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DOES HE HAVE A POINT? –  

April 8, 2024 – Mr. Jones said a rehab facility would attract drug dealers to the nearby park in hopes of luring inhabitants of the proposed facility. “I’m not an assessor, but I would imagine if you were to go with that use, you would have every drug dealer from here to Kensington waiting for the rehabbed person to graduate.”

 ‘Congratulations on your rehab, come down to the park, I got a free sample for you.’ With that comes all kinds of other things I don’t want to wish upon that community.”

Critics of Jones’ bill say that using land use regulations to forestall treatment sites will harm Philadelphia’s most vulnerable residents and potentially drive these kinds of facilities to less accessible locations.

“Substance use treatment is critical for improving community health and is key to preventing overdose,” said Alexis Roth, associate professor of community health at Drexel University. “While the use of zoning laws to prohibit establishing treatment services in a particular jurisdiction may appear to be class and race neutral, the effects are not.”

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iPHONES OR TIKTOK –  

April 10, 2024 – Many clinicians who work with young patients with mental health issues agree they lack enough resources to treat kids and that patients are worse off now than before the pandemic — but they don’t exactly agree on why that is. Many schools don’t even have guidance counselors for students to go to talk to if needed. Some will have counselors only once a week. POLITICO’s survey received 1,400 responses from clinicians, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, school psychologists, pediatric nurse practitioners, pediatricians and nurses.

A majority of respondents reported a decline in mental well-being among kids since the start of the pandemic.

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LIFE ON THE LINE –  

April 10, 2024 – After losing the “adrenaline” of playing the sport at the highest level, he told the Ben Heath Podcast that problems became “huge” and he turned to drugs for “escapism”. “How do I deal with problems when I haven’t got football? 

“You’ve got the joy and adrenaline to keep you forward-thinking and energetic,” he said.

The ex-pro added: “When you’ve got issues, without football these issues become huge, they’re like mountains.

“When you were playing they were fine, because you had finances coming in, you also had support from everyone and anyone.”

He said that while he did not become an alcoholic, he had a bad year with drugs. I had a spell on cocaine and smoking some weed, and the drink … I could live without it,” he said.

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WORDS MATTER –  

April 9, 2024 – On August 10th, 2023 I was given a small metal chip to celebrate a year of sobriety. It was the first full year of sobriety I’d experienced since 1977. I’d gotten high for the first when I was ten, courtesy of a lung-busting hit off a device called The Neutron Bong. Despite that name, it was not Cheech and Chong who served up the opportunity. An older cousin and my big brother were the ones who turned the matching keys that armed the aforesaid nuclear bong.

In this situation, both “older” and “big” are relative terms. My cousin was in high school and my brother was only two-and-a-half years older than myself. While some months shy of his thirteenth birthday, my brother was already an experienced stoner, and our cousin was working on his teenage Master degree in all things pot related. Indeed, we were parked near his secret weed patch off a twisting country road when I joined their club.

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IT COULD WORK –  

April 9, 2024 – New treatments for addiction are urgently needed. 107,941 people died from drug overdoses in 2022, an age-adjusted rate of 32.6 deaths per 100,000 people. The rate has nearly quadrupled since 2002. Researchers have made it important to consider the treatment potential of ibogaine and its derivatives.

lbogaine is one of the psychoactive indole alkaloids found in the West African shrub Tabernanthe iboga. Since its introduction to Western medicine, the psychedelic agent has been used as an adjunct for psychotherapy and also for its anti­-addiction properties. In contrast, current treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD) as well as for dependence on cocaine and methamphetamine, as reviewed by Yale’s Brian Fuerhlein and Jean Lud Cadet of the National Institute on Drug Abuse(NIDA), are limited in efficacy, don’t accelerate brain recovery, and don’t return people to where they were before drug use became a raging addiction…

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AUDIO – AND WILL ALWAYS BE THERE –  

April 9, 2024 – While overdose deaths from fentanyl and its sinister cousins have seized the spotlight for years — some 112,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023 — alcohol-related diseases kill many, many more people — 178,000 Americans every year, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

In California, a record-breaking 11,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2022. But nearly twice that many — 19,335 — die from alcohol-related diseases every year in the Golden State, according to a recent number crunch by the California Department of Public Health.

There are medications that can help treat alcohol use disorder. They’re not fabulous, experts at the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s annual conference said, but they’re a tool in the toolbox that can help address…

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VIDEO – DANGER IN THE AIR –  

April 10, 2024 – She quickly learned that the concrete slab was a 5G tower. It has a health warning that reads it “can cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm.”“I’m a mother that home-schools my children,” she said. “I have a garden directly under the area that it’s looming over, and our heads, we all sleep on that side of the house.” And it’s not the only 5G tower that’s popped up recently. Bernard Hershewsky has lived in his home in Glen Cove for 30 years. 

“They put it right behind my house — no warning, no pre-warnings, no notice, no nothing — they came and started ramming it down my throat,” Hershewsky said. Both homeowners Tuesday night went to a meeting with other concerned neighbors hosted by the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations. They’re frustrated and don’t know when and where the next 5G towers will pop up. 

The county has told them there’s nothing they can do about it because of a state law passed in 2019. The communications bill says a county may not regulate or prohibit the installation of utility poles.

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TOO MUCH SUN? –  

April 10, 2024 – George Riley, a leader of the Republican Party of Florida has apologized for being excessively drunk and urinating and vomiting all over his room at a hotel last week, saying he has been dealing with alcoholism and mental health issues. “I have been dealing with alcoholism and mental health issues,” Riley, 43, told the Tampa Bay Times. “I will pay for any damages that were caused. I apologize to the employees for my bad behavior and I will be seeking help soon.”

Riley’s behavior is the latest black eye for the Florida GOP. Earlier this year, the party ousted its chairman, Christian Ziegler, following an investigation into a rape accusation. Police later cleared him.

The party’s current chairman, Evan Power, didn’t immediately respond to a Wednesday text message seeking comment about Riley, whose phone number was blacked out in the investigation report.

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FOUL FUEL –  

April 10, 2024 – Rock bottom came in 2021 when I was at my best friend Julius’ house in Somerset, drinking bottles of wine like they were water, crying hysterically, in bits on his sofa. I had lost everything. Everybody knew I had messed it up. I was in bed for three days and I couldn’t get out. I just wished I was dead. It was awful, but I knew it was rock bottom. I laid at the bottom of the barrel and let it sweep over me and didn’t try and run away from it. And then slowly I started to crawl out of it. It took three months before I could start living like a human being again and start to feel real emotions. 

I had spent two decades spiralling, masking my self-loathing and depression with alcohol, and later, running. I had been on and off antidepressants, and in and out of therapy for years. I had self-harmed and made several suicide attempts. The drinking began in earnest whilst I was at university, knocking back at least six pints a day. The dangerous situations, such as assaults and muggings, kept mounting up – but I never associated it with the drinking. 

I began running at 27, a few years into my dream career in the music industry. I worked for a record label but was constantly told I was lucky to be there and as a result, never believed I was good enough. Booze was consumed all day long and was viewed as a perk of the job.

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LOCAL HERO –  

April 20, 2024 – On Saturday, April 20, the “Lose Yourself” rapper, 51, marked 16 years sober, sharing the milestone on Instagram with fans. The Grammy winner — who was born Marshall Mathers — posted a photo of his hand holding a new chip commemorating the achievement.

The comments section of the captionless post was filled with messages of support and congratulations for the rapper. “We’re all proud of you for being 16 years sober,” read a note from the fan account Stanistheone.

“Great decision you made brother! We’re all very proud of you,” fellow rapper DTG (real name Dylan Godfrey) wrote. “I remember when I first got sober and all the s— was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f—— new to me again,” he said on Paul Rosenberg’s Paul Pod podcast in 2022.

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