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STATISTICS & TRENDS

Can a Smart Phone App Aid in Addiction Recovery?

One of the newest wrinkles in recovery from addiction is an application called Reset. Anyone can download the app but only a person who’s working with a doctor on addiction recovery can open it and work with it. Does a digital app really have the potential...

STATISTICS & TRENDS

“Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities” — Realistic or Overly Optimistic?

When people talk about reducing the harm done by alcohol or drugs, there always seems to an assumption that some people are always going to use these substances harmfully. No matter what you do, some people will die in the driver’s seat after leaving...

STATISTICS & TRENDS

Are We Doing Enough Yet to Halt the Opioid Overdose Epidemic?

This a vitally important question to ask. Just talk to any parent who has lost a child to an overdose. A recent report from the CDC indicates that as yet, we are seeing more wreckage resulting from drug addiction, not less, meaning we have much more work...

DRUG INFORMATION

Is There Really Such a Thing as a “Gateway Drug”?

Most people have some kind of understanding of the idea of a gateway drugs—drugs that that are likely to lead to the use of more dangerous, deadly and addictive drugs. But some people argue that the gateway concept does not exist. Is this true or is...

STATISTICS & TRENDS

Teens’ Secret Use of Alcohol and Prescription Drugs Can Lead to Need for Rehab

Teenagers want their privacy and want to try new, exciting things with their friends. Unfortunately, this can lead to teen prescription drug use or abuse of illicit drugs or alcohol followed by their being trapped in addiction.

STATISTICS & TRENDS

Opioid Overdose Antidote Naloxone: Curse or Blessing?

It’s not difficult to pick up on the controversy swirling around the use of the opioid antidote naloxone. Some people see value in saving the lives of those who overdose. Others think that these people who seem to be trying so hard to die should be left...

ADDICTION

What Every Parent REALLY NEEDS to Know to Prevent Overdoses in Teens and Young Adults

While some areas of drug use in the U.S. have decreased considerably amongst young adults, one significant figure that has not decreased is that of teen overdoses.

STATISTICS & TRENDS

7 Reasons We Must Avoid “Tunnel Vision” as We Fight Addiction

As we work to solve America’s problems with drug addiction and overdoses, there’s an intense focus on opioids alone. Letting ourselves develop this kind of tunnel vision could result in our overlooking some truly vital aspects of our nation’s problems...

STATISTICS & TRENDS

The ONE Thing You Need to Know about the Opioid Epidemic

There’s one simple fact that is more important than all others on the subject of our opioid epidemic…

DRUG REHABILITATION

How Does Love Become Enabling?

Ask any expert in addiction recovery if enabling is wrong and they will all tell you the same thing: It’s the worst thing you can do for an addict.

ADDICTION

Would Taxing Opioids Solve Our Overdose Problem?

Everyone wants to combat the epidemic of opioid misuse that killed nearly 64,000 Americans in 2016. Is adding a tax to the price of each pill the right solution?

STATISTICS & TRENDS

National Pharmacy Chain Responds To Opiate Epidemic with Stiffer Controls

As our nation suffers from the single worst opiate epidemic that it has ever faced, the American people are practically in a mad state looking for solutions to the problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention specified that the problem took...

ADDICTION

Ensuring Their Legacy Lives On

When my dad told me back in 2005 that most of the friends I have in high school would be dead prior to turning thirty-years-old, I didn’t believe him. In fact, I laughed at such a claim! But, you know what? He was right.

STATISTICS & TRENDS

How Your Tax Dollars Finance the Opioid Epidemic

The average American would be horrified to think of his hard-earned money, his tax dollars supporting anything as insidious and destructive as the current epidemic of opioid use and overdose.

DRUG INFORMATION

Diarrhea Meds… A Replacement for Heroin?

Drug addicts will never cease to amaze society with their creativity for finding new, cheap, legal ways to get high. Years ago Jr. High and High School-aged kids frequented pharmacies to purchase and consume mass quantities of Robitussin cough syrup, Coricidin...

DRUG INFORMATION

True Stories About the Effects of Marijuana

You may not hear many stories about the adverse effects of this drug on young peoples’ lives but here are a few true stories about is really happening to some who are using this drug.

DRUG INFORMATION

Two Signs You May be Addicted to Alcohol

How can one judge whether or not alcoholism exists? There are two important factors that really count when you are judging if you are dealing with alcoholism.

STATISTICS & TRENDS

The Opioid Crisis Infiltrates America’s Farmlands

You might think the great farms in America’s heartlands are the last places that drug addiction or overdose deaths would be problems. A recent survey of rural communities proves that even these areas have been infiltrated.

STATISTICS & TRENDS

What is the Right Jail Sentence for Dealers of Deadly Fentanyl?

In January 2018 in New Jersey, two men were sentenced for possession of enough fentanyl to wipe our New Jersey and New York City. Did they get the right jail sentences for traffickers with that much of a deadly drug?

NEWSROOM

Narconon Centers Around the World Celebrate 52nd Anniversary

On Monday, February 19, 2018, the international Narconon network celebrated its fifty-second anniversary of helping those who were once addicted. We send our thanks to our staff, the families who would not give up and those individuals who chose us for...