The most current statistics from the Centers of Disease Control in 2009 reveal that the number of deaths from overdosing on prescription drugs has surpassed that of traffic fatalities. Preliminary data reveals that at least 37,485 people died nationwide in 2009 alone from taking an excessive amount of medication. Numerous factors contribute to the growing [...]
Why is Congress, the FDA, the FTC and the DEA allowing the American Pain Foundation to be kept fat and well financed by pharma in marketing the bogus “undertreatment of pain” in the U.S. while we fight an epidemic of prescription drug addiction and death? Recently the below was printed regarding the consumption of narcotics [...]
“Let it begin with me.” That was the message heard by a room filled with community leaders Friday morning at the 23rd annual Call to Action Coalition breakfast, held at Vladimir’s banquet center. The message resounds with Randy Field, of Farmington Hills, who recently took over as executive director of the Call to Action Coalition [...]
In the car, on the way to buy a prom dress, Maddie’s daughter, 15, slouches, her feet splayed on the dash. Her thumbs fly as she texts, pretending her mom’s not there. Her mom, on the other hand, is seething, her temperature rising like soup on the stove — in danger of boiling over. This [...]
The Auburn Police Department is hoping to decrease teen drug abuse. The department is now selling drug testing kits for $5.03, including tax, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the department’s public service counter, according to Sgt. Scott Alford. According to Alford, the National Institute on Drug Abuse says illicit use [...]
It’s called “Don’t be Blind-sighted.” A community program warns drug abuse could be happening right inside your home without your realizing it. One mother has made it a mission to warn others, having come close to losing her son to an addiction he fed in his upstairs bedroom. Read more
CHICAGO — Hurt in a car crash, a Geneva, Ill., woman got hooked on the painkiller Vicodin. When one doctor stopped prescribing it, she got it from others. She was sneaking around so much, her husband thought she was cheating, said her counselor, Jake Epperly. The face of drug addiction, experts say, is increasingly white, [...]
While I occasionally peek at my two teenage kids’ Facebook postings — okay, call it spying — I think when they head off to college in a few years I should give them the option to de-friend me if they choose. On the other hand, maybe checking up on them when they’re away at school [...]
Significant percentages of senior high school students report drinking to excess, and some admit driving under the influence of alcohol or marijuana, according to a new study. Authors of the Cross Canada Report on Student Alcohol and Drug Use, released Monday, are sounding the alarm about the prevalence of alcohol and cannabis use among students [...]
Hurt in a car crash, a Geneva, Ill., woman got hooked on the painkiller Vicodin. When one doctor stopped prescribing it, she got it from others and was sneaking around so much that her husband thought she was cheating, said her counselor, Jake Epperly. The face of drug addiction, experts say, is increasingly white, suburban [...]
