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AND BANK ACCOUNT –

Jan. 20, 2025 – “Alcohol irritates the stomach lining and increases acid production, causing heartburn and acid reflux,” he warns. “After two weeks without alcohol, these symptoms reduce significantly as your stomach lining heals and acid levels normalize.” “Most drinkers will have experience of going a week without alcohol, so you may be familiar with some of the early benefits, such as improved sleep, productivity, decision-making, and healthier eating patterns,” Dr Abraham explains. “Alcohol disrupts sleep by reducing REM cycles, leading to poorer quality rest. Better sleep enhances productivity, learning and problem-solving.”

Alcohol can also cause dehydration, leading to symptoms such as headaches, fatigue and nausea.

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HIGHEST POWER – 

Jan. 16, 2025 – When the airplanes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the shockwaves resonated beyond New York City.

For Phyllis A. Thorne, the tragedy ignited a fire within her soul, an awareness of the battle she was losing to drug addiction. It was in that tragic moment while sitting in a drug house in Saginaw smoking crack and watching the attack on television that she decided she would not let addiction write her ending.

“I remember seeing the plane crash into the building and I heard God say that my life could be over just like that,” Thorne said. “And if I didn’t change, I was going to lose my life.”

That year had already been a storm of loss and disruption for Thorne. On Feb. 6, her husband died. He was her anchor. Just a few months later, in May, her mother—her other pillar of strength—moved to Arizona.

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AUDIO – ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE –

Jan. 17, 2025 – The future of addiction treatment could be in treating the brain itself. A new trial at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute is exploring whether using ultrasound waves on parts of the brain associated with addiction could disrupt connections that contribute to cravings.

Danny Lewis: For most of his life, Joe Hilton has struggled with addiction and substance abuse starting when he was just a kid in West Virginia.

Joe Hilton: Growing up, at an eight-year-old’s birthday party, there would be five or six coolers. Only one of them would have juice boxes and stuff like that and the rest of them would be full of beer. At nine, 10, 11, 12 years old, I’d sneak a beer.

Danny Lewis: From beers in the cooler, he moved on to stealing the ends of his dad’s joints, then to smoking marijuana with a friend, and eventually, to harder drugs.

Joe Hilton: Once I did heroin, I’m like, “That’s supposedly the worst drug ever, so why not try everything else?” I like to say my drug of choice was more of anything. It didn’t matter.

Danny Lewis: Joe’s 39 now and he’s tried to get sober many times over the years. He’s attended group meetings run by Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, in-patient programs, sober living homes, but he says none of them stuck long-term. Joe even ended up in prison at one point. His wife left him and he lost custody of his daughter.

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WHY? –

Jan. 17, 2025  – Overall cancer rates rising among women under 50, as well as those 50 to 64 years old. These trends represent a marked change for an illness that has long been considered a disease of aging, and which used to affect far more men than women.

These trends represent a marked change for an illness that has long been considered a disease of aging, and which used to affect far more men than women.

The shifts reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a disconcerting rise in cancer in people born since the 1950s.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, but the leading cause among Americans under 85. The new report projects that some 2,041,910 new cases will occur this year and that 618,120 Americans will die of the disease.

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THIS IS HOW IT WORKS – 

Jan. 18, 2025 – The money will go to Moderna, the Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company that previously developed a COVID-19 vaccine. Since 2023, Moderna has been working to create a “pandemic influenza vaccine” which would help protect against certain viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu. The new funds build on the $176 million that HHS gave to Moderna last July.

It has mostly infected livestock and other mammals, but there have been at least 67 confirmed human cases so far, including one death in Louisiana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. California currently accounts for more than half of human infections. The public health risk remains low, but HHS Secretary Becerra said bird flu variants have proven to be unpredictable, which is why the virus is a top priority for the federal government.

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VIDEO – BETTER DAYS NOW –

Jan. 20, 2025 – The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, decided to go sober two and a half years ago after noticing she became an ‘angry’ and ‘nasty’ drunk – and hasn’t looked back since.

She said: ‘I just remember a night where you would go over to a mum’s house, there would maybe be like eight of you there, and it would be an episode of like Desperate Housewives Of Chiswick where I’d suddenly be in a catfight with some woman I had just met.  And then trying to get home and can’t get the keys in the lock, waking Hugo [Taylor] up and the baby and you’re just like a complete mess.’

Millie also described the downward spiral effect that alcohol had on her relationship with husband Hugo Taylor.

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IT’S FLORIDA JAKE – 

Jan. 22, 2025 – Unfortunately, inaccurate and incomplete information is what Floridians have come to expect from the state’s social service agency. Abused children and senior citizens, overcrowded foster homes. Is staff overworked and ill-prepared to handle some difficult social ills facing Florida? Or is there simply an uncaring culture in the DCF workplace? A recent examination by Palm Beach Post Investigative reporter Antigone Barton found that DCF failed to live up to a promise to state Sen. Gayle Harrell, R-Stuart, to post records on its website to better inform addiction treatment clients about the programs it regulates. “We can tell you that [DCF] Secretary Harris is committed to ensuring accountability and transparency with the programs and facilities that we regulate,” DCF said in a statement after the agreement.

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ONE BRUSH STROKE AT A TIME – 

JAN. 22, 2025 – A picture is worth a thousand words, but for those battling addiction, a brush and canvas can say so much more. The Allen County Treatment Court, Lighthouse Peer Support Center, and the Allen, Auglaize, and Hardin County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board are hosting a show with artwork done by people that are in recovery. The artists are finding or using some hidden talent for painting that they may not have explored before or have forgotten while they were trapped in their addiction. For people in recovery, art helps them express themselves in ways they couldn’t before. The Allen County Treatment Court, Lighthouse Peer Support Center, and the Allen, Auglaize, and Hardin County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board are hosting a show with artwork done by people that are in recovery. The artists are finding or using some hidden talent for painting that they may not have explored before or have forgotten while they were trapped in their addiction. For people in recovery, art helps them express themselves in ways they couldn’t before.

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IT HAPPENS, SOMETIMES – 

Jan. 22, 2025 – Ripa, 54, opened up about the subject during the episode of Live With Kelly and Mark while speaking with guest co-host Andy Cohen, who was filling in for Ripa’s husband, Mark Consuelos. Cohen, 56, explained that he expected “some” weight loss after giving up booze for the month of January but admitted that it hasn’t “really happened yet,” which prompted Ripa to share her experience with putting on a few pounds while abstaining from the sauce.

“I told you, when I quit drinking, I expected there to be this windfall of weight loss, because everybody’s like, ‘Well, you are gonna get too skinny, and you can’t afford to lose it,’” Ripa, who revealed she gained 12 pounds, told viewers.

“I don’t understand this magical weight loss,” Ripa continued, referencing how some people who give up alcohol lean out. “I think I just took to eating the sugars.”

Ripa previously revealed she gave up alcohol for good after doing a sober month with a group of girlfriends in 2020.

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STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – 

Jan. 28, 2025 – Stevie Mack is multi-talented, and his comedy includes song, dance, audience participation and magic. He is the Host of The Stevie Mack Show and is the official Comedy Guru on Airbnb experiences. Stevie Mack known for performing stand-up comedy, and one-man shows since the 90’s and featured in a ton of TV shows/movies and over 41 commercials pitching everything from soft drinks to real estate. 

Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug(s) of choice and when is your sobriety date?

A. Cocaine, Heroin, Alcohol, pills. But my favorite was…whatever you had!

Q. What do you like most about 12-step meetings?

A. 12-Step meetings allow me to meet new people in the fellowship, get new sponsees, and scout potential speakers for my Saturday morning meeting at Venice Beach.

Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice, or a wicked twist of fate?

A. I believe addiction is both environmental and hereditary. And I believe it is an illness that we are born with.

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