"We all deserve a mulligan in life" ... Playboy Model Gives Good Message ... and more

News For Sane People [View Full eBulletin Here]( June 20, 2023 | Vol. 10 | No. 45 | Since 2013 [Home]( [Fan Mail]( Drug Addiction Was A Bitch. Tranq Made it Worse. June 11, 2023 - David “Lee” Wells marveled at how it felt to hold an iced coffee in his hand again after losing his fingers to “tranq” wounds that rotted away his flesh. He flashed a cheeky grin and took a selfie with his new titanium fingers wrapped around the cup. “This is the aftermarket me,” he said. [READ@WSJ]( SEIZED: Fentanyl Enough to Kill San Francisco’s Entire Population 3 Times Over June 15, 2023 - The governor previously said that the operation will not result in criminalizing those addicted to drugs. “I’m proud of the CHP and CalGuard’s lifesaving efforts to shut down the Tenderloin’s poison pipeline and hold drug traffickers accountable,” Gavin Newsom said. [READ@YahooNews]( Heavy Drinkers Misjudge Impairment Levels  June 15, 2023 - Heavy drinkers’ belief that they can ‘hold their liquor’ better than light drinkers has been challenged by a new study, revealing that this perceived tolerance may lead to risky decisions. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research found that people who exceed drinking an amount of alcohol that is typical for them showed substantial impairment. [READ@NeuroScienceNews]( Dealing with Alcoholism in the Family June 12, 2023 - My daughter fell in love with a man she met in rehab while undergoing treatment for alcoholism. She now plans to wed him. Her father is an alcoholic and I have told her not to make the same mistake I made. Please help me! [@BusinessDaily]( The Age of Drug Normalization? June 11, 2023 - Sessi Blanchard, a 26-year-old harm-reduction specialist in New York, “I am a living example of how you can use [crystal meth in moderation,”]( she told me recently. Blanchard is a case manager for homeless New Yorkers with mental health or substance use issues. [READ@TabletMag]( Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower, Gone at 92 [video]( June 16, 2023 - In 1969 Ellsberg secretly photocopied 7,000-pages commissioned by the Defense Department which revealed the government knew early on the Vietnam War could not be won. “I felt that as an American and as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in deceiving the American public,” he said. [@THEINTERCEPT]( Tailoring Recovery for LGBTQ+ June 12, 2023 - LGBTQ+ people have a higher risk for anxiety, stress and depression as well. These conditions often occur together and can stem from the challenges and discrimination this community faces. [READ@MayoClinicHealthSystem]( Playboy Model Who ‘glamorised drugs’ Gives Stark Message After Sobriety Saved Her  June 15, 2023 - Brazilian wrestler and model Mayra Dias Gomes candidly opened up about how her sobriety journey saved her career. She revealed how she has turned her life around following years of drug and alcohol abuse. [READ@Mirror]( [Flavor Flav]( Celebrates His Sobriety  June 16, 2023 - “I’ve changed. Today I am 3 years clean from cigarettes that I started smoking when I was just 6 years old. Soon I’ll be 3 years sober from alcohol. And I’ve been 15+ years sober from drugs. I’m proud to share my sobriety journey.” [@JustJared]( REAL HOUSE WIFE Gina Kirschenheiter On Being “[California Sober]( [video]( June 14, 2023 - I stopped drinking, which helped me lose a lot of weight and look great, but also, like, mentally, I think it’s really much better for me.” “So I am California sober. We don’t drink, but we still dabble in the marijuana.” [WATCH@BravoTV]( Making it Easier for Kids to Prevent Overdoses [audio]( June 12, 2023 - Students are learning how to use the lifesaving overdose reversal Narcan that was recently made available for sale over the counter. In California, fentanyl is the cause of 1 in 5 deaths among youths, a pending bill could allow younger teens to seek drug treatment without parental consent. [LISTEN@NPR]( Food Addiction: a Form of Insanity? Experts Can’t Agree. June 15, 2023 - People will do inconvenient or harmful things to satiate their urges. “I care about this work so much because I talk to people and they say, ‘I know I’m killing myself. I know that I have unmanaged type 2 diabetes, (but) the pull of this food, this donut is so strong I will drive 40 minutes out of my way. [READ@CNN]( Abstinence NOT Required: Program Prioritizes Living June 11, 2023 - Anthony Kelly trudged through southwest Baltimore, each labored footstep a reminder of the roofing accident that left him with chronic pain and a raging opioid addiction several years after he returned home from serving in the Marines. [READ@ABCNews]( Corrections Employee Charged with Bringing Suboxone into Jail June 15, 2023 - A former Alaska Department of Corrections employee is charged with illegally supplying a drug to treat opioid addiction to an inmate at Wildwood Pretrial Facility in Kenai. [READ@AlaskaPublic]( Israeli Pharma Co. Pays $193M Opioid Settlement To Nevada June 7, 2023 - Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced that Nevada will receive approximately $193 million from Teva Pharmaceuticals after the company agreed to a settlement regarding its role in the opioid epidemic. [READ@Fox5]( Cara Delevingne Found Community Through Sobriety June 15, 2023 - The model and actress, who has battled psoriasis (a chronic skin condition characterized by itchy, red, sometimes scaly patches that appear on the skin) and confidently exposed her skin during flare-ups of the condition, spoke about her struggle with anxiety and how she achieved sobriety. [READ@SurvivorNet]( Anthony Hopkins’ Raging Alcoholism Made Him Insufferable June 11, 2023 - Anthony Hopkins credited AA meetings for saving his life after years of struggling with alcohol abuse, he finally got help after he nearly “drank himself to death”. The Oscar-winning star once blacked out as a result of heavy alcohol consumption and realized he had to get his life back together. [READ@FandomWire]( Graduating from High School Hip for Teens in Recovery June 16, 2023 - As three teens wearing black graduation gowns with proud purple tassels walk down the aisle of a humid church sanctuary, families and friends immediately jump to their feet. They cheer as tears stream down their faces. [READ@MinnPost]( Escape Addiction and Sin No More  June 16, 2023 - We need to realize that sin is only desirable for a short time. The fruit in the Garden of Eden was appealing to the eye at first, but the effect it held did not last long as Adam and Eve realized the consequences of their actions. [READ@AFA]( Use of Non-LSD Hallucinogens Increasing June 9, 2023 - “While non-LSD hallucinogen use remains substantially less prevalent than substances such as alcohol and cannabis, a doubling of prevalence in just 3 years is a dramatic increase and raises possible public health concerns.” [@MedicalXpress]( Whey Jennings Opens Up About Sobriety in New Documentary [video]( June 15, 2023 - Whey Jennings is opening up about his life, including his troubled past, his sobriety and more, in an upcoming documentary, Just a Good Ol’ Boy. The grandson of Waylon Jennings, the “Wild Child” singer shared a clip of the documentary on social media... [WATCH@EverythingNash]( Doctor Gets 12 Sentenced to Years for Bogus Prescriptions for Tens of Thousands of Pills June 9, 2023 - Dr. Pham prescribed drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, amphetamine salts and other drugs “outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, including people he knew were drug addicts.” [READ@KTLA]( Teens Addicted to Opioids May Not Get Lifesaving Addiction Medication at Treatment Centers June 15, 2023 - Despite a record-setting number of overdose deaths nationwide in 2022, a new study from Oregon Health & Science University finds that only one in four adolescent residential treatment centers nationwide provides buprenorphine, a proven medication to treat opioid use disorder. [READ@SciTechDaily]( Suicide, Addiction, Abuse: Can ChatGPT Help? June 14, 2023 - ChatGPT performed “better than what we thought,” Ayers said. “It certainly did better than Google or Siri, or you name it.” But, a 20% referral rate is “still far too low. There’s no reason that shouldn’t be 100%.” [READ@WebMD]( Americans Drinking Same Amount of Alcohol As in Civil War Era June 14, 2023 - Over the course of 2021, the average American consumed 2.51 gallons of ethanol — the alcohol found in wine, beer and spirits — compared with 2.53 gallons in 1860, the brink of the Civil War. “During stressful times, people tend to drink more.” [READ@NYPost]( Request To Expand Number Of Beds At Recovery Home Denied June 14, 2023 - The house’s owners, Attack Addiction, were hoping to expand from 10 beds up to 16. Don Keister with Attack Addiction says he’s not sure what his group will do now to help more people. [READ@WRDE]( Admit Future Patients Before They Even Know They've Hit Rock Bottom? June 8, 2023 - A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences... [READ@TheMarkup]( Golf Pro Inspires: “We all deserve a mulligan in life.”[video]( June 16, 2023 - “I lost my family, and I can sit here and say this, and on camera, I chose alcohol over my family; it’s not anyone’s fault except Michael Frattarelli’s fault.” [WATCH@ABC7]( Cormac McCarthy, Celebrated Novelist, Passes at 89 June 13, 2023 - The revered novelist whose bleakly violent, apocalyptic visions of the American south drew him fans from Oprah Winfrey to Saul Bellow, has died. He wrote, The Road, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Crossing and more... 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