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How to Get into the Flow State | Steven Kotler

By Steven Kotler — 2019

Steven Kotler, author of Mindvalley’s ‘The Habit of Ferocity’ talks at A-Fest Jamaica about flow and how it can create peak performers.

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Teen athletes less likely to abuse opioids, study finds

Physically active teens are less likely to abuse opioids than non-athletes, study finds. Teens who play high-injury sports still need to be monitored, researcher says.

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Aria Hangyu Chen and Special to CNN
2016
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Sober, remarried and a stepmom, Wambach reflects on eventful post-playing life

Abby Wambach went from publicly acknowledging a problem with alcohol and prescription pills to attaining sobriety, getting remarried and becoming a stepmom.

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Associated Press
2017
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The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery

In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.

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Thad Ziolkowski
2025
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Yahoo Sports: ‘Why Not Roll the Dice?’ Lamar Odom’s Risky Road Back from Addiction and Depression

It is now more than five years since Odom’s drug abuse prematurely ended his NBA career, destroyed his marriage to Khloe Kardashian and left him comatose for three days in a Las Vegas hospital.

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Jeff Eisenberg
2021
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How Painkillers Are Turning Young Athletes Into Heroin Addicts

A special report from L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez on the rising use and abuse of heroin among young athletes across the U.S. and the connection between sports, painkillers and heroin addiction.

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L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez
2015
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For N.F.L. Retirees, Opioids Bring More Pain

A brutal game got them hooked on painkillers. In retirement, they battle addiction. The opioid crisis courses through football.

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Ken Belson
2019
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Can Extreme Sports Become Addictive?

Rock climbing as an addiction.

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Mark D. Griffiths
2019
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Surprising Link Between Athletics and Addiction

While investigating the idealized benefits between sport and addiction, researchers found that the prevalence of substance abuse in some sports communities, in fact, creates a greater risk of addictions for people already vulnerable to them.

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University of Alberta
2017
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Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player

Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first—and only—openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league’s color barrier.

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Glenn Burke, Erik Sherman
2015
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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives.

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John Bradshaw
2005
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