Category: Prescription Drug & Drug Addiction

If you are doing drugs, getting the next high is your main priority. Going to work, paying your bills, being a good wife or mother, unfortunately, is no longer important. Children of addicts get the worst of the situation. Every day these children are trying to survive the hazards of sharing a roof with an…

Watch Your Drinks Ladies! It’s scary to think that someone would try to spike your drink with drugs. Numerous news reports have broadcasted the dangers and often time fatal results of women falling victim to being drugged. For one concert going woman, she almost fell victim to someone’s drug scheme. The bartender Alex Barnhart, a…

Major in Recreational Drugs Let’s face it, college students aren’t just studying. During this time in their lives, college students may also be experimenting with many things. We can be naïve and think that the only thing they are experimenting with is their majors, but that’s probably not the case. Some students are also experimenting…

After a two year legal battle, a man in Oregon, who was driving under the influence of methamphetamines, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for crashing into a young woman who was 5 months pregnant. Jack Dean Whiteaker angrily protested during the sentencing hearing claiming his innocence while the victim’s family read statements to…

Sober High School Strives to Curb Teen Drug Abuse Being a teen nowadays is tough. Many young people have to deal with more issues than past generations. According to The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), 75 percent of adolescents have used addictive substances and 20 percent of them meet the medical criteria…

In southwest Florida, the mother of a kindergartner named Hope is in court fighting to keep her daughter from foster care after allegations were brought up against her regarding substance abuse in the home. Her voice quivers as she fights back tears and says “I quit using for my daughter. She’s my whole world right…

Addicts are no longer in the stereotypical category that we have seen in the past. Most addicts have jobs, families, and seemingly function on the surface. Addicts struggle in silence and are fearful about asking for help, especially when they have fooled everyone to believe that they are ‘ok’. When preparing to ask for help,…

Heroin Vaccine A heroin vaccine does not seem possible; however, the Mexican government has just patented a medication that claims to be such. Tested on rats, scientists believe that in five years this vaccine will be ready for humans. The vaccine blocks heroin from entering the nervous system and attaching to the opioid receptors in…

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) every year 15,000 people die from prescription pill overdoses more than heroin and cocaine combined. Many people are using prescription medications, especially narcotics, for nonmedical purposes. In 2010, the CDC found that twelve million Americans reported non-medical use of prescription painkillers. Unfortunately, we struggle with…

The American Academy of Pediatrics released a new report about the guidelines of neonatal withdrawal due to the enormous increase of both illicit and prescription drug abuse by pregnant women. Dr. Mark Hudak, professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida states, “There has been a 25% increase in…