On July 29th the trailer for Collision Course-Teenage Addiction Epidemic was premiered at KVIE studio’s. With a full house of viewers at the studio; educators, law enforcement, health professionals, parents, teens gathered to watch and discuss the topic of teens and addiction in the community. To view the trailer click here Pathway to Prevention is [...]
While many people feel that marijuana is not harmful, it has changed over the years. Marijuana is far more powerful today than it was 30 years ago. THC levels have increased from the 1 percent potency level in the 1970s to more than 13 percent today (on average), with some samples containing THC levels of [...]
“Americans filled 3.9 billion prescriptions in 2009, up 1.1 billion from 1999, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reports. As a polite, clean-cut, white collar professional, Michael Loverde never raised suspicions that he was a prescription drug addict. He could feign back pain in a doctor’s office or emergency room and walk away with a [...]
OxyContin, a highly addictive narcotic that doctors prescribe to treat chronic pain, has hooked the “Just Say No” generation. Across the country, it has become a party drug favored by young, often middle-class people, and the trend is exploding in Northern California. Read more
“On any given day in America, as many as 5 million adolescents suffer from clinical depression. But according to a 2009 study, an estimated 70 percent are undiagnosed and do not receive any form of treatment. The statistics for drug and alcohol abuse are even worse. Only 10 percent of the estimated 1.4 million American [...]
Years ago, thoughts of using a needle kept many potential heroin users at bay. Not anymore. Today’s heroin is so pure, users can smoke it or snort it, causing more kids under 18 to use it. Kids who snort or smoke heroin face the same high risk of overdose and death that haunts intravenous users. [...]
Recently released White House study finds prescription drug abuse has risen 400 percent from 1998 to 2008. Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions in our society. It affects all ages and all socioeconomic demographics. The report highlights the need for regulation sighting a culture that has become more heavily reliant on increasingly more powerful [...]
Each year approximately 5,000 young people (under the age of 21) die as a result of underage drinking). About 1,00 deaths are from motor vehicle accidents, 1,600 homicides, 300 suicides and the rest from injuries such as burns, falls, and drownings. Read more…
It’s the latest dangerous way kids are getting high, but what is it and how does it work? Kids are always looking for a new cheap way to get high and they’ve found it in the form of “robo tripping.” This teen drug trend gets its name from the over-the-counter cold medication Robitussin, a cough [...]
In 2008, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, 31 million people 12 and older admitted to driving under the influence of alcohol at least once during the year. Nearly 2.2 million high school students had abused pain relievers for the first time in 2009. Teens are unaware of the serious psychological effects [...]
