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Matthew Perry Pulled Out of ‘Don’t Look Up' After His Heart Stopped for 5 Minutes
The ‘Friends’ star was given propofol while in rehab, causing his heart to stop beating. He ended up with eight broken ribs when medics performed CPR to save his life
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Matthew Perry Says He's Spent $9 Million and Over Half His Life Trying to Get Sober
In his new book Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, the actor shared his realization that, before he had even turned 50, he had spent more than half of his life in treatment centers and sober living facilities battling addiction
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Matthew Perry Nearly Died After His Colon Burst From Opioid Abuse: ‘No One Survives That’
Actor spent two weeks in a coma and was hooked up to a "Hail Mary" breathing machine when he was hospitalized in 2018
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The 1975's Matty Healy Opens Up About Heroin Addiction and the 'Emotional Hangover' That Followed His Bandmate's Intervention
Frontman tells Zane Lowe his heroin use marked "the first time where there had been anything that one of us was doing, or was into, that the others weren’t"
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$300,000 Streamer Scam Prompts Twitch to Crack Down on Gambling
Abraham Mohammed — a.k.a. 'Sliker' — came clean about taking money from friends and followers, and Twitch now says it's cracking down on casino streaming
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The War on Drugs Failed, But the Suffering It Caused Continues
“We didn’t have a heroin problem,” says one official. “We had an addiction problem."
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Purdue Pharma's Bankruptcy Plan Is Approved, Allowing the Sackler Family to Escape Legal Accountability for the Opioid Crisis
Sacklers will pay $4.5 billion and avoid future lawsuits, remaining one of America's richest families
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Creator of 'Sober 21' Zine Elia Einhorn Talks Getting and Staying Clean in the Music Industry
New free resource features stories and advice from Nile Rodgers, Peter Hook, the Pogues’ Cait O’Riordan, and more
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How a Psychedelic 12-Step Program Is Saving Lives
Ibogaine turned Dimitri’s life around, and AA helped him stay off opioids. In the age of Covid, how some in recovery are leaning into the new psychedelics revolution
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