Having trouble viewing this email? https://areb.azureberry.com Tuesday, November 18, 2014 | That Was the Week That Was | Volume 2. No. 13 Writers in Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction & Recovery eBulletin website Donate Betty Ford Just Went to a Naval Hospital World’s Most Peculiar Drug Rehab Centers Being put into a coma might not seem an obvious choice to someone looking to overcome their addiction to drugs, but it is one option on offer. Here is a flavour of the world’s less usual rehab centers and their methods. Many celebrities choose luxurious facilities to cure their addictions. One…
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 12 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate She’s Looking for Another Hit Singer Promotes Her Own Pot-Infused Wine Melissa Etheridge, singer/songwriter, breast cancer survivor, and proponent of medical marijuana use, is cashing in on both the infused alcohol and marijuana-product crazes by launching her own brand of marijuana-infused wine. Etheridge says she wants to bring cannabis-infused products including her wine to states like California. CONTINUED Happy Mother’s Day Mom Accused of Taking Kids Without Permission Sentenced…
VOTING DAY Tuesday, November 4, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 11 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Come Back Charlie Sheen’s Ex-Fiancée Brett Rossi Overdoses and Lives Brett Rossi, 25, was found passed out at her home by a friend and rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she spent a night in the intensive care unit after doctors pumped her stomach. The porn star, who was engaged to Charlie Sheen and had planned to wed the actor later this month. Rossi, who also goes by…
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 10 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate AA Distortions by Gabrielle Glaser Elizabeth Peña: The Real Truth About Alcoholic Women Unsupervised group therapy. Anonymity rules help obscure people with criminal records, and many new members, especially women, report being the targets of unwanted sexual advances. A.A. members euphemistically call this “the 13thStep.” Dozens of women wrote to tell me what one study already showed, that a majority are harassed. Many are groped and some are raped.…
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 9 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate AA Works If You Work It Steven Tyler Encourages Drug Court Graduates “If you stop going to AA meetings, you’re going to wind up using again,” he said. “They’re all over the island and they’re all over the world. I express my joy all because of AA.Although he performed before a crowd of 20,000 a few nights ago, rock ‘n’ roll superstar Steven Tyler admitted to a touch of nerves…
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 8 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Minority Rules Top 10% Of Drinkers Account for 60% of Alcohol Sales If industries cater their marketing to their most loyal customers, and the alcohol industry’s most loyal customers are drinking 10 drinks a day, the alcohol industry becomes basically the biggest enabler in the world. Losing that 10 percent of people, who by most standards are alcoholics, would be devastating to the alcohol industry. By the way, I am…
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 7 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Why Is This Man Smiling? Read Below! American Addiction Centers Goes Public Brentwood-based American Addiction Centers will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange today. Doing business as AAC Holdings Inc., the company has priced its common stock at $15 per share, representing net proceeds for the IPO of $65.6 million. Shares will be traded under the ticker symbol “AAC.” American Addiction Centers, founded in 2004, operate 467…
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 6 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Take What Works and Fu*k the Rest Sober in the City: A Gay Atheist Walks into AAby Ginger Hale Perhaps I might want to examine why I shacked up with another addict who constantly encouraged me to stay wasted? Despite all of my issues with AA – sexual predators, verbal abuse, misogyny, sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, and victim blaming – it seemed to be the only thing keeping me sober.…
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 5 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Coming Clean to Help Others TV Chat Queen Opens Up About 4 Year Addiction To Cannabis And Ecstasy TV chat queen Trisha Goddard has admitted just one puff on a joint would tip her back into the “big black hole” of her drug addiction misery, writes Olivia Buxton in the Sunday People . The TV presenter who made a career out of listening to people’s problems was hooked on cannabis…
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 4 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Speaking of Faith Robert Downey Jr. Speaks About His Addictions “For some folks it’s just a function of age,” Robert Downey Jr. tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Rich Cohen, on the topic of beating one’s demons. “It’s perfectly normal for people to be obsessive about something for a period of time, then leave it alone.” CONTINUED REEL Recovery Film Festival LAS VEGAS Creating Addicts, One Tackle at Time The N.F.L.’s…
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 3 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate The Weight Is On Our Children Warning: Junk Food ‘Destroying Health of a Generation’ The health of an entire generation of children could be “destroyed” by a diet of junk food and lack of exercise, doctors have warned. “We are in danger of destroying the health of a whole generation of children. As parents and health professionals, we need to take responsibility and ensure that every child has a healthy…
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 2 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Happy Recovery Month, and Many More During September, Let’s Reflect On Hope & Recovery A free confidential online assessment tool called “About My Drinking,” www.aboutmydrinking.org is a practical way to determine if there is a problem. Many treatment centers, including the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, offer programs for relatives of substance-dependent people. Through these programs, attendees gain a better understanding of addiction, treatment, recovery and family dynamics. CONTINUED Too Much…
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 2, No. 1 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Excellent Interview About Robin, Addiction and Depression Robin Williams’ Hidden Pain Revealed by Comedy Store Owner, Plus… Yahoo News anchor, Bianna Golodryga talks with Jamie Masada, founder of the Laugh Factory and a long-time friend of Williams. Dr. Jeff Gardere explains that depression and substance abuse is more common than one may think, and Williams was no exception. “He was a lifelong addict. It’s a lifelong illness that you take…
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 51 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Better Safe Than Sorry ABC Anchor Elizabeth Vargas Checks into Rehab The ’20/20′ anchor checked into a rehab center on Saturday while on vacation in California. Vargas, 51, has been struggling with alcohol addiction for years. She spent several weeks in rehab last fall and is in the midst of a divorce with husband and songwriter Marc Cohen. CONTINUED BENCHMARK RECOVERY CENTER In Case You Missed This……
Friday, August 15, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 50 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Violation in the First Degree! Shameless CBS Newsman’s Personal Report on Robin Williams at AA Meetings Because AA is a 12-step recovery program bound by anonymity, not only is there no way to fact check what the source claimed about Williams, but the very matter of anonymity and Williams’ privacy was violated. Further compounding the issues, the source actually works for CBS. The interviewee, Dean Kendrick, works as a news…
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 50 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate He Will Be Missed Robin Williams Dies at Age 63 ”This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken,” said Williams’ wife, Susan Schneider. ”On behalf of Robin’s family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will…
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 49 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Celebrity Sobriety Demi Lovato Talks About Getting Sober: “A Huge Weight Has Been Lifted” Demi tells the Daily Mail’s You magazine that a “weight has been lifted” now that she is clean and sober. She explained: “When you are no longer hiding anything, you don’t worry about what is going to get out. I don’t care who knows about my life, and now that I am an open book a…
Monday, July 28, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 48 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate WATCH THE 2013 RRFF HIGHLIGHT REEL REEL Recovery Film Festival HIGHLIGHT Reel 2013 See clips from last year’s Award Winning REEL Recovery Film Festivalwith Paul Williams, Russell Brand, Robert Blake, Barbara Eden and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. SEE VIDEO People Are Not Their Diseases It’s Time to Stop Calling Them Alcoholics and Addicts by Dr. Neil Capretto Society has moved away from these words because they are pejorative, harmful and…
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 47 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate WATCH THE 2013 RRFF HIGHLIGHT REEL REEL Recovery Film Festival HIGHLIGHT Reel 2013 See clips from last year’s Award Winning REEL Recovery Film Festivalwith Paul Williams, Russell Brand, Robert Blake, Barbara Eden and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. SEE VIDEO Our Favorite List 50 Loving Sentiments We Should Say More Often to Loved Ones Make a choice to consciously nurture your relationships with verbal communications of love. Be kind and sincere. Ask open-ended…
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 46 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate The Most Dangerous Drug Daniel Radcliffe Checks Himself Into Rehab! Daniel Radcliffe is preparing to check himself into rehab. The reason might not be the usual – as he will try quit smoking during his visit. “It will be a kind of residential treatment program, involving counselling, both individual and group, stress management, and herbal treatments to help withdrawal symptoms,” an insider tells. Dan has already tried hypnotherapy and e-cigarette…
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 45 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate The Sadness Remains The Same Bob Geldof on Death of Peaches: ‘It’s Intolerable’ “I’m walking down the road, and suddenly, out of the blue, there’s an awareness of her … and I buckle,” he says. “I have to duck off into a lane or something and blub for a while, and then get on with it. And that’s it. So, I’d imagine it will be there for a long time.…
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 44 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate First Your Morals Now This! Laced Cocaine Eats Away Your Flesh Bad news party people. Doing coke in New York City and LA just got even seedier.Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug levamisole could be the culprit in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles. The drug, used to deworm cattle, pigs and sheep, can rot the skin off noses, ears and cheeks. And over 80 percent of…
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 43 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate What’s Next? Holocaust Hangers in Faux Bone Urban Outfitters Under Fire for Giving Away Pens Shaped Like Heroin-Filled Hypodermic Needles Urban Outfitters has come under fire after giving away promotional pens shaped like hypodermic needles in a state that has been devastated by a real-life heroin epidemic. The trendy teen retailer provided the accessories, which have ‘I Love Harroin’ printed on the side, to promote the pop-up Harroin hair salon…
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 42 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Shot of Jack with a Bareback Gov. Rick Perry Compares Homosexuality to Alcoholism Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the U.S. would better serve its diverse population by letting the states handle many economic and social policies, a point he perhaps inadvertently drove home when he compared homosexuality to alcoholism. “I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to…
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 41 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate From Excess to Sobriety Success Alice Cooper Comeback Fueled By Sobriety Alice Cooper says he would have made many more hit albums if he had stayed sober. The shock rocker says he made four unsuccessful albums when he was in the grip of alcohol addiction and only made another hit record – 1989’s Trash – when he quit drinking. As soon as I got sober all of a sudden…
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 40 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Heroin Addictive to Junkies Junk Food “Addictive” to Kids The study of food addiction is an emerging and controversial field. But according to Ashley Gearhardt, “highly processed foods can lead to classic signs of addiction like loss of control, tolerance, and withdrawal. A growing body of research backs her up-and that’s especially concerning in children because an addiction forged in a child’s early years could put the child at more…
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 39 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Life on Life’s Terms Channing Tatum’s ADHD Drugs Made Him Depressed Channing is a new dad, but has already set down a few ground rules for how he’ll raise his daughter, Everly (with wife Jenna Dewan Tatum). Channing has dyslexia and ADHD (attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder) and took prescription drugs as a child to cope with his learning disabilities. He says he’ll never put his daughter on drugs if she winds…
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 38 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Media: Book Chat Drunk Mom Author Jowita Bydlowska On Alcoholism, Parenthood & Writing Drunk Mom is a discomforting read. It’s bare-naked honesty about addiction and families will make a lot of people uncomfortable, especially those with idealized versions of what motherhood and womanhood “should” mean. It’s by far one of the best memoirs that I’ve ever read (and yes, I’m including Wild in that) both for it’s candor and bravery…
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 37 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Breaking News! Surprise Surprise Coca-Cola Played Both Sides Of The Drunk Driving Debate At various moments over the past two decades, Coca-Cola, the massive soft-drink conglomerate, has aligned itself with Mothers Against Drunk Driving in campaigns to promote vehicular safety. In 1996, the company teamed up with Wal-Mart to donate more than a quarter million dollars to MADD. READ MORE Please Support… The New How To… Chicago Tribune…
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 36 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Family of Origin Peaches Geldof ‘Died from Heroin Overdose’ Peaches Geldof died of a heroin overdose in a tragic parallel of the death of her mother which had obsessed her. The TV presenter was found dead while caring for her 11-month-old son at the family home last month. Ms Geldof, 25, had become increasingly obsessed with the death of her mother, Paula Yates, from a heroin overdose in…