QUIT FOOLING? – Oct. 18, 2023 – She said her drinking during lockdown “got earlier and earlier” in the day, and continued: “I’ve always had a very close relationship with alcohol. I was always very fascinated by alcohol. It’s what kept my dad from me. So I always wanted to know what was so great about it.” She told the magazine that she quickly became aware of how susceptible drinking left her to an unsparing media. “They descend, and descend, and descend on you, which drives you fucking mad.” Adele subsequently told Oprah Winfrey that she had stopped drinking after…
Author: Leonard Buschel
IT’S ON THE LABEL – Oct. 20, 2023 – Here, we review the various dietary hypotheses for obesity. We propose that all of the various hypotheses are largely correct, and that although they outwardly seem incompatible, that they can all be unified based on another hypothesis known as the fructose survival hypothesis.” Fructose is a type of sugar that can naturally be found in fruit. Balanced by the vitamins and fiber therein, your daily apple, banana, and orange isn’t so much an issue. The body can also make small amounts of fructose from carbohydrates such as glucose, and salty…
“One day you will wake up and there will be no more time to do the things you have always dreamed of. Do them now.” – Paulo Coelho
AUDIO – GET THEM WHEN THEY ARE YOUNG – Oct. 10, 2023 – Behaviours which could meet such criteria include intense cravings, symptoms of withdrawal, less control over intake, and continued use despite such consequences as obesity, binge eating disorder, poorer physical and mental health, and lower quality of life, the scientists said. A team of international researchers reviewed 281 studies from 36 different countries, finding “ultra-processed food addiction” is estimated to occur in 14% of adults and 12% of children. They said if some foods high in carbohydrates and fats are viewed as “addictive” it could potentially improve health…
DID IT STOP WORKING? – Oct. 9, 2023 – If you tried to talk about anything else, the platform’s algorithmic feed seemed to sweep you into irrelevance. Users who pay for Elon Musk’s blue-check verification system now dominate the platform, often with far-right-wing commentary and outright disinformation; Musk rewards these users monetarily based on the engagement that their posts drive, regardless of their veracity. The decay of the system is apparent in the spread of fake news and mislabelled videos related to Hamas’s attack on Israel. Elsewhere online, things are similarly bleak. Instagram’s feed pushes months-old posts and product…
VIDEO – A MIRACLE? – Oct. 10, 2023 – Backstage he can make an industry schmoozefest feel like an intimate hang; onstage, as at Mechanics later that night, he can bring audience members to tears as he locks eyes and bellows lyrics like those in his viral hit “Save Me” about being “damaged beyond repair.” His voice is tender yet scuffed at the edges; it’s also slightly higher than you’d expect looking at him, which gives his singing a welcome sense of vulnerability. “I’ve never seen anybody who by the time he walks out there, before he’s even done…
VIDEO – TEAM WORK MATTERS – Oct. 6, 2023 – Joanne and Lenny Hensas have a deep love for the New England Patriots, but nothing matches their fight to help people recovering from addiction. Around the Patriots, they are royalty. Joanne is known as the “Cookiemama.” “I started making cookies when Mrs. Kraft passed away. It started for just once in a while and then it became an obsession with them and a superstition more so,” she told WBZ-TV. Lenny is known as “X-Ray Lenny,” because he lucked into becoming the team’s x-ray tech more than 20 years ago.…
HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT? – Oct. 8, 2023 – So now that I’m out … All that didn’t work, because I got forced into these rehabs like sabotaged by friends and family saying like, ‘Hey, Bam, come to Ruth’s Chris Steak House and have a nice fancy dinner.’ And it’s not a dinner, it’s just an intervention [sabotage]. So I’m already ready to get out [of rehab]. Like, ‘I can’t wait to get out just to sip on a White Claw and give you the bird.’ So, all that didn’t work because I was already bitter about it. Bam Margera’s…
VIDEO – FEELING GOOD – Oct. 7, 2023 – Giving up booze for Sober October could save you from more than a wicked hangover. Experts say ditching alcohol for a month could lead to healthier skin, weight loss, better sleep and lower the risk for future health scares. In the first week alone of the sober spooky season, sleep should improve and it should be easier to wake up, as research has shown that regular alcohol consumption could lead to insomnia symptoms. “Although some people find drinking alcohol helps them get to sleep more quickly, it disrupts the important…
IT WASN’T HIS FAULT? – Oct. 13, 2023 – In the parlance of Las Vegas, Orange County real estate developer Dwight Manley is a “whale.” An expert coin collector and former sports agent who represented NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman, Manley could be counted on to bet big. And on one particularly ugly afternoon at an MGM Grand Resort and Casino blackjack table, he took a multimillion-dollar hit that he blames on a drink spiked with a tranquilizer used on animals. Manley, 57, of Brea has filed a federal lawsuit against MGM Resorts International for consumer fraud and negligence,…
VIDEO – KEPT COMING BACK – Oct. 11, 2023 – Heather Locklear looked healthy and quite hip while out in Los Angeles on Wednesday – three months after DailyMail.com revealed she had been acting erratically and was using alcohol again. The stunning star, 61, rocked a Poison band tee, black joggers and a Louis Vuitton tote for the daytime jaunt in the tony town of Calabasas. Adding to the casual style, the Melrose Place icon slipped on a set of flip flops as she went virtually makeup free. Her trademark sandy blonde tresses were left long and loose as she…
VIDEO – FROM A BOTTOM TO THE TOP – Oct. 6, 2023 – November 6, 2015 was one of the lowest points in Gunton’s life. “I shot up. I thought it was bunk. I didn’t feel anything. And then I remember starting to drive off and then I woke up right here on the asphalt with broken glass and police and blue, red lights all around me,” Gunton said after a recent visit to that same spot in Laurel. It’s hard to imagine that Gunton is the same person in the body cam footage he shared with MTN. But…
GOOD TO KNOW – Oct.9, 2023 – You may not have all the necessary information about your loved one’s situation, which can make accessing the proper treatment tricky. For example, you may be concerned about mood swings and suspect your loved one has bipolar disorder, when in fact they have been using opioids and cocaine. Similarly, a person could be diagnosed with a cannabis (marijuana) use disorder without considering that there may be something else going on or at the root of the issue, like anxiety or a trauma. Finding the right treatment is more difficult when loved ones don’t…
TRENDING! – Oct. 12, 2023 – “Some suppliers have gotten smart and said hey, somebody wants to feel like they are still part of the drinking occasion with a non-alcohol beer, a non-alcohol wine or even a non-alcohol cocktail. Those products really allow for that,” says Kaleigh Theriault, managing director of beverage alcohol thought leadership at NielsenIQ. Similarly, popping a lime into a non-alcoholic Corona while at the beach provides the relaxing ritual of beer consumption, without the intoxication. But these new products aren’t just aimed at teetotalers. In fact, NielsenIQ data finds the vast majority of non-alcoholic beer…
VIDEO – NO HARM IN SOCIABILITY – Oct. 13, 2023 – For those spending October sober Hekate Café is the place to be. You’ve got a nice atmosphere, and a bartender serving almost every drinkyou can think of. I think people realize once they take a break, they say wow I really felt good during that month. Say they start with sober October and say I think I’m going to continue this trend or do it again. They feel better. They look better. They’re sleeping better,” Sabourin told FOX 5. Places like Hekate make changing that lifestyle easier offering a…
FILM LOVERS ONLY – Oct. 2023 – After each film, the filmmaker will perform a question-and-answer session or a clinician will do a mini-interactive process group with audience members. There will be engagement with the audience to welcome their comments, reviews, feelings and observations. These discussions will offer information on addiction as experienced by communities and families. The REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium, in its 15th year, is scheduled for Friday, October 27, Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29 at the Laemmle NoHo Cinema in North Hollywood from 5 until 11 p.m. Opening night will feature two…
ONLY TO BIG PHARMA – Oct. 13, 2023 – Instead, patient-reported pain levels and satisfaction didn’t change at all for Michigan adults who had their appendix or gallbladder removed, a hernia repaired, a hysterectomy or other common operations after the state’s largest insurer put the limit in place, the study shows. At the same time, the amount of opioid pain medication patients covered by that insurer received dropped immediately after the limit went into effect. On average, patients having these operations received about three fewer opioid-containing pills. The study, which merges two statewide databases on patients covered by Blue Cross…
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS – Oct. 11, 2023 – Now 35 and almost four years sober, Murillo has worked as a youth mentor, become a Spotify artist under the moniker of “The Modern Day Monk,” and repeatedly made the dean’s list at Colorado Mesa University where she studied clinical psychology. This change did not occur overnight. For Murillo, her sobriety is the result of decades of struggle and support from her community. However, long-term sobriety is still out of reach for thousands of Mesa County residents. Addiction and alcoholism have proven to be an overwhelming challenge to Mesa…
A STAR IS GONE – Oct. 15, 2023 – “Three’s Company” was one of the nation’s most popular sitcoms. During Ms. Somers’s contract negotiations with ABC in 1980, it was widely reported, she asked for a raise from $30,000 to $150,000 — equal pay with the series’ male star, Mr. Ritter. Instead of getting the raise, Ms. Somers was fired. Ms. Somers also wrote more than 25 books, several of them best sellers, which tended to focus on issues related to the body and aging. Oct. 15, 2023 – “I’ve been playing what I think is one of the best dumb blondes that’s…
VIDEO – ONE DAY AT A TIME – Oct. 7, 2023 – In the message thread, the former Bravolebrity wrote that she was “really sad” and wished she “could drink.” “Sobriety isn’t always easy. The moment I decided to share this journey publicly I promised to myself and all y’all that I’d be as honest as I could,” Windham-Burke, 45, further elaborated in her caption. “This was last night, this is sobriety, this is connecting with people on a real level so we can get through the tough days.” She then thanked her unidentified confidant for “being there” when she…
VIDEO – JUST IN TIME – Oct. 12, 2023 – Fox recounted one particularly disturbing memory before being saved by paramedics: “The near-death experience was crazy, because the whole tunnel thing and all of that is real. But I saw it as a window, and the light was just spilling out from the window.” “Then there was this little voice in my head that was like, ‘Wait a minute — you’re dying,’ “ added Fox. “I was just like, ‘Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.’ “ The Uncut Gems actress said she soon woke up in an ambulance. “I always…
BUT IT TAKES EFFORT – Oct, 8, 2023 – In terms of physical health, the running demonstrated improvements, while the antidepressants had a slightly negative impact. One drawback of the running was that it had a much higher dropout rate, the study found. “We wanted to compare how exercise or antidepressants affect your general health, not just your mental health,” said lead researcher Brenda Penninx, a professor from Vrije University, Amsterdam, when she presented the work at the ECNP conference in Barcelona. “This study gave anxious and depressed people a real-life choice, medication or exercise,” she went on. “Interestingly, the…
SELFIE STICKS TOO – Oct. 11, 2023 – Convinced social media platforms are fueling a mental health crisis among the nation’s youth, public officials in New York announced new legislation Wednesday that would restrict algorithms that target young users. “Young New Yorkers are struggling with record levels of anxiety and depression, and social media companies that use addictive features to keep minors on their platforms longer are largely to blame,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said. The legislation would, among other things, give her office new enforcement power over social media companies. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube would…
GOD BLESS THE CHILD – Oct. 10, 2023 – For instance, in 2021, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy issued an advisory that calls for, among other things, expanding the mental health workforce in schools by using federal, state and local funds. President Joe Biden released a Mental Health Strategy in 2022 that seeks to provide mental health care to more children. And in May 2023, the Biden administration announced US$286 million for 264 grantees to train and hire school mental health professionals – a move that grantees say will enable them to prepare more than 14,000 new mental health…
CAREFUL DOES IT – Oct. 11, 2023 – “For people with treatment-resistant depression – so those who have not benefitted from different modes of talk therapy, commonly prescribed antidepressants, or electroconvulsive therapy – 20 percent remission is actually quite good,” lead researcher Professor Colleen Loo says. “We found that in this trial, ketamine was clearly better than the placebo – with 20 percent reporting they no longer had clinical depression compared with only 2 percent in the placebo group. This is a huge and very obvious difference and brings definitive evidence to the field which only had past smaller…
STAY SAFE – Oct. 12, 2023 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers about the dangers of using ketamine to treat psychiatric disorders. “Ketamine is not FDA approved for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder,” the FDA said on its website Tuesday. “FDA is aware that compounded ketamine products have been marketed for a wide variety of psychiatric disorders … however, FDA has not determined that ketamine is safe and effective for such uses.” Ketamine is the short name for ketamine hydrochloride, which is a Schedule 3 controlled substance, according to the FDA. The treatment is FDA-approved…
NO PLACE LIKE HOMELESS – Oct. 10, 2023 – The new law, which reforms the state’s conservatorship system, expands the definition of “gravely disabled” to include people who are unable to provide themselves basic needs such as food and shelter due to an untreated mental illness or unhealthy drugs and alcohol use. Local governments say current state laws leave their hands tied if a person refuses to receive help. The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless.…
WARNING – Oct. 10, 2023 – Collectively, RCM is licensed to operate 163 beds for men and women with substance use disorders. Its existing services in western Montana are certified by the state as 3.5 level facilities — a type of licensure between outpatient treatment and intensive hospitalization based on a scale created by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. The future of those beds, which addiction experts say fill a critical role in Montana’s addiction recovery landscape, is now unclear. RCM co-founder and co-CEO Jim Driscoll confirmed to Montana Free Press in early October that none of the…
AUDIO – DENIAL KILLS TOO – Oct. 10, 2023 – Long before many Portlanders used the terms “encampment” or “substance use disorder,” I was a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center and treated many IV drug users who lived in the woods or on the streets. They usually came to the hospital with a serious skin or bone infection or maybe an abscess in their arm, neck or spine. They were sometimes combative or suspicious, refused help, often left against medical advice and then often would return to the hospital in the next one to three days, only to…
VIDEO – EVERYONE CAN LEARN – Oct. 10, 2023 – Andrew says he was done talking, on any podcast or interview platform, unless Tony hit him up to do anything. Check it out. It’s kinda funny watching this on Youtube as a Suntori Whiskey ad popped up in the middle of playback… Jason Ellis recounts as he was a vert party guy, but Andrew and his crew, The Piss Drunx, were doing more than the vert guys. WATCH@Yahoo