February 12, 2019 • Vol. 6., No. 30
For Treatment Industry & Recovery Community
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Museum Targeted by Protesters for Accepting OxyContin Money
Feb. 9, 2019 - The scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground.
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Acadia Healthcare Runs Into Expansion Problems
Feb. 6, 2019 - In Indio, California, Acadia is seeing the planned opening of a new 80-bed psychiatric facility. Residents are putting up a fight to stop the facility from encroaching on their area.
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Drugs found in schools ... VIDEO
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Seattle Salmon Found to Contain Cocaine, Antidepressants, and Pain Relievers VIDEO
Feb. 7, 2019 - The Seattle Times reports... Some of the drugs and contaminates found include Flonase, Aleve, Tylenol, Paxil, Valium, Zoloft, Tagamet, OxyContin, Darvon, Nicotine, caffeine, Fungicides, antiseptics, anticoagulants, as well as plenty of antibiotics.
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“I am blooming from the wound where I once bled.” —Rune Lazuli
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Access To Guns, Not Mental Health, May Be Responsible For Gun Violence
February 18, 2019 - {Researchers} surveyed more than 600 young adults and asked about firearm possession as well as symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, PTSD, and other mental illness. They found that the majority of the mental health symptoms examined were not related to gun violence. More@Boston.CBSLocal.com
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Matthew Perry’s update after he got kicked out of therapy
Feb. 8, 2018 - Matthew Perry has shared a poignant update about his mental wellbeing after worrying fans with a message about being booted out of his therapy session. The Friends star had tweeted on Wednesday: “I got kicked out of therapy today.” ... “Easy guys, it was just one session. I’m back in therapy where I belong:),” he wrote.
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Sears Once Sold Heroin
March 2019 - Scientists called this new epidemic “morphinism” and tried with increasing concern to find ways to control it. Enter the German company Bayer and its new drug, Heroin. More@TheAtlantic.com
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Maybe Pot Isn’t Bad for Sperm Count After All
F eb. 6, 2019 - It found that men who reported ever using cannabis actually had higher sperm counts on average than men who claimed to have never touched the stuff. Male cannabis users were also less likely to have unhealthy sperm counts than teetotalers.More@Gizmodo.com
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Justin Bieber’s Comments About Sobriety and Celibacy
Feb. 7, 2019 - “I found myself doing things that I was so ashamed of, being super-promiscuous and stuff,I was so ashamed. My mom always said to treat women with respect. Drugs put a screen between me and what I was doing. It got pretty dark,” Justin revealed.
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Feds take first formal swing at stopping Supervised Consumption Space (SCS)
February 6, 2019 - US Attorney William McSwain revealed that his office had filed a complaint for declaratory judgment {that} aims to prevent Safehouse, a non-profit from following through with its plan to open an SCS (or safe injection site) in Philadelphia’s drug-ridden Kensington neighborhood. More@FilterMag.org
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Chaka Khan Gets Candid About Past Addiction to Prescription Drugs VIDEO
Feb. 8, 2019 - “Extra’s” Tanika Ray caught up with Chaka Khan at her new Los Angeles home, where she opened up about her past addiction to prescription drugs.
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Casper, Wyoming Sues Opioid Makers VIDEO
Feb. 9, 2019 - THE City of Casper has filed a federal lawsuit accusing opioid manufacturers and distributers of misrepresenting the addictive properties of their prescription painkillers. More@USNews.com
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Do You Believe in Magic? VIDEO
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Denver may decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms VIDEO
Feb. 7, 2019 - “This is a real opportunity for Denver to be a leader when it comes to drug policy, and to create an environment where individuals feel like they have a safety net to speak about their personal use,” said Kevin Matthews, from the advocacy group Decriminalize Denver.
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What Is Love Addiction?
Feb 10, 2019 - Love addiction refers to a “pattern of behavior characterized by a maladaptive, pervasive and excessive interest towards one or more romantic partners, resulting in lack of control, the renounce of other interests and behavior, and other negative consequences”...
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‘Dreamland’: Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly in Opioid Crisis Thriller
Feb. 6, 2019 - A drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S.; an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics; and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a drug company... More@Deadline.com
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Teachers Canned Smoking Pot
February 8, 2019 - A SECOND-GRADE TEACHER at an elementary school in Florida who’s been registered as a medical-marijuana user is facing charges of violating the district’s drug-free workplace policy...More@USNews.com
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Illinois Begins Radical Program to Swap Opioids for Pot
Feb. 2019 - Opioid prescriptions can now be used for medical marijuana instead, in a bold move to prevent increased addiction to the deadly pharmaceuticals. Opioid overdose deaths are on the rise, with Americans now more likely to die of accidental overdose than in a car accident, and the prevalence even lowering the overall average life expectancy in this country.
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Miracle treatment or dangerous drug? Indonesia cashes in!
February 9, 2019 - The sweltering backwaters of Indonesian Borneo have become the unlikely ground zero for the global production and export of Kratom, a tree leaf hailed by some as a miracle cure for everything from opioid addiction to anxiety. More@DailyMail.co.uk
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Cops turned old scuba truck into a drug-fighting HQ on wheels
Feb 8, 2019 - Kathy Velazquez hugs Noemi Medina, a Newark police officer, before she gets into a van that will take her to a drug treatment program. Newark police has Hope One mobile truck that connects addicts to treatment and other social services. More@NJ.com
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Charlie Sheen tells Lindsay Lohan to ‘stay the course’
Feb. 8, 2019 - Both Charlie, 53, and Lindsay, 32, have suffered with addiction in the past, and after the Platoon star recently celebrated one year of sobriety, he has said he hopes his former co-star - can follow in his footsteps and keep up her sobriety.
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With Trump Threats, State Shies Away from Overdose Prevention Centers
February 8, 2019 - The US attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on February 6 asked a federal judge to declare that supervised injection programs are illegal. The suit seeks to stop Safehouse, the proposed provider of a supervised injection site, from opening...
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Study identifies new target to prevent and treat alcoholism
FEBRUARY 8, 2019 - New research conducted at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, identifies a gene that could provide a new target for developing medication to prevent and treat alcoholism. More@MedicalXpress.com
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Women’s hormones play role in drug addiction, higher relapse rates VIDEO
Feb. 8, 2019 - Erin Calipari, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, points out that women represent a particularly vulnerable population, with higher rates of addiction following exposure to drugs, but addiction studies have primarily focused on the mechanisms underlying these effects in men. More@Vanderbilt.edu
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Treating Drug Addiction by Altering Memory
Feb. 4, 2019 - This might sound like something out of a science fiction novel but it’s actually based around the theory of classical conditioning which dates back to Pavlov’s dog theory. Classical conditioning, also known as Pavlov conditioning is based on the understanding of memory and learning. More@IVDaily.com
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‘Hillbilly Poet’ proves a country boy can survive addiction
Feb. 4, 2019 - Will Banet speaks homespun truth about recovery in new book - Eight Minutes. That’s all it took for God to transform recovered heroin and meth addict Will Banet into the Hillbilly Poet.
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Winnipeg woman developed addiction to meth in sober housingVIDEO
Feb. 4, 2019 - Stephanie Siddle says she became addicted to meth while living at River Point Centre, a sober-living residence managed by Addictions Foundation of Manitoba ... “Everyone was using. There was not a single person who didn’t,” said Siddle, 32, who was a tenant at River Point Apartments. More@CBC.ca
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E-cigarettes are gateway to nicotine addiction VIDEO
February 7, 2019 - A new study finds that e-cigarettes, packed with high concentrations of nicotine, are a gateway to addiction for young users. More@Wave3.com
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World Health Organization Recommends Rescheduling Cannabis in International Law
February 8, 2019 - The WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence has recommended that cannabis resin and other marijuana products should be downgraded from a schedule IV to a schedule I drug under international law. Schedule IV is the strictest category outlined in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Treaty, meaning that cannabis is currently treated in the same way as heroin... More@Newsweek.com
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Getting off the MAT VIDEO
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Former wrestler explains battle with drug addiction VIDEO
February 11, 2019 - Some may say Alex Winn had it all. He was a high school athlete and star pupil, but one thing stood in his way to greatness: his drug addiction.
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Driver charged with felony DUI after striking 9 pedestrians
Feb. 10, 2019 - Solis, of Anaheim, allegedly drove the truck up onto the sidewalk and hit the pedestrians before crashing into a tree, police said. Good Samaritans and police officers had to lift the truck to free several pedestrians who were trapped underneath.
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Why judge’s ruling on patient brokering may up-end prosecutions
Feb. 6, 2019 - Like dozens of others charged with patient brokering since prosecutors began their crackdown on Palm Beach County’s illicit drug treatment industry, James Kigar blames his legal woes on bad advice he received from an attorney. More@PalmBeachPost.com
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For millennials, cancers fueled by obesity are on rise
February 4, 2019 - “The risk of cancer is increasing in young adults for half of the obesity-related cancers, with the increase steeper in progressively younger ages,” said co-author Ahmedin Jemal... More@CNN.com
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