by admin | Jul 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
There’s a new game that people play with television commercials: mute a pharmaceutical ad and guess what the drug treats. Erectile dysfunction (middle aged couple, arms around each other, walking the beach, sunset)? Depression (single middle aged woman, wrapped in an...
by admin | Jul 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Connection Between OxyContin and Heroin The American Journal of Public Health explains that the jump from 316,000 OxyContin prescriptions written in 1996 to the 14 million prescriptions written between 2001 and 2002, “correlated with increased abuse, diversion,...
by admin | Jul 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Label Drug Addict Hurts on Many Levels Are we part of the problem if we call our addicted child an addict or alcoholic? Because, they say, such labels perpetuate the moralistic stigma that cascades into less accessible drug addiction treatment, prison overcrowding...