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 [...]
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“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? [...]
“The prescription drug crisis follows the same old pattern.”
Though prescription drug abuse is relatively new, having reached critical proportions just in the past decade, the prescription drug crisis follows an old pattern and tells an all too familiar tale. It is a tale filled with victims and with villains. The victims are the same sorry lot. They range from thrill seeking rich kids, [...]
“Careless doctors account for today’s prescription drug crisis.”
Georgia drug rehab programs are straining to handle a burgeoning prescription drug crisis caused by careless medical doctors who are writing prescriptions for a opiod painkillers like Vicodin, OxyContin, and Dilaudid with increasing frequency and yet with equally alarming negligence of reasonable precautions for these addictive medications. The pusher man was feared and vilified in [...]
“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.”
