Speakup About Drugs

06/03/2026

05/22/2026

Copied from an anonymous fb user:

This is a very important time to sit down and educate yourself and your kids (disclose as much as your comfortable of course) about drugs! Kids as young as 11-12 years old are taking fake pressed pills (sometimes for the first time) and overdosing. And be careful who’s houses your letting your kids play at! If anybody visiting or living in the house uses , there could be deadly residue. Children as old as just a few months old are dying from accidental indirect exposure. It’s more dangerous than ever to be a teenager. So many kids are also using THC at the high school and a lot of the parents don’t even know. But ABOVE ALL make sure your child knows your a space space to come to when they have questions or don’t know what’s right or wrong. Your biggest asset you have to protect them is simply by truly being *there* when they need you.

05/15/2026

Recovery IS possible!

Yesterday marked my 30-year sobriety birthday, and I wanted to celebrate by sharing one gratitude for each decade.

1. My sobriety will always be the most important thing I do, because it allows me to fully love—and be loved by—the people who matter most in my life. I’m grateful for it every single day, even when it feels like a street fight.

2. Five years ago, a woman approached me in an airport and thanked me for writing about sobriety as a superpower. She said it helped her get sober. I’m grateful for all the people whose words helped me along the way. Before boarding her flight, she asked if I’d accept a gift from a stranger. I said yes. She handed me her first AA chip. I carry it in my purse every day. We were never strangers.

3. My favorite line from the AA Big Book reads: “That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we have been placed in a position of neutrality—safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.”

Understanding and keeping in fit spiritual condition has been a decades-long challenge for me. I wrote about it in the final chapter of Strong Ground and I thought I’d share that full chapter with you today as a “thank you.” To read, go to the home page of brenebrown.com.

Today I am sober af and I am grateful. ❤️

05/03/2026

⚠️ CYCHLORPHINE WARNING

Cychlorphine is a powerful emerging synthetic opioid that is showing up in pills, powders, and counterfeit drugs.

Because of its potency, overdoses may be harder to reverse. Naloxone/Narcan should still be given immediately, but a person may need repeated doses.

Know the signs:
📣Slow or no breathing
📣Blue/gray lips or nails
📣Cold or clammy skin
📣Unresponsiveness
📣Pinpoint pupils

Call 911 right away. Keep giving rescue breaths if trained, stay with the person, and continue naloxone as directed until help arrives.

Look out for each other. Carry naloxone. Share this information.

Adrienne Sautter
Michael Fiore
Jaime Ignacio Puerta

05/02/2026

The $7.4 billion settlement reached with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, has become legally effective, capping nearly a decade of work by attorneys general from across the country in pursuing investigations and litigation over Purdue’s and the Sacklers’ role in fueling the opioid crisis.

With this settlement becoming legally effective, I am grateful to the countless people who have worked on this case and who have been on the front lines of combating the opioid crisis in Arkansas for many years. Arkansas will receive an estimated $44.5 million of the settlement. As with previous settlements, Arkansas’s portion will be split into thirds, with one third—about $14.8 million—being awarded to the state, which will be managed by my office; one third being awarded to Arkansas municipalities; and one third being awarded to Arkansas counties. The counties’ and municipalities’ portions will be collectively managed by the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership.

Fifty-five attorneys general representing all eligible U.S. states and territories previously signed onto the settlement. It resolves litigation against Purdue and the Sacklers for producing and aggressively marketing opioids in the United States, fueling the largest drug crisis in the country’s history.

The settlement permanently bars the Sacklers from selling opioids in the U.S. and delivers funds for addiction treatment, prevention, and recovery to communities across the country over the next 15 years.

The settlement also means that Purdue’s manufacturing operations transfer effective today to Knoa Pharma LLC, which will be overseen by a board of directors who had no connection to Purdue. The settlement prevents Knoa from marketing opioids and provides for an independent monitor to ensure it provides these medicines in the safest possible manner that limits the risk of diversion. The settlement also requires Purdue and the Sacklers to make public more than 30 million documents related to their opioid business.

I am pleased to see Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family held accountable for their actions that perpetuated the opioid crisis across the country, including here in Arkansas. The money from this settlement can never fully repair the lives that were harmed by the proliferation of opioids, but it will aid in our continued commitment to treatment, research, and prevention. tinyurl.com/54dwfx39

05/01/2026

‼️ Another deadly synthetic opioid is claiming lives

ONDCP Drug Threat Notice: Cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid involved in at least 55 deaths, has potential to spread across Nation. Read more