The Recovered Life Show | Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Podcast
Information you need to live your best-recovered life. Join host Damon Frank as he brings you addiction recovery stories, news, expert perspectives, and features about life in sobriety and addiction recovery.
Built by First Responders: The Recovery Program That Speaks Their Language
For Veterans Day, Clearbrook Treatment Centers highlighted its First Responders in Recovery program in Massachusetts — created in 2019 by Air Force veteran Anthony Jones, staffed largely by people who have worn a uniform, and having served about 1,100 first responders and veterans.
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Clearbrook Honors Veterans Day With Its First Responders in Recovery Program, Built by First Responders for First Responders — PR Newswire, November 10, 2026 — Clearbrook Treatment Centers
Three Years Sober at the Hall of Fame: Phil Collins Faces Induction Without a Drink
Ahead of his November 14 solo induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Phil Collins told The New York Times he has been sober for the past three years after battling alcoholism, alongside recovery from neck and spine surgeries.
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Phil Collins: Sober, Reflective, & Celebrated — STAR 94.3 / Throwback Nation Radio, November 9, 2026, reporting The New York Times
Two Infusions, Twelve Weeks: An Experimental Treatment Holds Binge Eating at Bay in Six People
BioPharmaDispatch reported Entropy Therapeutics' 12-week Cohort 1 results for TRP-8803, an infused psilocin compound: all six patients with treatment-resistant binge eating disorder maintained clinically meaningful improvement, weekly episodes stayed 73% below baseline, and three had no binges at all — very early, small, company-reported data for an unapproved, investigational treatment.
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Entropy's psychedelic infusion keeps binge eating disorder at bay three months after treatment ends — BioPharmaDispatch, November 2026, reporting Entropy Therapeutics / Swinburne University of Technology
Seven Months Clean: Lil Yachty Says Lean Was Taking Over
Baller Alert reported November 10 that Lil Yachty revealed on a November 6 livestream that he has been clean from lean for seven months, saying it was taking over — his second public period of abstinence after disclosing 10 months clean in 2023.
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Lil Yachty Lean Use: Rapper Marks 7 Months Clean Again — Baller Alert, November 10, 2026
Wiring Matters: Why the Same Brain Stimulation Helps Some Depression and Not Others
A Nature Communications study of 51 people with treatment-resistant depression receiving subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation found that how much of two specific white matter bundles was stimulated — and the integrity of those tracts — predicted who improved over 24 weeks.
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Toward personalized deep brain stimulation via white matter stimulation and microstructure in depression — Nature Communications, published November 10, 2026 — Song, Choi, Figee, Mayberg and colleagues, Mount Sinai / Emory
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