Sober Travel, Toad Venom Tripping, and more...

Awesome Addiction Almanac March 22, 2022 | Vol. 9 | No. 32 | Since 2013 [Home]( [Fan Mail]( [View COMPLETE eBulletin as Webpage]( Steep Rise in Overdoses Linked to Veterinary Tranquilizer MARCH, 2022 - Xylazine also may make it more difficult to reverse overdoses using the opioid overdose antidote naloxone. People are not buying what they think they’re buying, or they don’t know what they’re buying.” [more@DrugFree]( Tips On How To Travel Sober  March 14, 2022 - The cobblestone streets of New Orleans. The neon-splashed vistas of Vegas. The sun-soaked piers of Malibu. It’s hard to imagine traveling in these places without a drink in hand – but for those who embark on the journey of sobriety, it’s the reality. [more@USAToday]( Psychedelic Toad Venom Is In Demand March 20, 2022 - He went to Brain-injury clinics, took Prescription drugs. Nothing worked to ease his crippling depression and anxiety. Then he smoked the venom of the Sonoran desert toad. “I saw why they call this the ‘God molecule.’ [more@NYTimes]( Alcohol Misuse Linked to 232 Million Missed Workdays  March 17, 2022 - “The new data also point to an economic incentive for employers and policymakers to address the issue.”, explained senior investigator Laura J. Bierut, MD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Psychiatry. “Our hope is that the workplace might be a point of contact where intervention can occur.” [more@WUStL]( Alcohol-Related Deaths Spiked During the Pandemic March 22, 2022 - Among adults younger than 65, alcohol-related deaths actually outnumbered deaths from COVID-19 in 2020; 74,408 Americans ages 16-64 died of alcohol-related causes, while 74,075 individuals younger than 65 died of COVID-19. The rate of increase for alcohol-related deaths in 2020 — 25% — outpaced the rate of increase of deaths from all causes, which was 16.6%.. [more@NYTimes]( Feeling Out of Balance in Sobriety? March 16, 2022 - Feeling out of balance in life is just that feeling of being overwhelmed can be a challenge, but it doesn’t mean that you’re failing at recovery. In fact, it can often lead to better things once you’ve come closer to overcoming it. [more@JHR]( Pete Doherty’s Life Without Heroin [video]( (register for free to read full article) Mar. 18, 2022 - The Libertines frontman has been clean of drugs for two years after struggling with addictions to heroin, crack cocaine and ketamine for two decades. [more@Independent]( William Hurt Eschewed Opioids to Maintain his Sobriety  March 16, 2022 - Hurt only agreed to hospice and palliative care when the pain got too much to bear. “His death was not so much tragic as a gift,” the source said. “He was experiencing so much pain and he went out peacefully.” [more@MercuryNews]( Christy Carlson Romano Says It Was ‘Challenging to Be Sober During COVID’ March 13, 2022 - “I literally drove down the freeway, and I screamed. I literally did a primal scream. It was scream therapy at its finest. I was driving down the freeway screaming so loud, and it’s the craziest thing, but I did it.” [more@YahooNews]( Mental Tricks To Calm Your Racing Mind For Better Sleep [video]( March 13, 2022 - “Think of these relaxation exercises as tools in your tool kit for better sleep,” said sleep specialist Rebecca Robbins, an instructor in the division of sleep medicine for Harvard Medical School. [more@CNN]( Startups Push ADHD Meds Through TikTok Ads March 13, 2022 - “The ad makes it seem as though this is what will happen if you take ADHD medications, but whether you actually have ADHD is not necessarily relevant,” he said. [more@NYPost]( Occasionally Charming Alcoholism Drama  March 15, 2022 - The feeling of playfulness is gone in Michael Morris’ [To Leslie]( (2022), which premiered at SXSW. Another alcoholism epic, Morris’ film focuses on the tortured reality of his mother, off of whom the film is based. [more@GVN]( Jamie Lee Curtis Helps LaKeith Stanfield's Sobriety March 16, 2022 - ‘You’re a gorgeous, talented, smart, young father with huge opportunities ahead of you: Don’t fuck it up by dying of cancer that you can prevent,’” Curtis said. “I had become completely dependent upon alcohol” Stanfield said. “To the point where I wasn’t able to move or function without having it.”[more@Variety]( Brain Differences Seen in Children with Binge Eating Disorder March 15, 2022 - “These kids have a very, very heightened reward sensitivity, especially toward calorically dense, high-sugar foods. The findings underscore the fact that this is not a lack of discipline for these kids,” said lead author Stuart Murray, Assoc. Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences. [more@USCNews]( 4-Month-Old Shot to Death By 14 Year Old  March 16, 2022 - 22 children are in the U.S.]( day]( with an average of at least five deaths from the gunshot. [more@Newsweek]( Rabbi Details His Story of Addiction and Recovery March 14, 2022 - Rabbi Shlomo Uzhansky is on a mission to save both lives and souls amid a raging opioid epidemic. After struggling with drug addiction as a teen, sobriety reaped the blessings of a career, marriage and fatherhood. [more@SILive]( Jews Who Drink Too Much Strive for Sobriety During [Purim]( Bacchanalia March 16, 2022 - The Talmud seems to encourage inebriation amid the revelry, which falls this year on Wednesday eve-Thursday, but drinkers and teetotalers alike struggle with alcohol’s central role. [more@TimeofIsrael]( Paradox Of How Antidepressants Are Tested March 15, 2022 - Mental health has never been so important, yet antidepressant drug trials typically exclude those who need help most. [more@BBC]( Florida Man Calls Police to Verify his Meth is Authentic Mar. 16, 2022 - Colucci told deputies he wanted his meth tested, as he did not want other people to purchase “fake” meth from the individual who sold it to him. He wanted deputies to “put the person in trouble” for selling dangerous drugs. [more@GlobalNews]( Mrs. Doubtfire Co-Star Says Robin Williams Gave Him important Addiction Advice Mar. 13, 2022 - [Robin]( was the first adult who really let me in on his condition. Like, full-on let me in. I would go visit him in his trailer to talk to him - it was painful for him. It’s really painful for him. He didn’t hide it. He talked to me about it,’ Lawrence said. [more@Unilad]( Wes Hurt Shares his Recovery Story at SWSX [video]( Mar. 18, 2022 - [Hurt]( the founder of Sparkling Yerba Mate[CLEAN Cause]( says it’s surreal to be on the SXSW stage considering his last experience at the Austin festival. Hurt says he’d been using drugs for two days before police put him in the back of a patrol car. The juxtaposition is an example of how far people can come with the right support. [more@CBSAustin]( Israel Cason, Founder Of Treatment Program, Dies [audio]( March 13, 2022 - Mr. Cason, who survived years of heroin addiction and street violence, created the program, I Can’t We Can, for other recovering addicts. His efforts assisted thousands of people. [more@BaltimoreSun]( Making Peace With Your Body Mar. 18, 2022 - “No pictures!” I heard a woman say urgently. Her friend looked confused. “I’m in a no-pictures era of my life, these thighs don’t want to be photographed.” I watched the three children in their charge, quietly taking in this body-shaming message. [more@PsychologyToday]( Medical Marijuana May Trigger Substance Abuse Mar. 18, 2022 - “There have been many claims about the benefits of medical marijuana for treating pain, insomnia, anxiety, and depression, without sound scientific evidence to support them,” says lead author Jodi Gilman, with the Center for Addiction Medicine at MGH. [more@HarvardGazette]( [HIGH ad]( Samuel L. Jackson's Drug Addiction Early in Career [video]( Mar. 18, 2022 - Jackson was a functional drug user. He vividly remembers smoking crack while acting in the understudy role of Boy Willie in Broadway’s “The Piano Lesson.” [more@Today]( ‘One Pill Can Kill’ [video]( March 18, 2022 - The pills contain toxic levels, and are killing Texans. Taylor said fentanyl is an indiscriminate killer, which is coming into Texas at an alarming rate as dealers use it to counterfeit pills. The pills contain toxic levels, and are killing Texans. [more@ABC13]( Kathy Griffin Calls Her Pill Addiction ‘Almost Comical’ March 18, 2022 - “I went in the hospital for pill addiction at 59 years old. Who the hell becomes a junkie in their late 50s? Me.” Griffin fell victim to cancel culture in 2017 after posing for a gory snap of herself holding Donald Trump’s bloody and [decapitated head. ]( [more@PageSix]( Can Big $$$ in Addiction Tech Curb Overdose Deaths? Mar. 18, 2022 - “I became a massive cocaine addict,” David Sarabia said. “It started off just casual partying, but that escalated to pretty much anything I could get my hands on.” [more@CaliforniaHealthline]( Skin Graft: Next Breakthrough In Addiction Treatment? March 15, 2022 - A potential new surgical treatment for cocaine and alcohol addiction only goes skin deep, but could leave a long-lasting impact. Following successful experiments reported earlier this year in the journal Nature... 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