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Although national studies show that underage alcohol use has steadily declined since 2002, there were still 7.4 million drinkers between the ages […]

Beginning the process of recovery is the hard part. The rest comes naturally. If you make the effort to get rid of […]

In April 2016, rock legend Prince, suffering from intense hip pain, consumed a Vicodin for relief. Shortly afterward, he overdosed and died […]

Well, the time has come at long last; the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has stepped in to the opioid epidemic arena. And […]

It’s the law of the jungle: Groups are stronger than their individual parts. Firefighters are no different. Everything we do, we do […]

Oh, the pain….whether it comes from an accident, surgery, or other cause, the narcotic painkiller du jour prescribed by doctors far and […]

At first glance, the opioid epidemic seems like an insurmountable problem. According to the CDC, over 70,000 people died of drug overdoses […]

I drank because I could. Everybody else did: my parents, my friends, my brother and sisters, the people I worked with, the […]

They’re called supervised injection sites (SIS). You may know them by other terms too. These include drug consumption facilities (DCF), fix rooms, […]

I tried to put my phone down for a day last week. One day. Twenty-four hours. I failed. I thought I could […]

The opioid epidemic is perhaps the worst public health crisis the U.S. has ever endured. Each year, tens of thousands of individuals […]

According to researchers at Yale University, children may be one of the demographics that are most suffering from the opioid overdose epidemic. […]