Prescription Drug Addiction- Are Doctors Responsible?
Prescription Drug Addiction, are doctors or patients more responsible for prescription drug addiction?
Each year in the United States, approximately seven million people will use prescription drugs for non-medical purposes, and of...
Drug Treatment And Crime
Sending drug abusers to community-based treatment programs rather than prison could help reduce crime and save the criminal justice system billions of dollars, according to a new study by researchers at...
Pain Medication And Addiction
It is the beginning of a hot summer in 1863. The aromas of a three day battle hang in the air. Robert E. Lee is in retreat with what is left...
Adolescents, Brain Development And The Turkey Model
Adolescents and Brain Development
For the past five years I’ve overseen an adolescent substance abuse treatment center in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. The boys are between the ages of 13-20,...
From Pot To Heroin: Is Your Child an Addict? How Do You Know?
How does smoking marijuana segway into other drugs? Many people may have or still do smoke pot recreationally and that’s where it ends. Marijuana use is becoming legalized, accepted by peers,...
Interview with Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle is more than one of the greatest Professional Wrestlers of all time. He’s a living Legend. And for the past four years, he’s been in recovery from opioid abuse.
Recognized...
Cake – Chronic Pain and Courage
In the hit independent movie Cake, Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who knows pain. Barely surviving a horrific car accident which kills her 3-year-old son, she is left with a scarred...
Does Tough Love Equate to Wellness or Destruction? A glimpse into one families experience
Heroin abuse in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. According to SAMHSA, between 2007 and 2012, the number of Heroin users has doubled from an estimated 375,000 to over 665,000....
HEY GRANDMA, CAN I LIVE WITH YOU? GRANDPARENTS AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC
The other day I received a phone call from Helen. She and her husband Rick were beside themselves after learning their daughter, a 42-year-old PhD student, had relapsed into drug addiction....
The Prescription Drug Epidemic
Enough painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Although most of these pills were prescribed for...
