The Role of Parents in The Course of Their Child’s Addiction, Treatment and Well-Being
The stigma that surrounds the issue of addiction these days causes many problems within the family unit, specifically parents who are dealing with kids who are addicted to drugs, alcohol or both. Some parents use punishment to deal with behavior they consider “immoral” while others simply refuse to deal with it all together. Coming down […]
More Police Action Required to Deal With Prescription Drug Dealers
Sometimes it takes a tragedy to force change, as a Cole Harbour mother is learning. Trine Lise Good lost her son to a prescription drug and cocaine overdose in 2012, and insisted that Halifax area RCMP officers investigate and lay charges on the person who sold her son the drugs. In this case it was […]
Tough Love From Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges Isn’t the Way to Go When Dealing With Addicts and Small Time Drug Related Crimes
The stigma behind drug use, primarily drugs like heroin and other opioids is still strong in certain communities across North America. It’s easy for law enforcement and those responsible for dealing with the law when a case inevitably goes to trial, to paint a picture of the dangerous, unpredictable and criminal addict. Yes, some addicts, […]
The Life Saving Drug Naloxone Will Now Be Provided to Police as Well as Paramedics to Combat Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania
There has been some recent discussion about the availability of a drug called naloxone. It is a prescription drug that hospitals use to treat patients who are in critical condition due to an overdose to prescription medications and heroin, both being opiates of course. A while back there was some controversy because of the lack […]
Another Canadian City Implementing The Patch-For-Patch Program to Deal With The Fentanyl Problem
The fentanyl problem just won’t go away, and seems to be affecting more and more communities across Canada. It’s a powerful substance, considerably stronger than morphine and even heroin, and it is prescribed for patients in extreme pain, often those suffering from late stage and aggressive cancers. The drug is a patch that is applied […]
Pope Francis Criticizes Drug “Liberalization”
During the world youth day festival in Brazil, pope Francis came out against drug cartels and dealers. He also condemned the ‘liberalization’ of drug laws in Latin America. It is admirable to make a speech that comes down hard on drug dealers and those who profit on the addiction habits of others, is the Pope […]
The Experimental and Infancy Period of Drug Use is When Loved Ones Need to Act
Here’s something that many of us forget about drug use and how it begins: No one sets out to become a drug addict, and because when it finally comes time to seek treatment, we often forget how this all started and can’t believe the situation we’re in now. Often drug use starts in the teens […]
Parents Need to Be On The Lookout For a New Drug That’s Taking Kids By Storm: Video Games
Kids these days may have an easier life than their parents or grandparents had. They may take certain luxuries and privileges for granted like computers, cellphones and for the purposes of this article, video games. For most kids video games are part of the fabric of every day life and offer a few blissful hours […]
The Shockingly Low Costs To Prevent Drug Addiction May Surprise You
With many communities all across North America declaring drug use an epidemic, especially prescription drug abuse, it was only a matter of time until health officials began to run the numbers so to speak when it comes to how much drug use and abuse is weighing on state and provincial budgets as well as how […]