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NOW ALANON? – 

March 12. 2025 – The funnyman, who played Nigel Norman Fletcher in the 2016 Porridge reboot, has been off the booze for six years after his drinking got out of control. “I’ve got an allergy to alcohol. “If I went for a pint with an actor in Covent Garden, I would then go on the missing list.”

The former Grange Hill star – who also fronted his own Channel 4 sketch show – admitted going sober also cost him his 22-year marriage as his now ex-wife “lost her drinking buddy”.The actor split from his wife Casta, the mother of his two children, shortly after he got sober.

And he admits his ex-partner hindered his first bid to kick the booze, telling We’re Not Getting Any Younger podcast: “I managed to do five years of complete sobriety, and I loved my life, and then my wife missed her drinking buddy and encouraged me to drink again, she said I wasn’t an alcoholic.

“Then within 21 months everything fell apart.”

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A FRIEND IN NEED! –

March 6, 2025 – The Southern Charm star admitted to struggling with over-drinking for the first time during a heart-to-heart with longtime BFF Austen Kroll on the Bravo series. The intense conversation stemmed from Austen’s past claims that Craig had cleaned up his act so much while dating then-girlfriend Paige DeSorbo that it caused a rift in their good times together. Austen, listen, you’re one of my best friends,” the Sewing Down South founder told his costar. “I was never trying to do stuff to better myself to get away from other people. I didn’t ever know that it would change the level of our friendship. I want to get back to a place of love.”

However, Austen reiterated that he didn’t recognize the strait-laced person Craig had become.

“If I’m being honest, I feel like where all the disconnect has come is you’ve created this wonderful image of yourself and you’re terrified of disappointing someone or something,” he told Craig. “Now, in order to maintain this, you’re saying, ‘I need to sit at my house and not see me with a beer in my hand,’ or something.”

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AUDIO – CREATE BAIL MONEY FUND? – 

March 13, 2025 -“Cannabinoid ingredients can cross the placenta and enter breast milk, potentially affecting brain development,” senior researcher Rosa Alati, head of population health at Curtin University in Australia, said in a news release. “This research provides critical evidence to help shape health policies aimed at minimizing harm.”

For the new study, researchers analyzed records on more than 222,000 pregnancies in New South Wales, Australia, between 2003 and 2005.

The team tracked the children of mothers who used cannabis to see if they were diagnosed with behavioral problems at a greater rate than the kids of moms who didn’t use weed.

“We found children of mothers with cannabis use disorder were at a significantly higher risk of developing behavioral issues such as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder,” lead researcher Abay Tadesse, a doctoral student at Curtin University, said in a news release.

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OF COURSE! –

March 13, 2025 – The affected children exhibited similar clinical and biochemical signs, including decreased consciousness, a sudden and severe drop in blood sugar (hypoglycemia), and an accumulation of acid in the blood (metabolic acidosis).

Such symptoms, when they occur together, can indicate poisoning or inherited metabolic disorders, prompting further investigations.

Brightly colored slush ice drinks are designed to appeal to children, note the researchers. While the ingredients vary, most of those available in the UK and Ireland are ‘no added sugar’ or ‘sugar-free’ products and contain glycerol (E422, also known as glycerin), they add.

Glycerol stops the ice from fully freezing, so maintaining the slush effect in the absence of a high sugar content, they explain.

With a view to informing public health policy and guidance for parents, the researchers scrutinized the medical notes of 21 children who had become acutely unwell after consuming a slush ice drink and had initially been diagnosed with hypoglycemia after their arrival in emergency care.

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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS – 

March 6, 2025 – From neighbors helping neighbors to inspiring acts of kindness, we’re sharing stories of people making a difference in our ‘Champions of Hope’ series.

“I’ve seen some of the strongest people I know going through addiction,” said Rebecca Harris, who works as a substance abuse navigator at Mercy Folsom Hospital. 

Her career as a drug and alcohol counselor is a calling and a lifeline for patients, like one woman named “Tracy” who preferred to not use her real name to protect her identity.

Tracy met Harris at the hospital after struggling with alcohol addiction for more than a decade.

“I just drank for so long in my life, drinking became part of who I was and I lost control of it,” Tracy said. 

After several trips to the hospital, Tracy realized her body was failing. She was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and had to be hospitalized. 

“Unfortunately, that’s not what took me down to getting sober. I had to do it two more times,” she said. 

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HOW DO THEY SCORE? – 

March 6, 2025 – A simple handheld device, only powered by a 9-volt battery, is saving lives in Kentucky.

It’s called a neuro-electrode treatment to help battle opioid withdrawal, which hundreds of people have benefited from. “A barrier to a lot of people who really want help and don’t get it is the fear of detox,” Mike Cox with the Isaiah House said. “The fear of withdrawal and the sickness that comes with that.”

Cox said this device can eliminate that fear. As the device can be tailored to each individual and is reusable across patients, they’ve seen it reduce withdrawal symptoms and make patients more invested in their recovery journey.

“These crucial resources set individuals not just up for treatment success but for lifelong success and recovery,” Cox said.

In Scott County and their Detention Center, 16 inmates have been able to receive the treatment, which Jailer Derran Broyles said is the first jail in the country to provide the treatment.

“An incarcerated environment, a jail environment was an ideal setting to use this and offer it to addicts,” Broyles said.

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DAMNED IF YOU DO… – 

March 10, 2025 – A medical test used to detect cancer may actually be contributing to the disease, research suggests. In 2009, researchers estimated high doses of radiation from CT scans were responsible for roughly 30,000 cases per year. Ongoing research indicates as the number of CT scans increases, related cancers will likely rise.

However, experts say they are sometimes overprescribed and performed unnecessarily, potentially because of the money-making opportunities for the hospitals, as the tests are very expensive, or out of doctors’ fears of missing a diagnosis and being sued. She told NBC News: ‘It’s unfathomable. We keep doing more and more CTs, and the doses keep going up.’ 

Dr Smith Bindman said between two machines, one could be exposing patients to 10 to 15 times higher radiation doses than the other. 

She added: ‘There is very large variation and the doses vary by an order of magnitude — tenfold, not 10 percent different — for patients seen for the same clinical problem.”

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STILL A SLIP –

March 10, 2025 – The Scientific Association for Botanical Education and Research (SABER) is sounding the alarm over the public health risks associated with products labeled as 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH). These products, often falsely marketed as kratom leaf extracts, are synthetically produced and pose significant dangers.

Popular YouTuber Goblin, whose real name is Nicholas Campana, said “7-OH” has become the “latest smoke-shop craze” in a recent video regarding the substance.

“The companies that are selling this to you and the smoke shops that are selling this to you are not properly warning you about what this product really can do to you,” Campana said during the video, which has been viewed more than 250,000 times.

During the video, Campana claims that he was contacted by an individual involved in one of the “leading brands in the space,” who wanted to talk “off the record.”

After he received a message from the unidentified individual, Campana said it was “too egregious” for him to proceed. The following message is displayed during the video posted by Campana:

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CVS MAKING COIN –

March 11, 2025 – According to the dosing chart on Benadryl’s website, the medication is not to be given to kids under 2 and should only be given to kids ages 2 to 5 with the guidance of a doctor. The news release states that a co-teacher at the day care allegedly saw Kendasia Hugley give the toddlers Benadryl. “The Director did not report the incident to the Bright from the Start program until March 9, 2025 at 8:00 pm. This was after Facebook postings were made about this incident,” the news release reads. Video footage from the day care and witness accounts backed up the claims, the sheriff’s office said, and warrants were then issued for Hugley’s arrest.

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NO MORE BUTTER – 

March 12, 2025 – The top 20% of high-income, college-educated Americans have less heart disease risk than others, and this gap has widened over the past two decades. Life expectancy for the richest 1% of Americans is now 10 years higher than for the poorest 1%. 

For this study, researchers analyzed 20 years of data gathered from nearly 50,000 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2018.

Researchers cited a number of reasons why more well-to-do people have an advantage when it comes to heart health.

Poorer folks might suffer from more stress due to their economic insecurity, while higher-income or better-educated people might have more access to healthy behaviors and activities throughout their lives, researchers said.

The well-to-do also might be better at taking prescribed medicines, have less exposure to environmental toxins and might benefit from stronger support systems, Abdalla said.

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