Our opiate addict in remission schools us on healthy eating by cooking meals like this: He’s made this incredible shift from drug addiction to a healthy lifestyle. And we’re counting our blessings and our carbs.
The “Candy Man” (an unoriginal moniker for certain) supplied OxyContin, Vicodin, Norco and other drugs to addicts with no legitimate need for the powerful narcotics. Some of his customers paid him in sex. Some diverted the pills to the black market. At least twelve of them since 2006 suffered fatal overdoses, including one man who …
When I was asked to appear live on News 10′s morning show, I didn’t realize for some reason (exhaustion perhaps?) that the live morning show was, well, live. In the morning. They asked me to have some props ready, so since the topic was the national prescription drug take back event, I gathered some drugs. …
It’s been very busy over here, what with the day to day and running my business, and then everything that I am doing with this RXDrugAddict site and my outreach to families. I’ve been working on either another book or another edition of my first book, I haven’t quite determined which yet, but have my …
One thing Bradley DeHaven didn’t do after immersing himself in his son’s Oxycontin addiction is remain silent. Two years ago, the Granite Bay father helped law-enforcement agents stage an elaborate drug bust to nab a larger drug dealer in a last-ditch effort to keep his 19-year-old son out of prison. His son had started using …
Let’s give some of them the benefit of the doubt. Six hundred thousand doctors, dentists and physician assistants are licensed by the D.E.A. to prescribe controlled substances, according to Obama administration’s drug policy advisor R. Gil Kerlikowske. Prescribing physicians “don’t get a lot of information in their training about pain management, about addiction, about tolerance …