The Addiction Inoculation
The riskiest years for addiction begin when someone is as young as 10 and stretch straight through to the age of 24. After that a person is pretty much clear of the danger or sheer out of luck. But does it have to be that way? In The Addiction Inoculation (Harper), Jessica Lahey comes up with countermeasures to just about every situation that can befall a parent — and their child. She also provides a dose of prevention that’s worth at least a kilo of any so-called cure.
Taking it to the Streets: Addiction Services Where They Can Best Help
Middletown may be Delaware’s fourth largest town, but it doesn’t have a single rehab. It does have a drug problem though. A big drug problem. Thankfully, it now is also providing addiction services that just might help solve that problem. Better yet, those addiction services are being made available right on the streets, where they obviously can do the most good.
More Drugs; Less Babies: Where Are All the Covid Kids?
Remember when “experts” forecasted a pandemic baby boom? That all those couples stuck at home together would naturally make more babies? Well, it never happened. Something else happened though. Something not nice at all. See, instead of making more babies, people went and did more drugs. A lot more drugs.
Kentucky Comeback: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance
Finding employment after prison or rehab is probably one of the highest hurdles a person can face. The Kentucky Comeback is hoping to change all that — one second chance at a time.
The Many Benefits of Gender-Specific Addiction Treatment
A Providence, Rhode Island outreach program reminds us of the many benefits to be found in gender-specific addiction treatment. It also reminds us just how and why gender-specific programs are so vital to recovery.