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It Affects Us All: One Family’s Perspective on Addiction

It Affects Us All: One Family’s Perspective on Addiction — Drug use and its damaging effect on families and relationships – which is something the Lajeuenesse family learned firsthand.


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Recent brain studies show extensive parallels between the effects of certain addictive drugs and experiences… Continue reading

Long a Nexus of Rx Drug Abuse, Staten Island Now Faces Heroin's Scourge

Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
That landed him in drug treatment court, and, ultimately Dynamite. He spent a year in the upstate residential facility, and is now in their "step-down" program," 15 months clean and a couple of months away from being… Continue reading

Should All Drugs Be Legalized?

Question by Ace: Should all drugs be legalized?
A lot of violence associated with drugs arises simply from the unavailability of the usual dispute resolution mechanisms in the drug business due to prohibition – which is the way the prohibitionists and the more brutal dealers want it.
The violence arises… Continue reading

Is There an Online Support Group for People With a Family Member That Is Struggling With Drug Addiction?

Question by fake_blonde: Is there an online support group for people with a family member that is struggling with drug addiction?
I have a loved one with a substance abuse problem and it has taken its toll on me emotionally over the years. I was wondering if there was a… Continue reading

Some in-Depth Info on Cannabinoids Present in Marijuana?

Question by Ethan J.P: Some in-depth info on cannabinoids present in Marijuana?
I am an occasional pot smoker, but the reason why I’m asking this question is because I want a more reliable answer than any wiki site gives.
So there are over 85 different cannabinoids present in Mary Jane,… Continue reading

Why Do We Live in a Prescription Drug Culture?

Question by jash: Why do we live in a prescription drug culture?
We have been waging a “war on drugs” since the 1980s on users and dealers of weed, coke, heroin, etc., yet at the same time prescription drug use in this country has skyrocketed. Antidepressant use has doubled from… Continue reading

Does the Gov Keep Drugs Illegal So Prices Wont Drop & They Can Keep Finding Rooms Stacked With Untracable CASH

Question by #1Patriot: Does The Gov keep Drugs illegal So prices wont drop & they can keep finding Rooms Stacked with untracable CASH
The Gov. has admitted that the war on drugs can not be won and it is a well known fact that if drugs were legal most kids… Continue reading

Fact-Checking the State of the Union Speech

Fact-checking the State of the Union speech
The law also lowered costs for seniors with high prescription drug bills. But Medicare's monthly premium for outpatient … So it's great that you are expediting the review process, but the review process isn't the problem. The problem is we don't have …… Continue reading

Envisioning America Without the War on Drugs – a Talk With Ethan Nadelmann

Envisioning America Without the War on Drugs – A Talk with Ethan Nadelmann — This talk is provided for free by Roosevelt University’s Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (Roosevelt University chapt…


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California Drug Addiction Treatment Center — http://www.californiaaddictionnetwork.com – Our staff will emphasize on the need to keep yourself away from alcohol intake whenever possible, make alteration…


The business of drugs: Make it legal
A couple years after Easy Rider, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs: “We must… Continue reading