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Category: Addiction

Getting High: Unusual Methods of Substance Abuse

Getting High: Unusual Methods of Substance Abuse unusual methods of getting high

Many cases of drug abuse involve prescription medications or well-known street drugs like heroin or cocaine. While these might be the most common ways people attempt to get high, many other methods exist. You may have heard of a few of these unusual drug alternatives, but others might surprise you. In this article, we’ll look […]

Matt Bush is Working Hard to Redeem His Name

Matt Bush is Working Hard to Redeem His Name matt bush sobriety

His teammates try their best to buffer him from the insults hurled in his direction. Less than a year out of the halfway house where he used to reside, it’s not uncommon for Texas Rangers relief pitcher Matt Bush to hear fans—strangers—shouting at him, bringing up the ugly incidents in his troubled past.

Trends in Heroin Use in Texas

Trends in Heroin Use in Texas heroin use in Texas

Table of contents DEA Makes Largest Seizure of Meth and Heroin in Dallas, TX History Resurgence in Heroin Use in Texas Heroin Use Among Young Adults Deaths from Heroin Overdose Treatment for Heroin Addiction is Available For many Americans, the notion of drug cartels is little more than character fodder for the plot of a […]

The Enabling Cycle: When Helping isn’t Helping

The Enabling Cycle: When Helping isn’t Helping enabling a drug addict

Drug addiction does not discriminate, it doesn’t care if your rich or poor, famous or unknown, a man or woman, it doesn’t care what race or age you are. Many people can relate first hand to the effects of the drug epidemic in America, and parents are crying out with pleas of help. Everyone connected […]

Substance Abuse and Addiction at Texas Universities and Colleges

Substance Abuse and Addiction at Texas Universities and Colleges college student working late on computer

American college and university campuses are hotspots for some of the hardest partying in the country, a place where students report using drugs and alcohol to relieve stress, fit in, have fun and forget their problems. A 2005 study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found that scores of […]

Breaking The Stigma of Addiction: The Addicted Eagle Scout

At the age of 17, I was awarded the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout and I was addicted to opioid painkillers and black tar heroin. Shortly after graduating high school I found myself attending 12 step meetings in California, searching for an answer to solve my problem. Three years passed […]

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