During the second week of July of this year, British big pharma company Indivior Inc. paid $1.4 billion to settle a U.S. federal investigation that involved fraud sales of the opioid medication, Suboxone. This is the largest settlement in the drug industry to date. Indivior, formally known as ... Read More
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Take Back Day
Google has shown support for National Prescription Drug Take back Day. This day will occur on April 27th, from 10am-2pm. Google has provided locations for “save disposal” of prescription drugs. This is an effort to help prevent drug abuse. The official site for Take Back Day writes that a 2017 ... Read More
Safe Injection Zones
Once again, I have looked at an episode from the Buzzfeed Netflix Docu-series, Follow This. The episode I will be discussing today is from Part 1 entitled “Life Support.” In my last article I gave an overview of the episode with key facts and statistics it highlighted. This time I will be taking a ... Read More
Rehab Tourism
Buzzfeed has a three-part documentary series on Netflix titled Follow This. The series highlights current topics that may be obscure compared to mainstream news. Episode 5 of Part 2 in the Follow This series is called “Rehab Tourism” — a topic that I thought was relevant to the Soberocity community ... Read More
Remembering Mac Miller: The Importance of a Recovering Community
It’s hard to open up to others about having a problem. The first step in achieving recovery is to first admit that we need it and then to realize that we aren’t alone in this need. National Recovery Month reminds us that when we step on the path to recovery and obtaining a life of sobriety and ... Read More
National Recovery Month
The month of September is known as National Recovery Month—an observance that seeks to promote and teach Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services are available and beneficial in helping those with mental health/substance abuse issues with obtaining a healthy life. This month ... Read More
Breaking News: Demi Lovato Stable After Overdose
Even stars fall to the earth. The journey of sobriety is never easy, and at times demons of the past creep up and deter success. On the night of July 24th, Demi Lovato overdosed, allegedly, from Heroin, breaking six years of sobriety. The singer was found unconscious at her home, where paramedics ... Read More
Federal Lawsuit Accuses Oklahoma Rehab Program of Human Trafficking
If you were facing time in prison and had the option of a year stay in a substance abuse recovery program instead, most would choose the latter, right? Not according to the hundreds of people who have graduated from the Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery group out of Oklahoma, a place that ... Read More
Kellyanne Conway Taking on the Opioid Crisis in the White House
Many of us might know Kellyanne Conway not only as President Trump’s counselor but as also an avid defender of his work so far and moral standing as a person. However, many were surprised to learn that as of late, it seems she has begun to step into a new role as acting “woman in charge” of the ... Read More
Rogue Treatment Centers and Shady Business
When people think of South Florida, they think sun, sand, food, and Miami. However, over the last decade, Palm Beach County has become known as the Rehab Capitol of the World, with literally hundreds of treatment centers, halfway houses, sober livings, and IOP programs in just a few square miles of ... Read More