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VIDEO – STOP THE MADNESS – 

Jan. 29, 2025 – Mayor Lurie’s ordinance aims to cut through the city’s red tape to address the fentanyl crisis.

“People in San Francisco are suffering, every day that we don’t act is another day of life lost to addiction, to overdose and to despair. our response must be just as urgent as the crisis that we are facing,” Lurie said.

If the board of supervisors approve this plan, it would essentially give the mayor’s office the power to approve city contracts that would normally go through the board.

But this isn’t quite a slam dunk for Lurie.

Supervisor Shamann Walton says he agrees with the end goal but still thinks the overall plan lacks details and he doesn’t think supervisors should be giving the mayor what he calls, “dictatorship authority.”   

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IT’S NOT SNAKE OIL – 

Jan. 30, 2025 – Alice Cooper has been sober for 42 years, but the shock rocker recently shared in a new interview with People that you don’t need alcohol to embody a punk rock spirit. Cooper is promoting his new partnership with WhistlePig that has produced an alcohol-free version of an Old Fashioned dubbed, The Sex, Drugs, Rock & Dry Cocktail.  The drink is paired with a special rye-infused vinyl pressing of Cooper’s 2019 EP, Breadcrumbs, with 100% of the proceeds going to Giving Kitchen, which provides assistance to food service workers. Cooper says his sobriety hasn’t hindered his rockstar persona. “Rock ‘n’ roll is more of an attitude,” Cooper says. “You don’t have to be drunk or high to be a rocker, you know. It’s just an attitude.” He praises the positive shift in the music industry’s attitude towards sobriety since the ‘70s, as he prepares to embark on his Too Close For Comfort World Tour on January 31.   

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DEPENDS – 

Jan. 30, 2025 – During his Senate confirmation hearing to serve as Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suggested antidepressant drugs may be as addictive as heroin — a claim contradicted by research. “Antidepressants and heroin are in different universes when it comes to addiction risk,” says Keith Humphreys, who studies addiction at Stanford University. “In my 35 years In the addiction field, I’ve met only two or three people who thought they were addicted to antidepressants versus thousands who were addicted to heroin and other opioids.”

A study published in the medical journal the Lancet found significant withdrawal symptoms only affect about 1 in 35 people who use antidepressants. It is important to be in a doctor’s care when going off SSRIs and to taper off gradually.   

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VIDEO – WHO AM I? – 

Jan. 28, 2025 – An example is checking your blind spot when driving down the road,” Gowin said. “When you look back in front of you, you need to remember what you saw in the blind spot before you can make a good decision if you want to change lanes or not. “Losing working memory means that retaining that information might require more effort and be more challenging.” “For years, clinicians, family and friends who knew heavy cannabis users understood that their memories were ‘shot’ — there’s even a term for this, ‘stoner,’ as in ‘forgot the grocery list, couldn’t follow a recipe, couldn’t get it together,’” she said.

However, the study could not determine if working memory comes back if a heavy user quits and is a nonuser for an extended period of time, she added.

“Can the adolescent who used cannabis more than 1000 times between the ages of 15 and 20 years of age, but stopped using at 20 years, demonstrate improved working memory 10 years later?” Boyd said via email. “That is my 64-dollar question — where is the hope for the person with a chronic use disorder who wants their memory back?”   

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VIDEO – TRAGEDY –

Feb. 1, 2025 – The family of porn star Emily Willis is suing the rehab center where she was found unconscious resulting in her sustaining permanent brain damage while at the facility for treatment for her ketamine addiction. Summit Malibu and its parent company Malibu Lighthouse Treatment Centers allegedly committed adult abuse, negligence and unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business practices resulting in Willis’ vegetative state, The 26-year-old, whose real name is Litzy Lara Banuelos, entered the rehab center for her addiction to the dissociative anesthetic drug, which she was taking 5 to 6 grams of per day, her family alleges. Yesenia Lara Cooper – Willis’ mother, conservator and plaintiff in the lawsuit, allegedly noted that the adult film star looked underweight, weighing in at 100 pounds, but claims a consultation was never made with a dietician.

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TIME WILL TELL –

Jan. 30, 2025 – It’s the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in more than 20 years, offering an alternative to both opioids and over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen and acetaminophen. Two studies in more than 870 patients with acute pain following foot and abdominal surgeries showed Vertex’s pill provided more relief than a dummy pill but didn’t outperform a common opioid-acetaminophen combination pill.

“It’s not a slam dunk on effectiveness,” said Michael Schuh of the Mayo Clinic

Vertex began researching the drug in the 2000s, when drug overdoses were rocketing upward, principally driven by mass prescribing of opioid painkillers for common ailments like arthritis and back pain. Prescriptions have fallen sharply in the last decade and the current wave of the opioid epidemic is mainly due to illicit fentanyl, not pharmaceutical medicines.

Opioids reduce pain by binding to receptors in the brain that receive nerve signals from different parts of the body. Those chemical interactions also give rise to opioids’ addictive effects.

Vertex’s drug works differently, blocking proteins that trigger pain signals that are later sent to the brain.

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AS TEARS GOES BY –

Jan. 30, 2025 – Singer and actor overcame drug addiction and homelessness to collaborate with everyone from the Rolling Stones and Metallica to Jean-Luc Godard. Her six-decade career marked her out as one of the UK’s most versatile and characterful singer-songwriters.

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VIDEO –  

Timeless – RIP Marianne. An incomparable voice has fallen silent forever. Her incomparable charisma in this song required no sensationalism…

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GREAT VIDEO – 

Jan. 2025 – Lyuba had hopes of a better future when she and her husband immigrated to Israel in 2010 from Ukraine. The fitness trainer and mother of two overcame countless challenges to make a home for her. All was well until her husband Yevgeny relapsed on his former drug addiction. “He was very aggressive and would verbally attack me and my children. My youngest started having hysteria attacks where he would become unresponsive. My oldest was constantly stressed – she didn’t want to see or talk to him.”

Yevgeny’s addiction only got worse. He  lost his job … Then, he left, taking what he could and leaving his family to fend for themselves. “He started taking things from home, my jewelry, even my wedding gift. With the war, I couldn’t find work. It got so bad I didn’t have enough money to pay for electricity or buy food.”

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NICE GAL –

Jan. 22, 2025 – “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Mary Cosby didn’t make a whole lot of friends on the show in her first few seasons. But in season five, fans got to see saw a softer side of Cosby as she played a lot nicer with her fellow cast members and even opened up about her son Robert Jr’s issues with drug addiction and his road to recovery in a November episode of the show.

Now, in a new interview with Vulture, Cosby opens up about the support she received from a billionaire beauty who sent her some love during that tough time for her family.

“Rihanna reached out to me twice. She reached out to us when the show aired and told us she loved us. And then on Christmas Day, she said, ‘Merry Christmas, and I love you and Robert Jr,’” she said. “I feel like if you can reach people of that caliber, you’re doing something right, you know what I mean?”

Cosby told TODAY.com that her decision to share Robert Jr.’s story on the show wasn’t made lightly. But she is proud of the honest unscripted conversation they had.

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