A fascist dictator and Donald Trump now have something (else) in common: They both want to execute drug dealers. His position on opioids represents a slippery slope that could lead to even more extreme policies.
Put down that Call of Duty for a second, will ya? Video game addiction is on the move, and it is now recognized by the World Health Organization as an official disorder.
Deaths by drug overdose soared to more than 64,000 in 2016. Gun deaths totaled 33,000. This is not to discount mass shootings like ones in Parkland, Las Vegas, and Newtown, among many others, but comparatively little attention is paid to the opioid crisis, which is taking more lives many times over.
I caved. Last Wednesday, I smoked a cigarette. I had been 14 days nicotine-free. It tasted terrible and it made me feel awful. Quitting smoking continues to be harder than I thought.
Kratom, which comes from a tree in Southeast Asia, is billed as a safe painkiller that can be ordered legally online and bought in your neighborhood CBD/kratom/hemp store. And while kratom addiction isn’t brand new, the FDA has only now declared the drug an opioid.
It’s been exactly 133 hours and 32 minutes since I smoked my last cigarette. And I must say, this is exponentially harder than quitting drinking.
Aloha! Today I celebrate six years of sobriety. Six years ago, minus one day, I was drinking two bottles of wine or two six packs of beer and smoking crack with homeless people every night. I nearly got addicted to crack.
Bipolar pop star Demi Lovato recently announced that she will offer group counseling to her fans on show-day, before she sings her first note.
This opioid crisis is of unbelievable magnitude. Twenty-thousand people died of opioid overdose in 2016 — mostly from fentanyl. First it took Prince. Now it’s taken Tom Petty. Petty’s autopsy revealed.
Magic mushrooms just may not be only for followers of jam bands like Phish and Widespread Panic anymore. Turns out there might be more to mushrooms than swirling kaleidoscope auras and Willy Wonka-like hallucinations.
