Recovery News | Mental Health & Addiction Recovery

Five Years and Four Months Sober: The Nurse Who Learned to Be the Patient

Nancy Thompson of Kittery, Maine, a nurse for more than thirty years, is five years and four months sober, now coaching women in perimenopause and leading a monthly Sober Warrior yoga class for people in recovery, featured by Close Up Radio on October 28, 2026.

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Nancy Thompson Coaching Recently Featured on Close Up Radio — EIN Presswire via Close Up Radio feature, October 28, 2026

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Beyond the Label: Why Your Symptoms, Not Your Diagnosis, May Decide Your Treatment

A Psychological Medicine study of more than thirty three thousand therapy patients, reported by Northeastern on October 26, 2026, argues that symptom patterns like hyperarousal and chronic worry may match people to treatment better than broad depression and anxiety labels alone.

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Anxiety and Depression Subtypes Could Point to Better Treatment — Northeastern University News, October 26, 2026

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Your Town, By the Numbers: Connecticut Puts Overdose Deaths on a Map Anyone Can Read

Connecticut's new public dashboard lets residents check unintentional overdose deaths by town, as the 2026 toll reaches 462 and deaths fall from the 2021 peak.

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Connecticut Residents Can Now Check Overdose Deaths in Their Own Town as 2026 Toll Reaches 462 So Far — MedicalDaily, October 28, 2026

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A Gambling Service Built With People Who Have Been There: The NHS Comes to the East Midlands

A free NHS gambling harms service has launched across the East Midlands, staffed in part by people who have themselves recovered from gambling addiction.

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New NHS gambling service launches across the East Midlands — East Midlands Alliance / NHS, October 2026

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Nine Years Sober: Jeff Jarrett Holds the Coin

Wrestling Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett marked nine years of sobriety on October 25, 2026, sharing his nine-year coin in a quiet moment with his wife Karen.

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Jeff Jarrett Celebrates Nine Years Of Sobriety — WrestlingHeadlines, October 26, 2026

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Not One Schizophrenia: Symptom Types Carry Different Genes

New BMC Medicine research finds three schizophrenia symptom subtypes carry distinct genetic risk profiles, suggesting the diagnosis covers different underlying biology.

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Schizophrenia symptom subtypes reveal distinct genetic risk profiles — ScienMag, October 28, 2026

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Mindfulness That Rewires Craving: Eight Weeks That Changed How the Brain Answers Drug Cues

A Mount Sinai randomized trial finds eight weeks of mindfulness-based therapy changed brain responses to drug cues and reduced craving in people on medication for opioid use disorder.

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Mindfulness-Based Therapy May Change Brain Responses to Drug Cues in People With Opioid Use Disorder, Mount Sinai Study Finds — Mount Sinai, October 28, 2026

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A Twenty-Five Hundred Dollar Ceiling: Kalshi Puts Guardrails on Its Youngest Traders

Reuters reported October 27, 2026 that prediction market Kalshi is adding safeguards for traders aged 18 to 20 — a $2,500 monthly deposit limit, concentration alerts, and parent-guide partnerships — as prediction markets face criticism that they resemble gambling and carry addiction risk.

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Prediction market Kalshi expands safeguards for young traders — Reuters, October 27, 2026

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Loneliness and Bipolar Disorder: A Half-Million-Person Study Finds a Stark Link

A Psychological Medicine study of 491,472 UK Biobank adults, reported by Psychreg on October 28, 2026, found people who often felt lonely were diagnosed with bipolar disorder at about 2.8 times the rate of others over roughly 13 years of follow-up, even after accounting for demographics, lifestyle and genetic risk — an association, not proof of cause.

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Loneliness Linked to Higher Risk of Bipolar Disorder, Large UK Study Finds — Psychreg, October 28, 2026, reporting Psychological Medicine

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When Restraint Feels Like Addiction: A New Interview Tool for Eating Disorders

Researchers validated an Italian version of the Food Addiction Symptom Inventory, a clinician-led interview for addiction-like eating, in 118 patients with anorexia nervosa or binge-spectrum disorders — and found scores in restrictive anorexia need careful interpretation, since restraint itself can feel like loss of control.

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Italian Version of Food Addiction Interview Shows Strong Psychometric Performance — ScienMag, October 28, 2026, reporting Eating and Weight Disorders

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