Posts Tagged ‘Substance Abuse’

Your Social Network And Drinking Habits Connected

April 9, 2010
May people consider alcoholism to be a problem just with an individual, not so much with society. However, it’s important to understand that human beings are born to be social creatures. People don’t make decisions in a vacuum, particularly about things they do in social [...]

Fighting Drug Addiction: Sifting Facts From Fiction

April 3, 2010
Fighting drug addiction is hard enough-the physical illness, the emotional drain on relationships, the problems at work if you’ve managed to keep your job and the financial hardships if you haven’t-without also having to sift through tons of information that may or may not be [...]

Should Female Drug Addicts Be Paid to Choose Infertility?

March 26, 2010
It’s a question that could not be more hotly debated in the United States and a group called Project Prevention is traveling around and stirring up the controversy everywhere they go. The group, run by Barbara Harris, has but one goal in mind: pay drug [...]

Can Drug Addiction Reform Unite Politicians?

February 11, 2010
There are few instances in which Democrats and Republicans agree on anything, much less join forces, and legislation reform is rarely a unifying topic. According to State Bill Colorado and KDVR, House Bill 1352 may be one of those rare items of unity. What Drug [...]

Home drug tests help parents identify substance abuse

February 15, 2009
Parents who are seeking help determining whether or not their kids are using drugs, have a helpful but little known weapon to use in their quest for information – home drug tests. Despite parent-child trust issues that may arise as a result of the testing, [...]

The tarnished legacy of Michael Phelps

February 7, 2009
Unless you’ve been living at the bottom of the pool for the past several weeks, you’ve probably heard that all-time Olympic record holder Michael Phelps was caught (via photo) smoking pot at a party. The picture circulated around the web and was quickly picked up [...]