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ALCOHOLISM A FACTOR? –

Feb. 17, 2025 – Actress Kim Sae-ron’s cause of death has been revealed.“We believe she made an extreme choice and plan to handle it as a suicide,” a police official told reporters. Sae-ron was found dead at her home on February 16, by a friend who had visited her house. She was 24 years old.

Sae-ron began acting in 2009, starring in A Brand New Life, The Man From Nowhere, The Neighbors, A Girl at My Door, Snowy Road and The Villagers. She last appeared in Netflix’s 2023 series Bloodhounds.

Sae-ron’s acting career suffered following a drunk driving incident in May 2022. The Netflix star was fined about $14,000 after her blood alcohol levels exceeded 0.2 percent, per Yonhap News Agency. (An alcohol level over 0.03 percent while driving is considered a D.U.I offense in South Korea.)

“First, I apologize for informing you of the accident and the damages late. I caused an accident in Gangnam around 8 a.m. yesterday, May 18, where I damaged public property. At the time, I was drunk and made a big mistake,” she said in a translated Instagram statement. “Due to my poor judgment and actions, I caused damage to many people, including the merchants in the surrounding stores, citizens, and those who were helping with the repairs. I should have acted more carefully and responsibly, but I was unable to do so. I sincerely apologize.”

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VIDEO – SO TASTY –

Feb. 14, 2025 – Le Pigeon’s award-winning chef teams up to support sobriety in restaurant industry.

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WATCH & PUKE – BOTTLED HYPOCRITE –

Feb. 7, 2025 – Despite a lifetime of sobriety, Dolly Parton has plans to expand her wine brand with a red blend, as the reason for her decades of teetotaling is exposed. With its vibrant character and exceptional craftsmanship, this Pinot Noir perfectly embodies the spirit of Dolly’s vision – a whine meant to be shared with those you love … But the country music legend set the record straight on her alcoholic abstinence , confessing now, at 78, she finds a glass or two of wine to be therapeutic.

Parton was said to start indulging in drink when she began pursuing the idea of releasing her own wine collection, which now includes the new Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Rosé, and Prosecco.

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VIDEO – DON’T BLAME THE EAGLES – 

Feb. 15, 2025 – That’s almost five times the amount of tickets issued during the 2024 enforcement period. During the 2024 Super Bowl campaign, law enforcement officers arrested 262 people for impaired driving and issued 8,388 total tickets. Sobriety checkpoints and increased patrols were put in place to identify and arrest impaired drivers during the enforcement period.

Governor Kathy Hochul says 49,948 tickets were issued. Here’s the breakdown:

Impaired driving – 1,021

Distracted driving – 1,914

Move over – 227

Speeding – 8,536

Seatbelt – 1,083

Other violations 37,167 

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WORDS SAVES LIVES –

Feb. 7, 2025 – Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery. When she was writing “Demon Copperhead,” a novel exploring the devastating effects of the opioid crisis in Appalachia, she was doubtful that people would want to read about such a grim subject.

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VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 

4,525,720 views since Nov 18, 2017 – Godspell is a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Tebelak. The show features eight non-Biblical characters, who sing and act out the parables.

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ROMANTIC PUZZLES – 

Feb. 8, 2025 – I was on my first date in 14 years, and I was excited, nervous and sober. In my car, waiting for my date to approach, I was feeling and looking good. I got this. He texted me he just parked, and I stepped out of my car, my stomach in knots. As he waved over at me, I was elated because he was tall and handsome. We went to the movies. We shared a large bucket of popcorn, into which he poured some butter and sprinkled chocolate Milk Duds that melted in my mouth. I had the best time. After three dates, he told me he wasn’t interested in a fourth.

Sober is not boring, but it can be lonely. I am two-and-a-half years clean, and in 2024, I only dated one person.

I also attempted to match up in an LGBTQ AA meeting, but it did not pan out. The closest meeting was a long drive away from where I live, and when I got there it was predominantly made up of older queer white men. The youngest and most attractive one was a heterosexual man with a wife.

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AUDIO – SCARY WORLD –

Feb. 5, 2025 – Kratom contains dozens of psychoactive compounds or alkaloids that are not well understood, and a main one is mitragynine. It binds to the same opioid brain receptors as morphine and, like opiates, can relieve pain or cause euphoria or sedation.

Cox died from consuming products with kratom. An autopsy found fatal levels of mitragynine in Cox’s blood and the cause of her death was mitragynine toxicity. A wrongful death lawsuit claims a Scranton woman died from a product containing kratom, a botanical native to Southeast Asia.

With a scientific name of Mitragyna speciosa, kratom is a tropical tree in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Long an herbal remedy in Southeast Asia, kratom leaves can be crushed and ingested via smoking, brewing or capsules.

Not illegal in Pennsylvania, kratom products are sold in stores and include forms of vapes, powders and capsules. Products prepared from kratom leaves are available in the United States through sales on the internet and at brick-and-mortar stores… 

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CAN NOTHING? – 

Feb. 5, 2025 – Ending the fentanyl crisis won’t be easy.  Speaking as a professor who studies social policy, I think both fentanyl and the proposed import taxes represent significant threats to the U.S. While the human toll of fentanyl is undeniable, the real question is whether tariffs will work – or worsen what’s already a crisis.

The first real attempt to regulate drugs in the U.S. occurred in 1890, when, amid rampant drug abuse, Congress enacted a law taxing morphine and opium. In the years that followed, cocaine use skyrocketed, rising 700% between 1890 and 1902. Cocaine was so popular, it was even found in drinks such as Coca-Cola, from which it got its name.

This was followed by a 1909 act banning the smoking of opium, and, in 1937, the “Marihuana Tax Act.” The most comprehensive package of laws was instituted with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which classified drugs into five categories based on their medical uses and potential for abuse or dependence. A year later, then-President Richard Nixon launched the “War on Drugs” and declared drug abuse as “public enemy No. 1.” And in 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, directing US$1.7 billion for drug enforcement and control.

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LIFE OR DEATH – 

Feb. 7, 2025 – Three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin. Unknown to them, the drug had been fortified with a nitazene compound called isotonitazene, a highly potent new synthetic opioid.

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