Melissa Gilbert is speaking out on the dangers of drug addiction. She herself has had her own personal struggle with drugs and alcohol growing up as a child star in the 1980’s. Gilbert added that parents her age and younger often face different challenges than earlier generations of parents faced when discussing drugs with their [...]
In Washington State budget cuts are all but going to make prosecution of illegal drugs harder. When there is no prosecution it makes drug addiction treatment centers fight even harder. Many people that are addicted to drugs end up in jail for a simple possession charge, many times this leads the drug addict to a [...]
The stress and sometimes torment that the family members of addicts go through is not often chronicled. The daily anxiety of never knowing if the addict will live another day, the fear of what any phone call can bring and witnessing the slow decay of life, has its toll. Hopefully effective drug treatment is in [...]
Many TV shows that are geared toward teenage viewing have either alcohol or tobacco as it’s basis. This is a problem. The more we show teenagers that drinking and smoking are ok the more likely they are to use. Pediatricians said they are concerned because over 400,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses every year in [...]
Family Medicine cabinets are a breeding groups for prescription drug addiction. Many teenagers get their start from their parents medicine cabinets and it’s time to make sure that medicine cabinets are secure so that our youth don’t start using prescription drugs. Miller said many kids, like Megan, get their fix from the family medicine cabinet. [...]
Drugs aren’t worth anyone’s life. Prescripton drug abuse is on the rise in all parts of the country and we need to get a handle on the epidemic now. Many locations throughtout the United States are using a “Lock your medicine cabinet” campaign to drive people to acknowledge this growing problem. Drug Addiction Treatment Centers [...]
Next month is drug addiction awareness month and Texas is getting ready for the challenge of educating individuals about the impact of drug abuse. I commend the Mayor of Pampa Lonny Robbins for getting his county ready for this huge challenge. Pampa, TX - Today Lifetime Recovery Centers of America and the Mayor of Pampa Lonny Robbins [...]
Good for Boy George! Lady Gaga has too much influence in the world to get away with a statement like she just made to Vanity Fair about her cocaine use. OK – she is an occasional cocaine sniffer. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. However, occasional always turns into frequent which turns into drug addiction. [...]
Coach Sutton finally woke up, it seems, and accepted the fact that there is always an end to drug addiction. It ends with effective drug treatment, death or jail. Fortunately for him, he got caught trying to get Oxycodone, Adderal and clonazepam – drugs that he could have killed himself with. He went to jail [...]
Part of getting sober is getting things in perspective. At the Narconon addiction treatment program, there are various steps that help a person take a look at their life from a new perspective. Here is a success story of a person who spent years on Xanax and other prescription medications. Now that he found a [...]
