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Ben Affleck Wishes His Sobriety Was ‘Anonymous’

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TOO LATE – 

March 27, 2025 – “I didn’t have any ambitions to be the national spokesman for recovering alcoholics,” he said in the cover story, published on Tuesday. Affleck released a public statement in 2018, after his third stint in rehab, in which he said that “battling any addiction is a lifelong and difficult struggle.”

“Because of that, one is never really in or out of treatment. It is a full-time commitment,” he wrote at the time. The Oscar winner said that if he “could have,” he “would’ve kept the fact that I’m sober anonymous.”

“I think it works better that way. And I didn’t ask for that to become something people knew about,” he said.

“But I can’t complain about it either. I understood doing this job and doing this life, if something happened like that, people were going to know about it, and they did,” Affleck explained. “And I have arrived at a place where I think of that experience as part of my life in authentically grateful ways, whereas I didn’t think such a thing was possible before. So that sort of is what it is.” 

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Jax Taylor Recalls His Typical Day in Swanky Rehab

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CELEBRITY REHAB –

March 27, 2025 –  “I would get up in the morning. I would have my breakfast and I would do yoga outside.” He would complete two one-hour therapy sessions before a break. “I would meet a doctor before going to the gym [in the afternoon]. Then I would come back [to my room], take a shower, go to therapy again and go meet the doctors to make sure my medication was working.” “That was every single day. So Monday through Sunday, we would have no days off,” Taylor told Us about the “hard” therapy sessions. “There’s just a lot of bad habits I got into in this industry. I created so many bad habits. I adapted so many bad habits. Living here, I was just not a very good person … I would just lie to get myself out of situations. I didn’t care what I told anybody. I was just so selfish. This was in the beginning and then I just went back into it again.”

Taylor checked himself into a mental health facility in 2024. He recently revealed that he has been battling substance abuse issues, including abusing cocaine, for more than two decades.

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Jelly Roll in Tears: Addiction Is Impacting My Family

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SORRY TOOTSIE – 

March 27, 2025 – Jelly Roll is extending the conversation around addiction one topic at a time. The singer recently opened up about how addiction impacted his family, especially his daughter, Bailee Ann.  In an interview on “The Pivot” podcast, he recalled his ex’s recent arrest on drug charges, noting how it affected the 16-year-old. The country star broke into tears as he emotionally remembered witnessing his daughter heartbroken over seeing her mom’s mug shot.

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‘Pill mill’ Doctor Linked to 16 Deaths Still Working?

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DOCTOR OF DYING –

March 27, 2025 – A doctor the state suspended from practicing medicine for nearly a decade has again had his license pulled for not complying with requirements after his license was reinstated last year. The medical commission did not answer a question about why it reinstated Li’s license, stating it was under the terms of the 2018 agreement … Li, who is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, was the sole owner of the eight now-shuttered clinic locations of the Seattle Pain Centers, where he allegedly improperly oversaw opioid-prescribing practices. Concerns over the urine tests led state officials to examine the opioid-prescribing practices at Seattle Pain Centers and deaths of more than a dozen patients.

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In Memory and Praise: Dennis McDougal by Burl Barer

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THE ACID KING –

April 1, 2025 – Author Dennis McDougal, 77, and his wife, Sharon,76,died after a four-vehicle crash last Friday on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Desert Center, California.  Dennis was not only my dear friend;  he was also a brilliant award-winning, best selling author and documentarian.

At the time of his death, Dennis was working on The Acid Chronicles, a documentary history of the evolution of psychedelics, from CIA abuse and party drugs to ongoing breakthroughs in treatment of mental illness in the 21st Century.

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Kitty Dukakis – Open About Her Addictions – Has Died

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HONESTY MATTERS –

March 22, 2025 – Dukakis revealed she had overcome a 26-year addiction to amphetamines five years earlier after receiving treatment. She said she began taking diet pills at age 19.  After Michael Dukakis lost the election, Kitty entered a 60-day treatment program for alcoholism. Several months later she suffered a relapse and was hospitalized after drinking rubbing alcohol. In her 1990 autobiography, “Now You Know,” she blamed her mother for much of her alcohol and drug addiction and a long history of low self-esteem. In 2006, she wrote another book, “Shock,” which credits the electroconvulsive therapy she began in 2001 for relieving the depression she had suffered for years. The treatment, she wrote, “opened a new reality for me.”

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Café Offers Job Training To Homeless 

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VIDEO – FEEL GOOD –

March 26, 2025 – We’d like to introduce you to Change Please Coffee, a local coffee shop that is doing good in the community by helping people get back on their feet. They are a social enterprise and nonprofit, is teaching Coloradans who are at risk of becoming homeless hospitality job skills to help them secure full-time jobs. “One of the main things that can help people move out of homelessness is just a good job,” he said. “We believe that coffee, and specifically the hospitality industry, is a really good on-ramp for people to land into a career with lots of good opportunities, upward mobility. And they don’t need a ton of preexisting skills to land a job in the hospitality industry.”

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Jessica Simpson Takes Control

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A SOBER DOM? –

March 21, 2025 – “I bought my freedom.” In line with that open book approach, Simpson plans to produce a documentary using 400 hours of footage she compiled in the process of “stopping drinking and buying my company.” Followers of Simpson often seemed to imagine themselves as her best friend and/or personal trainer/sober coach/nutritionist.

 Simpson doesn’t mind sharing herself with the world — her best-selling memoir was titled Open Book, after all — but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a challenge to figure out who she is away from all that scrutiny. “If I based it off comments or articles or anything like that, I wouldn’t know who I am, either,” she says.

Though Simpson never stopped writing music, she didn’t release it, short of a few songs tacked onto the end of the audiobook for Open Book. In the expansive break from making albums, she weathered a few very public romances, got married, had kids, quit drinking, and built a massive lifestyle brand, the Jessica Simpson Collection, whose name she didn’t even own until recently. Doing so required her to liquidate her assets and take out a major loan. “Now everything goes to paying back the brand,” she says, motioning to the chair next to her, which she thrifted for 20 bucks.

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Woman Highlights Importance of Narcan First Hand 

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VIDEO – BACK FROM THE DEAD – 

March 26, 2025 – This alarming trend is personal for one Billings woman, Dawn Carter, who is now making the most of her second chance at life after surviving an overdose. Carter’s journey has been one of overcoming severe addiction, which began with prescription pain pills she would take from her mother who had cancer. Three years into pill seeking, she transitioned to heroin. “At that time, the biggest priority was just getting high with whatever was in front of me,” she said on Wednesday. “Was refilling prescriptions of my mom’s that weren’t even my own and then it went to just hardcore pill-seeking constantly.”

For years, Carter was trapped in the cycle of addiction, often living from hotel to hotel and resorting to theft to support her habit.

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