Aaliymah's SUD & Aftercare Program

10/13/2025

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10/11/2025

Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome.
via The New York Times. October 9th 2024.

‘A Real Danger’
David Krumholtz, an actor known for films like “10 Things I Hate About You” and TV shows like “Numb3rs,” resumed smoking ma*****na in 2016, after a decade-long break.

Within months, he started to experience cycles of intense nausea and vomiting — a sometimes debilitating condition called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. It can lead to dehydration, seizures, kidney failure, cardiac arrest and even death in rare instances.

He lost 100 pounds and was in and out of emergency departments. At home in New Jersey, he would spend 10 hours at a time in hot baths, which for unknown reasons can temporarily relieve symptoms.

“I had numbness in my extremities, pain in my chest and my blood pressure skyrocketed,” he said.

Mr. Krumholtz, 46, believes he would have eventually died had he not suffered an episode that almost derailed his dream job, a role in the blockbuster 2023 film “Oppenheimer,” and inspired him to quit ma*****na for good.

“It seems like such an innocent drug,” he said. “But for some of us, there is a real danger, a really harmful side effect.”

[Source : New York Times. Oct 9th 2024]

Addiction Actually

10/11/2025

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10/10/2025

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10/09/2025

A helpful suggestion for when urges & cravings hit :' Play the tape forward' - meaning 'what is likely to happen if we take that first drink, drug , hit, etc...

Then combine this thought with the knowledge that cravings last around 30 - 40 minutes, sometimes longer.

We can do this !

10/08/2025

10/07/2025

Jan-Michael Vincent’s chronic alcoholism was a genuine American tragedy. Once the highest-paid actors on network television, at the beginning of his career Vincent looked like an Adonis.

Likewise, Vincent became televisions highest-paid actor starring as hotshot helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the hit TV series “Airwolf” from 1984 until 1986—but was fired from the show's 1987 season because of his inability to control his alcoholism.

By the time of his death in 2019 he was an emaciated, shell. His body slowly poisoned over the years with alcohol.

First arrested in 1977 for co***ne possession, Vincent's life from that point forward became a series of substance-related mishaps interspersed with periods of creativity.

He starred in the star-studded ratings-bonanza TV “The Winds of War” in 1983. However he was replaced in its blockbuster 1988 sequel “War and Remembrance” as by that time alcoholism had rendered him unemployable.

Vincent had also become TV's highest-paid actor starring as hotshot helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the hit series “Airwolf” from 1984 until 1986—but was fired from the show's 1987 season because of his deepening alcoholism.

From that point forward, Jan-Michael Vincent’s life became a nightmarish downward spiral of arrests, fights, drunken brawls, automobile accidents—and incarceration.

Vincent died in 2019 at age 74--but at the time of his death hadn't been employed as an actor or appeared in front of a motion picture camera in nearly two decades.

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