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Christmas Miracle of Sobriety December 22, 2020 • Vol. 8., No. 18 [Advertise]( Mail ]( [Visit our website]( [Madness of America]( Unmasking Mental Illness and Addiction in Pandemic World Dec. 18, 2020 - As the COVID-19 positivity rates are again surging, so too are the under-acknowledged rates of mental illness, thoughts of suicide, and drug and alcohol misuse across the United States. Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, an estimated 1 in 5 Americans struggled with mental health issues... [more@NBCNews]( [Crime pays, for a while]( Man guilty in $32,000,000 pawn shop scheme targeting drug addicts Dec. 16, 2020 - All of the proceeds went directly to Tribunella, Shadders said. He said he was making “decent money” and admitted he knew what he was doing was wrong. “Mr. Tribunella said I would never get in trouble, because I was a worker,”... [more@D&C]( [I wish this was fake news]( Outbreak Grows At Green Mountain Treatment Center Part of Granite Recovery in N.H. [LISTEN]( Dec. 18, 2020 - State health officials say there are now more than 100 cases of COVID-19 linked to an outbreak at one of the biggest residential addiction treatment centers in the state. [more@NHPR]( [WHY?]( U.S. Overdose Deaths Reach Record Highs Dec. 17, 2020 - more than 81,000 people died from an overdose. That is the highest number ever recorded during a 12-month period ... more than 81,000 people died from an overdose. That is the highest number ever recorded during a 12-month period ... more than 81,000 people died from an overdose. That is the highest number ever recorded during a 12-month period ... more than 81,000 people died from an overdose. That is the highest number ever recorded during a 12-month period... [more@USNews]( [Holiday Fun]( Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn’t Mean 2015 - An ACE score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. According to the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, the rougher your childhood, the higher your score is likely to be and the higher your risk for later health problems. [more@NPR]( [Subcutaneous injection once a week]( Buvidal Approved for Treatment of Opioid Dependence - Dec. 18, 2020 - There are currently an estimated 20,000 patients receiving pharmacological treatment for opioid dependence in Switzerland, of which a majority are on daily opioid agonist treatment. We are pleased with the expeditious review and approval of our market authorization application for Buvidal by Swissmedic...  [more@PRNewswire]( [Make it Free?]( Overdose epidemic needs state action to remove barriers to care DEC. 16, 2020 - The report emphasizes the increasing importance of removing barriers to evidence-based care—including prior authorization for medications to treat opioid use disorder and increasing access to non-opioid pain alternatives. [more@AMA]( [Admitted into not “checked” into]( John Mulaney Has Checked Into Rehab Dec. 21, 2020 - The former Saturday Night Live writer is 38, “I wasn’t a good athlete, so maybe it was some young male thing of ‘This is the physical feat I can do. Three Vicodin and a tequila and I’m still standing,’” he said. “Who’s the athlete now?” [more@People]( [Music soothes the savage addiction]( Waxahatchee’s ‘Saint Cloud’ Confronts Sobriety And Recovery With Vivid Empathy [WATCH]( December 18, 2020 - ...much of that accrued wisdom involves addiction and codependency — the record’s two major themes, in singer Katie Crutchfield’s view, She flits between specificity and abstraction, confronting both her own struggles with alcoholism and the struggles of friends both living and dead. [more@Uproxx]( [Save the Country ... Music]( Brantley Gilbert Celebrates Nine Years of Sobriety Dec. 18, 2020 - “Congratulations! That’s a huge accomplishment,” one fan commented. “Congratulations man. Powerful message to a lot of people who needed that s—. Thank you,” wrote another. “Congratulations!!! I’m so freaking proud of you.”... “I’m proud of you for that! I just celebrated 10 months drink free,” one person wrote. “Three years, two months for me yesterday!” commented another. [more@People]( [Sow the seeds of success]( For Recovering Farmer, Holiday Season is Fraught with Potential for Relapse Dec. 17, 2020 - Even when he was a kid growing up on the family farm outside Waubun, Bryan Klabunde says, alcohol held a certain allure for him. As an adult, his fascination led to frequent indulgence, and eventually, addiction. [more@InForum]( [You are what you eat]( 15 Foods You Should Be Eating Every Day Nov. 19, 2020 - “Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it” The leading cause of both death, disability, and disease within the United States is diet. Bon appetite... [more@Medium]( [Heaven's Overcrowding]( Overdose Deaths Outpace COVID-19 Deaths in SF Dec. 19, 2020 - A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19... [more@Yahoo]( [Not the face of evil]( Woman admits to ‘heinous and thoughtless’ drug deal  - Dec. 18, 2020 - “You have a background, and an education and a family environment in which I think it’s important to get this episode, as best as we can, behind you, and get you on with your life with the support you can glean from your family,” Judge said. [@GreenBayGazette]( [Win Win]( Heartwarming! Drug Rehab Centre Offers Free Treatment Via Christmas Raffle Dec. 18, 2020 - “Imagine if this happened in primary healthcare,” said addiction recovery expert Robert Ashford. “Enter for a chance to win open heart surgery!” Addiction experts told VICE World News that offering competitions and scholarships for rehab, in a country with the worst overdose crisis in the world, reinforced the treatment industry’s reputation for behaving in ways unlike any other in the health care sector. [more@Vice]( [The fix is in?]( 4 treatment centers get almost no money seized by Osceola County Dec. 16, 2020 - A total of $31,848 was divided up between The Transition House ($10,000), Aspire Health Partners ($9,660), Park Place Behavioral Health Care and the Ninth Judicial Circuit Drug Court ($2,188)... [more@AroundOsceola]( [The Company You Keep]( The Unsuspected Dangers of Passive Alcoholism Dec. 17, 2020 - It is the fact of experiencing disorders related to the drunkenness of another person around him or her, such as being with a drunk driver or being harassed or threatened by a drunk person. [more@GentSide]( [Trudging and Trudging]( Kristian Garic: I’m an alcoholic Dec. 17, 2020 -Twenty-nine days ago, I checked myself into an addiction treatment facility in central Louisiana to treat my substance abuse. I’m out of treatment now, but the road to sobriety is just beginning. For the better part of the last 10 years save for the last thirty-one days I would drink until black out, every night, every week, of every month..[@Radio]( [Praise for AA]( Susannah Constantine Reveals She’s an Alcoholic With Seven Years in Recovery [WATCH]( Dec. 19, 2020 - Constantine praised AA meetings, which she said she had attended countless times, for helping in her recovery but said that she had missed being able to go to her weekly meetings during lockdown. The mum-of-three said that her own mother and grandmother had also been alcoholics, but that seven years on from her last drink she still wasn’t sure what had caused her addiction... [more@YahooSports]( [What is a bachelorette?]( Addiction specialist may get the rose Dec. 18, 2020 - Clark has been open with Adams on the show about his history of addiction. He was previously married and told Adams his wife left him after he was arrested for driving while intoxicated. The “Bachelorette” contestant was a college athlete and is a Philadelphia sports fan. [more@NJ]( [Cooking with Love]( Restaurateur Launches Sober Living House [WATCH]( Dec. 18, 2020 - “I did a 12-day binge in Atlanta for New Year’s Eve that lasted until January 12th for me. I missed two weeks of work. I took as much cocaine as I could afford, a bag full of ecstasy, Xanax, bottles of vodka, Triple Sec and Kahlua. I drank it and took it and snorted every bit of the dope that I took with me on that trip,” said Bowman. [more@WRBCTV]( [MEDIA: Book Recommendation]( GIVING GRIEF MEANING: A Method for Transforming Deep Suffering into Healing and Positive Change by Lily Dulan, MFT  DEC. 2020 - “Lily Dulan had to bear the unbearable, a loss that is every parent’s nightmare. This book relays her journey from the valley of excruciating pain to a peaceful life on the other side of it.”―Marianne Williamson, author of Return to Love [more@Amazon]( [Great share]( Elton John On NPR’s Fresh Air [LISTEN]( Dec. 18, 2020 - Sir Elton John spoke with Terry Gross after the publication of his memoir, ‘Me.’ The book was pretty forthcoming about family, addiction and sexuality, and so was the conversation. A new CD box set collects rarities, demos, B-sides and fan favorites from his long career. [more@NPR]( [Praise for the eBulletin]( Writers In Treatment: Melding Recovery, Arts, and The Information Nov. 11, 2020 - As he expresses with passion, “There is life after sobriety. Getting sober doesn’t mean losing touch with the creative and intellectual side of your personality. You don’t have to be bored or boring.” [more@TheFix]( [Will He Outlaw Marijuana?]( Patrick Kennedy pitches himself for ‘drug czar’ Dec. 18, 2020 - He’s the highest-profile candidate to join the early jockeying for the post, and already enjoys backing from prominent figures including a former drug czar, former surgeon general, and the former director of the NIMH ... Kennedy would have control over the budgets of other federal agencies involved in mental health care or addiction treatment... [more@StatNews]( [Voting for Sobriety]( Senator John Velis Faces Alcoholism One Day at a Time - Dec. 20, 2020 - IF JOHN VELIS has a drink, he can’t stop. Not at one drink, or two, or three. The end doesn’t come until he is blacking out, crazy drunk, the kind of drunk where you wake up the next morning needing another drink. Velis is a Democratic state senator from Westfield, a US Army Reserve major, and the nephew of a retired judge. Velis is also, he now will say, an alcoholic. [more@CommonwealthMag]( [Transformational]( Brian Marshall Details Journey to Sobriety in New Mini-Doc [WATCH]( Dec. 17, 2020 - Alter Bridge and Creed bassist Brian Marshall laid bare his decades-long struggle with alcoholism and the salvation he found in family, his band and his music in a new mini-documentary. [more@WZLX]( [Families heal together]( John Owen Lowe Came a Long Way to Overcome Addiction — Who Is Rob Lowe’s Son? Dec. 20, 2020 - In 1990 Rob stopped drinking after a sex scandal nearly destroyed his career, and that same year he met Sheryl Berkoff, his wife, and the mother of his sons. He has now been sober for nearly 31 years. [more@AmoMama]( [It's Christmas - GIVE IT AWAY]( Nina Hagen Spiritually Inspired Chili Peppers’ “Give It Away” [WATCH]( - Dec. 20, 2020 - “… but then there was this exquisitely beautiful, older woman, to me because she was probably twenty-nine or thirty and I was maybe twenty or twenty-one. She had this crazy thick accent and she was all colourful … And it was Nina Hagen. [more@Rare]( [Visit our website                                                                                      ]( [[Facebook] ]( [[Twitter] ]( [[YouTube] ]( Addiction Recovery eBulletin | PO Box 1745, Studio City, CA 91614 [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by info@writersintreatment.org powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](