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Challenging –

Oct. 10, 2020 – Getting through those months was tough. I came up with every excuse I could think of to go back to drinking. I considered throwing in the towel and resigning myself to a life as a drunk.

The one thing that kept me going was hearing that tons of other recovering alcoholics had experienced the same thing. Although there’s still a dearth of academic research on the topic, Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) is a common experience among people in their first two years of sobriety.

PAWS is characterized by feelings of depression, a lack of mental clarity, and feelings of exhaustion. As the name suggests, it sets in after the immediate, acute symptoms of withdrawal have passed. Unfortunately, it can last for up to two years.

The one good thing about PAWS is that it does eventually end. My first year sober was an awful year, but I am forever grateful that I stuck with it. Although it felt like quitting drinking hadn’t helped me at all, I actually just hadn’t given it enough time.

During my second year sober, I stopped feeling as depressed and even became optimistic about my future. I started to notice some of the positive changes that sobriety had made in my life: losing weight and saving money, for example. I also realized that I finally had the free time and clarity of mind needed to start pursuing even more meaningful changes.

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LISTEN – Trouble in Shangri-La –

2020 – She noted that “it was a totally non-time. I just existed. It took away all my wonderful drama, my tempestuousness, my compassion, my empathy – all those things that drove me to my piano. I say to myself now: ‘How did you survive eight years without your wonderful drama?’”

Nicks added that she “always look back and think: What could I have done during that time? Made a Fleetwood Mac album or a solo record. I could have gotten married or had a baby or adopted one. Let me tell you, if anybody ever tries to put you on Klonopin, run screaming out of the room.”

In 2018, Nicks instigated the dismissal of Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac, which led to a legal battle that was later settled. She recently revealed that she had written to him after he suffered a heart attack last year. Asked if she might ever share a stage with him again, she replied: “Probably never.”

She added that people often ask the band members if they got along. “We’d go: ‘Not really.’ They’d say: ‘Are you friends?’ And we’d go: ‘Not really.’ ‘Do you see each other when you’re not on tour?’ ‘Er, no.’ It has been like that since 1976.”

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It all comes down to the steps –  

Oct. 12, 2020 – The star revealed that drinking started becoming an everyday habit for her. Her addition might have been brought on by her upbringing as she also shared that her family had a history of alcoholism. Burke revealed how her father had been an alcoholic before. She admitted that she wasn’t sure if the illness was genetic but she knew that it ran in her family and she didn’t want to go down that same path.

Two years ago, the DWTS dancer made the tough decision to finally get sober. She made the decision at a very significant moment in her life – her engagement party to then-fiancé Matthew Lawrence.

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Big Shot Busted at LAX –

Oct. 16, 2020 – Cienfuegos, arrested at Los Angeles airport on Thursday, took bribes in return for protection that included warning cartel members about U.S. investigations, according to prosecutors in New York who have charged the 72-year-old with four counts of drug trafficking and money laundering.

“In exchange for bribe payments, he permitted the H-2 Cartel – a cartel that routinely engaged in wholesale violence, including torture and murder – to operate with impunity in Mexico,” prosecutors said in a court filing.

The H-2 Cartel is a name for a remnant of the Beltran-Leyva gang.

Cienfuegos served from 2012 to 2018 in the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto, several of whose aides and party members are now accused of high level corruption. Pena Nieto has denied allegations he took a cartel bribe.

The detention comes less than three weeks before the U.S. presidential election. President Donald Trump, seeking a second term, has made clamping down on drug cartels a priority, though without major progress since he took office in 2017.

The arrest of Cienfuegos – nicknamed El Padrino, or The Godfather, in an August 2019 indictment that was sealed until he was in U.S. custody – marked the first time a former Mexican defense minister has been indicted and detained.

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Leader Leaving –  

Oct. 12, 2020 – DASPOP’s decision to select Tieman as this year’s honoree was unanimous, Deb Beck, president, said in a news release.

“His insight and skill developed Caron into a leading provider of services in the addiction treatment field that has paved the way for first steps to recovery for thousands of those suffering with the disease of addiction,” Beck said. “Doug’s 25 years of guidance and leadership in the field has made all of us stronger and better.” Tieman advocated for substance use disorder to be regarded as a chronic, treatable disease. Under his direction, Caron expanded its education, prevention and research initiatives and became the only free-standing treatment center to have an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, or ACGME, accredited fellowship for addiction medicine.

Tieman also oversaw the transformation of Caron’s medical department, creating the Carole and Ray Neag Medical Center on Caron’s campus in South Heidelberg Township and developing a second medical center, the Keele Center, which is currently under construction in South Florida.

In December 2017, Tieman testified before Congress on behalf of patients and their families to increase access to ethical, quality substance use disorder treatment. He also remains committed to helping families from Caron’s home base, Berks County, access treatment.

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Going to any length –  

Oct. 14, 2020 – According to The Daily Telegraph, the 57-year-old’s struggle got so bad that when alcohol was unavailable as she competed in the South African jungle, she resorted to drinking hand sanitizer.

Fiona is set to reveal new candid details about her battle with the booze in her book, Truths From An Unreliable Witness – Finding Darkness In the Darkest Of Places, which is set for release next month. “I freaked and planned to do it. In the middle of the night I just f**king did it. I waited until everyone was asleep and I drank hand sanitizer,” she said.

“It was disappointing because it kind of gives you … first the taste is so vile, it takes so long to get the taste out of your mouth, and then I think you get about 10 minutes of numbness, which is what I was after and then you sleep. I wish I could say it only happened once but that would not be the truth.”

While the incident was not screened on TV, I’m a Celeb producers cottoned on to what was going on with Fiona when she began slurring her speech and stumbling around camp.

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WATCH – Glenn Close up-close –

Oct. 16, 2020 –

Ron Howard: The whole time, even in the roughest parts of the movie, you’re still just rooting for the mom. That’s all I wanted in the movie, and I think I definitely got that. It’s good to hear that you got that, David. Most people who watch it, hopefully, will get the same thing … that this is a fundamentally good person trying to find a way in a pretty complicated world. This is not a black hat/white hat kind of narrative. It’s about life, and life is pretty messy. 

It’s really a rescue and survival story. It’s not exactly about self-actualization, which J.D. is very open about. Of course he had to have the strength, ultimately make decisions, and have the ability to pull himself out of some patterns within his family and culture which could’ve entrapped him. But he didn’t do it alone.

David French: The actor, Owen Asztalos who played young J.D., did just a really great job portraying him as a kid with a good heart and instincts. However, this is not an up-from-the-bootstraps story, because of that rescue element you mentioned, Ron. It’s kind of like he was yanked up by Mamaw and, and sustained by [J.D.’s sister] Lindsay and [J.D.’s wife] Usha. It was an incredibly true-to-life-portrayal about how lives are really changed. It’s not that there’s a huge number of kids who have this incredible ability to withstand all of these headwinds.  Somebody’s got to reach in and yank them out. 

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Recovery Film Festivals can help! –  

Oct. 16, 2020 – 

• Educate ourselves – There are many ways to break the stigma of addiction. One of those is to educate ourselves on the topic of addiction. There are countless resources online regarding the topic. SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) has a collection of resources that can help our communities stay informed.
• Listen to others – Another way to be educated on the complexities of addiction is to just listen to those suffering. Being able to sit down and have a conversation to better understand the pain and struggle of addiction can always help create that dialogue of positive reinforcement.
• Empathize – Being able to empathize with a recovering addict is one of the most impactful ways to rid the stigma of addiction. Allowing yourself to avoid shaming the person for their disease will allow both parties to grow closer together. By opening up that conversation you can help encourage further recovery.

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Inject This –

Oct. 15, 2020 – More than 100 people in Glasgow are now being prescribed the drug, which is injected once a month, meaning those using it no longer need to visit chemists to pick up methadone prescriptions every day. 

It is hoped this will allow patients to focus on improving their lives and overall health rather than managing their dependence. Scotland, and especially cities such as Glasgow and Dundee, has the worst rate of drug misuse deaths in western Europe.

It is not known how many people died from overdoses in Scotland last year as the figures have been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.

However, the figures for 2018 showed almost 1,200 people dying from drug misuse, more than three people every day.

Experts say they think the figures for last year could be even higher. 

In response to the crisis, a pilot programme for Buvidal was launched with 14 patients in Glasgow last year.

It found that more than six months after the trial, all of them remained engaged in recovery.

Jennifer Kelly, a prescribing pharmacist for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s alcohol and drug recovery services, said feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive”.

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Whoops! –

Oct. 17, 2020 – During peer review, the reviewers identified the important question of whether the myocardial infarctions occurred before or after the respondents initiated e‐cigarette use, and requested that the authors use additional data in the PATH codebook (age of first MI and age of first e‐cigarettes use) to address this concern. While the authors did provide some additional analysis, the reviewers and editors did not confirm that the authors had both understood and complied with the request prior to acceptance of the article for publication.

But it was published anyway and an industry received a body blow.

Some might say that this is how science is supposed to work, self correcting, following the data, etc. Right. But somehow mistakes in science these days always seem to cut in the same direction.

That may be because science journals have grown increasingly ideological. Nature has endorsed Joe Biden for president and promised to publish more political science — which isn’t “science” at all. The New England Journal of Medicine should change its name to the New Ideology Journal of Medicine. Science has endorsed “nature rights.” The list goes on and on.

Remember, the same editors that promote ideological agendas choose the articles to be sent out for peer review and the peer reviewers.

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