Category: The Recovered Word

It’s not about being sponsored—its about sponsoring others that is a predictor for permanent recovery

Randolph Jason

It’s not about being sponsored—its about sponsoring others that is a predictor for permanent recovery from Big Book Sponsorship GNN Note – Need help? Wanna talk? – Info@GospelNewsNetwork.org – leave us your phone number and we’ll call you back right away / END A Baltimore, Maryland study of 500 former and current heroin and cocaine injection drug users over the course of one year indicated having an AA/NA sponsor was not correlated with any improvement in sustained abstinence rates than a non-sponsored group (Crape 2001:291). However, being a sponsor was…

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US Overdose Deaths Reach New Record As Fentanyl/Meth Use Soars

Randolph Jason

US Overdose Deaths Reach New Record As Fentanyl/Meth Use Soars by Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge GNN Note – If you need help, wanna talk – Info@GospelNewsNetwork.org / END Drug overdose deaths reached another record last year, peaking at just under 108,000, according to new data published by the CDC. The increase of nearly 15% followed a much steeper rise of almost 30% in 2020, continuing a depressing but hardly surprising trend: the number of drug overdose deaths has increased every year but 2018 since the 1970s. A growing share…

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