by admin | Feb 7, 2019 | News
On day three of Lowell Cauffiel’s final detox from alcohol, a giant rabbit in a tuxedo and top hat tapped on the window of his second-floor bedroom.Cauffiel, a bestselling true crime author, Hollywood screenwriter and producer purposely didn’t go to rehab...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | News
When Leslie Jamison was a student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she fell in love with the myth of the alcoholic writer: the myth that liquor fed, not poisoned, great writing. By getting drunk in the same Iowa City bars as 20th-century alcoholic literary...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | News
NASHVILLE — In 2009, my husband had an emergency spinal-fusion operation to prevent permanent nerve damage caused by a ruptured disk. I was rolling the I.V. pole while he pushed a walker around the hospital corridor when I got an urgent call from a friend: “Don’t let...
by admin | Jul 14, 2018 | News
Two years ago, I spent a week in Houston helping my stepbrother while he underwent treatment for Stage 4 lymphoma at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. I sat with him while a nurse cleaned his chemo port and made records of her work, to keep his...
by admin | Jun 28, 2018 | News
Despair, hope and drugs in America: Is anyone safe? Fox News While America was diverted by homegrown terrorism, economic stress and mass shootings, another scourge quietly moved to the fore: drug addiction. Read the full...
by admin | Jun 28, 2018 | News
There’s a severe shortage of mental health professionals in rural areas. Here’s why that’s a serious problem CNN 65% of rural areas don’t have access to a psychiatrist, according to a new study. Poor access to mental health care overlaps with...
by admin | Jun 28, 2018 | News
Saving Mothers Addicted to Opioids, and Their Babies The New York Times In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own. Read the full...
by admin | Jun 28, 2018 | News
Center on Addiction is a science-based organization that conducts research & recommends best practices for prevention & treatment of the disease of addiction....
by admin | Apr 4, 2018 | News
One evening this past fall a patient stumbled into the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “I don’t feel so…” she muttered, before losing consciousness. Her breathing was shallow and her pupils were pinpoints, typical symptoms of an opioid...
by admin | Apr 4, 2018 | News
(BPT) – Approximately 2 million Americans are battling a disease that many people may not understand or feel ashamed to admit being impacted by: opioid addiction.[1] Like many other diseases, opioid addiction can be a continued struggle for afflicted individuals...
