I take calls all the time from parents who are in the throes of addiction and I learn so much while I give them an anonymous shoulder to cry on or just someone to talk to who will not judge them. I tell the story in my book, The Addict Among Us, of the first …
One of Denise Cullen’s primary goals as an activist following the tragic loss of her son to drugs is to change the way people view drug addiction and drug addicts: “It’s a health issue, not a criminal issue,” she says. I totally agree. In both of my books I have stated that addiction is not …
On the first episode of my new radio show, Afflicted by Addiction, I interviewed the founder of the National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse, April Rovero, who lost her youngest son Joey in 2009 to a prescription drug overdose. He was a victim of dirty doctor Lisa Tseng, who is now awaiting trial for three …
The March 10th demonstration at the Sacramento Capitol, organized by the NCAPDA, was a great opportunity to call out the California Medical Board (CMB) on their apparent unwillingness to monitor their own doctors. As one parent, James Kennedy (who is one of my radio interviews) puts it: “The fox is guarding the hen house at the CMB!” …
