Category: Teen Drugs And Alcohol

The risks of teen drinking and drug use have never been more obvious. Brain scans are starting to reveal the effect that heavy alcohol and drug use can have on growing brains. If you have a teen, you must tell them about this. It isn’t [...]

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 [...]

Alcoholism has already been part of your life for years. No, you haven’t drink a drop of alcohol – yet. But you worry about what your future holds. Are you destined to repeat the problems of your family? Can you break away from these old [...]

Drug addiction is a maze of mixed up emotions, a wild round-the-clock schedule, tension, arguments, loneliness, and confusion. You may not even really remember how you got here. You just know that somewhere along the way, you got lost. How do you go on from [...]

When it comes to teen drug addiction, prevention usually comes in the form of talking to teenagers about the dangers and health issues that result when drugs are an issue. The risks of drug addiction, drug overdose, teen pregnancy and disease through unprotected sex as [...]

For parents who have children who are struggling with drug addiction, it doesn’t matter what age they are: it’s difficult. Emotionally exhausting and hard on the whole family, a child’s drug addiction can affect everything from family dinner to family finances. So what can you [...]

For parents, there are few things worse than discovering that their child is addicted to drugs and alcohol. But there’s one thing that few parents realize: there are few things worse for your child to discover about him or herself as well. As the anti-drug [...]

The image of NBA superstar LeBron James has always seemed a little “too perfect” – perhaps crafted by the handlers who have a stake in his massive marketing empire. So it was fascinating to see him to admit to being a “pot smoking jerk” in [...]

It is easy to judge the parents of children who are using drugs – but the reality is that even the most attentive, well-meaning parents may be unaware of the child’s marijuana use unless they know what to look for. The follow is a list [...]

One of the most serious issues pertaining to medical treatment in the United States concerns doctors who have developed a drug addiction, yet continue to provide care to their patients without receiving proper treatment themselves. For years, this problem went unchecked in the medical community, [...]