WHERE WAS THE GUARDIAN ANGEL? This may be my toughest blog post that I have written to date and it is not about me, emotionally it has hit me like a brick. There are no words to explain the sadness and tragedy that has shaken this entire community. A dear friend that I have known [...]
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I thought this article was very interesting. Sometimes I feel like my days of influence are over with my two teens and I know longer have control over their behaviors. Also that the consequences for their actions don’t have any meaning, but this article proves that teens do look up to their parents for guidance [...]
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Interview with a former meth addict inspiring story what it is like and how it happens. Helping us all understand why people use drugs and how hard they are to overcome.
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I purposefully have not wanted to comment on the death of Michael Jackson since it has been well saturated by the press. I came across this article in the New York Times and felt compelled to post it because it reflects many of my personal feelings about treatment and his life. From everything I have [...]
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Medical Marijuana or legalization. Is this a marijuana of a different flavor? What is the proper and most cost effective treatment for those that abuse drugs and alcohol?
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This link also came to me from my friends at Addiction and Recovery news:No One Deserves to Die by Overdose | DrugReporter | AlterNet. I wanted to share the last paragraph of the article with you: We need to accept the reality that people will always use drugs, whether legal or illegal, prescribed or sold [...]
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A wine enthusiast writes about her month of sobriety. I think many of us struggle with what Nina Caplan writes about in her essay in the Economist. In todays society wine is almost thought of as “the non alcoholic” beverage. In our local newspaper there is a once a week section like “home and garden”, dedicated to [...]
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This is where we are – When he returned home from school today, I went into his room and told him what I found point blank. I did not involve his father, I did tell him, but I just dealt with it. Then I did not say anything, silence, we must have stared at each other for five minutes, when he started to talk. He told me he was not a “pot head”, that he just started and did I “not expect to have these problems, he is in high school”. I told him what my concerns were, his grades had dropped and that is a big indicator of drug usage. I also reminded him of what we have experienced as a family with his brother and that I had reason for concern. He told me he understood.
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