Being famous isn’t all glitz and glamour. There’s also a dark side to the lives of many celebrities. The demand to stay successful, relevant, pretty. Sometimes the level of access celebrities often have led them down a dark path. Unfortunately, many times celebrities turn to drugs and alcohol to cope with the pressures of fame....Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released well-reasoned guidelines for how doctors should prescribe opioid painkillers. The voluntary standards could make a difference in curbing the alarming increase in prescription drug deaths. In 2014, overdoses of opioids, like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and related drugs like heroin were responsible for 28,647 deaths, up 14 percent from the year before....Read More
It looks like our nation has found a “bullet” deadlier than the traditional calibers. As of 2015, heroin is killing more people than guns. This shift in statistics has happened rather quickly. In 2007, gun homicides outnumbered heroin deaths 5 to 1. By last year, heroin deaths crept past gun homicide numbers. In 2015, there were 12,979 gun homicides...Read More
Written by Christian Nordqvist Last updated: Tue 8 September 2015 An alcoholic is a man or a woman who suffers from alcoholism – they have a distinct physical desire to consume alcohol beyond their capacity to control it, regardless of all rules of common sense. According to Alcoholics Anonymous UK, who say they have no unique definition...Read More
‘Alcoholic’ is a term used to describe someone who suffers from alcoholism – they often have a physical and/or psychological desire to consume alcohol beyond their capacity to control it, regardless of how it affects their life. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), in 2015, 15.1 million American adults (6.2 percent of the population) had...Read More
The use of alcohol and drugs can negatively affect all aspects of a person’s life, impact their family, friends and community, and place an enormous burden on American society. One of the most significant areas of risk with the use of alcohol and drugs is the connection between alcohol, drugs and crime. Alcohol and drugs...Read More
By Jeff Nesbit, Contributor |Dec. 19, 2016, at 1:32 p.m. There are so many issues dividing America right now. But there is a terrible scourge that both national political parties agree on: we’ve become a nation of drug and alcohol addicts, and it is destroying millions of lives and families, and harming countless communities and cities. The...Read More
Every September, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) promotes Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use issues and celebrate communities. During the month beyond, many of the recovering millions will stand up, stand out, speak out, and be proud of their recovery. Faces & Voices of Recovery...Read More
By LAWRENCE DOWNES DEC. 28, 2016 Oh, Carrie Fisher, gone way too soon. And now your mother, Debbie Reynolds. The startling loss this week of one of Hollywood’s great mother-daughter pairs was another blow in an unnerving year. You could call it a Hollywood ending, if by that you mean one that is larger and weirder than real life, and...Read More
