My family member who was/is an addict is doing much better. Clean for more than at least a week, she is now registering for college and has a career goal. She is also making amends with people she’s wronged and is trying to avoid all the heartache and drama that goes with being an addict….
Tag Archive: drugs
The Cost of Addiction
Drugs are not cheap and for an addict the money for them has to come from somewhere. How many of us want who have addicts in our families want for them to quit and become clean again? Yet how many of us also enable their drug use by giving them money. We can call it…
Addiction and Disease
I’m not sure I believe that being addicted to drugs is really a disease. However I do know that it changes the addict physically and mentally and it changes the interactions the addict has with family and reality as a whole. The most unfortunate part I think is that when the addict in my family…
Drugs and Your Family
I’ve watched that show called ” Intervention ” a few times and have cried with the families as they beg and plead with their loved ones to agree to go to rehab. Most of these people don’t want to go but are eventually persuaded to do so. Although I felt empathy with the families, I…
Teen Tuesday
As a reader you probably get very bored time to time with some of the posts and articles that you read. I can tell you that as a writer there are things we write that are just as boring. I am at such a point. I am tired of rewriting news articles about some aspects…
Pot For Pain
In trials, people who have had damage to their nervous systems report feeling less pain, anxiety, and depression when taking pot. Most people did not feel like they were “high” either. Researchers are still hiding behind ” we still don’t know about pot’s long term effects” so don’t expect everyone to take this finding seriously….
Autism and Jenny McCarthy
I’ve heard Jenny McCarthy speak about her sons autism and her struggle to find any kind of treatment or help for him. Somehow she did and now she’s written three books and opened up a school across the street from her house. Jenny seems like a down to earth mom struggling to find answers and…
The FDA in the Pocket of the Bush Administration?
Turns out that the FDA had changed Labeling Rules so that drug companies could avoid lawsuits. The new rules say that the FDA has to approve new information about drug side effects and interactions before it can be put on the label of said drugs. Employees of long standing at the FDA tried to…
Cholesterol Drugs For Eight Year Olds?
I’m sure there are cases where young children who are genetically predisposed to having high cholesterol, need the intervention of a statin, a cholesterol lowering drug. My own mother, while not a child has had a big problem with high cholesterol despite both my parents efforts to only buying and preparing low cholesterol and…
Heparin Contamination Not Accidental
It has become clear that the contamination of the drug Heparin was deliberate. It is also clear that our friends in China where the contamination took place, are not going to allow us to get to the bottom of exactly who did it. China says that they want the right to inspect our drug…