Their Hero Rides a Pure White Horse
Prescription drug abuse is rampant with pain killing medications like Oxycontin and Vicodin (opioids) primarily being responsible for a surge in addictions. Most states have realized the problem with...
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A Paradigm Shift in Drug Abuse
It comes as no surprise to me that Dr. Nora Volkow, director of National Institute on Drug Abuse and one of my personal idols, stated there has been a “paradigm shift” in substance abuse commenting on...
View ArticleLoved Ones Left with Questions and Doubt
Embedded video from CNN Video “I’ve lamented his death every second since he died and will live with it the rest of my life.” So says Gary Neal referring to Harrison, his seventeen year-old son, who...
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The Discovering Alcoholic: Advocacy Update
We had to move the date up a bit to take advantage of a larger venue, but it is my extreme pleasure to announce that on Dec 2nd I will host a substance abuse workshop at the Calera High School...
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A Diverse Panel
I just wanted to share the flyer that is going out to publicize the task force’s presentation/panel on prescription drug abuse and addiction. The panel fleshed out rather nicely with a great mix of...
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Prescription Drug Abuse: It Starts at Home
While setting up my presentation for the substance abuse outreach program I kept running across a statistic on prescription drug abuse that really bothered me. Seventy percent of people who abuse...
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Methadone: Don’t Look Now!
Methadone. It makes people absolutely stupid. I’m not talking about those taking it for treatment of pain or addictions, but instead those that protest its use. Take this news story for example...
View ArticleLegal and Regulated: Our Two Worst Drug Problems
Florida is not alone when it comes to the problem of prescription drug abuse, in much of the country it has passed the abuse of all illicit drugs only topped on the stats list by king alcohol. These...
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What to Do When an Alcoholic/Opioid Drug Addict Needs Surgery and Pain Meds?
Thank you author and speaker Lisa Frederiksen of Breaking the Cycles for this regular series sharing her decades long experience of dealing with family alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Click here to see...
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Underestimating Prescription Drug Abuse
The 2009 Prescription Drug Threat Assessment has been released in a pdf format (click on above picture for link) by the US Department of Justice’s National Drug Intelligence Center. This 75 page...
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Rating the Response to Prescription Drug Abuse in Shelby County
Prescription drug abuse and associated deaths have skyrocketed in my local area over the past few years and fortunately many of our public and private professionals have stepped up to the plate by...
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Michael Jackson Autopsy Results will be Bad!
Secretive and elusive, facts about Michael Jackson have always been few and far between. I do not expect anything less when it comes to the true cause of his death, but considering his past history...
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Jamie Lee Curtis on Recovery
Award winning actress, prolific author, philanthropist and inventor- Jamie Lee Curtis is a very accomplished woman, but what is her proudest achievement? Recovery. My recovery from drug addiction is...
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Pharmaceutical Faith and the Placebo Effect
I’ve got good news and bad news from and for the pharmaceutical industry. The good news is that a huge number of very cheap and safe drugs are showing increased effectiveness in clinical trials. The...
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Pills are not the Problem (or the Answer)
They gobbled, snorted, and injected the pills- close to 5 million Americans took (abused) pain killers for non-medical reasons last year. Drug companies like King Pharmaceuticals of Bristol, Tennessee...
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American Anti-Psychotic
Have Americans in mass gone off their rockers. Apparently so, the U.S. top money-making drug has been crowned, and it’s not an allergy medicine or an erectile dysfunction medication. You have...
View ArticleTDA Halloween Challenge
This creepy 35 second Hanna Barbera anti-drug PSA has the best catchphrase ever at the end. Happy Halloween!!!
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Scott Weiland R.I.P.
Unfortunately Scott Weiland was as famous for being a drug addict as he was for being the lead singer of two great bands, the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. He goes now to the great gig in...
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Self-Help Sunday
I ran across a great post on Quartz that was reprinted from LinkedIn: Almost everyone who is unhappy with life is unhappy for the same reasons If you will read, you will immediately see how it can be...
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