Post-surgery pain management is an important part of the recovery process. Alleviating the pain allows your body to relax and helps you sleep, and both of these are integral for proper healing. Unfortunately, addiction can be an unintended side-effect of many...
As parents, one of the hardest things you’ll have to face is watching your teens grow up and make decisions for themselves. This is particularly difficult when it comes to experimenting with drugs, but you have to trust that you’ve done a good job of equipping...
Opiates are used in pain medication, and generally, a medical doctor prescribes them for people who have some type of physical problem that is causing intense pain. Opiates come from the poppy plant and are an intense painkiller. When the human body can’t produce...
Certainly, when many addicts recount their life stories, drug use, specifically marijuana is the first stop on a long road of abuse. There is a false correlation when we compare marijuana usage with other types of drugs. Marijuana drug usage 1. The National Institute...
According to 2014 statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration, in the United States, there are an estimated 435,000 people who regularly use heroin. This figure is triple the number from 2007 and only seems to be growing. And while the overall US stats are...
Life is a voyage of discovery, and some of the most turbulent waters we encounter are from our teen years. Not quite an adult but definitely not a child, an adolescent faces many challenges that don’t always have supports in place to assist them in the decision-making...
