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What's some new trends in the field of substance abuse? Plenty but some addicts are now cooking up meth in their own homes as an alternative to heroi...

When people think of drug or alcohol addiction, often the addict is thought of as the victim. However, the real victim, in mancy cases, are those clo...

We have lost some amazing artists due to drug and alcohol addiction. We hope that any of our listeners who either are artists and addicted or who kno...

Coming into the holidays. Often friends and families of addicts say that they want to wait until after the holidays to get treatment for their addicte...

Often families want to wait until after the New Year to get their loved one into some form of rehab/treatment but that can have a seriously negative o...

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

A syndemic is defined as "a network of health problems, esp. ones that share common social underpinnings and cause an increased public health burden o...

There is a line of reasoning 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...

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 ...