What should you do if you suspect your child is using drugs? Two things: 1) Drug Test 2) Drug Test. Drug tests don’t lie. Drug addicts do. It is your job and responsibility as a parent to seek treatment for a child who is showing signs of any disease, including addiction. Drug addicts cannot pass …
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 …
Lately, CNN has been pounding the Rx Drug abuse story with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The Doctor admits he knew little about this epidemic until Former President Clinton approached him. He’s right and like most doctors doesn’t know that legal prescriptions are addicting and killing 1 person every 19 minutes and admitting about 300,000 a day …
When “Craig” started overdosing, his friends drove him past two hospitals to a lonely highway median, where they dumped him. The coroner said he likely lived several hours there, and would have survived had he been given immediate treatment. When “Derek’s” mom came downstairs in the morning, she found her son in the same place …
Rehab. Who can you trust? I mean, who can you trust to take your opiate addicted skeletal wasteland of a child, the fruit of your loins, the barely human shell of the being you put so many years of energy and love into, and make them well again Is it a crap shoot? Is it worth …
Cameron Douglas, son of actor Michael Douglas, is serving an extended sentence for drug distribution and heroin possession. He is 33 years old and began injecting heroin daily in his mid 20s. He has not received treatment in prison, and according to this NY Times Article on 5/21/12, “is a textbook example of someone suffering …