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March 3, 2025 – He’s a legend, and sober. Three years sober on his birthday. How did this impact his life. Read about it here!
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March 4, 2025 – “I just want to let people know this is a really, really tough disease and it’s a really tough sickness,” Jax added. “I’ve been doing it for so long and you can say hiding it, lying about it forever and I’ve just had it. Enough’s enough.” Brittany Cartwright said she’s “skeptical” of ex Jax Taylor’s treatment plan for his cocaine addiction:
“I’m glad that he finally admitted to what was really going on,” Brittany told People in a March 4 statement following Jax’s bombshell confession. “For the first time, I can speak openly about the extent of trauma he’s instilled on our family over the years.”
The Vanderpump Rules alum, who shares 3-year-old son Cruz with Jax, went on to share that she had tried to help her costar with his addiction issues for years, but it had always been “without success.”
“I pray that one day he completely knocks this addiction, but I’m skeptical,” Brittany, 36, continued. “His behaviors are still alarming and his treatment plan seems to be the bare minimum.”
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Feb. 28, 2025 – It all began with a bad decision at a Manhattan bar in 1993.
Fresh off back-to-back Stanley Cup championships and a first-team all-star nomination, Pittsburgh Penguins power forward Kevin Stevens was on top of the world. At 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, nothing had ever stood between him and success — until he was offered narcotics. Stevens wrestled with the decision in his mind for a moment before deciding to accept the white powder offered to him. He didn’t really know what it was or what it could do, but he’d soon find out.
“I was 28, I never did a drug in my life,” Stevens told the Deseret News earlier this year. “I didn’t even know what drugs were. Never really knew anything about it, but I had that gene … I’d never done any drugs, so I’d never activated it.”
It wasn’t long before Stevens was hooked on cocaine, though it wasn’t yet at the stage of a full-fledged addiction. He’d use occasionally, but not to the point where it ruined his life.
Not yet, at least.
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March 23, 2025 – I’m almost at five months sober now, and I’ve found myself getting tired and less motivated with AA. I did 90 in 90 and was so keen on it, and then I just hit a wall. I find myself just kind of bored with it all. I got a sponsor and started step work but to be entirely honest with you, I got sick of him calling. I have found myself ghosting his calls the past two weeks!
I just can’t be bothered to talk about my sobriety. It’s not that I’m isolating and feeling depressed or anything. Quite the opposite. I’m feeling otherwise motivated with life, sociable with friends, starting a new course in horticulture, exercising and meditating twice a day. I’m doing all the “good” stuff and feeling great about it.
It’s not that I’m saying “I’m fixed! I don’t need AA!” It’s just more, I’m feeling a bit of sobriety-chat burnout. I just want to be normal and happy and talk about normal shit, like what books I’m reading, etc.
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March2, 2025 – Spurred by a teacher who has seen the issues wrought by substance use among local teens, the proposal hinges on getting funding from the state’s pool of opioid settlement money.
During the week, eight students would live in a dormitory on the University of Maine Fort Kent’s campus, supervised by two or three staff members, eat meals in a dedicated dining hall…
The program administrators would work with outside service providers, like Aroostook Mental Health Center, to provide support services, and help students coordinate medical and dental appointments, including medication management, through Fish River Rural Health and Northern Maine Medical Center as part of the program’s “whole-person approach to health, wellness and recovery.”
Recovery high school students would use the same hybrid education model as those in Valley Unified’s alternative schooling program, which caters to at-risk students. Like students in the alternative program, recovery students would also have opportunities to pursue community-based projects, internships or jobs through Valley Unified or the Maine Youth Action Network, and would participate in weekly “Breakthrough Youth” activities taught by Aroostook County Action Program instructors.
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March 4, 2025 – Despite the research that points to alcohol acting as a “gateway drug,” researchers from organizations like the National Institute of Health also argue that alcoholism — or alcohol use disorder, as medical professionals call the disease — also has plenty of environmental causes, such as drinking at a young age, genetics or mental health conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from childhood trauma.
Research has long found that one extremely popular drug can lead to further substance use — and experts are now saying that that this popular item might be acting as a “gateway drug.”
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), more than 84% of all Americans have consumed alcohol at some point in their life. Researchers say that while many of them drink without too much incident, alcohol use can still alter the brain’s behavior centers, and drinkers may become more susceptible to drug abuse.
“Studies indicate that alcohol alters brain chemistry in ways that increase susceptibility to drug addiction,” Chris Tuell, a clinical psychotherapist and a chemical and behavioral addiction specialist at the Lindner Center told Fox News in an interview published Sunday, March 2.
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March 7, 2025 – The TTC Learning Portal brings decades of expertise in mental health treatment, substance use disorder recovery, and healthcare services to a broader audience. With a mission to empower professionals through high-quality, relevant training, the portal ensures that users can complete courses at their own pace, making it an ideal resource for busy professionals.
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March 3, 2024 – Watch Now
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March 11, 2025 – Barbara Nicholson Brown is the owner of Together AZ Newspaper, published monthly in Arizona, focusing on addiction recovery and behavioral health resources for the community. She is the coordinator of CARE, Celebrate the Art of Recovery Expo during National Recovery month as well as the coordinator of the Bill Brown Memorial Golf Tournament each September.
Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug(s) of choice and when is your sobriety date?
A. Alcohol was my choice. Sobriety date June 17, 1990, it was Father’s Day – there is a special meaning there.
Q. What do you like most about 12-step meetings?
A. The fellowship of people from all walks of life, I call my friends. These are people I would never have known if I wasn’t in the rooms. Going to meetings is a good reminder that no matter how much sober time I have, every day I get 24 hours to do it right. And I am truly grateful for that.
Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice, or a wicked twist of fate?
A. In my humble opinion it’s a disease.
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Feb. 28, 2025 – To outsiders, Tania Gomez was the glamorous 33-year-old owner of a dog rescue centre in Stockholm, who had moved to Lanzarote for a quieter life. Now, after four years on the run, she has been captured, and is facing extradition back to her homeland on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering. If convicted, she faces a potential prison sentence of 14 years.
Charges were brought against Gomez in 2021, after a huge drugs bust led Swedish prosecutors to accuse her of smuggling consignments of cannabis into Sweden as well as handling large amounts of cocaine. In May 2020, she allegedly received 10 kilograms of cocaine in the Stockholm area, transported it to her home, where the drug was examined and tested, before being sold on.
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