Nikki Sixx tells all! ... and so much more

Addiction Almanac [EVERY DAY IS A HIGH HOLIDAY]( Shrooms! Shamans! Kosher LSD! Why Los Angeles Is Suddenly Tripping Out - Oct. 21, 2021 - Housewives in the Hills are doing it. Hipsters in Los Feliz, too. L.A. has became ground zero for a new hallucinogen boom, with ayahuas ca ceremonies now as common as barbecues. But is microdosing shrooms really the answer to what ails Angelenos? [more@LAMag]( [View as Webpage]( Oct. 26, 2021 | Vol. 9 | No. 11 | Since 2013 [Home]( Mail]( [THE LAW THAT KILLS EVERY DAY]( Police Chief Says Criminalizing Drugs Causes Most Deaths - Oct. 23, 2021 - Writing in The Guardian, Cleveland Chief Constable Richard Lewis said the “war on drugs” was actually a “public health crisis”. He said a “fundamental change of approach” was required, including a national roll-out of a scheme which saw addicts given heroin. [more@BBC]( [DO ANY LIVES MATTER?]( Biden Drug Policy Could Widen Racial Disparities, Civil Rights Groups Warn [LISTEN]( Oct. 22, 2021 - “Since the inception of the war on drugs, African Americans and Latino people have born the brunt of enforcement-first approaches.” A coalition of nearly 100 civil rights and criminal justice reform groups is protesting a Biden administration proposal that would stiffen prison sentences for certain synthetic opioids, warning that it will exacerbate racial disparities already in the system. [more@NPR]( [EXCEPT TO THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX]( 50-Year War on Drugs Imprisoned Millions of Black Lives That Didn’t Matter  July 21, 2021 - Alton Lucas was caught up in a system that imposes lifetime limits on most people who have served time for drug crimes, with little thought given to their ability to rehabilitate. In addition to being denied employment, those with criminal records can be limited in their access to business and educational loans, housing, child custody rights, voting rights and gun rights. It’s a system that was born when Lucas was barely out of diapers. [more@NYPost]( [FREEDOM SONG]( San Francisco Opera and San Quentin Prison Team Up to Showcase Incarcerated Artists Oct. 18, 2021 - Fidelio tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned and the woman who disguises herself in order to enter the prison and save him. (“To Break Free, She Had to Break In” is the San Francisco Opera’s cinematic tagline.) [more@HyperAllergic]( [SURE THAT’S ENOUGH?]( They Raised $118 Million For a Recovery Startup Oct. 21, 2021 - On Thursday Workit announced a $118 million Series C led by Insight Partners ($90 million in equity and the rest in debt). CVS Health Ventures, FirstMark Capital, BCBS Venture Fund and 3L Capital also participated in the round, which values Workit at around $500 million... [more@Forbes]( [FROM LOW BOTTOM TO HIGH END]( Sobriety Fueled His Passion To Make Luxury Goods 10/21/2021 - The leather bags are high end and can cost anywhere from $700 to $1100. But before his venture into luxury goods, Seawright bounced between jobs from construction to engineering before becoming a police officer in Arkansas. That led to his struggle with alcoholism. “I love the feel of leather. I love the texture of it.  [more@ColumbiaMissourian]( [GOOP SOBER]( Gwyneth Paltrow Credits Orgasms, Sobriety and Naked Cuddles for a Good Night’s Sleep  Oct. 21, 2021 - (along with $800 worth of Goop products) Asked how she kicks off her routine, Gwyneth credited eating dinner ‘very early’ to kickstart her digestion, noting ‘Not going to sleep on a full stomach has been a game changer for my sleep. I also don’t drink alcohol that much anymore... [more@DailyMail]( [‘A VERY TRYING TIME’]( Burnout Grows to Epic Proportion Among Social Workers [WATCH]( - Oct. 20, 2021 - “These are people that matter. They are people in our community, they are people we know, develop relationships with, we know their struggles and celebrate their triumphs,” said Simon Morrision with Sanguen Health Centre. “Watching them pass away, watching our services not meet their needs, it can be exhausting and really traumatic,” Morrision continued. [more@CTVNews]( [HAND IN THE TILL]( Leading Addiction Recovery Reformer Was on the Payroll of Rehab Center Sept 27, 2021 - For more than a decade, Fred Way, Jr. has been at the forefront of Pennsylvania’s fight against the opioid epidemic — leading the charge to define standards for the state’s hundreds of unlicensed and unregulated sober living homes. Now he acknowledged taking money from a drug rehab facility under criminal investigation for encouraging the industry’s worst abuses. [more@Inquirer]( [DANCING THE TWELVE STEPS?]( How TikTok is Encouraging ‘Sober Curiosity’ Oct. 22, 2021 - At first, she tried Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) but Covid-19 meant the meetings were on Zoom and she found them awkward and intense. Instead, she turned to an unlikely resource: TikTok, searching for sobriety content and finding it in abundance: the hashtag #sober has 1.8 billion views. [more@ID]( [ON YOUR MARK, GET SET... LISTEN]( Change Your Relationship With Time [LISTEN]( Oct. 16, 2021 - His new book, Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, is all about how and why to reevaluate your relationship with time — starting with the startling brevity of the average human life span. “You get a moment and then another moment, and it’s the same for absolutely everybody.” We must first admit defeat. [more@NPR]( [GERMAN’S PROTEST]( Turns Out, Beer Is Even Worse For You Than We Thought Oct. 20, 2021 - And it gets worse: even moderate consumption, which generally means up to 1 drink a day for women and to 2 drinks a day for men, had the potential to do greater damage to drinkers’ brains than previous studies had recognized. [more@EatThis]( [IT’LL KILL YOU EVENTUALLY]( Foods Ranked Healthiest to Deadliest Oct. 16, 2021 - “Once you get beyond ‘eat your veggies, avoid soda,’ the public is pretty confused about how to identify healthier choices in the grocery store, cafeteria, and restaurant,” says the study’s lead author, Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. [more@Elemental]( [SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO!!!]( The ‘Penis Fitbit’ Is Here Oct. 22, 2021 - A sensor a great step for diagnosing erectile dysfunction and determining whether the cause is psychological or biological ... Of course there are multiple reasons why you could experiencing the less than optimal amount of nighttime erections, including alcohol use. [more@YahooNews]( [THE WAY TO MAN’S ART IS THROUGH HIS HEART]( Workshop Aims to Combat Artists’ Addiction, Isolation and Death - Oct. 2021 - In his first year, as executive director and founder of Colorado Artists in Recovery, Valdez has provided 15 six-week workshops to anyone in recovery seeking a community with similar experiences. He hires teachers, who are also in recovery to lead courses, each typically offered to 10-12 students at a time. [more@ColoradoSun]( [EVEN DELICIOUS ALCOHOL-FREE WINES?]( ‘On the Mocks’: Woman Shares Her Story and Mocktail Recipes [WATCH]( Oct. 21, 2021 - Christine Wayne’s home is filled with tequilas, rums and wines but these bottles are a little different, they’re zero proof. “These are non-alcoholic spirits and they’re replacements for all of your go-tos," “You can enjoy the experience of the way we used to drink but without all the negative stuff.” [more@SpectrumNews]( [THE CUSTOMER IS NEVER RIGHT]( 3,415 Violations at Drug Rehabs in Pennsylvania  Oct. 23, 2021 - Some violations are categorized under “Bathrooms” or “Food Service,” while others involve “Medication control” or “Confidentiality,” or failing to report “Unusual Incidents” like patient deaths, assaults and ambulance visits ... Senators Katie Muth & Judy Schwank called the data vacuum “appalling” and “incredibly unacceptable.”[@MCall]( [THE CUSTOMER IS NEVER RIGHT AGAIN?]( Florida Rehab Fires Employee, Discharges Client For Abuse Claims - Oct. 22, 2021 - When a client seeking treatment for addiction reported the harassment by an employee, she was removed from both the treatment program and her associated sober living arrangement. Officials with St. John’s Recovery Place did not respond to requests for comment. [more@FloridaToday]( [IT’S AN INSIDE JOB]( The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel 2021 - “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” [more@TheMarginalian]( [WRITES THE WRONGS]( Nikki Sixx Dives Into Dysfunctional Childhood In Memoir [WATCH]( Oct. 20, 2021 - “The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx” (Hachette, 224 pp., out now) lists both Sixx and Frank Feranna – the musician’s real name – as its authors. It’s a fitting duality for the superstar Mötley Crüe bassist, who centers his memoir on the formative years of his life. [more@USAToday]( [MISS HILTON GOES TO WASHINGTON]( Paris Pushes for Bill Targeting Abusive Youth Facilities [WATCH]( - Oct. 21, 2021 - “The multibillion-dollar troubled teen industry has been able to mislead parents, school districts, child welfare agencies and juvenile justice systems for decades,” said Hilton, a media personality and entrepreneur and now a prominent activist calling for more oversight of youth facilities. [more@NBCNews]( [Home]( Mail]( [Visit our website]( [Send us your Comments,](mailto:ahbra@writersintreatment.org) [Compliments or Complaints](mailto:ahbra@writersintreatment.org) [[Facebook] ]( [[Twitter] ]( [[Instagram] ]( [[LinkedIn] ]( [[YouTube] ]( Addiction Recovery eBulletin | PO Box 1745, Studio City, CA 91614 [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Update Profile]( | [Constant Contact Data Notice]( Sent by ahbra@writersintreatment.org powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](