Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment June 21, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 45 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials One Year At A Time! Jail Time. Rehab Mogul Accused of Drugging Clients before Sex: Chris Bathum Bathum is “embroiled in over 50 lawsuits, the accusations in those suits ranging from fraud to pumping his female clients full of hard drugs to prey upon them sexually.” In April, Bathum was…
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Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment June 14, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 44 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Hooking Our Young Teens who vape are Six times as likely to go on to smoke cigarettes By Elizabeth Simpson The Virginian-Pilot. That’s what a study released today by the journal Pediatrics suggests, finding that adolescents who “vape” are six times as likely to graduate to regular cigarettes when they…
DON’T FORGET TO VOTE – CALIFORNIA, IOWA, MONTANA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, SOUTH DAKOTA Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment Tuesday, June 7, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 43 Go West … Southwest Sunspire Health Expands Addiction Treatment Services in Southern California Sunspire delivers improved patient outcomes by offering a full continuum of care and personalized treatment plans in intimate settings in residential and outpatient facilities nationwide. The integrated plans are supported by medication-assisted treatment…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment May 31, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 42 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials New York Times: Opinion Addicted to a Treatment for Addiction April Hileman of Lebanon, Va., tried to overcome an addiction to opioids with Suboxone, which is supposed to help people wean themselves off drugs. Instead, she found herself addicted to Suboxone. But Suboxone can get you high if you…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment May 24, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 41 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Supply and Demand, Deaths Be Damned AMA Blasts Price Increase for Life-saving Anti-overdose Drug According to a recent report released by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, in 2009, naloxone in the form used most commonly by police departments and first responders cost $13-$15 per dose. That price has increased to…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment May 17, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 40 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials A Giant Has Fallen VIDEO John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist Who Called to the ‘Inner Child,’ Dies at 82 VIDEO John Bradshaw, whose ideas about family dysfunction and the damaged “inner child” concealed within most adults made him one of the most popular and influential self-help evangelists of the 1990s, died…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment May 10, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 39 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Setting Intentions Alcoholics Anonymous Members Really Do Reduce Their Cravings Through Prayer Galanter’s research team has studied the role of spirituality in the lives of AA members for the past 10 years. Data has shown that long-term members undergo a transition, commonly referred to as a spiritual awakening, that leads…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment May 3, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 38 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Investigation at Paisley Park Pain Meds On Prince When He Died CNN VIDEO Darren Kavinoky Esq. on CNN with Brooke Baldwin and Heather Hayes. CONTINUED @ YouTube.com Real Reality Show ‘Reality Tour’ shows teens the harsh reality of drug addiction A “Reality Tour” program was hosted by…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment April 26, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 37 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Sign o’ The Times? Say It Isn’t So.Sign o’ the Times Rehab CEO Chris Bathum Faces Lawsuits Alleging Drug Use and Sexual Battery of Clients Chris Bathum, the founder and board chairman of a chain of more than 20 sober living houses and outpatient clinics in California and Colorado…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment April 19, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 36 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Sobriety First VIDEO Robert Downey Jr. “Iron Man Pressure is Nothing Compared to Drug Addiction” VIDEO Robert Downey Jr will be reprising his role as Iron Man for the sixth time in Captain America: Civil War and he can feel the pressure. “Jesus Christ, you’re right. I should flip the…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment April 12, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 35 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Better Late Than Never AUDIO Olympic Champion Greg Louganis Gets His Wheaties Box NPR AUDIO In his competitive diving career, four-time Olympic diving gold medalist and five-time world champion Greg Louganis has been all over the world. Now he’ll be in one place that’s eluded him for years: your…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment April 5, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 34 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials FICTION TV’s quiet 12-step revolution: Prestige comedies are changing the way we see addiction, sobriety and AA In the fifth episode of “Love,” a crooked little romantic comedy on Netflix, the heroine Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) sits in an AA meeting.”My friend had this party and let’s just say I…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment March 29, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 33 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Brave New World BREAKING NEWS: Obama Announces New Moves to Treat Opioid and Heroin Abuse The Obama administration is making it easier for doctors to use anti-addiction drugs in the fight against an exploding epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse…Medication-assisted treatment with drugs like methadone and buprenorphine is…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment March 22, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 32 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Florida: Rehabs Pay You Addicts For $ale In the rehab capital of America, addicts are bought, sold, and stolen for their insurance policies, and many women are coerced into sex … The kid broke and told him the details of the scam: For every person he convinced to leave,…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment March 15, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 31 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Way To Go VIDEO From the Big House to the White House VIDEO Two years later, his family doctor switched him to Adderall and added sleeping pills because, as he explained, “If you put a child on speed during the day, you need something to calm down at the…
Articles, Reviews, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment March 8, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 30 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Awareness Attention Action VIDEO Homes Don Black Balloons In Memory Of Drug Overdose Victims VIDEO Erin Tremblay along with her family and friends say the black balloons they hang today are in memory of her husband all those who have died of drug addictions. They call it…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment WEEKEND EDITION March 4-6, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 29 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Tunnel of Love Robin Williams Tunnel Officially Gets New Signs Several months after legislation to change the name of the rainbow-arched Waldo tunnel connecting the Golden Gate bridge to Marin County. the newly re-dubbed Robin Williams tunnel finally got official. The tunnel’s new moniker, which was officially…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients February 23, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 28 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials NAATP Public Policy Update National Associations of Addiction Treatment Providers – Feb 19, 2016 “It’s one thing to hear the complaints, frustrations and difficulties of getting paid by carriers anecdotally and another to see where the Department of Labor is…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients February 16, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 27 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Rehab Rehabilitation? The Rehab Industry Needs to Clean Up Its Act. Here’s How No one argues that the American addiction treatment system is anywhere near optimal-even its cheerleaders recognize that there’s miles to go before all people with addiction have access…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment February 9, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 26 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Obama On Drugs Obama Drug Treatment: President Will Ask For $1 Billion Dollars President Obama will be seeking $1 billion from Congress in order to implement a drug treatment program that will focus on treating people who are addicted to opioids. Drug treatment facilities are now realizing that the…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients February 2, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 25 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Walk This Way Steven Tyler Opens Up About “humongous” Drug Addiction The 67-year-old has been open about his battle with drugs throughout his career, and during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday, he opened up about the efforts…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients January 26, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No.24 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials It’s Gonna Be Alright VIDEO Ray Charles’ Daughter Leading Drug Awareness Campaign VIDEO The daughter of legendary musician Ray Charles has been in the Austin area this week on a mission to help those battling drug addiction. Sheila Raye Charles is…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients January 19, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No.23 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Sober Times at Ridgemont High? VIDEO ‘Sober High Schools’ In New York VIDEO New York City now has its first so-called ‘sober high school’ where teenagers going through rehab can do so without the usual peer pressure. As CBS2’s Dana Tyler reported there…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients January 12, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 22 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Rebel Rebel Five Ways David Bowie Songs Kept Me Alive During Addiction by Dorri Olds By 1973, I was 11 and I tried pot. I fell in love with changing my mood. That year I was gravitating toward the wild kids.…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients January 5, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 21 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials It’s a Family Affair VIDEO Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s Son Chet Pens Emotional Message About Sobriety for New Year’s VIDEO Tom Hanks son Chet Hanks is ready to start the New Year fresh. Chet took to Instagram on Thursday night…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients December 29, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 20 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Happy New Year! American Alcohol Deaths Hit A 35-Year High Alcoholism is killing Americans at record rates that haven’t been seen in the past 35 years, a new federal report confirms. Statistics gathered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients Merry Christmas Edition December 22, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 19 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Well Said VIDEO Bernie Sanders Calls Drug Addiction a ‘Disease’ Not a Crime VIDEO Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said addiction is a “disease not a criminal activity” during a discussion on America’s heroin epidemic during Saturday night’s Democratic debate. The debate took…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients December 15, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 18 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Michael Botticelli on 60 Minutes VIDEO A New Direction On Drugs VIDEO After forty years and a trillion dollars, the nation has little to show for its war on drugs. Prisons are beyond crowded and there’s a new outbreak in the…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients December 8, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 17 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Home Movies VIDEO James Taylor’s Powerful Story about DNA and Addiction: Must Watch VIDEO James Taylor, American singer-songwriter, says what some of us know all too well: Addiction is a genetic disease. To people who have an inborn weakness for alcoholism…
Film List of 2015 I’ve seen most of these in a theater, not at home. Based on personal reaction, opinion, enjoyability and gut feelings. Not a critic’s critique. A LOVED to LOATHED list, nor Best and Worst. All titles are linked. Thank GOD for foreign films; without them it would be like living in an America with no New York or California. Feedback welcome. Film is my ‘drug of choice’. ALL TITLES HOTLINKED to IMDB, Rotton Tomatoes, Trailers. LOVED: EX MACHINA High concept that lays in your mind for days. No false moments and sexy too. Another futuristic world…