RIDING THE WAVE…CALMLY –   April 18, 2024 – “I was 13 years old and I started washing boats, and then I had to get in trouble a lot, kind of got into the addiction thing. And after I got sober in 1989, my very first job in 1990 was on a boat,” Captain Sandy explained. “And then from there, a guy gave me an opportunity, he saw that I really wanted to work in the industry, and I was a hard worker. And then he gave me the start, sent me to sea school.” The Below Deck Mediterranean star worked her way up from scraping barnacles off the bottom of boats to becoming a captain. Captain Sandy gave ..read more

TRY IT, YOU’LL LIKE IT –   April 18, 2024 – The rise in “sober curiosity” is directly correlated to an interest in wellness, an industry that exploded in the early 2010s at the same time smartphones and social media became a part of everyday life. Perhaps people were searching for ways to really feel the experience of being in one’s body when everything else felt increasingly abstract. The wellness industry cycled through an endless carousel of products meant to cure the most prevalent ailments of the modern age, from fatigue to anxiety to obesity to wrinkles. Alcohol can exacerbate all o ..read more

I’LL BET HE GOES TO GA (not Georgia) –   April 13, 2024 -The initial federal court appearance by Ippei Mizuhara marked the first time the interpreter has been seen in public since the scandal exploded last month. Shohei Ohtani said he was “very grateful” for the investigation and would focus on baseball going forward. Mizuhara exploited his personal and professional relationship with Ohtani to plunder millions from the two-way player’s account for years, at times impersonating Ohtani to bankers, prosecutors said. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of one count of bank fraud. U ..read more

SUGER FREE POOP –   April 24, 2024 – Common artificial sweeteners may be causing serious damage to your gut, scientists have warned. Not only that, but according to new research these additives could be transforming otherwise healthy gut bacteria into dangerous agents of disease.  Newtame was approved in 2002 and is approximately 7,000 to 13,000 times sweeter than table sugar April 24, 2024 – Common artificial sweeteners may be causing serious damage to your gut, scientists have warned. Not only that, but according to new research these additives could be transforming otherwise healt ..read more

DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE –   April 18, 2024 – A combo of an allergy drug and a blood pressure med appears to lower daily drinking in folks battling severe alcoholism, French researchers report. The two generic drugs are the antihistamine cyproheptadine and prazosin, which treats high blood pressure and urinary urgency, noted a team led by Henri-Jean Aubin, of the Université Paris-Saclay in Villejuif.  Aubin’s group thought the drug duo might work against alcohol use disorder because cyproheptadine works on brain cell receptors linked to impulsive behaviors, while prazosin targ ..read more

VIDEO – SECOND CHANCES –   April 21, 2024 – 13News has learned state regulators have reached a settlement agreement with Landmark Recovery that could allow those troubled recovery centers to get recertified. Landmark closed its treatment centers in Mishawaka, Bluffton and Carmel last summer …  The move came after three patients died in a single week at Landmark’s Praxis treatment center in Mishawaka. Following interviews and inspections, FSSA identified serious concerns related to resident safety and 37 items that required a corrective action plan. Landmark has been trying to reopen ..read more

FOR THE LOVE OF CHILD –   April 23, 2024 – “My story starts on September 21, 2022 – the day I decided I had to get sober. My main thought I had, which was obviously painful but it moved me enough, was, ‘I don’t want her to get sick in the middle of the night and I can’t help because I am out of my socks. I don’t want her to grow up and feel she can’t come to me’. There were incidents that had happened where I hadn’t been equipped to deal with situations and yet that didn’t stop me. There was nothing phenomenal about the morning I stopped,” said Laura. Laura described her body at that mome ..read more

WHAT GOES AROUND… –   April 9, 2024 – In a cover profile of RDJ for Esquire’s April/May issue, the 61-year-old actress recalled, “I took him aside at one point during filming and said, ‘Look, I couldn’t be more grateful for what you’ve given in this film,’ but I’m scared of what happens to you next.” While Foster remembered telling Downey, 59, that he was “incredibly good at balancing on the barstool” at the time, she also told him, “But it’s really precarious, and I’m not sure how that’s going to end.’ ” The Oscar-winning actor made headlines in the late ‘90s and early aughts for being a ..read more

VIDEO – ONE MARRIAGE AT A TIME –   April 10, 2024 – “Alcohol made me feel good enough. I started feeling good enough until it got to a point where it didn’t — I ended up in isolation,” he told the outlet. “It ended up with me drinking a fifth of tequila every night, seven days a week, and a handful of narcos [prescription meds] by myself with a beautiful family in the other room.”  Spelling filed for divorce from McDermott in March 2024 after nearly 18 years of marriage and five children together. McDermott added that Spelling was a pillar of support and encouraged him to seek treatm ..read more

DOES HE HAVE A POINT? –   April 8, 2024 – Mr. Jones said a rehab facility would attract drug dealers to the nearby park in hopes of luring inhabitants of the proposed facility. “I’m not an assessor, but I would imagine if you were to go with that use, you would have every drug dealer from here to Kensington waiting for the rehabbed person to graduate.”  ‘Congratulations on your rehab, come down to the park, I got a free sample for you.’ With that comes all kinds of other things I don’t want to wish upon that community.” Critics of Jones’ bill say that using land use regulations to fo ..read more