Keanu Reeves isn’t the only one who’s been abused by Matthew Perry lately. Those who have ostomy bags are upset.

It’s not every day you see stoma bags mentioned in entertainment news stories like People And the The The New York TimesSo imagine my surprise last weekend when I saw those outlets and more (including The Daily Beast) pick up a story about Matthew Perry revealing that he lived with a temporary colostomy for nine months. “Oh, wow!” I thought, “A celebrity talking about having an ostomy? Maybe stars really are like us.” But my excitement waned pretty quickly when I read Berry’s comments about his “infernal” gut experience (perhaps…

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Five pregnant women imprisoned in Etowah County, Alabama released to “protect” their fetuses

Five pregnant and postpartum women held on drug charges in an Alabama prison have been released after lawyers argued the terms of their bail were “unconstitutional.” One of the women, 23-year-old Ashley Banks, was arrested two days after finding out she was pregnant in May this year and charged with marijuana possession. She said she confessed to smoking cannabis two days ago and was charged with “exposing a child to chemical danger”. AL.com. Under Alabama law, this meant that she was held in the Etowah County Jail on a $10,000…

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Noah Cyrus on debut album “The Hardest Part,” Xanax Addiction, and Take After Billy Ray

aAfter a long time, Noah Cyrus is ready to officially introduce herself. Six years after launching her music career with the single “Make Me (Cry)”, the 22-year-old singer-songwriter’s debut album, The hardest partArrived on Friday. When I point out to her in a recent Zoom phone call, how unbelievable it is that she’s kept a steady stream of music for the past six years without releasing a proper album, Cyrus agrees as he tries to explain: There were “internal conflicts with previous bands,” she says, then was put Things are…

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Public health experts want to use AI to prevent opioid overdoses before they happen

Staten Island has a drug problem. Opioid overdose deaths in New York City 170% higher of the national average. While fentanyl is responsible for The majority of deathsIt’s not the only substance to blame. Overprescribing opioids Has contributed to the crisis, as well as the fact that addiction service providers Have spread too thin. Joseph Conte knows these issues well. He is the CEO of Staten Island Performance Provider System, a healthcare network for clinical and social services, is leading Al Jazeera’s efforts to address the crisis. Conte told the…

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Sympathy for “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams knows no bounds

MEckel Williams’ path to becoming one of the most prolific TV actors of the 21st century began with Janet Jackson’s video. It’s a story he shared in interviews before his death on September 6, 2021, of a drug overdose in his Brooklyn apartment and one he gave again in his sensational posthumous memoir, Scenes from my lifetoday by Crown Publishing Group. The anecdote goes that Williams was an uninspiring 22-year-old living at home with his mother when Jackson’s famous black and white photo of “Rhythm of the Nation” appeared on…

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