My beloved wife Lisa and I were strolling on a scenic trail between the tiny seaside village of Capitola and New Brighten Beach. The path winds through a eucalyptus grove, across a seasonal stream then out onto a cliff side trail where the waves crash over 100 feet below. You can see all the way …
On my way home from the Orlando, Fl. National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, as we stood on the security checkpoint line, I got chatting with a woman next to me, a nurse. Not surprisingly, in Orlando, the conversation starter is “What brings you to Disneyworld?” In my case, it was the Rx epidemic. During the course …
I met California Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack around the time I was down in OC for the filming of my interview with the director of Behind the Orange Curtain, the documentary about the rx drug epidemic among kids in that upscale California county. When I was there I really came to understand how fortunate I am …
Fueling the surge are prescription pain and anxiety drugs that are potent, highly addictive and especially dangerous when combined with one another or with other drugs or alcohol.
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 …
I was at a summer party recently. There were a couple dozen women and men, most of them somewhere around 25 years old. A young man swam up to me while I was floating in the pool. He had longer hair, like I did in the 70’s, and he just floated up next to me …