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CANADA DOES IT FOR FREE – 

April 29, 2021 – Naloxone is not a new drug. It was first patented in 1961 as a medication to reverse the common side effect of constipation in patients prescribed opioids, but was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for overdose reversal in 1971. The original patent expired long ago, so today the generic version only costs around $20. But new delivery systems—like the auto-injector and the nasal spray—have allowed for new patents, of which there are currently seven, with the auto-injector and nasal spray not due to expire until 2035. In effect, companies are now charging for the delivery system, not the drug itself.  There is no standard way of acquiring naloxone in the US. Across the country, different people and organizations do so in different ways.

In San Francisco, the National Harm Reduction Coalition’s DOPE Project (Drug Overdose Prevention and Education) provides free injectable and nasal spray naloxone to people who use drugs. For the former, it relies on a deal painstakingly arranged by unpaid harm reductionists working with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which owns Hospira, the makers of injectable naloxone hydrochloride. This “ensures access to injectable doses of Pfizer for a cost I can’t disclose,” said DOPE Project manager Kristen Marshall. “That is the way historically anything has to get done when you are representing people outside the mainstream.”

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MEDIA: FILM REVIEW – 

April 28, 2021 – What sets “Four Good Days” apart from the many other films of its ilk are Close and Kunis, who sharpen and elevate its well-worn contours with vivid performances that are honest and grounded. These are characters you can connect to, on both sides of the equation. A new drug therapy — the “opioid antagonist” Naltrexone, which promises to block the effect of opiates with a monthly shot, taking away the high that feeds addiction — beckons. There’s only one catch: Molly can’t start taking it until her system is completely free of all the substances she’s been abusing. She’s got four more days to go.

What transpires is what you’d expect, made viscerally real by two strong actors. Close is at her best when Deb is struggling to feel normal — during a quick catch-up lunch at a diner, for instance, with her “good” daughter (Carla Gallo) — as Deb suddenly realizes that she’s forgotten her wallet at home. She can’t enjoy 15 minutes of downtime, we learn, because Molly could be looking for cash to buy a fix.

That tidal pull Deb feels — part love, part mistrust, part guilt — is palpable, as palpable as the hunger of the monkey on Molly’s back. And Kunis does her best to keep up with Close, in a performance that’s raw and unglamorous.

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STICK WITH THE WAFERS – 

April 28, 2021 – “Parents establish norms around drinking in childhood and adolescence and their attitudes and behaviour can influence their offspring’s use. What our study has shown is that parenting style – either warm or controlling – could be a far more important, and controllable factor, in people’s propensity for alcohol problems later in life than whether they allow their adolescent’s access to alcohol or whether they drink or not,” he says.

“Alcohol misuse is a preventable source of social physical and psychological harm that typically starts in adolescence. So this is a critical time in a person’s life and a time when, as we have found, a certain type of parenting style can lower risk.”

Professor Boden says the reason for the link between positive parenting and a lower risk of alcoholism is not explored in the study, but the parenting style has been shown in other research studies to be associated with a number of other positive outcomes for offspring.

He says it is not possible to ‘draw out individual cases’, such as those who become alcoholics despite an ideal childhood and adolescent home environment. “However, believe it or not, the ‘black’ sheep’ seems to be rarer than people might imagine,’’ Professor Boden says.

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WATCH – AMERICAN DEATH MARCH – 

April 26, 2021 – “I really don’t see our workload going down significantly for 2021,” added Dr. Jim Caruso, the chief medical examiner in Denver. “The first couple of months of 2021 look just like 2020. The numbers are there. We’re still seeing these fentanyl-laced pills at the scenes.”

According to the CDC data, places like Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. have all seen their overdose numbers rise by more than 40 percent in 2020. The only state that has not seen its numbers rise over the course of the last year is South Dakota.

“All we know is what’s in the bloodstream, and I can tell you that we’re seeing a lot of mixed drug intoxications,” said Dr. Caruso.

The pandemic affected ways drugs were getting into the country, as cartels in Mexico started transporting fentanyl instead of heroin and other opiates because fentanyl is harder to detect. Its potency and danger likely contributed to more deaths, explained Dr. Caruso.

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WATCH – SKETCH NOT SKETCHY – 

April 27, 2021 – The staff at the Walker Center said their focus this month is on spreading awareness and reducing the stigma associated with alcohol addiction. They offer outpatient treatment in Twin Falls and inpatient treatment in Gooding for drug and alcohol addiction. The center said they have seen an exponential increase in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have our highest level that I can remember in being here in the last 6 and a half or 7 years being referred to a residential or hospitalization for their alcohol use,” said clinical supervisor Sarah Walling-Gifford. “Being an alcoholic myself,” said Arthur. “Hopefully show some people that there is some hope out there too. That if they are suffering or if someone, they love is suffering that recovery is an option, and they don’t have to spend the rest of their lives drinking themselves to death.”

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LISTEN – LET THE HEALING BEGIN – 

April 27, 2021 – “Some physicians actually don’t want to prescribe it because they don’t want to go to the extra burden of doing the training,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “So this will increase the number of people that can be treated. And buprenorphine is probably one of the most effective ways that we have for preventing people from overdosing from all of the opioids that are out there in the black market, which are actually quite dangerous.” More medical practitioners are being allowed to prescribe buprenorphine under new guidelines from the Biden administration.

The change means that the drug shown to reduce opioid relapses and overdose deaths can be more widely prescribed. It comes after a year of overdose deaths spiking across the United States. Early estimates indicate about 90,000 people died of drug overdoses in the 12 months ending in September, higher than has ever been recorded. It’s about an increase of 20,000 deaths from the previous 12-month period. The majority of drug overdose deaths involved opioids.

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MORE IS BEING REVEALED – 

April 15, 2021 – The central theme of attachment theory is that caregivers who were nurturing, responsive, and available to the needs of their child allowed them to feel secure, thus creating a secure attachment style. However, children whose needs were not met consistently, or ever, go on to develop one of the three insecure styles of attachment. Additionally, Bowlby believed that the way children bonded with their primary caregivers in childhood continued through life and impacted future relationships. As children grow, they begin to form bonds with their caregivers. Rudolph Schaffer and Peggy Emerson observed 60 infants during the first year of life, every four weeks, and again at 18. This data allowed Shaffer and Emerson to observe four phases of attachment. 

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WATCH – JUST SAY WOOF! – 

April 28, 2021 – A former police dog in Australia has rocked TikTok with the reminder that law enforcement is never off duty after the pup’s concerned reaction to hearing the word “cocaine” went viral. Davey Rutherford recently lit up the internet by rattling off a shopping list to his German shepherd Dante in a quick clip – and filmed the dog’s reaction to the name of the drug.  “Just kidding,” Rutherford joked, captioning the clip “Sniffer dog knows English.”

The footage, first posted in March, has since been viewed over 2.6 million times on TikTok, and recently made the rounds again on Twitter, too. Commenters were charmed by Dante’s quick instincts and thanked the dog for his service.”We don’t joke about such things in this house,” one TikToker imaged Dante telling his owner.

“Sir that’s illegal,” another teased.

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Sniffer dog knows English #foryoupage #dog #foryourpage #dog #comedy #fyp #snifferdog

♬ original sound – Davey Rutherford

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WATCH – CAN A PICKLE EVER BE A CUCUMBER AGAIN? – 

April 27, 2021- “I don’t know why my nervous breakdown happened at the end of the lockdown, I made it all the way through, everything was great, and my life was perfect,” she told the outlet. “I’m that girl that when everything is going great, I need to f— it up a little and make everything a little bit worse in my life.” Despite the relapse, the former Fashion Police star is keeping her head up and learning from the experience.

“This is something I am going to battle for the rest of my life,” she said. “It’s never going to be easy.” Osbourne first spoke about her relapse last week, telling fans in a candid video shared on her Instagram Stories, “This is a little hard for me to talk about, but I’ve always promised you that I will always be honest with you about where I’m at and what’s going on in my road to recovery.”

“I relapsed. Not proud of it,” she said in the video. “And I just wanted to tell you guys the truth, ‘cause I never, ever want to lie to you.”  Explaining why she decided to go public with the relapse, Osbourne told Extra that by “being accountable and owning your own journey and sharing what you can go though, you can help other people.”

“That’s why I came clean,” she said, “I could have sat here, and nobody would know.”

The Osbournes alum has been candid about her struggle with drugs and alcohol in the past, first announcing she was one year sober back in August 2018 after a relapse following a long history with addiction.

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STICK WITH THE WINNERS! – 

May 4, 2021 – Bobbi-Jo Reed is a person in long-term recovery with 25 years of continuous sobriety. She has provided safe, transitional housing for thousands of individuals over the past 19 years. Her passion in life is helping those suffering with substance use disorders. She is the Founder and CEO of Healing House, Inc. in Northeast Kansas City, MO; the ministry currently houses 200 adults and 30 children. She is Chair of the Kansas City Recovery Coalition, member of the Missouri-Division of Behavioral Health State Advisory Council, a Mental Health First Aid instructor, Trauma Informed Care trainer, Certified Peer Specialist- Supervisor and Medicated Assisted Recovery Specialist; recognized as a 2018 Mental Health Champion and an Executive Member of the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Service Providers and the National Association of Recovery Residences.

Q. If you are in recovery, what was your Drug of Choice? When did you stop using?
A. Alcohol, cocaine … anything I could get my hands on; including men! I stopped using September 26, 1995

Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice or a wicked twist of fate?
A. Absolutely a disease. I did not believe this until I started Healing House and then seeing other women struggle; that made it perfectly clear it was. 

Q. Do you log on to ZOOM 12-step meetings? How often? Do you share?
A. Yes, twice a week. Yes, I share. You got to give away to keep it. 

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