Posts Tagged ‘Drug Abuse’
QBs Drug-Related Collapse Changes Football
December 23, 2011
Todd Marinovich was a quarterback for the Los Angeles Raiders, drafted in 1991. However, his drug addiction led to medical complications that stopped his career before it could get started. His experience is highlighted in a new documentary on ESPN called The Marinovich Project. Some [...]
Drug Addiction is Selfish
December 14, 2011
The focus is often on how drug addiction hurts the addict, but the fact is, there are few acts more selfish than drug abuse and addiction. The impact on communities where the drugs are produced, the individuals coerced into trafficking the drugs across borders, the [...]
New Survey Says Illicit Drug Abuse Rose Between 2008 and 2010
October 24, 2011
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released a new survey that shows that the rate of drug abuse of illicit substances has risen between 2008 and 2010. The statistics generated by the national survey show that Americans are using more and [...]
Priest Accused of Drug Addiction and Other Scandals
April 22, 2011
Father John Corapi has been accused of drug addiction and sexual improprieties and has been forced to cancel multiple Catholic Charities fundraising events as a result. While the sexual misconduct may not surprise many readers, the reports of drug addiction may be somewhat scandalous. The [...]
Charlie Sheen Swears He’s Clean and Sober
March 23, 2011
In case you were wondering, all of Sheen’s recent appearances have not been drug-induced, according to him. On a Today Show interview, when asked if he was clean and sober, Sheen replied: “Look at me. Duh.” The interviewer followed up by asking him how long [...]
Fighting Drug Addiction in Your Family
October 31, 2010
Living with the drug and alcohol addiction of a family member can be devastating. The inclination is to help them, to cover for them and to continue to rescue them when they suffer consequences for their drug addiction. This never helps. If you love someone [...]
Drug Abuse Makes You Stupid
October 24, 2010
Hopefully, this is not a surprise to you. The fact that drugs change your brain chemistry and alter your brain function, affecting the areas that control inhibition, logic, sight, hearing and thought process is a concept that most of us learned in elementary school and [...]
Carrie Fisher Abused Cocaine on Star Wars Set
October 19, 2010
Carrie Fisher recently said in an interview that she abused cocaine when she was filming “Empire Strikes Back” as Princess Leia. During the scenes set on the ice planet Hoth, Fisher says she used cocaine. Fisher says: “I didn’t even like coke that much. It [...]
Drug Overdose Death: Turning Tragedy into Hope
October 11, 2010
Aaron Selchow of Los Gatos, California, lost his best friend to a car accident during his senior year. Over the next three years, Selchow self-medicated his grief with drugs and alcohol until July, 2010, when he overdosed on methadone and died at the age of [...]
Drug Addiction and Marriage
September 17, 2010
There are few things that can harm a marriage as thoroughly as a drug addiction. Certainly, many addicts manage to save their relationships and sometimes even grow stronger through their recovery. But many marriages do not survive the damage addiction inflicts. Take a closer look [...]
