Friday, August 4, 2017Opiates - The Pinball Effect of Solving Every Problem With a Pill
This podcast covers opiates again. How pervasive they are and how they lead to other problems. This epidemic is symptomatic of a society that wants ...
Friday, July 28, 2017The Opioid Epidemic - It's Not Just for the Homeless
Gone are the days were addicts were homeless in cities, dirty and shooting up in alleys. Now they are young and old people in very nice neighborhoods...
Saturday, July 22, 2017Is the Country Going to Pot? A Beginning of the Addiction Cycle.
We've got no beef with medical marijuana as long as it is regulated to help those that legitimately need it, but legalizing it for recreational use? ...
Friday, July 14, 2017Aydin's Story
Aydin turned to drugs because of an inability to talk to his parents about his feelings and emotions. Sounds like a simple thing to handle but not wh...
Saturday, July 8, 2017A Mom's Point of View: "I Knew What I Was Seeing"
This mom's son started with alcohol in high school and moved onto other drugs such that this mom found her son unconscious. Her son is now fully reco...
Saturday, July 1, 2017Addiction by Any Other Name: Stigma?
It is a disservice to call someone an addict. That, in fact, labels the person and also puts a stigma on the person. What do you think of when someo...
Friday, June 23, 2017Crystal Meth - Not So Much the Underachiever
There is so much attention on opioids now with the deaths occurring on a regular basis, that crystal meth is being ignored. The problem is that the u...
Friday, June 16, 2017Csira's Story - Addicted at 20 and Her Road to Recovery
Csira became an addict at 20.She's not only clean now, but she's trained now in how to help others beat their addiction.This beautiful young woman's s...
Friday, June 9, 2017Drug Addiction is Not Discriminatory
Drug addicts are stereotyped as poor (and how you could be poor and do drugs is a mystery); illiterate and amoral. While morals may be an issue in tha...
Friday, June 2, 2017Saying No to Drugs - Are you Educating your Kids?
If there's one conversation you have to have with your children it is about drugs. It is about the prevalence of drugs in our society, and that it's ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017Enabling or Helping. There is a Difference.
An addict needs help, love and understanding. From family and friends in particular. But sometimes this well intentioned help results in enabling the ...
Friday, May 19, 2017Derek's Story - A Mother's Persistence Saved His Life
Derek started on pot at age 12. He was an athlete - a wrestler - and a good student. He progressed throughout his high school year to heroin via Perc...