THE KAVA AND KRATOM CRISIS
The word “natural” can be very misleading when used in marketing campaigns for consumable products. People often assume that natural products are safe and healthy. This actually is true much of...
What Is The Difference Between The Drugs Percocet And Vicodin?
With so many drugs on the market today – both medical drugs and illegal drugs – it’s important to understand what these drugs are and the differences and similarities between them....
Understanding Prescription Drug Addiction
Somewhere, at this very moment, a man’s wife agonizes as she receives a call from the police—her husband has been arrested for forging prescriptions for tranquilizers. In another community, a mother...
Oxy Crackdown Brings Heroin Back
Law enforcement has made dynamic efforts to shut down the pill mills that have plagued our South Florida communities for the last several years. As I had predicted when we first...
Staying The Course
Staying The Course, as a boy growing up in Minnesota my whole world revolved around hunting, fishing, trapping, and milking cows. My parents loved me and my two younger sisters but...
Overdose Is Inevitable
Overdose Is Inevitable: The word commonly associated with “overdose” is “accidental”. What we will suggest here is that, for substance abusers, overdose is not accidental, but a logical milestone in the...
Our Addictive Society Part II: The Neo-Opium Wars
I received so much positive feedback and questions from my last article “Our Addictive Society” that I was encouraged by readers to write a follow up. In this second installment my...
Wife Of a Doors Rocker Warns About Drug Overdose
I can’t help but think back 40 years ago; to the time I got up close and personal with drug overdose. The Sunset Strip scene of 1966, 1967’s “Summer of Love”...
I Didn’t Know Adolescent Drug Use, Misuse And Addiction
Adolescent Drug Use. Susan B. heard a knock on her door Tuesday, November 19th, 2002, that every parent dreads. It was the news that her 22-year-old son had been shot to...
Family, Personality, Brain Chemistry And Addiction
Brain Chemistry And Addiction. There is no one Addictive or Compulsive Behavior. There are many. Sex, gambling, internet pornography, cutting, eating disorders, these would be the more common examples of just...