addiction Archive
VIII – Concluding Considerations: North Country Forums: Answers to the questions I’ve posed above will come from the bottom-up, from friends and family and neighbors, not from government bureaucrats or politicians or treatment providers stuck with commonplace solutions that don’t …
VII — The North Country: “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”- Mark Twain, apocryphal “It’s the longest river in America, making its way throughout the entire country. Let’s hope that its North Country traverse will be short and easily crossed.” – Jack …
V – “Best Practice” Treatments – or Are They?: Working class white Americans are now finding themselves caught up in adverse circumstances comparable to those in which working class black Americans, indeed all poor Americans, regardless of ethnic heritage, have …
III – Causes, Consequences, Questionable Remedies: Contrary to everything I was ever taught about drug addiction twenty-five years ago, the opioid analgesics, led by OxyContin, are now the gateway drugs to all other addictive drugs, particularly heroin.
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful And murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity To pure wind.” – George Orwell I — Introduction: This is a “how-to”, or primer, for persons addicted to opioids or persons …
The Chronicle of Social Change is highlighting each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program (FYI), a group of 12 former foster youths who have completed congressional internships. The program is overseen …
Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate, So Why Should We? By Jeremiah Hopes | March 30, 2016 On March 11, “20/20” aired a special detailing the rise of heroin addiction in suburban towns in New Hampshire. Twitter buzzed with discussions that ranged from …
Approximately 80 Americans die from an opioid overdose every day. That amounted to 29,467 people in 2014. Many of these deaths were preventable but the resources needed to tackle the growing opioid epidemic have yet to be appropriated by Congress. …
By: Luis Gay When you give a college student a marker, a blank piece of paper, and an opportunity to express what is going on in their lives, the results may be solemn: "Drug addiction runs in my …
More than 44 years have passed since President Richard Milhous Nixon declared his “war on drugs.” That battle cry was proclaimed in June 1971 following the tumultuous 1960s that saw the United States transformed in many ways. During the decade, …