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The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American PeopleOctober 18, 2011
By John W. Whitehead 10/17/2011 “On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George’s County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my mother-in-law and me for hours as they ransacked [...]
NCADD Website
July 29, 2011
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Is It Time to Take the Anonymous Out of A.A.?
May 10, 2011
Anonymity is a bedrock tradition that once protected alcoholics from stigma. But cloaking ourselves in strict secrecy seems like an odd strategy in the modern world. Of course, any individual is entitled to maintain his or her anonymity. But as public perception of alcoholism and addiction begins to change, shouldn’t A.A. change as well? By [...]
RecoveryNC Survey of Success in North Carolina
March 2, 2011
The RecoveryNC Campaign has signed up over 10,600 North Carolinians who are passionate about recovery from addiction. Our sign up list includes the email addresses of over 1000 individuals. You are receiving this invitation because you gave us permission to contact you via email. We have developed a short survey for those of you who [...]
ONDCP Blog Post – Changing the Conversation about Recovery
February 19, 2011
Friends and Colleagues: We just posted an entry on the above topic on the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Of Substance blog. We are hoping to gather as much input as possible in response to the entry. If you have time to review it and provide your thoughts on how best to [...]
Study: parenting style can rein in teen drinking
June 28, 2010
Posted by TIME.com Friday, June 25, 2010 at 6:07 pm Submit a Comment • Related Topics: alcohol parenting , binge drinking, teenagers It’s one of the epically frustrating truths of family life — and the plot point that starts a thousand teen movies: parents have very little say over whether or not their teen children [...]
About AlcoholScreening.org
April 19, 2010
AlcoholScreening.org is a free service of Join Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. AlcoholScreening.org helps individuals assess their own alcohol consumption patterns to determine if their drinking is likely to be harming their health or increasing their risk for future harm. Through education and referral, the site urges those whose [...]
Forget the Cocaine Vaccine
March 8, 2010
Low-tech treatments work better. Published Mar 5, 2010 From the magazine issue dated Mar 15, 2010 Freud was a disaster for psychiatry, but not because his theory of the mind inspired his acolytes to exclude physical and chemical processes from explanations of thoughts, emotion, and behaviors. No, the disaster has been the extreme backlash against that [...]
Family dinners work some kind of magic
November 19, 2009
Teenagers who have frequent family dinners are much less likely to drink and use drugs, according to a report released today. It doesn’t seem to matter what food is served, the authors point out. The value appears to be in the social interaction between family members and the attention that parents give their children during [...]
Governments’ Drug-Abuse Costs Hit $468 Billion, Study Says
May 28, 2009
By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: May 28, 2009 Government spending related to smoking and the abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs reached $468 billion in 2005, accounting for more than one-tenth of combined federal, state and local expenditures for all purposes, according to a new study. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Graphic Cleaning Up After Substance [...]
The Life-and-Death Struggle over the Meaning of Addiction: Do God and Nature Back DSM-V?
April 26, 2009
By Stanton Peele on April 25, 2009 – 9:44am in Addiction in Society There is an earth-shattering struggle going on over the definition of addiction. Yet, not only are few Americans aware of the struggle, but hardly any psychologist or addiction specialist. The American Psychiatric Association is currently engaged in a secret pitched battle over [...]
ABC Issues – The Real Question
March 27, 2009
We have talked on NC SPIN and in this newsletter about problems with our state ABC system of alcoholic beverage control. The big issue at this moment concerns whether or not the state’s ABC stores should be opened to allow sales on Sunday. As might be imagined, this is once again opening up the old [...]
Resurrection Behavioral Health-Addiction Services “Positive Sobriety Program” Offers Addicts Escape From Stress
March 23, 2009
April 22, 2009 11:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, one in eight Americans suffer from alcohol and drug addiction. Resurrection Behavioral Health-Addiction Services has a provocative new approach to addiction treatment that can help drug addicts and alcoholics manage stress to aid in addiction recovery. [...]
A Letter of Hope From Parents of An Addict
January 2, 2009
Imagine our surprise…you’re reading this so you CAN imagine our surprise (!), OUR son addicted to alcohol and drugs. We thought all teenagers experimented with beer and cigarettes as we did in our youth, but had no clue that our son had spiraled into an alcohol, cocaine and God knows what else…kind of stupor. We learned in [...]
How Alcohol Destroyed our Health & Lives
June 16, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam: I will try to make this brief, but if you should have any inquiries, please let me know. To explain the years preceding our health deterioration, we both had been married twice previous, to individuals that we were not suited for. As most people do, we drank to relax & calm our nerves. [...]
A Personal Story
May 27, 2008
I recently graduated high school and one of the things that really scares me looking back on those years is the amount of drugs that were available to teens my age. I never personally got involved with drugs because I knew about the tragedies they cause: I buried my childhood friend who died from drugs [...]
New Blog Section
March 12, 2008
We are excited to announce our new blog section featuring a post by SA professionals and consumers. Check back soon to read and comment. If you have any issues you would like to see addressed please email them to info@alcoholdrughelp.org. We look forward to hearing from you.
! Cheers, Jane