Demi Lovato continues to carry the torch for mental health awareness as she celebrates her sixth year of sobriety (congrats Demi!!!!) Billboard reports that during Friday night’s concert at the Barclays Center, she said, “I know that there are people here tonight that need to ask for help.”
In collaboration with Rise magazine, Jezebel is publishing a series of articles written by parents affected by the child welfare system. This post, the second in the series, features narratives by Antoinette Robinson and Jeffrey Mays, two parents who felt unjustly treated by the Family Court process.
Prince’s unexpected death last summer was determined an accidental overdose on the opioid fentanyl. Six days preceding his death, Prince overdosed on a plane, and had to be revived at a hospital following an emergency landing. Search warrants issued for Paisley Park, Prince’s Minnesota residence, have just been…
“I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by own bra,” wrote Carrie Fisher in her 2008 memoir, Wishful Drinking, in what is truly the most apposite, preemptive obit of the modern era—one resonating far louder this week with the news of her death at…
Since 2010, prescriptions for OxyContin have fallen 40% in the U.S., which means the network of companies producing and marketing it need to move into new territory.
Dear Abby (a.k.a. Jeanne Phillips) is either really bored, really stupid, or really being ghost-written by A.I. software.
The Amy Winehouse Foundation is opening a women’s only rehab center for recovering addicts in London.
The results of Prince’s autopsy won’t be available for weeks to come, but that hasn’t stemmed the tide of speculation that his cause of death was linked to his use of painkillers. Now, it appears that the beloved megastar died just one day before he was slated to meet with a doctor nationally-renowned for dealing with…
This end of this season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians has revolved around several plot lines; Kim’s pregnancy, the family’s ongoing tensions with Caitlyn Jenner, Scott Disick’s eventual breakup with Kourtney, and Khloe’s ongoing relationship with her ex, NBA player Lamar Odom. On Wednesday, after Odom was found…
Once again, the CDC is sounding the alarm regarding women and their disproportionately high rates of opioid painkiller use.
Lindsay was supposed to be her redemption song, but it's unlikely that Lindsay Lohan can carry the tune. It was apparent very early on in last night's premiere of the OWN docu-series—particularly when she was shown ditching her AA meetings within days of leaving her sixth stint in rehab—that Lindsay is not doing her…
It's easy to make fun of the Daily Mail, but those of us who indulge in the practice often forget about paper's razor-sharp journalistic instincts, which are nowhere more evident than in this latest gem of a story about a British woman who, at one point in her acid trip of an adulthood, was consuming 50 cans of Diet…
With all this culture hubbub about porn addiction and how free, unhindered access to thousands upon thousands of orgasm-long clips of people mashing their genitals together on the internet will turn us all into masturbating zombies incapable of copulating with a live, human person, we ought to first ask ourselves if…
In an effort to stop the spread of disease, crack pipe vending machines have been installed in parts of Vancouver, Canada.
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death has been on our collective minds. His tragic passing has drawn both compassion and ire from all sides; it has also inspired a spate of personal essays that focus on the difficulty of addiction and relapse as well as unfounded speculation about Hoffman's mental state and reasons for why…
My Strange Addiction never features addictions that aren't just completely disgusting. Like, you'll never see a lady on there who's addicted to smelling cupcake icing, or a guy who can't get enough of ironing. So last night's episode was true to stomach-turning form by featuring a woman who loves the smell and taste…
According to some Concerned Experts, the ubiquity of online games with easy-to-circumvent age limits is giving children adorable widdle gambling problems. They grow up so fast!
As Breaking Bad's popularity taught the nation about the meth business, it seems the drug itself has crept into America's real suburban PTA meetings.
Former NBA Lakers coach Phil Jackson has taken it upon himself to try to explain what's going with Lamar Odom, but spoiler: he doesn't know. So instead, Jackson has decided to speculate that Odom's current state of who knows what's going on is partially to blame on the Kardashian family, for enabling Odom's addiction…
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