@sadele2 such an important topic, I hadn't read about TJ yet thank you for sharing his story. We did an episode on the Management Under Construction podcast on suicide and substance abuse, and the appalling rates in the industry. All of us in the industry have been touched by this epidemic. It's free to listen if you are interested in checking it out. #construction #mentalhealth #podcast #industry #substanceabuse #suicide #epidemic https://open.spotify.com/episode/62Wr7PfmM3qfjvYAXIicuX?si=iDwTE3xURAWW4WO5Xvzr3w
#SubstanceAbuse
How 'hyper detailed' self-portraits helped Piiij rediscover her body
The process of creating detailed self-portraits, inspired by tropical landscapes, helped Piiij Goodrem deal with past trauma and addiction.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-02/piiij-art-therapy-childhood-trauma/106096230
#Art #MentalHealth #DigitalArt #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #SubstanceAbuse #ChildAbuse
How running helped Shalom overcome substance abuse
By Grace Atta
Shalom Kaa used to think running was something other people did. But after a series of events that left him at his lowest, running became a big part of his recovery following years of substance abuse with crystal methamphetamines.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-01/how-running-helped-shalom-overcome-substance-abuse/106150666
Adderall vs. Meth: Shocking Similarities!
Uncover the shocking truth about Adderall! We discuss its controversial effects and compare it to meth, sharing real experiences and cautionary tales. Is Adderall truly as dangerous as some claim? Join our insightful conversation to learn more.
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#Adderall #Meth #ADHDmedication #DrugControversy #PrescriptionDrugs #MentalHealth #Addiction #SubstanceAbuse #HealthDiscussion #ControversialTopics
Wow, #TuneTuesday is personal today with the #LoveYouLoveYouNot theme: songs you love but don't / can't bear to listen to.
It is a toss-up between #KurtCobain or #ChrisCornell for me, because of #suicide they committed. Let's go Chris, since his death inspired #ChesterBennington to kill himself too.
If you are dealing with #depression and/or #SubstanceAbuse , please find help! You are not alone with these feelings or addictions, the right help can show you the way out.
I wrote this song during one of the hardest times in my life. Go check out the music video I think it will relate to many #timothyjames #truthistruth #life #substanceabuse #relationships
The #SCS program strengthens #pastoral #counseling by integrating #mentalhealth and #spiritual perspectives. Topics include #ethics, #grief, #trauma, & #substanceabuse. Begins Jan 3, 2026.
More info: http://dlvr.it/TNz1L5
The 27 Club isn't real, but musicians DO face 2-3x higher death risk throughout their 20s & 30s. Science debunks the myth while revealing the industry's darker truth about mental health, addiction & exploitation. The curse isn't age 27.
https://theurb.co/27-club
#27Club #MusicHistory #KurtCobain #AmyWinehouse #JimiHendrix #MusicIndustry #MentalHealthAwareness #MusicLegends #PopCulture #SubstanceAbuse
A Day At the ER
Today was not a good day. A few days ago, I pulled the cuticle from the middle finger of my right hand which caused an infection and it looks nasty. I tried to cure it myself with peroxide and Neosporin over the last few days, but it seemed to only get worse. So today, the pain got beyond what I could stand anymore, and I went to the ER. The wait time wasn't so bad, but I did find it amusing that the receptionist spelled both my first and last names wrong, despite having my ID in front of […]
The entire world can learn from #Iceland about the effects of #stress on #mentalhealth and related #substanceabuse. #Canada #USA #Europe #Asia #Americas
#Addiction #Alcohol #Tobacco #Drugs #Narcotics
Trump’s New Substance Use Policy Would Have Made My Own Recovery Impossible
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-substance-abuse-eo
Op-Ed from a smart, beautiful lady who has been there. (I may be biased as she is my future daughter-in-law 😉 )
#Politics #SubstanceAbuse #Homeless #Unhoused #Facism #Addiction #Trump #HousingFirst #MentalHealth
Fijian court hands down toughest-ever drug sentences after $1.37bn meth haul
By Lice Movono, Nick Sas, and Doug Dingwall
A Fijian judge has sentenced one man to life in prison and handed down other jail terms of up to 55 years after the country's largest-ever drugs trial.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-28/fiji-drug-court-case-sentencing/105707114
#DrugOffences #Drugs #Courts #Crime #JusticeSystem #LawCrimeandJustice #Methamphetamine #SubstanceAbuse #LiceMovono #NickSas # #DougDingwall
Fijian court hands down toughest-ever drug sentences after $1.37bn meth haul
By Lice Movono, Nick Sas, and Doug Dingwall
A Fijian judge has sentenced one man to life in prison and handed down other jail terms of up to 55 years after the country's largest-ever drugs trial.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-28/fiji-drug-court-case-sentencing/105707114
#DrugOffences #Drugs #Courts #Crime #JusticeSystem #LawCrimeandJustice #Methamphetamine #SubstanceAbuse #LiceMovono #NickSas # #DougDingwall
Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. deported to Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Julio César Chávez Jr., whose high-profile boxing career was marred by substance abuse and other struggles and…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #charge #chávez #day #greatboxer #guncase #Headlines #july #losangelestimes #Mexico #ovidioguzmán #Sinaloacartel #son #studiocityhome #substanceabuse #TopStories #u.s.authority #UnitedStates
https://www.newsbeep.com/71466/
globalnews.ca/news/1132235... Often the programs in the #TroubledTeenIndustry meant to "help" #children #teens struggling with #MentalHealth and #SubstanceAbuse issues actually do more harm than good due to a chronic lack of oversite and enforcement of #ChildAbuse laws and holes in those laws.
Promise of healing became sexu...
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Research and Practice (podcast- 2024) https://smartrecovery.libsyn.com/psychedelic-assisted-therapy-research-and-practice #ketamine #recovery #substanceabuse #mentalhealth #alcoholusedisorder #smartrecovery #psychedelics #psychedelictherapy #ketamineassistedtherapy #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #psychotherapy #detox #ketamineassistedpsychotherapy #podcast
Superyachts part of 'sophisticated' drug cartel trade in Fiji, judge finds
By Lice Movono, Doug Dingwall, and Jordan Fennell
Seven men have been found guilty in Fiji's largest-ever drug trial, which was closely watched by a public concerned over a growing meth scourge in the country.
#Methamphetamine #Drugs #SubstanceAbuse #Courts #Crime #DrugOffences #JusticeSystem #LawCrimeandJustice #LiceMovono #DougDingwall # #JordanFennell
One of the most disturbing things about the ascension of the Trumpenreich regime to a position of enormous, and constantly increasing power in American life, is the way this administration's open fascist agenda incorporates, and expands on the already existing, American police state, and directs it towards even more extreme ends than its predecessors did. This turns virtually every Trumpenreich policy statement, or executive order into a guessing game where you have to account for every possible outcome from reactionary business as usual, to a full blow nazi police state dictatorship under a perpetual state of quasi-martial law. This is why a recent Swine Emperor Trump executive order seeking to effectively criminalize homelessness and mental illness on a national level, should probably be generating more examination in our discourse. This is a great example of terrible NIMBY reactionary "tough love" and "community safety" policy that without much effort serves a fascist, eliminationist, and eugenicist agenda in practice.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-homeless
Trump Pushes Policies That 'Treat Homelessness and Mental Illness as a Crime'
"Advocates for mental health and unhoused people blasted U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday over his executive order titled "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets."
Trump's order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to end policies that restrict the government from institutionalizing "individuals on the streets who are a risk to themselves or others." She must also work with other Cabinet members "to prioritize grants for states and municipalities that enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering, and urban squatting, and track the location of sex offenders."
As a White House fact sheet highlights, the order also "redirects funding to ensure that individuals camping on streets and causing public disorder and that are suffering from serious mental illness or addiction are moved into treatment centers, assisted outpatient treatment, or other facilities." Further, it ensures grant money does not "fund drug injection sites or illicit drug use."
It bears mentioning that everything about Trump's strategy here, from criminalizing unhoused people through the disastrous Roberts Court's Grants Pass v Johnson ruling, to using access to federal funding as combination carrot and stick to force individual local governments to adopt punitive, carceral, NIMBY policies towards unhouse people, people with substance addictions problems, and folks with mental health issues, mirrors tactics adopted by California Governor Gavin Newsome in his state, over the past eighteen months; policies for which I rightfully called him a fascist and a monster. Given that these same types of objectively ineffective, authoritarian, and carceral solutions to problems that ultimately represent failures of both capitalism and the state are being enacted all over the Anglosphere (particularly in Canada, and the UK), I suppose it was inevitable that the fascist Trumpenreich would seize on this opportunity to grab more power over policy from local governments around the country too. Anything that helps Trump establish the idea that every political body in the country has to do what he tells them to, is something the regime will be in favor of.
Even if however I grant the Trumpenreich the wholly unearned assumption that this is all just the same NIMBY bullshit being used to ignore a housing crisis, an opioid crisis, and a mental healthcare crisis brought on by capitalist exploitation and austerity policies at the state level, the reality is that none of this fascist police state nonsense works. Unhoused people don't magical find someplace else to live when you clear encampments, or strictly enforce vagrancy laws. Forcing folks with substance abuse problems into carceral rehab centers has a laughably poor track record of treating addiction. Institutionalizing people with mental health issues is an unspeakably poor and cruel substitute for funding mental healthcare programs that would allow these folks to lead healthy lives in our communities.
But let's also be real here; the Trumpenreich doesn't give a fuck about safer communities, fighting drug addiction, or helping people with mental health problems. In fact, this is a fascist regime that has already shown a willingness to use false pretext to target its political enemies and keeps talking about locking up trans people and folks with autism on "therapeutic work farms." Do you think a fascist regime looking to replace a recently deported migrant workforce might want to solve that labor crunch with incarcerated unhoused people? Who decides the difference between a drug user and an addict? Who decides who is "mentally ill" and who is just having a bad day? Does anybody think it's a good idea to let Trump decide these things? Yeah, me neither.
#Fascism #Trump #Newsom #Unhoused #MentalHealth #SubstanceAbuse #PoliceState #USPol
Is #SubstanceAbuse Worse in the #Summer? Here’s the Data
The summer months have long been linked to #drug and #alcoholuse, in part due to more social events, #outdoor #festivals, and #heat-related #stress.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/is-substance-abuse-worse-in-the-summer-heres-the-data/
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