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How to Deal with a Mother Addicted to Drugs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the number of infants born addicted to opioids has tripled over the past fifteen years. Data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) indicates that one in eight children seventeen years old or younger live in households with at…

Trouble for Big Pharma as Nearly 50% of People Rep...

According to a recent survey conducted by cannabis market research firm the Brightfield Group and HelloMD, an online medical cannabis community, nearly half of CBD (cannabidiol) users give up prescription drugs and over the counter medications in favor of the non-psychoactive substance. The survey of over 2,400 respondents found forty-two percent of CBD users — whether…

Grandparents raising grandchildren as opioid epide...

The nation’s opioid epidemic has sent an alarming number of children into the foster care system, but the numbers would be even worse if it weren’t for grandparents. They’re stepping in to stepping in to raise grandkids while their own children battle substance abuse — and it’s not easy. Sharon and…

Ohio State University doctor publishes important i...

Death rates cut in half for people who inject drugs and have HIV Results published in Lancet OSU professor William Miller, M.D., PhD Ohio State University epidemiologist Bill Miller has published the results of a groundbreaking international study of people who inject drugs and are living with HIV. The study was published Sept. 1 in Lancet, the…

Can We Stop Calling the Chemical Poison Spice ‘Syn

If you’re not fully familiar with the excessive gnarliness of “synthetic weed” spice or K2, just search YouTube for “spice od” or “synthetic weed.” You’ll see videos of people having seizures, losing motor control and writhing in the street, babbling in tongues like they’re in a religious trance, speaking slowly…