The term “California sober” gained attention after Demi Lovato’s interview on CBS Sunday Morning in March. Since her near-fatal opioid overdose in July 2018, the singer says she’s found a way forward that works for her. In the interview at Lovato’s Los Angeles home, she told CBS's correspondent Tracy Smith, “I think the term that...
The Need for Sober LGBTQ Spaces
Kam Burns moved to New York City four months after he quit drinking. He hoped to meet other LGBTQ people in the city, but couldn’t find a social event that didn’t involve alcohol. “Even pickup sports in the park usually end at a bar,” Burns says. “Of course you can...
Booze Nooze got problems glub glub
This is going to validate a LOT of country songs. Got bad memories? A glass of wine can fix that for a bit. Three glasses can fix that for a day. A study from Brown University in Rhode Island (must be boring there) claims that alcohol molecularly messes with your memory....
Alcohol helps you remember the good times and not the bad ones, study says
Just one glass of wine could be enough for you to dismiss your bad memories and focus only on the good times, a new study suggests. Researchers say that alcohol ‘hijacks’ the pathway that forms memory on a fundamental, molecular level. It affects a gene involved with encoding whether a...
KOMO hosts town hall – Opioids: A National Crisis
SEATTLE — The federal government’s seemingly never ending war on drugs appears to be taking a back seat to helping addicts overcome their addiction. U.S Surgeon General Jerome Adams made that clear during a live KOMO-TV Town Hall broadcast and webcast on Thursday. He did what no other surgeon general before...
COVID-19 Is Changing The Fight Against Addiction
Here's another group of people whose lives have been upended by COVID-19: Those struggling with addiction who aren't able to meet in-person for 12-step programs and therapy sessions. That has addiction treatment providers across California scrambling to move their services online and to the phone. Dr. Matt Polacheck, director of...
Creating a Community for LGBTQ Recovery
LGBTQ-identified people are more likely to battle addiction, but less likely to seek help. The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation wants to change that. In the 1980s, Former First Lady Betty Ford helped break down stigma toward addiction among women when she sought treatment for her disease and later opened a...
How Hollywood’s Harassment Fallout Could Finally Sober Up the Industry
With alcohol and drugs emerging as worrisome throughlines in many harassment cases, employers like CAA and WME are changing their parties, and addiction centers are seeing a "huge" boon. Morgan Spurlock posted an emotional essay ton Dec. 14 that detailed parts of his own history of sexual misconduct, adultery and...