STANLEY MOUSE? – Oct. 5, 2022 – The new drug comes from a large team of scientists who did not start out looking for an antidepressant. They had been building a virtual library of 75 million molecules that include an unusual structure found in a number of drugs, including the psychedelics psilocybin and LSD, a migraine drug (ergotamine), and cancer drugs including vincristine. The team decided to focus on molecules that affect the brain’s serotonin system, which is involved in regulating a person’s mood. But they still weren’t looking for an antidepressant. Roth recalls that during one meeting, someone…
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SORT OF LIKE A PERFECT GAME – Oct. 5, 2022 – Sabathia, 42, has been sober since the end of the 2015 season. He checked himself into rehab before the Yankees’ Wild Card game against the Houston Astros. He then returned to baseball for the 2016 season. In his 11 years with the New York Yankees he recorded a 3.81 ERA. He was a Cy Young Award recipient and six-time All-Star. The lefty pitcher opened up about his journey to sobriety and checking into rehab in his book, Till the End. more@NJ
VIDEO – WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN – Oct. 7, 2022 – “It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of our 17-year-old students passed away last night,” David Hussey, the school’s executive director, said in a statement. “This tragic incident was the result of a fatal Fentanyl overdose. As a father and a parent, I cannot fathom the loss of a child. My heart breaks to know that an El Camino student will not be with us tomorrow. On behalf of the El Camino Real community, our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this…
GOOD FOR YOU – Oct. 6, 2022 – Obviously, I couldn’t go to the police about the threats from the dealer, and I didn’t have money to pay them so I ran away to Thailand. But then, of course, I ran out of cash and had to come home. I was in a desperate situation and had no choice but to go to my mum and dad to ask for money to get the dealers off my back. I’d been worrying every second of every day that they would physically harm me, but the mental harm it did with…
RED OR WHITE? – Oct. 7, 2022 – Jeffrey was not only an alcoholic, but he was a lifelong alcoholic — he had reportedly started drinking quite heavily during his early teenage years itself as a way to cope with his sexual identity. It actually went to such an extent that he was apparently known to show up at high school drunk, covertly consume his vice in classes, and even keep bottles in his locker for quick, easy access. It’s also imperative to note alcoholism runs in the maternal side of his family, according to the Joe Berlinger-directed documentary…
WHO DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? – Oct. 6, 2022 – An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Estonian University of Tartu, analyzed Neanderthal DNA associations, tracing a wide range of human habits and psychological patterns. They also examined more than a hundred variants of brain disorders from the U.K. Biobank, a repository of biological samples used for research. The aim was to narrow down the specific contribution of Neanderthal DNA to human behavioural features. “Our results suggest that Neanderthals carried multiple variants that substantially increase the smoking risk in people today,” Michael Dannerman, associate professor of evolutionary…
LOIS WILSON’S SECRETARY – Oct. 3, 2022 – Born in Brooklyn on Sept. 9, 1933, William George Borchert began his career with the New York Journal-American newspaper and would write for newspapers, magazines and radio programs. He started the public relations firm Borchert-Barrett Associates in New York City in 1969 and three years later became a partner in Artist Entertainment Complex, producer of such films as Kansas City Bomber (1972), Serpico (1973) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Borchert penned other books including When Two Loves Collide: The Inspiring Story of Dr. John and Dot Mooney, How I Became My…
CHECK HER OUT—SOBER – Oct. 7, 2022 – I sat down with Zed Kenzo for an open, honest, fun and brave conversation about her music, her health journey with substance abuse, why she left Milwaukee and the freedom that’s guiding her life now. Zed calls this new EP a re-introduction, and it definitely gives insight to who “Zechariah” is and why. Kim Shine: You are not in Milwaukee right now. You are far away from us. Where are you, and why did you leave us? Zed Kenzo: I am in Massachusetts. I am in the South Shore right outside…
REBIRTHING HAS MERIT – October 3, 2022 – “When you’re active in your disease, you’re the identified problem. The minute you go into recovery … the day you say I want to change, you become the identified possibility,” Pfeiffer, 58, tells Page Six in an exclusive new interview. While away from Hollywood, the actress also went back to school, earning a master’s degree in social work from UCLA. She says leaving acting behind for a decade provided her with a reality check, as she got to work with the homeless and the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.…
HUMANITY’S SWAN SONG? – Oct. 7, 2022 – I choose a world with a four-story comedy club under a starry sky. When I enter, a man in a gray hoodie comes up to me. “Hello,” I say. He stares at me in reply, so I float away. Another avatar approaches me. He has a beard and a man bun, and wears a collared shirt unbuttoned to reveal a generous portion of his digital chest. “Kash Hill,” he says, reading the white card hanging above my head. “Can you speak French?” “I do not speak French,” I say. He shrugs…
OUR TAX DOLLARS TO THIEVES – Oct. 8, 2022 – Anthem, a large insurer now called Elevance Health, paid more to doctors who said their patients were sicker. And executives at UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest insurer, told their workers to mine old medical records for more illnesses — and when they couldn’t find enough, sent them back to try again. Each of the strategies — which were described by the Justice Department in lawsuits against the companies — led to diagnoses of serious diseases that might have never existed. But the diagnoses had a lucrative side effect: They let…
IT TOOK LONG ENOUGH – Oct. 8, 2022 – The pardons will clear about 6,500 people who were convicted on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana from 1992 to 2021 and thousands more who were convicted of possession in the District of Columbia. Oct. 8, 2022 – The moves are striking shifts for the federal government on an issue that was a campaign promise that Mr. Biden made in 2020. “Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives — for conduct that is legal in many states,” Mr. Biden said on Twitter on Thursday. “That’s…
NOT TO MENTION DENIAL – Oct. 2022 – Prescription drugs can be very challenging to overcome. This is because they are legal and easy to obtain. They are also socially acceptable. This can make it difficult for people to stop taking them. If you are struggling with prescription drug addiction, it is important to get help from a professional treatment program. For example, addiction to painkillers might develop after an injury. However, it can be difficult for the person to quit taking them because they become physically dependent on the drug and may no longer be in pain. Depression could…
VIDEO ONLY – MORE THAN YOU THINK – Oct. 4, 2022 – Sober October challenges people to give up booze for 31 days. But what are the benefits of cutting out booze for a month? more@BuffaloNews
VIDEO – AND MOST WORTHWHILE – Oct. 2, 2022 – Stamos admitted that he had “Peter Pan syndrome,” something he referred to as “dangerous.” Growing up was never his priority, and the youthfulness of his looks only stunted his maturity. “I went into becoming an adult kicking and screaming,” he said. “And when you have the whole world going, ‘You look 20,’ I didn’t have any of those tentpoles that say you’re an adult, right? I was just skatin’ through.” After getting sober, Stamos turned things around. He’s been married to second wife Caitlin McHugh since 2018, and is…
GET THE KINDLE – Oct. 7, 2022 – Kristian’s book is a call to resist the urge to play the amateur demagogue and to educate ourselves to defend against the industry of professional demagogues who populate politics, cable TV, talk radio, online influencing and the like. “We’re getting so much content all day long, all of the time,” she said in an interview on “The Long Game,” a Yahoo News podcast. “I don’t think that we really prepared ourselves for that change. And so now … we have this deep confusion around what is knowable and what is true and…
VIDEO – MORE WILL BE REVEALED – Oct. 6, 2022 – Rumley was a recovering drug addict who went to treatment three times and didn’t have any luck. He went to Rosecrance for his fourth treatment and finally completed the program, but just a day after, Rumley relapsed and bought what he thought was cocaine; instead, it was fentanyl. More than two years after Sarah Fowler lost her boyfriend Tevin Rumley to fentanyl poisoning, she says she’s looking for accountability. “You want someone to pay, you want your loved one back,” says Fowler. “We needed the peace in court, seeing…
NPR AUDIO – INTELLIGENT CONVERSATIONS ARE RARE – Oct. 6, 2022 – Southern Illinois native Shane Hassler battled addiction to heroin for more than 20 years before seeking treatment. Now he helps others as an example of recovery. We talk with him on this episode of Statewide. more@NPRIllinois
BEST DOC OF THE YEAR – Oct. 7, 2022 – “I believe that I was an addict from birth,” Nicole says in the opening of the film. “I’ve lost years. I have no idea who I am.” As we will soon find out, Nicole — a single mom in her late 20s — is a chronic over-dramatizer and self-admitted pot-stirrer. But she isn’t overstating the depth of her drug problems or the toll they have taken on her and on a family steeped in addiction. Linda’s mother struggled with anorexia, and the household was forever in the grip of…
“It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.” – Robert Bly
VIDEO – DON’T LET ONE GLOVE BE ENOUGH – Sept. 28, 2022 – “That’s necrotic flesh,” she said. “This actually looks phenomenal right now,” she said as she points to the open flesh of her arm. Necrosis is the death of body tissue. Peder is among a growing number of users who have been affected by “Tranq.” Action News walked the streets of Kensington’s open-air drug market to see its impact. We saw many people who use illegal substances walking around with wound care bandages. “We probably didn’t start seeing ‘Tranq’ until maybe three or four years ago,” said Dr.…
VIDEO – TOO HIGH! – Sept. 28, 2022 – “Whenever I was induced psychosis by cannabis, I had thoughts of other people wanting to hurt me,” Plant told CBN News. “Thoughts of the only way of being safe was to end my own life. It went very quickly to suicidal thinking.” He recalled that he even operated a vehicle while under the effects of cannabis and was in total blackout mentally. “I don’t remember getting to where I needed to go, but somehow just ending up there,” Plant said. “I do have brief memories of swerving on the road and…
AUDIO – THE REAL TOUCHDOWN – Sept. 23, 2022 – “As long as I’m using it, I’m still going to have it,” Purify says with a laugh. “Once you stop using it you lose it.” He’s known as Coach Mo these days, in his first season as receivers coach at College of the Redwoods in his hometown of Eureka, California, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean 100 miles south of the Oregon border. He spent the previous four years back at his old high school helping with football and basketball when he wasn’t working as a juvenile hall…
LONG LIVE STARBUCKS & PEETS & other DRIPPERS – Sept. 27, 2022 – “In this large, observational study, ground, instant and decaffeinated coffee were associated with equivalent reductions in the incidence of cardiovascular disease and death from cardiovascular disease or any cause,” said study author Professor Peter Kistler of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. “The results suggest that mild to moderate intake of ground, instant and decaffeinated coffee should be considered part of a healthy lifestyle.” There is little information on the impact of different coffee preparations on heart health and survival. This study examined the…
THE FINISH LINE – Sept. 28, 2022 – Soper acknowledged his struggles are ongoing and even pointed out that, with football now underway, the urge to bet will only be harder to battle. “It’s been over six months, and I am not going to sit here and sugarcoat it, you know, we got football season coming up. So, it’s a little bit hard, but I’m hanging in there and that’s why I keep doing podcasts, I talk to people on the phone almost every day. I’ve been written up a lot. So, this is kind of like my lifeline…
IT’S THE MAINE WAY – Sept. 27, 2022 – A new survey from University of Maine researchers finds that a majority of Maine voters support shifting state drug policy away from criminal prosecution in favor of treatment. Robert Glover, associate professor of political science, said said 74% of respondents supported decriminalization for low-level drug offenses. “The characteristics of those who are supporting those sorts of efforts, we found that it really held up across dividing lines. So things like one’s political party or one’s religious affiliation. Whether you live in a rural community or urban community. It’s pretty broad-based support…
BEFORE THERE WAS ZOOM… – Sept. 30, 2022 – 14 years ago, Ken Pomerance and Ron Tannebaum came up with a revolutionary idea that was to change the face of recovery for people around the world. What started as a great idea, flourished into a globally recognized recovery tool and lifesaving platform for millions of people. With Kens imaginative nature and Ron’s can do attitude the pair immediately set about creating what we now know as InTheRooms.com or ITR to it’s devoted users. With the popularity of social media platforms skyrocketing, the pair felt that creating an inclusive and safe…
ON THE WRONG TRACK – Sept. 27, 2022 – Prosecuting the case, Sam Castlehouse described how on March 3 police were called following reports of Hart attending Camborne Wetherspoon in breach of her criminal behaviour order. She left and then returned for a second time before departing again and heading to the town’s railway station. There was nobody around and Hart got onto the track as a train approached from the Penzance direction. The train driver had to apply an emergency brake causing him and passengers to be jolted in their seats. The driver was able to stop metres…
VIDEO – EDUCATION MATTERS – Sept. 25, 2022 – “I had a 15 year crack habit,” he said. “I got clean and, once I started that, it was full steam ahead.” Thanks to people who believed in him, Watkins got clean and went back to school in 2015. Since then, he has earned his associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Watkins said he still struggles to find work because of his past mistakes. “No one wants to forgive me for the criminal acts I committed 34 years ago,” Watkins said. “That was 34 years ago. Can’t we move on beyond…
HAVEN’T MOST OF US? – Sept. 28, 2022 – There was the time, a few years later, when her boyfriend died of a heroin overdose during one of their binges. “I moved back in with my mom and didn’t use heroin or crack anymore,” she said. “I thought I could drink my pain away.” There was the time, in December 2018, when she got drunk on vodka while baking Christmas cookies, took her mother’s truck and blacked out at the wheel. “I totaled the truck and smashed a bunch of cars,” she said. Those brushes with tragedy are why…