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Started on psychiatric drugs at age 11, Christian moved to marijuana, opiates and heroin and by age 17 was shooting heroin.   Christian just finished ...

The opioid epidemic has spun off so many other "epidemics" that it is now being referred to as a syndemic.  We have a syndemic in this country.  Drugs...

There is a thought out there that legalizing or decriminalizing the use of dangerous drugs might be a solution to addiction.  But is this the answer? ...

It's sad when insurance companies will pay for addictive drugs but not for drugs which might work as pain killers or sedatives but which are more expe...

This is a true story of alcohol addiction and redemption.  This is Cass' story and it's a hard hitting case of alcohol addiction.  Cass is clean and s...

The holidays are rapidly approaching - it's September already - and often families of addicts want to wait until after the holidays to get the addict ...

When a family member is addicted to drugs or alcohol, it is devastating on the other members of the family.  There is shame, regret, fear, anger - a m...

There are resources for friends and families of addicts.  One resources is a support group - Learn2Cope.org.  Often when someone has an addict in thei...

Because Adderall is prescribed by a doctor, must be OK, right?  Not so.  Adderall is the same chemically as methamphetamine.  So do you want to give y...

The loved ones of an addict have a very different perspective of what is happening in the life of the addict and living with an addict is a different ...

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 ...

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...