Happy Hour: No Booze For Dr. Drew
Board-certified internist, addictionologist, and longtime friend of Kennedy, Dr. Drew Pinsky, joins her this week for happy hour! The pair sips tea together as they discuss Dr. Drew's (temporary) sobriety and discuss the health impacts of drinking alcohol.
Later, they discuss how a certain pop star's sister saved Dr. Drew's life and the impact fame has on adolescents.
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A woman's heart suddenly stopped. Two passing nurses saved her life.
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Hoffman had collapsed outside Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Breast and Imaging Center, about two and a half blocks from her subway station. A patient care technician and a passing runner immediately rushed to her aid. Then, Memorial Sloan Kettering nurses Sabrina Castle and Gianna Formisano stumbled upon the scene while walking to work. "We were so shocked. When we were walking up, people were like 'Nurses, nurses!' We didn't know what we were walking into," Formisano said. "People were grabbing our coffee, taking our bags. It was out of a movie, the way that they were like 'Oh, thank God you're here.'" Sabrina Castle and Gianna Formisano outside the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Memorial Sloan Kettering "They absolutely saved my life" Formisano and Castle took over performing CPR, keeping Hoffman's heart manually beating. She didn't have a pulse, and she had hit her head when she collapsed. The nurses also instructed one of the other bystanders to call an ambulance. Early CPR increases survival for patients in cardiac arrest by "at least two or three fold," said Dr. Jessica Hennessey, a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Early CPR means that blood flow to the brain and heart continues, preserving the health of those organs. Bystanders in a medical emergency should call 911 and immediately start CPR, Hennessey advised. CPR can be done with mouth-to-mouth or with just chest compressions, Hennessey said. After five minutes that "felt like forever," the ambulance arrived, Formisano said. Castle and Formisano helped the EMTs load Hoffman into the ambulance. Then, she was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian's cardiac care unit for further treatment. For the small crowd, the day carried on. Castle and Formisano headed to work. After a few hours, they called NewYork-Presbyterian to see if they could find out more about Hoffman's status. They went to the hospital and spoke to a nurse there. "She was like, 'You got her back. She's intubated, she's alive, you saved her life,'" Castle recalled. Hoffman was still unconscious. She told CBS News that she didn't wake up until five days after the collapse. Her family told her that she had been rushed into surgery. Doctors told her that her heart had stopped for several minutes -- and the actions of Castle, Formisano and other bystanders had saved her. "Without them, I was told, there was no doubt I would have died or been brain dead," Hoffman said. "They absolutely saved my life." Hoffman had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placed in her chest to prevent further cardiac arrests. The device shocks the heart if it detects an irregular heartbeat. She also began cardiac rehabilitation. Shortly after, she returned to work. Life began to get back to normal but one question was constantly at the back of her mind: Who had helped save her? 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Click Here To Sign Up For Our Health Newsletter The researchers concluded that MDMA showed "enhanced levels of trust, empathy, self-compassion and a 'window of tolerance'" that traditional psychotherapy lacks. Doug Drysdale, CEO of the Canadian pharmaceutical company Cybin, told Fox News Digital that "the time is now to address the mental health crisis." He said it is "gratifying" that administration officials value the potential benefits of looking into alternative mental health treatments. Cybin is currently in phase 3 of a study of CYB003, a type of psilocybin that has been granted breakthrough therapy designation by the FDA as an additional treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD). "In Cybin's completed Phase 2 MDD study, long-term efficacy results showed that 71% of participants were in remission from depression, and 100% of participants responded to treatment at 12 months after just two 16 mg doses of CYB003," said Drysdale. 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