Tuesday, April 29, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 35 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate The $1,000 Pill How Much is a Life Worth? Hepatitis C, unlike alcoholism, is insidious. It often causes no symptoms for decades. Many are unaware they have it, even as their livers are slowly destroyed by the virus. Nearly four million Americans, and tens of millions of people worldwide, are infected. More It’s A Family Affair WSJ Julia Roberts Speaks About the ‘Heartbreak’ of Her Half-Sister’s Overdose “It’s only…
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 34 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Obvious Question … Can You Snort It? Powdered Alcohol, Coming to a Liquor Store Near You Introducing Palcohol, the world’s sneakiest and most efficient way to get drunk. This week, the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the powdered booze product, and its makers hopes to unleash it on an unsuspecting public this fall. What’s worse than going to a concert, sporting event, etc. and having to pay…
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1, No. 33 Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Celebrity in Trouble Again Justin Bieber Overdose: What Will Selena Gomez Spill? According to the latest issue of Life & Style, Justin Bieber is lucky to be alive. An insider tells the tabloid that Bieber hosted a party at his Calabasas mansion a few months ago and “overdosed on sizzurp,” downing twice as much of this dangerous concoction as usual. “His friends put him in cold water to…
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1. No. 32 Articles, Videos and Breaking News – Powered by Writers In Treatment – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Recovery Event Gains Mainstream Support Wells Fargo to Sponsor San Francisco’s REEL Recovery Film Festival Wells Fargo Bank has become the first Platinum level sponsor for the Bay Area’s newest film event – The REEL Recovery Film Festival San Francisco Bay Area Edition. More Opinion by William Cope Moyers If Not ‘Fixed,’…
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1. No. 31 Articles, Videos and Breaking News – Powered by Writers In Treatment – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Treatment Philanthropy Richard Gere Donates to Rehab Facility Gere, who was born in Philly and received the Marian Anderson Award in 2007, is no stranger to giving. “While every gift we receive is appreciated and extremely helpful, this contribution will not only help provide treatment for patients in need, but will also help focus…
Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Vol. 1. No. 30 Articles, Videos and Breaking News – Powered by Writers In Treatment – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate MEDIA – Film Diagnosis Sex Addiction Expert Diagnoses Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ This lack of affect or emotion is very typical of sex addicts. She doesn’t have any sense of worth because it was never given to her. She learns how to get men to want her, and that is much more important…
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Mar. 9-17, 2014 * Vol. 1. No. 29 Articles, Videos and Breaking News Powered by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Women for Sobriety Anonymous People and Greg Williams at Houston REEL Recovery Film Festival, April 3-6, 2014 Claiming that addiction is America’s most under-financed public health problem, the director, Greg Williams, blames a criminal justice system that chooses incarceration over treatment; a news media that revels in drug-fueled celebrity meltdowns while cold-shouldering the productively rehabilitated;…
Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Mar. 2-10, 2014 * Vol. 1. No. 28 Articles, Videos and Breaking News Presented by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate Celebrities to the Rescue VIDEO Russell Brand on Seduction of Drugs on Oprah VIDEO One of her guests on the show is Russell Brand, who describes his experience as a recovering addict, shares his thoughts on addiction and how Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death caused him to reflect on his own sobriety. Brand, who has been…
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 * THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS * Feb. 23 – Mar. 3, 2014 * Vol. 1 / No. 27 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Articles, Videos and Breaking News Powered by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment * REEL Recovery Film Festival * Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website * Donate CORRECTED LINK FROM…
Articles, Videos and Breaking News Powered by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Donate U.S. Taxpayers Fund Addicts Drug Use Painkillers Mean Big Business For Medicare in Nevada Statistics compiled by the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica show Nevada medical professionals…
Articles, Videos and Breaking News Powered by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Donate Author Jerry Stahl on Addiction Huff Post VIDEO Jerry Stahl Discusses Addiction VIDEO Jerry Stahl’s heroin-soaked 1995 memoir “Permanent Midnight,” charts the author’s decent into a deep heroin addiction. Stahl has since gotten clean but is still obsessed with drug-induced storytelling. He joins us to discuss addiction and recovery. See Video Drug Study Cocaine may Increase Stroke Risk by up to 700 Percent “Cocaine use is one of the risk factors…
Articles, Videos and Breaking News Powered by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Past Issues Here Donate Addiction Caffeine Addiction: Bigger Health Problem Than Previously Thought The negative effects of caffeine are often not recognized as such because it is a socially…
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Articles, Videos and Breaking News Powered by Writers In Treatment Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Past Issues Here Donate Epic Tragedy Rhode Island overdose deaths spike to 22 in 13 days PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Twenty-two people died of drug overdoses in…
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