by Anthony Myers | Jun 28, 2016 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
Continuing this week’s sports theme, we’re now discussing an athlete in another sport: DeAndre Levy of the Detroit Lions football team. In addition to being an excellent linebacker, Levy is smart and interesting. How interesting? Levy recently suggested that the...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 24, 2016 | Addiction, Drug Addiction
Addicts are young people who have problems with drugs or alcohol, right? Well, maybe. The thing is, addicts can be (and are) everyone, not just people in certain groups. Different members of a family might struggle from substance use disorder. Yes, teens do struggle...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 23, 2016 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction
Families. You can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. Many of us have complicated relationships with our families, even under the best of circumstances. If you throw addiction into that mix, things become even more complicated. If you or a loved one is...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 14, 2016 | Drug Addiction
We recently discovered that the singer and songwriter Prince died from an overdose of fentanyl. Apart from the many questions surrounding Prince’s death, many of us are asking other questions. Many of these questions surround the drug itself: What is fentanyl? Why is...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 10, 2016 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction
“Working for the Weekend” was a popular song and music video for the band Loverboy back in the early 1980s. Yes, I’m old enough to remember both the song AND music videos. Yes, I’ve gone on rants where I complain that MTV was way better back in the days where they...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 9, 2016 | Drug Addiction
In the 1980s, it seems like you couldn’t turn on the television or read a newspaper or magazine without hearing or seeing some mention of crack cocaine. (For you younger readers, a newspaper is a collection of news items printed on paper and distributed on a set...
