If you were facing time in prison and had the option of a year stay in a substance abuse recovery program instead, most would choose the latter, right? Not according to the hundreds of people who have graduated from the Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery group out of Oklahoma, a place that many have ... Read More
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Kellyanne Conway Taking on the Opioid Crisis in the White House
Many of us might know Kellyanne Conway not only as President Trump’s counselor but as also an avid defender of his work so far and moral standing as a person. However, many were surprised to learn that as of late, it seems she has begun to step into a new role as acting “woman in charge” of the Trump Administration's ... Read More
Rogue Treatment Centers and Shady Business
When people think of South Florida, they think sun, sand, food, and Miami. However, over the last decade, Palm Beach County has become known as the Rehab Capitol of the World, with literally hundreds of treatment centers, halfway houses, sober livings, and IOP programs in just a few square miles of each other, ... Read More
Doctor Pleads Guilty to Receiving Kickbacks for Prescribing Fentanyl Spray
Despite the very clear opioid epidemic that is happening in our country right now, there are still many people out there who are profiting off of the market, both legally and illegally. For one Rhode Island doctor of pain management, the curtains came to a close this past week when he pled guilty to receiving ... Read More
Why Trump’s Declaration of the Opioid Crisis as a Health Emergency is the Wrong Call
“Unlike many of us, we’ve seen, and what we’ve seen, in our lifetimes, nobody has seen anything like what’s going on now.” Wise words from President Donald Trump this past week during his declaration of the nationwide Public Health Emergency event at the white house. The country has been well aware that we have been ... Read More
Study Finds Immune System Linked to Alcohol Drinking Behavior
A new study published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found a correlation between the brain’s immune system and alcohol drinking behaviors at night. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia have successfully shut down the impulse to drink in mice by giving them a drug that stops a certain response ... Read More
Ex DEA Agent Says Opioid Crisis Was Fueled by Drug Industry and Congress
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Mike Bristow and Michael Lohan Talk Sobriety and Their Charity Bike Run
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New Fingerprint Test Can Detect Cocaine in Your System
At the end of last month, scientists in Surrey, England announced that they had developed a quick and highly effective method to test for cocaine usage by simply taking an individual’s fingerprints. The researchers at Surrey University, working in conjunction with the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Intelligent ... Read More
Do Other Countries Have a Drug Epidemic like America?
A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported that while America has only about 4% of the world’s population, it represents 27% of drug overdose deaths worldwide. In the U.S. roughly 245.8 people, per million, die from drug-related causes every year, whereas the average across the rest of the ... Read More