Discovery of Brain Cells Involved in Blackouts Due to Alcohol
Blackouts occur when someone intoxicated engages in conversations, dancing, cooking and frighteningly driving a car, but later on has no memory of the events. These periods of blackout may encompass a couple of minutes or many hours of time. Scientists have never understood the biological process behind alcohol-induced blackouts. However, in one of the latest . . . . Continue Reading
Woman Attacked by Addicted Companion While Abusing Drugs
Women who abuse drugs and alcohol or live a life that focuses on the maintenance of an addiction are more likely than their sober counterparts to be victims of assault, rape, or other violent act. Recently, one woman in San Francisco experienced this phenomenon firsthand: a 23-year-old woman was using drugs with a 46-year-old male . . . . Continue Reading
Drug Testing and Child Custody After Drug Addiction: the Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller Issue
It’s not an uncommon thing for a family court judge to demand: parents with drug abuse and addiction histories may be required to take drug tests in order to maintain custody of their children. It’s something that both Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller were required to do, according to TMZ. And also according to TMZ, . . . . Continue Reading
Drummer Patty Schemel Talks About Life After Heroin Addiction
Drummer Patty Schemel once played for the band Hole and is the focus of a new documentary called Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel. Now screening at film festivals across the country, the documentary tells the tale of Schemel’s experiences in a famous band and her struggles with heroin . . . . Continue Reading
Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Drug Overdose and Drug Rehab
Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers of Tudors fame was recently rushed to the hospital for a drug overdose. Though initial reports said that the overdose was a suicide attempt, it was later determined that Rhys Meyers’ overdose was inadvertent and was related to an ongoing prescription drug addiction that has had the star in drug rehab . . . . Continue Reading
Doctors Offer Congress Solutions for the Prescription Drug Addiction Epidemic, Part II
In our last post, we talked about how one group of doctor’s is working to encourage Congress to make prescription drug training mandatory for all prescribing physicians. Dr. David Kloth is a spokesman for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He says that this new certification and training should be mandatory because “physicians are . . . . Continue Reading
Doctors Offer Congress Solutions for the Prescription Drug Addiction Epidemic, Part I
The restrictions have been coming down around the country: prescription drug addiction is a huge problem and authorities are cracking down by implementing statewide prescription drug databases and putting the screws to prescribing physicians. Countless lawsuits have been filed by families and states against doctors who prescribe medications in situations where the patient ends up . . . . Continue Reading
Baltimore Still Needs Heroin Addiction Treatment Help
Heroin addiction is a problem across the United States but for years, Baltimore City has been called the Heroin Capital of the US. The latest research says that a great deal of progress has been made in the last few years in terms of lowering the number of those living with active heroin addictions, those . . . . Continue Reading
CA Town to Crack Down on Unregulated Marijuana Clubs
It’s a constant struggle in states where marijuana is legalized for medical uses: the state sanctions the sale and distribution of marijuana and the federal government comes in periodically to investigate and make sure that everything is on the up and up. In California, it was a regular occurrence – until the federal government decided . . . . Continue Reading
Law Student’s First Case: She’s Charged with Crystal Meth Conspiracy
Though Jennifer Marie Patterson recently graduated from law school at the University of Richmond, her first day in court was not spent sitting at the prosecution’s table but at the defendant’s table – as the defendant. Patterson pled guilty to charges of conspiracy in a crystal methamphetamine distribution ring that circulated more than 500 grams . . . . Continue Reading