Sadly, as a referral resource helping addicts and their loved ones find effective drug rehab in Georgia, I’m often at a loss to help my Clients. Sometimes I’m at a loss finding the right program to treat a difficult case with unusual circumstances. More often, I’m at a loss finding the right words to [...]
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Should You Drug Test Your Good Kid?”
Clients calling about Georgia drug rehab programs often ask “should I drug test my kid?” I usually answer “No”. You see, by the time they have asked me whether to drug test a child they know is addicted to drugs, it’s too late to do any good. But it’s not too late to drug test [...]
“How to Win the War on Drugs in Your Family.”
Let’s say you have two children. One’s eighteen, the other twelve years old. Like many kids his age, your eighteen year old for the sake of this example is abusing pain pills: Vicodin, Percosets, even opiates. He’s addicted. Fortunately, your 12 year old is still a good kid and drug free. What do you do? [...]
“Study Shows that Suboxone is Not the Answer to Opiate Addiction.”
In a large scale study undertaken at McClean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard University, researchers have determined that a drug doctors commonly use to treat addiction is virtually worthless. Georgia drug rehab programs will have to take these findings into account. Addicts and their loved ones should as well. Over a twelve week period, Suboxone, [...]
The Real Story of Heroin Addiction
As a drug rehab referral advisor, I hear a story just like the one written by the author below, every day. Or course, I come in at the end of the story when either the parent or the addict himself is desperate and seeking help. It wasn’t always that way for the addict and sadly [...]
Methadone Addiction and the High Cost of Poor Rehab
Good rehab costs plenty. The kinds of programs I refer my Clients to can run $20,000 to $40,000 only some of which is covered by insurance. But as expensive as a good drug rehab program may be, it is far less costly than failing to treating one’s drug addiction or treating it ineffectively. Time and [...]
The Heroin Addict
“Get in the car! Get in the car!,” I heard the woman shriek. It was nearly midnight. As I drove into my spot in the Kroger parking lot, I watched a young man and a woman fight. The two argued vehemently for a minute or two. Insults hurtled between them. When their disagreeableness escalated, I [...]
“The Liberal Dutch Ban the Sale of Hard Core Marijuana.”
The post college trek through Europe is a time honored ritual, a rite of passage. In my day, kids went to Europe to see the sights, to experience different cultures, and to demonstrate their independence. They flew to a major capitol, bought a Eurrail pass, lodged in spartan hostels, drank wine and beer with newly [...]
“Kids don’t get how dangerous it is to do heroin.”
Let’s face it, your kid just doesn’t get you. He doesn’t get the way you dress, the way you act, the rules you set. And he doesn’t get how you can tell him not to do drugs. After all, when you were his age, you did drugs. You smoked a little pot in high school, [...]
“More people die from drug abuse than traffic accidents.”
I remember reading a headline in the Miami Herald years ago that more people died from traffic accidents each year than died in the War in Vietnam. Put in that context, the inevitable conclusion is that while war is terrible, automobile driving is even worse. But this year drug abuse surpassed automobile accidents on the [...]
