March 26th, 2013
Confessions of a 58-Year-Old World Renowned Author, Husband, and Father of Three With One MASSIVE Shopping Addiction.
“I have an addiction,” critically acclaimed author Buzz Bissinger writes in his bold confessional for the April edition of GQ, released Tuesday. “It isn’t drugs or gambling: I get to keep what I use after I use it. But there are similarities: the futile feeding of the bottomless beast ...
March 20th, 2013
Groundbreaking Data Probes Further Into Pregnancy and Meth Use
The meth use by pregnant women is getting worst. Meth effects are taking a dangerous toll on babies. Recent studies by Brown and University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) show that meth use by pregnant women in conjunction with an unstable environment may lead to an abnormal response to stress in ...
March 15th, 2013
Needle In A Haystack: FDA Investigates Killer Diabetes Medication
The FDA is currently probing newly discovered evidence that new diabetes medication may be increasing risk of pancreatitis and cancer. On Thursday, the FDA found that among a small number of patients, pancreatic tissue showed inflammation which is often a precursor to cancer. The Food and ...
February 28th, 2013
2013 Budget Sequestration AKA The Fiscal Cliff Part Deux
Remember a few months ago, somewhere around the turn of the year, everybody was running around afraid of this thing called the “fiscal cliff”? Remember all the hullabaloo and ruckus about John Boehner vs President Obama and the coverage about who would budge first on the budget? Remember how ...
February 18th, 2013
McCready Makes Number Three: “Celebrity Rehab” To Blame For Singer’s Suicide?
Popular 90’s country singer Mindy McCready took her life Sunday with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Yellow tape sectioned off the porch of McCready’s Herber Springs, Arkansas home, the same spot where her boyfriend, David Wilson, reportedly took his own life last month. Country stars ...
February 7th, 2013
Watch What You Mix: Diet Soda May Make For A More Potent Cocktail
Mixing alcohol with diet soda may make you more intoxicated. According to a recent report from NPR, diet mixers lead to higher Breath Alcohol Concentrations (BrAC) than sugar-laden drinks– and, consequently, a higher risk for DUI. The scientific reasoning is simple. Just as eating a snack ...
January 24th, 2013
The Helper Therapy Principle in action
Researchers at Helping Others Live Sober, a federally-funded non-profit dedicated to helping addicts stay sober, have found that the proverbial Golden Rule applies just as well to addiction recovery as it does to any other facet of our lives. They have conducted several longitudinal studies ...
January 16th, 2013
Seattle Hip-Hop Artist Commits Suicide
“God…please forgive me” were the final words posted on Twitter by Seattle rapper Freddy E before his tragic death. After a series of harrowing tweets, the 22 year-old, born Frederick Eugene Buhl, took his own life with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 5th. The rapper ...
January 15th, 2013
The Manchurian Candidate
How far would you go to cure your addiction? Would you sell all of your earthly possessions? Would you devote the rest of your life to charitable pursuits? Or would you prefer to have a hole drilled into your skull in order to allow a long electrode deep into your brain where an electrical ...
January 3rd, 2013
Colorado Cannabis Clubs: There and Back Again
Colorado’s recently passed Amendment 64, which decriminalized marijuana use and possession, has seen a number of businesses spring up in hopes of capitalizing on the new marijuana economy, although it still remains illegal to purchase the substance for non-medical purposes. Two such businesses, ...
December 20th, 2012
Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino, America’s Drug War, and Slavery
While doing press for his new film, Django Unchained, Director Quentin Tarantino spoke with George Stroumboulopoulos where he compared America’s Drug War and prison system to modern-day slavery. In the interview Tarantino says, among other things: “This whole thing of this ‘war on ...
December 13th, 2012
U.S. Marijuana Legalization has Murky Influence at Home and Abroad
The recent decriminalization of marijuana possession in both Colorado and Washington state has left in its political wake more confusion than clarity, which almost seems appropriate for any legislation regarding weed. Nobody really knows how the federal government will react and even local law ...
December 4th, 2012
D.A.R.E. to Dismiss
America’s most (in)famous anti-drug non-profit has been advocating “Drug Abuse Resistance Education” to students since the early 1980s, but–possibly in light of recent reports that participation in the program does not decrease drug use–has decided to drop ...
November 26th, 2012
New Jersey Ban on Synthetic Pot
Synthetic Marijuana has now been officially classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Dangerous Substance in the state of New Jersey. 1 Synthetic marijuana, which can still be found in convenience stores around the country under the such brand names as K2, Spice, Mr. Smiley, and Black Mamba, has ...
November 21st, 2012
Holiday Words Of Wisdom
The holiday season (mid-November to early January) is perhaps the hardest emotional time for Americans. The recession, complicated family dynamics, and many other reasons cause a tidal wave of depression throughout the nation, but for those battling addiction, the holidays are unbearable. ...
November 19th, 2012
Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon
Kimball Allen began writing what would become his one-man, one-act play, Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon, while detoxing in a jail cell, suffering from addictions to alcohol, drugs, and shopping. Haunted by a traumatic event in his childhood and excommunicated from his Mormon upbringing, Kimball ...
