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? [...]
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“Why marijuana must remain illegal.”
Marijuana is a toxin, a gateway drug and the cause on its own of untold misery. One child I know just finished a stint in an Dulon uth drug rehab program. He was hooked on marijuana. Oh so you’ve heard you can’t get hooked have you. Perhaps not in the same way that certain prescription [...]
“How to prevent prescription drug abuse among teens.”
“Hundreds of teens die every year because of their addiction to drugs. It’s never too late to start treating the problem where it begins. Ignorance.”
“The importance of educating teens about drugs.”
Drugs are everywhere, even in our schools. Virtually every student will have been offered drugs by the time he graduates. It wasn’t always this way. In the 1950’s, for example, drugs were used sparingly in society and rarely by teens in school. But make no mistake, even if they didn’t take drugs, teens were nevertheless [...]
“What to expect from a drug rehab referral helpline.”
Finding a Georgia drug rehab program that works is next to impossible. This makes finding a good drug rehab referral helpline critical to a successful search for help with addiction. A good helpline will steer you away from the many ineffective programs out there and refer you to a program that works. The vast majority [...]
“How to Tell if your Teenager is Using Drugs”
Unless you’re a product of the 60’s and share you stash with a teenage son or daughter, you probably won’t know if they’re doing drugs. But you need to know before it’s too late to do anything about it. And drug use and abuse among teens has become a critical and resistive problem. In the [...]
The Modern Day Drug Culture
If a child can escape temptation and peer pressure both of which lead to drug and alcohol abuse, he should be able to lead a drug free life. Or so you would think. But it’s not so. Just because a teenager eludes the dealer at school does not necessarily mean he’ll elude drug abuse or [...]
The Signs of Opiate Addiction
Addiction to opiates, a class of narcotics which includes a number of well-known, oft-prescribed drugs, is one of the most difficult addictions to beat and one of the most deadly. When abused, these drugs ruin the bodies, minds and souls of the user. As such, it is critical to know the signs of addiction to [...]
Signs of Prescription Drug Addiction
When you think of an addict, what image comes to mind? A guy in a squalid apartment, his arm tied tight with a tourniquet, veins bulging, a spent syringe on the dirty floor lying beneath him? Or an emaciated woman hunched over a crack pipe smoking, the rock crackling as it burns, her children soiled, [...]
