUNE 21, 2021 - ...the connection between crime, violence, and drug use is ultimately harmful to America’s view on drug users. It is largely recognized by the medical community that drug addiction is a mental illness ... Unfortunately, the media fails to equally classify drug use as a mental illness, but rather uses it as a tool when discussing alarming and/or illegal behavior. more@PioneerOnline |
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Does more Narcan equal more opioid deaths? WATCH June 23 - What’s concerning now is that local experts say one application often isn’t enough anymore to save someone. “So, I’m being told it will take three for four kits to revive them,” Bologna told Michelle McKenzie from Lifespan. McKenzie said that’s because fentanyl, a highly addictive opioid, is pretty much everywhere. @10WJAR |
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Ending Racist Sentencing Disparity June 24, 2021 -The crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity became law in 1986, The law changed federal criminal law around cocaine, to treat possession of crack 100 times more harshly than the possession of an identical quantity of powder. more@FilterMag |
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Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals the Saddest Contradiction June 25, 2021 - In 2018, Curtis revealed she became addicted to opiates after undergoing plastic surgery to fix her “hereditary puffy eyes.” And while the pills were initially prescribed, she spent the next decade getting painkillers any way she could. Curtis wasn’t the first or only member of her family to battle addiction. more@SheKnows |
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Comfortably Numb: China has an opium problem and the Sackler Oxycontin Cartel American family is to blame. June 24, 2021 - An elite philanthropic doctor family with the criminal mindedness of a street pusher. The Sackler family started out decades ago as purveyors of fine laxatives — Senokot! They declared at the time, “Constipation is a world problem.” Now they’re a world problem, and, as their 2019 settlement and subsequent China incursion shows, they’re full of shit. more@CounterPunch |
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Eating poppy seeds can lead to a positive drug test June 25, 2021 - Whether it’s for a new job or competing in an athletic competition, many people have had to take a drug test. It can be a stressful time that prompts thoughts about past meals and beverages to make sure nothing innocuous will lead to a missed opportunity. more@VerifyThis |
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Addiction treatment needs more empathy for LGBTQ+ community WATCH June 24, 2021 - “Our safe places are gay bars – places that are surrounded by a substance. If we are able to create something that’s not surrounded by a substance but still provides that same feeling, I think that would definitely help.”Molly Simpson, the director of clinical services at Hazelden Betty Ford in Newberg, Oregon, said those challenges and risks are often reflected in statistics. more@KATU |
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Goodbye happy hour? Changing workplace culture to support recovery June 23, 2021 -“We think alcohol helps connect people,” says Heather Lowe, a certified recovery coach and founder of Ditched the Drink, which promotes sobriety. “The truth is, alcohol contributes to sexual harassment, lower productivity, higher absenteeism and a reduced bottom line.” more@BenefitNews |
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Conan Takes A Hit On Seth Rogen’s Joint (no, not that joint) "Conan," O'Brien's long-running TBS show, concluded on Thursday night, bringing an end to a late night TV era. And O'Brien's late night career came to a close with the man who helped start it all, Homer Simpson. more@YouTube |
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